Revenue bands are a proxy for when to hire a chief revenue officer. In our view the title should follow the span of the job: how many revenue functions already exist and need one owner.
Buy-and-build platforms create the integration seat after the deals pile up. Why it is a different job from the CEO’s, and why to name it earlier.
In two of the summer’s largest take-privates the non-executives go on completion and incentives come later. What it means for the CFO, CEO and sponsor.
Strategic capital is now on European defence cap tables. What that does to a commercial leadership brief, and the part sponsors do not write into it.
Goldman counts 150 European companies whose lenders took the equity since 2017. Over 80% sit under €75m EBITDA. What that means for who runs them.
Three start-ups won German drone orders, then the incumbent signed for more than all three combined. What European defence procurement means for the C-suite.
Shared control at the top of European software is more common than sponsors assume. What a Co-CEO structure means at entry, scale and exit.
Private equity’s most frequent senior hire is also its most poorly specified. The first institutional CFO brief is set by ownership structure, not sector.
Private equity spent a decade cutting the COO. In an operational-return era of longer holds, the seat is back and the people who can fill it are scarce.
Most PE firms have committed over $1M to AI. Under 5% of their portfolio companies have fully integrated it. The gap is a leadership problem — and the AI Operating Partner is the role closing it.
