Insights

Perspectives on
PE value creation.

What the work actually involves, who does it well, and how the best people in private equity value creation, technology and commercial, are found. Written from the front line of live search, not from a brochure.

Portfolio Technology

Portfolio technology strategy: what sponsors actually need

Most portfolio technology strategies describe the estate. Sponsors need one tied to the value creation plan, the hold period and the exit.

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Business Development

The origination gap

Three advisory firms in a month said they need rainmakers and cannot find them. It is not a talent shortage. It is how consulting careers are built.

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AI and Value Creation

AI in value creation: the seat underneath it

Every PE value creation plan has an AI line on it. Most stall between pilot and scale, and the reason is the application estate, not the model.

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Separation Economics

Why carve-out technology budgets are always wrong

The technology line is usually set before anyone has spoken to the market. What that costs, and what sponsors can do about it.

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The Field Explained

What is PE Technology Advisory?

A plain-English guide to carve-out IT separation, TSA exit, value creation, and the advisory-side and portfolio-company roles that deliver it.

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Hiring for Delivery

Advised on it, or delivered it?

Advisory pedigree and delivery experience are not the same thing. The question that separates real carve-out talent from the CV that just says PE.

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How We Find People

The talent you cannot see

The active, passive and inactive candidate framework, and why the best PE technology talent sits in the pool almost no recruiter reaches.

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The CIO Seat

Hiring an interim CIO for a PE portfolio company

Not digital transformation, EBITDA transformation. What an interim CIO actually does inside a private equity carve-out, from Day 1 to exit.

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