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Slade Kobran
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Recent Posts
Sales Training Programs for Maximizing Results in PE-Backed Portfolio Companies
In private equity-backed companies, sales teams face intense expectations. Growth targets are ambitious, and there’s little room for missteps. Too often, though, training is treated as a formality rather than a real opportunity to improve team performance. With the right focus, sales training can become a practical tool for building confidence, consistency, and results rather than just another item on a checklist.
Key Operating Partner Takeaways from Recent ACG Events
May 3, 2022 5:44:16 PM — I recently attended ACG Philadelphia’s April Breakfast Briefing on The Growing Role of the PE Operating Partner. I was also able to engage with a number of Operating Partners at ACG’s Intergrowth in Las Vegas this week. Both the Philadelphia breakfast and the presence of so many Operating Partners at Intergrowth, are indications of how key these professionals are to the value creation process, and to the delivery of outsized investment returns (differentiated alpha) for private equity investors.
PE Value Drivers #11, Unique Perspectives from Parker Davis, Partner at Slate Capital Group
Apr 14, 2022 12:19:05 PM — Welcome back to PE Value Drivers. In this latest issue of PE Value Drivers, I talk with Parker Davis from Slate Capital Group. Parker is a Partner at Slate Capital, which he joined in 2010. Slate Capital is an independent sponsor originally based in Baltimore and recently expanded to Nashville and Cincinnati. In his role, Parker focuses on developing new opportunities and managing the firm’s current portfolio.
PE Value Drivers #10, Unique Perspectives from Vikash Magdani, Executive Director at ACG New York
Dec 14, 2021 9:19:45 AM — Welcome back to PE Value Drivers. We’re taking a different approach in this episode in talking with Vikash Magdani, Executive Director at ACG New York. As executive director at ACGs largest and most influential chapter, Vik has his finger on the pulse of private equity in the New York area and around the world. In addition to his role in leading ACG New York, Vik is an entrepreneur with extensive international corporate product and business development experience in private equity, energy, financial services, and B2B multi-platform media. He's well versed in B2B global strategy, operations, and business stewardship and sponsorship, corporate partnerships, product and program launch, and content development.
PE Value Drivers #9, a Conversation with Experienced Investor and Value Creator, David Acharya
Nov 15, 2021 12:20:07 PM — In this episode of PE Value Drivers, I had a great conversation with David Acharya, Managing Partner at Acharya Capital Partners, a New York City based private equity firm that buys, builds, and enhances lower-middle-market companies. David is a senior private equity investor with significant experience in investment banking, leveraged finance, and capital markets. His specialties include industry experience in technology, media and telecom (TMT), business services, marketing services, and light manufacturing.