Zinnov Podcast - Decoding Private Equity series

Zinnov Podcast - Decoding Private Equity series

Zinnov’s Decoding Private Equity series is the one-stop destination to all the hottest PE deals, their evolving investment theses, and a low down on the industries where all the action is! With a pioneering and influential PE leader on the hot seat in every episode, we unbundle the nuances of the global PE landscape.

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June 30, 2025 27 mins

Could the biggest lever for scaling your business already be halfway across the world? 

In the latest episode of Zinnov Podcast, Decoding Private Equity series, Amita Goyal, Managing Partner at Zinnov, speaks with Tom Stephens, Operating Partner at BV Investment Partners, about how offshore centers are evolving into strategic assets. 

Tom draws from decades of experience to explain how these centers drive process maturity, speed-to...

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In this captivating episode of the Zinnov Podcast, part of the popular Decoding Private Equity series, Nilesh Thakker, President, Zinnov sits down with Srini Basava, Managing Director of Bazaarvoice India and Senior Vice President of Product Development. Srini shares his transformative journey of building and scaling the Bazaarvoice India Center into a hub of innovation, including spearheading a Generative AI team to enhance globa...

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In this episode, Nilesh Thakker, President of Zinnov, sits down with Sunil Rajasekar, CEO of Billtrust, to explore the nuances of leading global teams. Sunil offers a candid look at the challenges and strategies involved in treating international teams with the same level of respect and responsibility as local teams. He emphasizes that effective global leadership goes beyond sending tasks; it requires mastering communication, influ...

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Private Equity firms can be powerful engines propelling companies to new heights, but mismanagement risks serious breakdowns and job losses.

In this episode of the Decoding Private Equity series, Gary Greenfield, Managing Director of Zagent, brings 40 years of experience from across Private Equities and PortCos to his conversation with Nilesh Thakker, President at Zinnov. They discuss how both PE firms and portfolio companies ca...

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George Abatjoglou, President of EMS Management and Consultants, has steered multiple Private Equity-backed Healthcare companies towards explosive growth over two decades. In this episode in our Decoding Private Equity podcast series, George acts as your architect, laying the blueprints for building and scaling high-performi...

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In this episode of the Zinnov Podcast: Decoding Private Equity series, host Amita Goyal sits down with Fritz Hesse, the Chief Technology Officer who has driven innovation at Private Equity-owned companies like Riskonnect and Bazaarvoice.

With over 25 years at the forefront of leading software teams across industries, Fritz Hesse's tenure at the helm of Private Equity portfolio companies like Riskonnect and Bazaarvoice offers a rare...

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In this pilot episode of our Decoding Private Equity series, Pari Natarajan, CEO, Zinnov, sits down with Charles Phillips, Co-Founder, RECOGNIZE to discuss how IP-led services assets have created a niche, to attract private equity funding.

Charles, the former CEO of Infor, founded RECOGNIZE along with Cognizant’s co-founder, Frank D’Souza to incubate and grow companies that cater specifically to certain Clouds. RECOGNIZE’s investme...

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The Intelligent Automation space has been abuzz with Mergers & Acquisitions over the past 18 months. Companies are leveraging M&A in the Automation space to gain newer capabilities while strengthening existing ones while future-proofing their businesses against unanticipated disruptions. Nintex is one such major HIA player to have received a fresh round of funding worth USD 2Bn+ from the Private Equity company, TPG Capital....

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