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. Cass sits down with her old pal from grad school, Amanda Blank...
12 Okt 41min
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 1,600 employees as CFO of Accordion – a seat he's held for t...
7 Okt 1h
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, a private equity associate at Hg in London. They met in 2022...
6 Okt 40min
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's CEO, joins us to explain why relationships and not process...
29 Sep 1h 11min
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 at Harvard to account manager at Boingo Wireless, to GE Healt...
28 Sep 49min
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 attractive part of investing in a mega buyout fund, but the latest ...
23 Sep 1h 9min
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 down with Jessica Patton to trace her path from Detroit to ...
20 Sep 48min
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 about what was purchased and why. That will change in the 2027 ...
16 Sep 57min
