Best But Never Final: Private Equity's Pursuit of Excellence
Doug McCormick, Lloyd Metz, Sean Mooney
43 episodes
3 weeks ago
Meranee Phing Naaman, a trailblazer with over 25 years in private equity and two decades as a senior investment partner at Riverside Company, shares hard-won lessons from building and scaling businesses in consumer markets. She explains why IQ alone isn't enough in PE—you need EQ to sell your vision and LQ (learning quotient) to keep pattern recognition sharp. From buying the same home services business twice to pioneering franchising as a PE strategy, Meranee breaks down what separates good ...
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Meranee Phing Naaman, a trailblazer with over 25 years in private equity and two decades as a senior investment partner at Riverside Company, shares hard-won lessons from building and scaling businesses in consumer markets. She explains why IQ alone isn't enough in PE—you need EQ to sell your vision and LQ (learning quotient) to keep pattern recognition sharp. From buying the same home services business twice to pioneering franchising as a PE strategy, Meranee breaks down what separates good ...
When Things Go Wrong, Part II: Taking Action When Performance Slips
Best But Never Final: Private Equity's Pursuit of Excellence
45 minutes
2 months ago
When Things Go Wrong, Part II: Taking Action When Performance Slips
In this continuation of their conversation on portfolio performance, co-hosts Lloyd Metz (ICV Partners), Doug McCormick (HCI Equity Partners), and Sean Mooney (BluWave) move from diagnosis to action: what to actually do once you know a business isn’t performing to plan. They cover how to tell a temporary headwind from a structural problem, where to start on revenue and cost fixes, and how to balance quick liquidity levers with long-term value creation. From pricing strategy and marketin...
Best But Never Final: Private Equity's Pursuit of Excellence
Meranee Phing Naaman, a trailblazer with over 25 years in private equity and two decades as a senior investment partner at Riverside Company, shares hard-won lessons from building and scaling businesses in consumer markets. She explains why IQ alone isn't enough in PE—you need EQ to sell your vision and LQ (learning quotient) to keep pattern recognition sharp. From buying the same home services business twice to pioneering franchising as a PE strategy, Meranee breaks down what separates good ...
