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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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. Buy-and-build strategies succeed or fail on integration, and integration succeeds or fails on whether someone competent owns it with real authority. […]
This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. Operating partners occupy an unusual position: they carry accountability for portfolio performance without formal authority over the […]
At JRG Partners, this is the kind of search we run every day, so this piece reflects practice rather than theory. Portfolio companies need senior capability at short notice more often than firms plan for: a CFO departs unexpectedly, a carve-out needs functions stood up, an […]
At JRG Partners, this is the kind of search we run every day, so this piece reflects practice rather than theory. Value creation plans are usually written in commercial and operational terms and then encounter a talent constraint nobody costed: the plan assumes capabilities the […]
Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Some capable executives flourish under private equity ownership and others, equally capable, do not, and the difference is rarely about competence. It […]
This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. Management assessment during diligence is frequently the least rigorous part of an otherwise thorough process, conducted through a […]