The LAB: Value Creation in Private Equity

Our latest guest on the LAB Podcast is Sean Mooney.  We were excited to bring him on because after spending a couple decades in Private Equity as an investing professional, he thought there must be a better way to help the industry drive higher returns more quickly. (sounds easy…)    At the LAB - we agree as our models look to achieve similar outcomes in different ways.  Sean developed a way to br...

Josh Fennig⁠ is currently the General Manager of a consulting business that advises companies regarding E-mobility for electric vehicles and Industry 4.0. In this episode he shares his experience and methodology when it comes to turnarounds of distressed companies.

Paul Stansik is an Operating Partner at ParkerGale, a small PE Firm where he serves as sales, marketing and growth advisor to their portfolio. He joins us to share his perspective on how he thinks about growth and where the opportunities exist in founder-led, profitable technology companies. In this episode, we spend time walking through the specifics around evaluation and execution of PE investme...

According to Forbes, there are close to 30 million private companies in the United States. In this episode, we get some great insights from one of these owners that grew his business over the course of almost three decades, then sold to a PE firm (twice) and is doing it again with another PE firm. Don Mershon joins us and discusses he could have achieved the same level of growth in five years (not...

Mark Tarchetti joins us to discuss growth as a value driver. The guys cover growth strategy, managing to full potential, activity based management, “structure follows strategy”, and the culture of growth. (3:00) Growth as a value driver: PAI Tropicana case study (8:23) How to work with management teams to implement growth strategy (10:52) Diligence potential as much as performance (14:20) Activity...

Chris Moye joins us to discuss Digital Transformation. The early days of building the RTS framework at McKinsey, the EQ/IQ/DQ methodologies for effective transformation, and ultimately what makes for a successful implementation of digital transformation. (2:25) Chris discusses foundation of the digital transformation implementation frameworks and the performance infrastructure to drive change (7:5...

What makes an effective Chief Transformation Officer? Al Morales is a seasoned CTO effecting change and transformation at some of the largest privately and publicly held companies. (1:44) Where to look for a differentiated opportunity to generate growth and margin improvement and then actually go and deliver real operational value (3:30) Defining the role of a Chief Transformation Officer (4:25) T...

The LAB takes the ethereal to the practical. Our podcast acts like a business school case study for private equity professionals, CEOs, Operating Partners, and Chief Transformation Officers. We all know transformation is the key to differentiated alpha. Here's how you actually do it. Our audience tunes in to learn from those in the field, getting their fingernails dirty and driving meaningful grow...