Beer Stories for Private Equity

Beer Stories for Private Equity

Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity: a virtual happy, tapping into 28 years of private equity experience… one pint at a time.

Episodes

April 15, 2025 23 mins

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our 19th episode, we are joined by Stephen Kelly, Co-Managing Partner at Ivy Capital in Dublin.

Among their beer stories, Scott and Stephen discuss Stephen’s early journey—from his time at Trinity College and experiences traveling through Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia to founding Ivy Capital with a ...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our 18th episode, we are joined by Alex Rawling, Founder and Managing Partner at Raw Selection, an executive search firm based in Leeds, UK.

Among their beer stories, Scott and Alex discuss Alex's journey in founding Raw Selection focusing on PE, the key differentiators of his firm, including their proprietary d...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our Season 2 premiere, we welcome our friend Tim Brackney, CEO of Springline Advisory, a portco of Trinity Hunt Partners.

Among their beer stories, Scott and Tim discuss Tim’s upbringing in Bangladesh, his journey scaling Resources Global Professionals (RGP) from $100M to over $800M in revenue as President and C...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In this special "Go Fungal" Takeover episode, our friend and podcast production partner, Matt Cornelison from Fungi Media, flips the script—taking over as guest host and putting Scott in the hot seat.

Among their beer stories, Matt and Scott dive into Fungi’s marketing expertise, best practices for LinkedIn, how pr...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our Season 1 finale, we are joined by John Bova, an Independent Operating Partner based in Connecticut.

Among their beer stories, Scott and John discuss business transformation through brand, finance, operations, technology and marketing, focusing on how brand creates significant value in portcos. They also disc...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our 15th episode, we are joined by Derek Zacarias, Director of DAK Group.

Among their beer stories, Scott and Derek discuss his personal journey into investment banking, DAK Group’s expertise in helping founders connect with the right PE firms, MonogramGroup’s parallels to DAK Group in partnering with portcos to...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our 14th episode, we are joined by Harry Gray, CEO of Kelvin Group.

Among their many beer stories, Scott and Harry discuss his military background and how it translates to the business world, his experience as a leader in private equity, the ins and outs of Kelvin Group as a national rollup, and what differentia...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our 13th episode, we are joined by John Signa, CEO of E78 Partners.

Among their many beer stories, Scott and John discuss the early days after starting his firm, the significance of brand identity as a key driver to scaling an enterprise, and how he handled the rapid expansion of E78 Partners. They also examine ...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our latest episode, we welcome our friend and client Amy Silverstein, Partner at e2p as our guest.

Among their many beer stories, Scott and Amy discuss her substantive career shift from Deloitte partner to PE partner, the profound role of ESG within food investing, and the power of personal branding and relation...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our latest episode, we welcome our friend and client Jarrett Turner, Founding & Managing Partner at Soundcore Capital Partners as our guest.

Among their many beer stories, Scott and Jarrett discuss his career path and deciding to create his own PE firm in his early 30s, with a quite different and thoughtful ...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our tenth episode, we welcome a new friend in the business (and podcast competitor) Charlie Gifford, Senior Partner at New Heritage Capital, as our guest.

Among their many beer stories, Scott and Charlie discuss Boston and Chicago, his career path, being a generalist in a world of specialist PE firms (The Privat...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our ninth episode, we welcome our friend and client Jim Parmelee, Managing Director at Hamilton Robinson as our guest.

Among their many beer stories, Scott and Jim discuss his career path and joining the firm he has called home for seven years. Jim also shares a few insights about how his love of learning was sh...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our eighth episode, we welcome our longtime friend and former client Dave Swanson, one of the founding partners of Antares Capital, as our guest. 

Among their many, many beer stories, Scott and Dave discuss his career path and being a part of the building process of the premier middle market credit provider. Dav...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our seventh episode, we welcome our friend and client Reed Van Gorden, Managing Director and Head of Originations at Deerpath Capital as our guest.

Among their many beer stories, Scott and Reed discuss his career path and being a part of the building process of one of the premier middle market credit providers. ...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our sixth episode, Scott is joined by MaryJeanne (MJ) Scott, a Managing Partner at JM Search in Philadelphia.

The two engage in a stimulating convo focused on why smart, effective recruiting for C-suite talent is a must for all PE deal execs, and how JM Search uniquely approaches this process for optimal results...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our fifth episode, Scott is joined by George Pilafas of Continuim Equity Partners for a very rousing discussion. 

Among their many beer stories, Scott and George share a great discussion about PE's Kaizen-led firm, Continuim, whose name is derived from Continuous Improvement. They talk about applying Kaizen to P...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our fourth episode, Scott is joined by Aaron Clark of Stephens Group for a great show. 

Among their many beer stories, the two share some laughs, mixing in some thoughtful commentary on working for a family office. Aaron has been Managing Director since the firm's founding in 2006; advising partners across inter...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our third episode, Scott is joined by Brett Holcomb of Prospect Partners for a great show. 

Among their many beer stories, Brett and Scott discuss Brett’s two decades of experience across a wide range of industries, focusing on Brett’s 14-year tenure as a partner, as well as the ‘8 P’s’. They also chat about tak...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our second episode, Scott is joined by his friend of over 20 years, Joe Gaffigan of O2 Sponsor Finance (often referred to as the “funniest man in private credit”).

Among their many beer stories, Scott and Joe discuss Joe’s successful career of more than 30 years of financial entrepreneurship and leadership exper...

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Welcome to Beer Stories for Private Equity! In our first episode, Scott is joined by John Fruehwirth, Managing Partner of Rotunda Capital Partners.

Among their many beer stories, John shares the origins of how he founded his firm in 2009. The pair chat about The Rotunda Way, a strategic framework affectionately dubbed the Spaghetti Map, entrepreneurial succe...

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