Douglas Brown

Advent International LP (Advent) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1984 by Henry H. Haight. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

AspenTech Corp. engages in the provision of asset optimization solutions. It develops its applications to design, and optimize processes across the engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and asset performance management areas. The firm operates through the Subscription and Software, and Services and Other segments. The Subscription and Software segment offers licensing of process optimization, asset performance management software solutions and associated support services. The Services and Other segment includes professional services, and training. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Quench USA, Inc. engages in the provision of bottle-free filtered drinking water solutions. Its products include quenchWATER, quenchSPARKLING, quenchICE, and quenchCOFFEE. The firm serves the government, spas and salons, gyms, retail, food and professional services, manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare, and higher education industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

AquaVenture Holdings Ltd. engages in the provision of water purification services. It operates through Seven Seas Water and Quench segments. The Seven Seas Water segment delivers treated bulk water to governmental, municipal, industrial, and hospitality customers. The Quench segment focuses in the rental and servicing of POU water filtration systems and related equipment, such as ice and sparkling water machines, and from the contracted maintenance of customer-owned equipment. The company was founded by Douglas R. Brown on December 14, 2006 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Seven Seas Water Corp. engages in the provision of water management services. It offers potable water, industrial applications, wastewater treatment, water recovery and reuse, and emergency water. The company was founded by Douglas R. Brown, Robert A. Bergstrom, and Frederick Hung in 1996 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Advent International Co. Ltd. specializes in growth buyout, mid market and management buyouts, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. The firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. The company was founded in 2001 and is located in Minato-ku, Japan.