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2021 Vardis PE CFO Survey
/ OVERVIEW: We are pleased to share with you our 2021 Private Equity CFO Survey. It's our sixth annual installment. During April 2021, we contacted CFOs of PE portfolio companies worldwide and com...
For the past 20 years, John has worked closely with investor groups and boards of directors in a range of industries.
He was previously with Mainstay Partners, a private equity boutique, and was a partner with Whitehead Mann where he led the firm’s North American technology, media and telecommunications practice. Prior to executive search, he was a corporate officer of Versyss, a private equity-backed information services company where he held both corporate functions and business unit roles. John holds a BA in History and Economics from Principia College.
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/ OVERVIEW: We are pleased to share with you our 2021 Private Equity CFO Survey. It's our sixth annual installment. During April 2021, we contacted CFOs of PE portfolio companies worldwide and com...
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Dan Sunderland is a Special Advisor to Vardis, enhancing the firm’s Financial Officers recruitment capabilities.
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Vardis Proud To Support Harrington Industrial Plastics Appointing Dave Hellman As the New CFO
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We are pleased to share the results of our 2020 Private Equity CEO Survey. We appreciate the participation of more than 200 CEOs of private equity backed businesses worldwide who made this report po...
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Vardis Proud To Support Continuum Global Solutions Appointing Ron Gillette As the New CEO
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Vardis Proud To Support AITX Appointing Melanie Connellee As the New CFO & COO
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We are pleased to share with you the latest in our series of Private Equity Reports – an in-depth review of Portfolio Company Equity Participation Plans. This report is based on 375 survey responses r...
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Vardis Proud To Support Akam Living Services Appointing Sandeep Kulkarni As the New CFO
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Vardis Proud To Support Relam Appointing John Roberts As the New CEO
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The survey was administered online from October through December 2019. Respondents consisted of 56 managing directors, operating partners, or founders from PE firms and 52 senior executives—prima...
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/ OVERVIEW: We are pleased to share with you this Addendum to our 2020 Private Equity CFO Survey. In the course of conducting our annual CFO Survey, we asked about PE CFOs to gaze into their collect...
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We are pleased to share with you the results of our 2020 Private Equity CFO Survey. This is our fourth annual survey. As in our previous years, we asked about PE CFOs for their perspective on compen...
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/ OVERVIEW: As in past years, we have approached over 1,000 PE CFOs in North America to review key hiring criteria, compensation norms, and the differences between the CFO role in a corporate and PE e...
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We are pleased to share with you the results of our 2019 Private Equity CFO Survey. As in our previous surveys, we explore compensation norms, investment and governance trends, the relationship betwe...
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Vardis Proud To Support The Gores Group In Appointing Nicholas B. Dottino As Chief Executive Officer
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Vardis Proud To Support The Gores Group In Appointing Eric Toler As Chief Financial Officer
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Vardis Proud To Support The Gores Group In Appointing Al Lechner As Chief Growth Officer
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Vardis Proud To Support Platinum Equity In Appointing Mark Roy As Chief Commercial Officer
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Vardis is Proud to Support Platinum Equity & PrimeSource Building Products in Appointing Tom Koos as President and Chief Executive Officer.
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/ OVERVIEW: During October 2017 (following up on its 2016 survey), Vardis contacted the CFOs of 925 North American Private Equity portfolio companies to review job content, differences between private...
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Wednesday 20th September 2017 Vardis/AlixPartners Private Equity Breakfast & Expert Panel Discussion, Fortnum & Mason, 181 Piccadilly, London. PE industry experts will explore the differing expectati...
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Market conditions are forcing private equity (PE) firms to hold their investments longer than ever. Seeking new ways to create value, they are eyeing the clear links between a portfolio company’s over...
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/ INTRODUCTION: Partnership of Vardis and AlixPartners Surveyed over 100 PE firm partners and portfolio company CEOs in 2017 Topics: Explored the relationship between CEO and PE firms, including: ...
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OVERVIEW: In October 2016 Vardis contacted the CFOs of 620 North American and European private equity portfolio companies with questions on compensation and job content. Those surveyed are representa...
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Vardis is proud to support Platinum Equity and Vertiv ( formerly known as Emerson Network Power) in the appointment of Rob Johnson as CEO.
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Why would you be one of the 38% who don’t know what they are looking for? The Alix Partners Vardis 2015 Succession Planning survey identified that an astonishing 38% of investment firms don’t have a ...
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Vardis is Proud to Support Power Stop & Sterling Investment Partners in Appointing Joseph Stephan as Chief Operating Officer.
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The AlixPartner-Vardis 2015 Succession Planning Survey found divergent views on ideal CEO tenure: 65% of investment firms say 3-5 years is ideal (28% public companies) and 41% public companies favour...
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2015 VARDIS - ALIX PARTNERS CEO SUCCESSION PLANNING SURVEY. CEO tenure is averagely shorter in private equity as investment theses seek to deliver over shorter timescales to maximise returns for in...
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Vardis is Proud to Support Platinum Equity & Primesource Building Products in Appointing George Judd as a Chief Executive Officer.
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The Global Venture Capital Confidence Survey is an annual survey of venture capital, private equity and growth equity investors around the world. The survey covers: investor confidence in global inves...
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Vardis is proud to support Lone Star Funds & Hanson Building Products in its appointment of Jeff Bradley as Chief Executive Officer and Matt Brown as Chief Financial Officer.
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Vardis is Proud to Support Platinum Equity & Ryerson in Appointing Court Carruthers as a Member of its Board of Directors.
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Vardis is proud to support Platinum Equity and BWAY in its appointment of Don Pearson as Chief Financial Officer.
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EY's second annual CFO survey of the global private equity industry. Many believe the overwhelming demand for private equity labels it as the asset class of choice. As the industry positions itself f...
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Vardis is proud to support Platinum Equity and MACtac in the appointment of Ken Pratt as Vice President of Global Procurement, