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Accelerating M&A Value Creation: How Chief Outsiders Drives Growth for Investors and Acquirers
In today’s competitive deal environment, value creation can’t wait until after the ink dries. For private equity operating partners, M&A attorneys, and CEOs of acquiring companies, Chief Outsiders offers a proven, C-suite-level resource to identify and close growth gaps across the entire transaction lifecycle—pre-LOI through exit.
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PE Value Drivers #13, Unique Perspectives from Paul Barrett, a Managing Partner at Argosy Healthcare Partners
Aug 10, 2022 5:00:23 PM — Welcome back to PE Value Drivers. In this latest issue of PE Value Drivers, I talk with Paul Barrett, a Managing Partner at Argosy Healthcare Partners. Prior to AHP, Paul served as a managing director at BelHealth Investment Partners, a $500 million AUM firm in NYC, where he worked for 8 years.

PE Value Drivers #12, Unique Perspectives from Todd Markson, Operating Partner for Bain Capital
May 24, 2022 11:34:04 AM — Welcome back to PE Value Drivers. In this latest issue of PE Value Drivers, I talk with Todd Markson from Bain Capital. Todd is an Operating Partner in Bain’s Tech Opportunities Fund, where he leads value creation efforts across the portfolio and partners with management teams to support their key initiatives. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Todd was CSO & COO at Cengage, a multi-billion-dollar Private Equity backed, global education and technology company, where he led strategy, corporate development, channel, pricing, procurement and supply chain. Before Cengage, Todd was a management strategy consultant in London, Dubai and Boston, most recently as a Senior Principal in the Technology and Private Equity practices of BCG, with a focus on Go-To-Market. Todd’s also been a technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, co-founding and successfully exiting education technology and information services companies.

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.
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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.