Private Equity Fast Pitch

Bob Grady, is a seasoned private equity executive with over two decades of experience. Prior to joining Gryphon, he spent five years as General Partner and Managing Director of the Cheyenne Capital Fund, a $500 million private equity fund that achieved top-decile performance among similar vintage private equity fund-of-funds.     Over the same time period, Mr. Grady was Chairman, as a non-paid vol...

Marshall Adkins joined Raymond James in 1995 and serves as the head of the firm's Energy Investment Banking practice. Marshall Adkins joined Raymond James in 1995 and serves as the head of the firm's Energy Investment Banking practice. Prior to this role, Mr. Adkins served as the director of Energy Research and focused on oilfield services and products. Prior to Raymond James, he spent 10 years in...

Joe Linnen is a Partner of The Jordan Company. He is also a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Joe joined TJC in 1993. He focuses all of his time on sourcing, originating and evaluating transactions on behalf of TJC. ​He serves on the board of directors of Worldwide Clinical Trials and CFS Brands. Joe is Chairman Emeritus of the La Lumiere School Board of Trustees and he was Co-Chairman of...

Episode 51 of the Private Equity Fast Pitch features the quotes and mottos of past podcast guests that inspire them in their daily life.

Vescovo grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University, a master's degree in Defense and Arms Control Studies (Political Science) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker scholar. In December 2018, he became the...

Mr. Crawford is a Co-founder and President of Coltala Holdings. He has over 15 years of experience in investing, asset management and building operating teams. As a Managing Director of Avesta Holdings, Mr. Crawford led business development activities; identified capital and acquisitions, special situation opportunities and managed key investor relationships. Mr. Crawford helped build Avesta's bus...

Dave Carvajal is a builder of billion dollar businesses. As CEO of Dave Partners, Dave is a sought out advisor and consultant to Board of Directors, venture firms, CEO entrepreneurs and leadership teams of some of the most exciting growth companies in the technology space that are making the world better. Dave built HotJobs to 650 employees, $125M in revenues, IPO and $1.2B market capitalization a...

Mr. Johnson joined RLJ Equity Partners from American Capital, a publicly traded alternative asset management company with more than $20 billion of assets under management. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Johnson was a Vice President in the Financial Sponsors and Private Equity Group at Bank of America. He also served as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense....

Episode 46 features Gretchen Perkins with Huron Capital. Gretchen is responsible for managing Huron's business development and investment sourcing activities and is also involved in investor relations. These activities include outreach to deal professionals such as business brokers, investment banks, attorneys, accountants and consultants, and outreach to potential limited partners. Gretchen has o...

Franny Jones, Managing Director, joined Sterling in 2010 to lead the firm's fundraising and investor relations efforts. Franny brings experience from the Private Wealth Management Groups of Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers in New York, where she was responsible for fundraising, asset allocation, manager selection and investor relations for family offices and foundations. Franny received a B.A. i...

Colt has 29 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience. Throughout his career, Colt has completed approximately 200 merger and acquisition transactions helping entrepreneurs obtain liquidity via the sale of their business to either a strategic buyer or to a private equity firm.  In addition, he has completed numerous merger and acquisition advisory assignments helping business ow...

I am excited to share Episode 43 of the Private Equity podcast with you detailing some of my favorite motivational quotes and life motto's from past podcast guests. Looking back on the year, I've celebrated momentous occasions with my family including my 30th wedding anniversary, my oldest son's wedding, my second son's engagement and much more.   These are the moments that make all of the  hard w...

Episode 42 of the Private Equity Fast Pitch Podcast features Robert Frost, the Chief Executive Officer of Lazard Middle Market who has nearly two decades of investment banking experience. Mr. Frost also serves as Co-Head of the Industrials group and has represented companies in a wide range of industrial sectors, including chemicals, automotive, building products, capital equipment, and engineered...

David Namkung is a Co-Founder and Partner of  Operations at Kinzie Capital Partners, where he leads technology implementations and is responsible for assisting in the execution of value creation initiatives for Kinzie's portfolio companies. In addition, he oversees Kinzie's internal technology initiatives and supports various operational matters. Episode 41 features David Namkung, a Founder and Ma...

Episode 40 of the Private Equity Fast Pitch Podcast features Kirk Fleischer who joined Investcorp in 2016 to focus on deal sourcing and business development. ​Prior to joining Investcorp, Kirk worked for seven years as an EVP of Strategy and Corporate Development at BeavEx Inc.  Prior to that, he spent 12 years in investment banking at Jefferies, Lehman Brothers and Oppenheimer, and also spent 5 y...

Episode 39 features David Walker with EBSCO Industries. David is a graduate of Auburn University where he earned a B.S. in Accounting.   He started his career as a CPA with Ernst and Young and later worked for PJ America as VP and Corporate Controller until joining EBSCO Industries in 2000.   David has served EBSCO in a variety of capacities over the past 19 years and currently serves as its Presi...

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In 2012, Anttila founded Grain & Barrel Spirits , a West Palm Beach-based beverage alcohol company. At home in the Southeast with production and sales partners around the world, Grain & Barrel Spirits is an innovative, emerging company with wholly owned brands including Dixie Southern Vodka which Anttila created from scratchand which won of a 2019 "Rising Star" Growth Brands Award from the Beverag...

Moses Kagan is the co-founder and head of Adaptive Realty, a Los Angeles multifamily development and property management group. Since 2008, he has overseen the repositioning of more than 75 properties in Los Angeles and grown Adaptive from zero to $100MM in AUM. He began his career in mergers and acquisitions at LongAcre Partners in London (since acquired by Jefferies).    Moses received a B.A. ma...

Episode 35 features Ralph Manning, the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coltala Holdings. As a private investor, and more recently a founding partner of Progress Equity Partners, Ltd, he has been active in acquiring majority control of operating companies since 2003 - typically from founder entrepreneurs and owner operators.  He  has over 20 years of direct investment experience, has serv...

Chrisanne, Managing Director for KPMG CF LLC, leads the Diversified Industrials Team, and co-leads the Private Equity Coverage Team. She is based in the Chicago office.   Chrisanne has more than 20 years of experience leading mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions for clients in the diversified industrials sector, specializing in high-growth end markets such as Test & Measurement, HVAC, Flow...

Erik Rudolph is a Managing Director at Farlie Turner and leads its Oil & Gas Services Practice as well as its Industrial Services Practices. In addition, Mr. Rudolph is co-head of Farlie Turner's Consumer Practice. Mr. Rudolph has advised a wide range of companies ranging from pure play oilfield services companies to industrial MRO companies to food & beverage companies on the consumer side. Prior...

Steve is the President and CEO of Alaris Royalty Corp. and has served in that role since he co-founded the company in 2004.  Prior to creating Alaris, he spent 12 years in the investment banking industry as a Senior Officer in both Toronto and Calgary, giving capital markets and merger and acquisition advice to corporate clients in both public and private company startups. He is a qualified Charte...

As a co-founder and partner of Crossplane Capital, Brian is responsible for sourcing and closing transactions with significant cash and profitability improvement opportunities and overseeing the lifecycle of the portfolio.   Prior to founding Crossplane Capital, Brian was a managing director with Prophet Equity. During his 10 years there, Brian was responsible for sourcing and managing acquisition...

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