Private Equity Fast Pitch

Episode 30 features Sven Kins, a managing director with Cook M&A in Chicago where he is responsible for executing acquisition strategies, both platform and add-on opportunities as well as CEO Visions projects. Leveraging his 17 years of experience, Sven leads the firm's FocusFirst® initiatives and overall growth strategy. He serves as a valuable guide to Cook M&A's clients on how best to execute t...

Episode 29 features past Private Equity Fast Pitch speakers discussing their favorite quotes and mottos they utilize in their daily lives and businesses.     0000058E 00000587 0002F88E 0002F88E 00102E24 00102E24 00008105 00008105 00105005 00105005

Scott is a Senior Vice President with FEG Investment Advisors where he is responsible for sourcing, conducting due diligence, and monitoring private equity investment opportunities. Prior to joining FEG, Scott was a Senior Investment Analyst with Fort Washington Capital Partners, a private equity fund-of-funds manager and wholly-owned subsidiary of The Western & Southern Life Insurance Company. In...

Victor is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Insight Equity.  The firm has over $1B of equity capital under management and his current, primary responsibility is overseeing four of Insight's current portfolio firms as their Chairman as well as leading Insight's transaction efforts in aerospace, defense, machining, and technology.   Before co-founding Insight Equity, Victor led product developmen...

Cleveland has over a decade of leadership experience in the food and beverage and consumer investment banking market, previously as a founding member of Harris Williams & Co.'s Minneapolis office along with its global food and beverage and consumer investment banking practices. Most recently, Cleveland established the food, beverage and agriculture practice for Zachary Scott, with additional leade...

Tripp Davis is a Partner with 7Mile Advisors with over 15 years of investment banking and advisory experience. Tripp joined 7 Mile Advisors from Hyde Park Capital Partners, where he served as head of the Business Services, Technology and Communications group while advising companies in a variety of industries on M&A and capital raising assignments. Previously, Tripp served as Vice President at Dec...

Episode 24 features Drew Spitzer, a managing director with Harris Williams.  Prior to joining Harris Williams, Drew  worked in the General Industrial Group at Banc of America Securities and in the Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs. Today they will be discussing the Energy, Power & Infrastructure section of Harris Williams and the current trends and volatility within the industry. They will...

Dr. Alice Mann with Blue Wolf Capital is an Operating Partner. The Blue Wolf Capital Funds are a family of private funds which focus on transformational investments in middle market companies. For over 20 years, Dr. Mann has advised senior executives to build high-performing leadership teams, develop winning talent strategies, and design organizations that achieve outstanding performance results....

 Mr. Blumenthal was the founding partner of Blue Wolf Capital in 2005.  Currently, he serves on the board of directors of four Blue Wolf portfolio companies: Finch Paper Holdings, Twin Rivers Paper Company, Elara Caring, and StateServ Holdings.  Elara is the fourth largest home health and hospice company in the U.S., with over 60,000 patients in fifteen states, while StateServ is the leading provi...

Episode 21 of the Private Equity Fast Pitch features David Felts, a Managing Director of TM Capital Corp., headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. David's expertise encompasses a range of transaction types and spans industry verticals including textiles, building products, consumer / retail and industrial services. He is highly regarded as an architect of portfolio company divestitures for many well re...

Episode 20 features Ted Kramer, the President and CEO of Hammond Kennedy Whitney. Ted joined HKW in 2001 and has led the sourcing activities of the firm since 2002. In 2014, Ted's role shifted as he was appointed President of HKW. In August of 2015, Ted assumed the position of President & CEO of HKW. Ted works on sourcing new investment opportunities for HKW, as well as running the day-to-day oper...

Episode 19 features Glenn Oken, a Managing Director with Mangrove Equity. Glenn's primary focus at Mangrove is originating deal opportunities and qualifying acquisition candidates. He also assists Mangrove portfolio companies with corporate development issues and is a member of Mangrove's Investment Committee. Prior to co-founding Mangrove, Glenn was the most tenured partner at Florida Capital Par...

