Private equity firms and their portfolio companies recognize the importance of talent to their success. Look no further than the aggressive recruiting and back-filling that goes on every day across the industry.
Some Falling Behind: Still, some firms are further along than others in developing their talent functions. While nearly all firms take the lead or at least catalyze the hiring of portfolio company executives, a new report being unveiled today finds fewer than half collecting HR data from portfolio companies in order to pinpoint risks.
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Mid-market lender Deerpath Capital Management is hiring three new directors for its investor relations, direct lending and origination teams.
Palladin Consumer Retail Partners, whose portfolio of brands includes the KT Tape that athletes everywhere stretch across their skin for muscle support and pain relief, has an opening for a pre-MBA associate in its Boston office.
David Kim and Emilio Voli will be stepping down this June as partners and co-heads of investor relations at London and New York-based buyout firm Apax Partners as they bump into its mandatory retirement age of 60. An internal candidate has been tapped to take their place, but the firm does plan to hire several mid-level to senior professionals over the next several months.
MiddleGround Capital, a fast-growing powerhouse in the middle market, and an innovator in keeping employees healthy and happy, seeks to hire a VP/director of investor relations to help keep its fund-raising engine purring.