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Peter A. Brooke

Peter Brooke's name is well known to all those in the private equity industry. He has been a pioneer in the industry and began investing venture capital and private equity in international markets in 1974. Peter Brooke's career began at the First National Bank of Boston in 1956, when he established the High Technology Lending Group there. After managing the venture capital portfolio for Bessemer Securities Corporation, he moved to Tucker Anthony where he formed the nucleus of the venture group. He spun out this group as TA Associates in 1968. TA has grown into one of the premier private equity firms in North America. In 1985 he spun out the international investment activities of TA Associates to form Advent International Corporation which has since become one of the largest independent global private equity firms. He formed the Advent Network of 26 firms in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Israel and linked them to Advent's own offices in thirteen countries around the world. Mr. Brooke has raised and invested in excess of $8 billion dollars during his career and has trained more venture capitalists than anyone in the industry. In addition he has helped a significant number of institutions enter the asset class including colleges, banks, insurance companies and numerous non-profit organizations.

























































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Issued by the king Amogbhuti in the 2nd century BC, this coin depicts a deer and Laxmi (the goddess of wealth) holding a lotus in her uplifted hand.
This coin represents the first ever effort of an Indian ruler to issue silver coinage that could compete in the market (based on both beauty and metal content) with that of Indo-Greek coinage.