Drew Quartapella is a founder and Managing Director of BlackArch. He has over 20 years of middle-market mergers and acquisitions advisory experience as both an advisor and a principal and has advised on transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $5 billion. Mr. Quartapella is co-head of BlackArch's Energy, Distribution and Consumer practices. He also has transaction experience in the fields...

Episode 17 features Tammie Miller a Managing Director, with TKO Miller with over 20 years of investment banking experience with an extensive background in healthcare, business process outsourcing, manufacturing, industrial services and food ingredients.  Prior to forming TKO Miller, Tammie was a Managing Director at Grace Matthews where she was responsible for managing transactions in a variety of...

Paul Murphy with Sentinel is a Partner who joined in 2000. Over the past two decades, he has established himself as a successful lower middle market private equity investor. Before joining Sentinel Capital Partners, Mr. Murphy spent three years as a Director at Dilmun Investments, the U.S. private equity affiliate of Bahrain International Bank. While at Dilmun, he focused on originating, structuri...

Episode 15 features Barry Freeman, a Managing Director and Co-Head of Lincoln International's  Healthcare Group, focusing on healthcare services in the global market. Barry manages key client relationships, deal teams, and is active in marketing the services of Lincoln International to private owners, private equity firms and corporations.    Today they will be discussing the Healthcare Industry a...

Jeri Harman with Avante Mezzanine is the Founder & CEO.  With over $465 million of capital under management, Avante makes unitranche and subordinated debt and minority equity investments to finance buyouts, minority recaps, acquisitions and growth. Avante invests $5 – 25 million in established lower middle market companies generating at least $3 million EBITDA.  Ms. Harman has over 30 years of fin...

Episode 13 features Chad Sweet, Co-Founder and CEO of the Chertoff Group. Before joining the private sector, Chad served as the Chief of Staff of the Department of Homeland Security. With over a decade of investment banking experience, Chad has been involved in more than 40 successful sell- and buy-side M&A and capital formation engagements.         00000094 00000094 000020EF 00002152 0000A5EB 000...

Episode 12 features Scott MacLaren who joined Sterling in 2014 from The Boston Consulting Group where he focused on operational improvement initiatives for industrial and energy companies. Prior to entering the private sector, Scott was a Ranger qualified officer in the United States Army where he led a scout platoon during the troop surge in Iraq, and later served as a company commander in charge...

Episode 11 features Hunter Carpenter from RedBird Capital. Hunter, a former 4 year letterman of Ole Miss basketball, previously worked 8 years at The Stephens Group out of Arkansas before joining a Redbird Capital as a Partner. Today they'll be discussing RedBirds background and differentiation within the industry, some guidance he'd offer young students as they decide on a career path and finally...

Episode 10 focuses on advice to recent graduates who are interested in Private Equity and Investment Banking from 9 of the most influential professionals within the industry.  Speakers include, Kurt Haras with Quarton, Jay Jester with Audax, Charlie Gifford with New Heritage, David Iverson with Lazard, Blythe Jack with TSG Consumer, Clay Hunter with The Stephens Group, Jeff Sangalis with ORIX, Dav...

Episode 9 features Suzanne Yoon, the Founder and Managing Partner of Kinzie Capital Partners. Suzanne oversees the firm's investments and operational activities. Her philosophy of combining operational excellence with technological innovation separates Kinzie from other capital providers and insures impactful and sustained growth for investors. Prior to founding Kinzie, Suzanne was a Managing Dire...

Episode 8 of the Private Equity Fast Pitch features Dave Althoff with Duff and Phelps out of Chicago. ​ In 2014, Dave was named one of the Top 50 M&A Investment Bankers by the Global M&A Network and has more than 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, private placement and financial restructuring. David's recent experience includes advising a building products company on its $240 mill...

Episode 7 features Blythe Jack with TSG Consumer out of San Francisco California. Blythe has spent over 10 years at Rosewood Capital and, most recently, served as CEO of a high-growth consumer products company. She has sourced and structured investments in industries such as  health & beauty, apparel, specialty retail, restaurant, and consumer products.   They'll be discussing TSG's strategies wit...