Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Founders who sell their business and stay on occupy an awkward position: they were the ultimate authority and are now accountable to a sponsor, and the […]
Category Archives: Private Equity
Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Private equity firms make leadership decisions under a constraint most companies do not face: a defined hold period, which means a hiring mistake […]
This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. Private equity firms are unusually well positioned to influence leadership composition, because they make or approve most senior […]
At JRG Partners, this is the kind of search we run every day, so this piece reflects practice rather than theory. The first hundred days after an acquisition determine how much of the hold period is available for value creation, because decisions deferred in that window compound […]
At JRG Partners, this is the kind of search we run every day, so this piece reflects practice rather than theory. Operating partners frequently commission and oversee executive searches without having run one from the search side, which leads to a recurring set of avoidable […]
Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Hiring a CEO for a newly acquired company is among the highest-stakes decisions a private equity firm makes, because this person will execute the thesis […]
Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. A carve-out requires standing up a company, not merely acquiring one: functions the parent provided must be built or bought, and leadership must be […]
This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. A CFO in a private-equity-backed company does a different job from a CFO in an independent business: the reporting is more intensive, the […]
Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Diligence processes quantify financial, commercial, and legal risk carefully and treat talent risk as a soft matter handled through management meetings. […]
Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Buy-and-build strategies succeed or fail on integration, and integration succeeds or fails on whether someone competent owns it with real authority. […]