JIMMY HEXTER
Jimmy Hexter is a Global Executive, Investor, Board Member and Advisor with over 30 years of experience working with private equity firms, family offices and companies across a range of geographies, industries and functions. He has deep experience in consumer goods, consumer technology, consumer services and retail as well as B2B industrial products and services, financial services and real estate.
Mr. Hexter has worked across North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia on issues including investment strategy and investment decisions, corporate and business unit strategy, operational performance, organization design, sales and marketing, growth and M&A. Mr. Hexter spent over 20 years living in Asia including significant time in Beijing, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore and has spent the last nine years in the United States. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Mr. Hexter is the Philip Van Horn Gerdine Professor in Global Business and a Professor of the Practice at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.
Mr. Hexter is also the Managing Partner of Greenwich Point Advisors where he advises family offices and private equity firms on investment strategy, specific investment opportunities and the success of individual investments. He also advises entrepreneurs on pragmatic approaches to developing and growing their businesses.
From 2017 to 2021, Mr. Hexter was a Partner with Bridger Holdings, a growth oriented multifamily office with a range of investments and holdings. Mr. Hexter was involved in the Firm’s investing activities, the strategy and operations of portfolio companies and building new businesses for the Firm.
From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Hexter was a Managing Partner at LCatterton, a leading global consumer-focused private equity firm with over $20 billion in assets and activities across five continents. Mr. Hexter was a member of several of the Firm’s investment committees and served on the boards of a number portfolio companies including Peloton, Steiner Leisure, John Hardy and others.
Mr. Hexter led the Firm’s global portfolio operations team and co-led the diligence efforts for many of the Firm’s investments. In addition, he's worked with portfolio companies across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia on domestic and international strategy, growth, operations, performance improvement, organization design and sales and marketing.
Prior to joining LCatterton, Mr. Hexter was a Senior Partner with McKinsey & Co. where he worked for over 20 years. Mr. Hexter joined McKinsey in 1990 in the Firm’s Greater China office where he was based until 2012 and from 2012 to 2013 he was in the Firm’s Washington DC office.
While at McKinsey, James held a number of leadership roles. Mr. Hexter co-led the Firm’s Global Operations Practice from 2005-2010, was Chairman of the Beijing Office from 2007-2012 and was CFO of the Greater China Office from 2010-2012. His final leadership role was to found and lead the Global Construction, Infrastructure and Real Estate practice. Mr. Hexter was also a member of the Firm’s committee that evaluated partner performance.
During his time at McKinsey, Mr. Hexter served numerous Multinational, North American, European, Asian, and Chinese private equity firms, family offices and corporations across a wide range of industries including those in the consumer products, consumer technology, consumer service and retail sectors as well as those in business-to-business, industrial and financial services sectors. Mr. Hexter supported them across a range of issues from investment strategy and investment decisions to corporate and business unit strategy, operational effectiveness and improvement, manufacturing performance, procurement and supply chain, organization, globalization, sales and marketing, M&A and other important areas.
Mr. Hexter is the co-author of Operation China: From Strategy to Execution, published by Harvard Business School Press in December, 2007. He has been published in the McKinsey Quarterly, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and other publications, and has been an invited speaker and panelist at such institutions as the Asia Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Chamber of Commerce, the Young President’s Organization and other prestigious organizations. He has been also been a guest lecturer at The Harvard Business School.
Mr. Hexter is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and a Trustee and Executive Committee Member of The American Ballet Theater. Additionally, James is a past member of the Brown University Annual Fund Leadership Council and was past Vice Chair of the Brown University China Council and Asia Council. Mr. Hexter was on the jury for the Paulson Prize for Cities of the Future and was a Board Member of the National Committee on US China Relations. James is a graduate of Brown University and of the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and received the Thomas A. Wolfe and Henry Ford Awards.