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Accelerating Digital Product Development for Private Equity Portfolio Management

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For private equity firms focused on value creation, enhancing portfolio companies through digital transformation is a key strategy. When Prairie Capital sought to significantly expand the reach and offerings of…

Board of Directors Search Firms: Drive Strategic Expansion

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Private equity firms seeking to enhance their portfolio companies often require specialized expertise to drive strategic growth. Saw Mill Capital, a private equity firm, sought two qualified board members for…

Leveraging Expert Networks for Portfolio Advancement

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Private equity portfolio management demands clear market insights. Seeking to advance their hotel renovation portfolio, Private Equity firm, LongWater Opportunities, struggled to gain a clear understanding of the rapidly evolving…

Board Search Places Two Senior Executives in Staffing Firm

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An Apex Leaders’ client owned an established staffing company platform and had recently added a smaller Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) company. Given the recent add on, the company wanted to…

Private Equity CEO Placement Spurs 400% Company Growth

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Apex Leaders’ client wanted to evaluate a regionally-known court reporting company with strong growth potential. Initially, the client sought to speak with advisors who could diligence the opportunity and, potentially,…

Finding the Right Fit with Board Member Search Firms

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L2 Capital, a family office with decades of experience investing in and growing lower middle market companies, needed to find a board member for their recently acquired portfolio company, Ecotone,…

How an Expertise Consultant Helped Solve Supply Chain Issues

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Apex’s client, a lower middle market private equity (PE) firm, approached Apex for help with a microchip shortage affecting its portfolio company, a leader in quick-turn PCBA and on-demand manufacturing….

PE Portfolio Management: Flexible PVC Market Expansion

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For our private equity client, we provided industry expertise that advanced the plateauing sales performance within their PE portfolio management strategy for the flexible PVC division In an industrial industry…

Why Private Equity Trusts Board of Directors Headhunters

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Our private equity client held an early-stage investment in a cardiovascular medical device company. They had a promising new product and wanted a new board member to help them navigate…

Assessing Underperformance in Saw Mills Portfolio

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In spite of a growing housing market, a private equity-owned saw manufacturer in the U.S. Pacific Northwest was reporting low sales performance. Executive management attributed the cause to dwindling production…