Executive Search Success Story: Private Equity Firm Building Leadership for a Multi-Site Healthcare Platform

How JRG Partners executed a confidential, full C-suite and VP-level mandate to secure high-performance portfolio leadership for a private equity-backed multi-site healthcare services organization.

The Challenge

A leading middle-market private equity firm had recently acquired and consolidated several regional healthcare services organizations into a single platform company. While the investment thesis remained strong, the firm identified several critical leadership challenges that could impact growth and long-term value creation:

• Inconsistent operational performance across acquired businesses
• Limited leadership scalability for future buy-and-build acquisitions
• Post-transaction integration challenges following multiple complex acquisitions
• Succession planning concerns among legacy executive leadership
• Need for stronger operational and commercial leadership to balance platform growth
• Increased pressure to achieve aggressive EBITDA growth targets
• Requirement for executives capable of executing the firm’s rigid value creation strategy

The Private Equity Sponsors and Board determined that strengthening the executive leadership team would be essential to accelerating platform growth and preparing the organization for future expansion. The confidential mandate covered the recruitment of a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Vice President of Operations, Vice President of Business Development, and Director of Integration Management.

Why They Chose JRG Partners

The client selected JRG Partners based on several key operational and financial alignment models:

Deep Private Equity Expertise

JRG Partners maintains specialized executive search practices serving private equity firms, portfolio companies, growth-stage businesses, and middle-market organizations.

Access to Passive Executive Talent

Many successful PE-backed executives are actively leading active growth initiatives and are rarely accessible through traditional recruiting channels. Our network excels at directly identifying and engaging these high-performing passive leaders.

Value Creation Leadership Experience

The firm required adaptive leaders with proven records of scaling multi-site businesses, driving rapid EBITDA growth, and supporting successful portfolio exits.

Nationwide Executive Network

The search successfully leveraged long-standing, built-in relationships throughout healthcare services, private equity, business services, and portfolio company sectors across the country.

Our Executive Search Strategy

Phase 1 — Leadership Assessment

Working directly with executive leadership, we structured the core parameters of the mandate, identifying platform growth objectives, operational performance gaps, integration challenges, succession planning priorities, value creation goals, and future organizational requirements.

Phase 2 — Executive Market Mapping

JRG Partners conducted a targeted search across PE-backed healthcare platforms, multi-site service organizations, growth-stage healthcare companies, business services firms, and high-performing portfolio companies. More than 700 executive profiles were systematically evaluated.

Phase 3 — Executive Engagement

Our consultants discreetly engaged prospective leaders, assessing candidates based on a recorded history of success in platform scaling, M&A integration, EBITDA improvement, operational excellence, revenue acceleration, leadership development, and exit preparation.

Phase 4 — Executive Evaluation

Finalists underwent an extensive evaluation process covering total leadership effectiveness, direct private equity experience, financial performance history, cultural fit, and long-term organizational scalability.