Monthly Roundup Archives

October 2022 Roundup: BluWave Client Insights

November 4, 2022 Delaney Walker

BluWave works with over 500 PE firms from around the globe as well as their portfolio companies and other proactive independent companies, connecting them with BluWave-vetted, best-in-class, third-party service providers across a variety of resource and functional areas. From information technology and manufacturing to healthcare, consumer goods, and beyond, our clients are expert business builders. In other words, they have their heads in the game and their hands on the pulse of news and insights you can use.

Check out the latest, curated collection of our client’s musings on cybersecurity, AI, market trends, and more.

Blackstone: Quarterly Webcast

In this latest quarterly webcast, Blackstone’s Joe Zidle and Byron Wien share insight into inflation, global recession risks, and long-run trends to consider. Key takeaways include recession risks remain higher in Europe, the inflation peak is sticky, and more.

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Permira: Launching AI Capability

With many software providers looking to implement AI-powered features to enhance customer experiences, Gaurav Bhatnagar and Ben Roger from Permira share their insights on launching AI capabilities.

Bridges Fund Management: The Value of Cybersecurity

In the third issue of their series “Investing in the Future”, Bridges Fund Management shares a publication on the importance of cybersecurity in the age of technology and the businesses that have emerged as a result of this need.

Montage Partners: PE Firm Stereotypes

Montage Partners’ new series breaks down the stereotypes that surround private equity firms and why they are not accurate. On this episode, Connie Bates shares her experience on how capital is not the only thing PE firms can offer a company.

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Read what some of our clients had to say last month on employee-based ownership, developing ICPs, creating an employer brand, and more.

If you need PE-grade third parties to help you prepare for the downturn, bolster your cybersecurity efforts, or implement AI, don’t hesitate to give us a shout.

September 2022 Roundup: BluWave Client Insights

October 4, 2022 Brad Gerick

BluWave works with over 500 PE firms from around the globe as well as their portfolio companies and proactive independent companies, connecting them with BluWave-vetted, best-in-class, third-party service providers across a variety of resource and functional areas. From information technology and manufacturing to healthcare, consumer goods, and beyond, our clients are expert business builders. In other words, they have their heads in the game and their hands on the pulse of news and insights you can use.

Check out the latest, curated collection of our client’s musings on employee-based ownership, developing ICPs, creating an employer brand, and more.

KKR: Employee Ownership

Seeing success after implementing broad-based employee ownership programs in several portfolio companies, Pete Stavros, Co-Head of Americas Private Equity at KKR, shares his insights on the benefits of employee ownership.

ParkerGale: Developing ICPs

ParkerGale operating partners Cici Zhang and Paul Stansik speak on the importance of defining an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and discuss their steps to building out an ICP.

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Insight Partners: Building an Employer Brand

With an increasing emphasis on talent and a push towards putting employees first, it is critical for employers to proactively work to attract and retain top talent. Insight Partner’s Talent COE, Hattie Young, identifies a 4-step process for building a compelling employer brand to attract the best talent.

Montage Partners: Questions Sellers Should Ask

The diligence process should be a two-way street. Montage Partners highlights diligence on the sell side and provides questions sellers should be asking potential buyers.

Blackstone: Dealing with a Tough Market

With recession risks in the US and global economy, Joe Zidle of Blackstone gives his insights to dealing with a tough market, speaking to inflation, a strengthening labor market, and shifting consumer demand.

Read what some of our clients had to say last month on value creation through human capital, continued recessionary pressures, DEI, digital marketing, and more.

August 2022 Roundup: BluWave Client Insights

August 30, 2022 Kyle Johnson

BluWave works with over 500 PE firms from around the globe as well as thousands of their portfolio companies and other proactive independent companies, connecting them with BluWave-vetted, best-in-class, third-party service providers across a variety of resource and functional areas. From information technology and manufacturing to healthcare, consumer goods, and beyond, our clients are expert business builders. In other words, they have their heads in the game and their hands on the pulse of news and insights you can use.

Check out the latest, curated collection of our clients’ musings on value creation through human capital, continued recessionary pressures, DEI, digital marketing, and more.

ParkerGale Operating Team Partner Jimmy Holloran is joined by David Cohen, human capital partner at Kelso and Company. They discuss the various ways that human capital can impact a firm’s portfolio, the biggest value creators during the hold period, how human capital leaders can and should be thought partners, and more.

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SMB founder-owned businesses often don’t have a deep pool of resources like PE-backed companies, but this doesn’t mean they can’t take a page out of the PE playbook during this contracting economy. Heartwood Partners outlines some economic indicators available to businesses, where owners can strengthen their organization during these uncertain times, cost management strategies, and opportunities to revisit a company’s financing ahead of the projected, much stronger economy.