Advent continues to add to CEE

Private equity player Advent International has recruited two new principals to its Central & Eastern Europe team: Dan Morgan, and Albena Vassileva.

Morgan is a graduate of Durham University and a chartered accountant, and joins Advent from Kaupthing, where he has been director of the bank’s specialist private equity division since 2005. Before that, Dan spent nine years as an investment director with 3i in London and Stockholm.

Vassileva has joined Advent’s new Prague office. She is a graduate of Erasmus University and Amsterdam Business School and has spent seven years with ABN AMRO Capital, latterly as vice president and senior investment manager working on TMT investments. She was previously with ING Baring in Sofia and Amsterdam.