Private Equity Deals with Capital Allocators

Tricia Glynn is a Managing Director at Advent International, the global private equity firm that oversees nearly $100 billion in assets. Orveon Global is a collective of beauty brands specializing in the future of the face. Advent carved out three brands from Shiseido Americas to form Orveon in 2021. Our conversation covers the beauty business and the complex dynamics of a carveout transaction, in...

Dave is the Co-Head of Bain Capital’s North America Private Equity business and a Managing Director in the TMT vertical. Devin is the Head of the firm’s North America Healthcare vertical. Bain Capital manages $180 billion, about half of which is in private equity. Its CEO, John Connaughton, was a past guest on Capital Allocators and that conversation is replayed in the feed. Zelis is a healthcare...

John Connaughton is a Co-Managing Partner at Bain Capital, a leading global private investment firm that oversees approximately $130 billion in assets. Founded in 1984 as the pioneer of a consulting-based approach to private equity investing, Bain Capital today invests across private equity, credit, public equity, venture capital and real estate. Our conversation covers the early years of private...

Arvindh Kumar is a Partner and Global Co-Head of Technology at EQT, a public company overseeing nearly $100 billion in assets across infrastructure, real estate, and all stages of private equity. Innovyze is a mid-market vertical software company that provides smart water infrastructure to utilities and engineering firms. EQT carved out two subscale, non-core businesses from public companies to fo...

Kevin Callaghan and Larry Hamelsky are Managing Directors and long-time team members at Berkshire Partners, a 35-year old private equity firm managing over $20 billion in middle market deals and public equity. Kevin is a member of the Industrials and Consumer teams and Larry is a member of the Industrials and Communications teams at Berkshire. Parts Town is a distributor of OEM repair and maintena...

Jarryd Levine is a Managing Director at Stone Point Capital, a financial services specialist that has invested $21 billion across 135 businesses in the space. Jarryd helps lead the firm’s investments in Business Services and Human Capital Management. Bullhorn is a leading global software provider for the staffing, recruiting, and contingent labor industry, servicing over 10,000 staffing agencies w...

Our Private Equity Masters mini-series concludes with Chuck Davis, the CEO and Chairman of the Investment Committee at Stone Point Capital. Stone Point has invested $21 billion across 135 businesses, all in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Stone Point’s predecessor entity at Marsh McLellan twenty-three years ago, he was a partner at Goldman Sachs, where he spent the prior twenty-t...

Scott Crabill is a Managing Partner at Thoma Bravo, the software and technology specialist with $120 billion in asset under management. He joined Thoma Bravo twenty years ago to help develop its software investment strategy. RealPage is a technology platform that enables real estate owners and property managers to efficiently operate residential assets. In 2021, Thoma Bravo took the company privat...

Orlando Bravo is a Founder and Managing Partner of Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm focused on software and technology companies with over $78 billion in assets under management. Among his many accolades, Forbes named Orlando “Wall Street’s best dealmaker” in 2019. Our conversation covers Orlando’s background, early investment lessons, and approach around management, analytics, and collaborative...

Pete Stavros from KKR dives into C.H.I. Overhead Doors. Pete is the Co-Head of Americas Private Equity at KKR, the legendary firm founded in 1976 that today is a public company managing around $500 billion in assets. Pete previously led KKR’s Industrials team, where he pioneered an employee engagement and ownership model. C.H.I. Overhead Doors manufactures garage doors and is a recent KKR portfoli...

Hello, I’m Ted Seides, the host of the Capital Allocators podcast, and it’s my pleasure to bring you Private Equity Deals. This show dives into deals in the private markets through conversations with private equity managers. Much like Capital Allocators, we’ll share conversations that previously occurred behind closed doors between private equity managers and their investors. In each episode, we d...