The Definers Series

In this episode of The Definers, Chris Gale sat down with Doug Fritz, Founder and Managing Partner of F2 Strategy, to see how their team has shaped the idea of the outsourced CTO in private capital. We invited Doug to explain how this role is evolving in the rapidly developing AI age, and why it’s becoming essential as firms move from AI enthusiasm to the harder realities of governance, integratio...

Explore how data economics can solve real challenges in private markets. In this episode of The Definers, Chris Gale and Arka Ray of The Data Economics Company explain Lydions, data-native economic objects that embed ownership, provenance, and incentives into workflows. These structures turn static data into living assets. You’ll learn practical use cases and the foundations of data ownership, int...

Learn how real relationships and smart systems create growth that automation alone can’t deliver. Reid Thomas currently stands to define the Opportunity Zone market—and he has the sales ops experience to back it up. Through his new venture, Accelerated Impact, Reid is opening opportunities that blend financial returns with meaningful community outcomes. But Reid is just as known for his contrarian...

For those who have been doing public relations and marketing for law firms or accounting firms, here’s a webcast on integrating that work into a CRM like Salesforce, Hubspot or ActiveCampaign and implementing sales ops. If you’re like us you’ve earned media results or implemented marketing campaigns, but you’ve remained vulnerable to partners asking how effective it really is. Impressions and shar...

In a recent article, The Wall Street Journal reported that investment firm Tide Rock buys up small companies as private-equity firms do, but it shuns the often steep debt that buyout shops use to fund acquisitions. In another article, The Deal reported that Tide Rock seeks companies that either have strong reoccurring customers, are resilient because they have diverse customers or operate in an in...

There’s private capital technology consulting. There’s private capital fractional CFOs. There’s private capital operations consulting. There is private capital funds administration. But is anybody really knitting it together into a single coherent package that anticipates what’s coming next for the private capital industry’s very considerable operations blind spot? We won’t speak for our guest, bu...

How do you get top tier coverage? Do you have a new product launch, partnership, funding, or are you making major strides for the future of your market and not getting proportionate recognition? Jessica has more than ten years of experience creating and leading B2B public relations for companies spanning the healthcare, technology, legal, and sciences industries. A seasoned media relations profess...

Mike Trinkaus and his team have defined what "co-sourcing" means in fund services. Category creators and those on their way to being one should listen in to find out what makes 4Pines Fund Services so successful in what they do. We ask Mike why other fund administrators are reluctant to take up co-sourcing in the same way his team does, why it's a winning formula for 4Pines, and what the innovatio...

Richard Change and his team have defined what “GP solutions” mean in the private capital software market. We ask Richard how he uncovered an unmet need no-one else was willing to tackle, how his team are solving the problems holding others back and how PFA Solutions is enabling a movement of and by their customers, for their customers.