Most portfolio monitoring buys go wrong at the same point: the operating partner approves a tool that produces a dashboard, and the CFO of the […]
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Portfolio Company Reporting Automation That Survives a Board Cycle
An operating partner sitting in the first board meeting after close usually discovers the same thing: the monthly reporting pack that looked adequate in diligence […]
Technology Leadership for Portfolio Companies That Actually Moves EBITDA
Six months after close, a CFO opens the board pack and finds the engineering line running 20% over plan with no release to show for […]
How to Hire an Interim CISO for Private Equity Without Overbuying
A portfolio company loses its security lead in the middle of confirmatory diligence on an add-on, or the deal team finds during technology due diligence […]
How to Buy Fractional CTO Services for PE-Backed Companies and Judge Whether They Work
An FP&A lead usually meets the technology function the same way: a forecast slips, the CFO asks why, and the answer arrives as engineering activity […]
Fractional CTO retainers fail without defined enterprise-value work
When an operating partner approves a $10K monthly fractional CTO retainer, the deal team should ask what enterprise-value work that retainer will move, who owns […]
What a Fractional CTO for Mid-Market Private Equity Should Own, and How to Judge It
An operating partner approving a technology retainer for a portfolio company is usually deciding one thing under pressure: whether the money produces a measurable change […]
What to Decide in a Fractional CTO’s First 100 Days
An operating partner who has just approved a $10K per month fractional CTO retainer for a portfolio company usually has one real question by the […]
A Fractional CIO for Private Equity
An operating partner rarely calls for a fractional CIO for private equity because the org chart has a gap. The call comes because a number […]