Parker Gals | Why an English Major Is a Secret Weapon in Finance (w/ Kate Nimmo, PSG)
She was an English major who took a banking job in Seattle sight unseen, and eventually became an investor on PSG's healthcare team, focused...
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Private Equity Funcast
The PE Funcast is a weekly show featuring Devin Mathews and Jim Milbery -- partners at ParkerGale Capital. We discuss all things related to privately-owned middle market technology companies...
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20 of 351 episodesHow Private Equity Carves a Business Out of a Company
In a corporate carve-out, figuring out what exactly you're buying is the hardest part. It's often a line-by-line exercise, requiring a scalp...
Parker Gals | How I Became a Chief of Staff (w/ Lena Diasti, Ariel Investments)
Her college career office was supposed to forward her resume to a foundation. Instead, Ariel Investments kept it, and she ended up working n...
Measure Engineering Like You Measure Sales (w/ Dan Bender & Kirby Montgomery, Code & Co.)
In 1982, Bill Atkinson made Apple's Lisa faster by deleting 2,000 lines of code, and the management form asked how many he wrote. Forty-four...
Parker Gals | Trust Over Transactions: The Heart of Private Equity (w/ Nori Welles-Gertz, ParkerGale)
What does it really take to build trust in private equity over a five-to-seven-year hold? Cass sits down with her colleague Nori Welles-Gert...
The Deal Closed. Now What?
Investment diligence is all about answering two questions: Do we want to own this business? And what would we do with it if we did? But then...
Parker Gals | Building a Med Spa Roll-Up from Scratch (w/ Amanda Blank, Founders Beauty Group)
First, she sketched a med spa roll-up on maternity leave. Then, several law firms said it couldn't be done. Now? She owns five practices. Ca...
11 Years as a PE-Backed CFO: What Sponsors Actually Want (w/ Jon Apter, Accordion)
He left private equity, took a 75% pay cut, and joined a 12-person startup that was still finding its footing. Now, Jon Apter helps oversee...
Parker Gals | From Advising to Investing: Building a Career in PE (w/ Katie Yuan, Hg Capital)
What does it take to move from banking to the buyside, and what do you have to figure out once you're there? Liz sits down with Katie Yuan,...
Relationships are the Atomic Unit of Deal Flow (w/ Ken Fine, CEO of Affinity)
We built our sourcing model around one goal: know every owner of every software company long before they decide to sell. Ken Fine, Affinity'...
Parker Gals: How a College Point Guard Built a PE Career (w/ Brogan Magnarelli, Riverspan Partners)
Cass sits down with Brogan Magnarelli, Principal at Riverspan, to talk about her untraditional path into private equity — from point guard a...
Diminishing Returns to Scale in Private Equity (w/ Andrew Akers, PitchBook)
Devin's mom's only instruction to her financial advisor was "the number should never go down." Downside protection is often the most attract...
Parker Gals: Why Private Equity is for Everyone w/ Jessica Patton, 5th Century Partners
What does it look like to "plant seeds" so aggressively that serendipity starts looking like a strategy? This week on Parker Gals, Cass sits...
Building Your 2027 AI Budget (w/ Justin D'Onofrio, Accordion)
Corporate AI spend in 2026 looked like a teenager loose at the mall with their parents' credit card. No policy, no budget, no discipline abo...
Parker Gals: Hannah Song, Promus Equity Partners
What does it look like to go "all in" at every stage of your career, even when you're not on the traditional track? This week on Parker Gals...
Understanding Management Equity: What PE CEOs Should Know
Paul and Ryan break down what PE-backed executives should know about their management equity: how the economics work, what's worth negotiati...
What's Wrong in Private Equity (w/ Lee McCabe)
What if the future of private equity looks exactly like its past? The days of cheap debt and multiple expansion are over, so the only way to...
Parker Gals: Angela McCoy, May River
Cass sits down with Angela McCoy, Managing Director at May River, a private equity firm investing in lower middle market industrial business...
Can You Still Trust Tech Due Diligence? (w/ Jason Gill & Kirby Montgomery, Code & Co.)
What if the thing founders are proudest of in diligence — "AI wrote most of our code" — is actually the reason investors should worry? Jim s...
Parker Gals: Caroline Carman, Rallyday Partners
In this episode of Parker Gals, Liz Xu sits down with her former JPMorgan colleague and friend Caroline Carman, Senior Associate at Rallyday...