Adrian Beecroft
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Adrian Beecroft is a venture capitalist and the chairman of Dawn Capital, which owns Wonga.com, the online short-term high-interest loans company. He is worth an estimated wealth £100m.
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Beecroft was previously senior managing partner at Apax, where he 'played a major part in its international expansion'. It now has over $20 billion under management with over 150 professionals in eight countries.
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- Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) in 1991/92 and represented Apax on the boards of over 20 private and public companies. He was elected to the BVCA Hall of Fame in 2009.
- Beecroft Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Oxford University
- joint sponsor of the Oxford Academy
- Chairman of the Cricket Foundation.
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics and an Honorary Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford.
