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Bret Jackson

Bret Jackson
  • Managing Director
  • Investment Committee
  • Harvard MBA
  • BCG (Aus, UK)
  • Entrepreneur
  • Led Funds I-III (NZ, Aus, Asia)
Deal Origination, Strategic Architect and Value Creation Lead

Bret Jackson is a co-founder of Knox Investment Partners, a Managing Director of the firm and the Chairman of Funds I – IV. Bret is experienced in all aspects of private equity including strategic value creation, fund raising, deal origination and portfolio management and realisations.

Underpinning the experience brought to Knox and the companies invested in is a hands-on track record of founding and growing his own successful business which grew to $50m revenues in 3 years and upon exit achieved >50x equity return. Further experience was with the Boston Consulting Group in Sydney and London including projects across Australia, Asia and Europe in multiple industries.

Bret has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an Honours Degree in Commerce from Otago University. He is currently the President of the Harvard Business School Association of NZ alumni, a Director and Investment Committee member of Knox, a Director on all portfolio companies and the largest individual investor in the Knox family of Funds.