The Exit Playbook: The human key to exits

This episode is sponsored by AlixPartners The Disruption Matters special podcast miniseries has returned for its fifth season, and this year, our focus is on providing an ‘Exit Playbook’, wherein leading industry experts share their advice on how to generate successful exits during a climate defined by their scarcity. This is a six-part miniseries, and we’ll be releasing a new episode here on Private Equity Spotlight every week. But if you’d rather not wait, you can listen to the whole series right now. Just click this link – if you already have a Private Equity International account, simply sign in, or register for free to access all six episodes. In this fifth episode of the season, we focus on the human capital issues that matter most in completing a successful exit. They include how to properly align interests for management, which needs to be reviewed on a regular basis, not just at the start of the investment. We discuss when to expand the “circle of trust” as the exit process moves forward, and how to address other key constituents, including customers. Guests include: Matteo Stefanel, managing partner and co-founder of Apis Partners; Saurabh Singh, partner at AlixPartners; Maurizio Mussi, partner and head of portfolio group, Europe, at Bain Capital; Mike Hollander, managing director at GTCR; Ellen Havdala, managing director at Equity Group Investments; Brian Cassidy, president of Crestview; Fahim Ahmed, COO of BC Partners; Jason McDannold, co-lead of the Americas private equity practice at AlixPartners; and Ted Bililies, global leader of transformative leadership at AlixPartners.