Aaron Bright

Aaron Bright is a Partner at Glouston Capital Partners, a 100% employee-owned private equity firm headquartered in Boston that specializes in the secondary market for North American buyout assets. He joined the firm in 2007 and serves on the Investment Committee, with primary responsibilities spanning the full investment management lifecycle -- sourcing and evaluating opportunities, interviewing general partners, performing financial analysis of portfolio investments, and monitoring existing holdings. Over nearly two decades at Glouston, Bright has helped grow the platform from a niche secondaries shop to a firm managing over $3.4 billion in committed capital across seven flagship funds.

Prior to Glouston, Bright honed his private equity expertise at Kendall Investments, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based private equity fund-of-funds, where he evaluated, analyzed, and monitored portfolio investments. Before that, he served as a Senior Associate at Cambridge Associates, one of the most respected investment consulting firms in the industry, where he focused on private equity advisory work for institutional clients. This progressive career across consulting, fund-of-funds, and direct secondaries investing gives him a broad and deep perspective on the private equity landscape.

Bright holds a BS in Accounting from Washington University, and both an MBA and a Master of Science in Finance (MSF) from Boston College's Carroll School of Management. His dual graduate degrees reflect a rigorous quantitative and strategic foundation that underpins his investment approach at Glouston.

Glouston Capital Partners, and Aaron Bright's work within it, centers on the private equity secondary market. The firm constructs well-diversified portfolios through the opportunistic purchase of North American buyout fund interests and assets. Key elements of the investment thesis include:

• Secondary market opportunism: Acquiring LP interests and GP-led secondaries at attractive valuations, capitalizing on liquidity needs and market dislocations.
• North American buyout concentration: Maintaining a focused geographic and strategy scope to leverage deep expertise and relationships in the North American middle-market and large-cap buyout segments.
• Co-investment and primary commitments: Partnering with high-quality private equity general partners to co-invest directly in deals and selectively commit as a primary investor in funds, broadening return drivers beyond pure secondaries.
• Customized solutions: Designing tailored private equity portfolios via separately managed accounts for institutional investors seeking specific risk-return profiles and portfolio construction parameters.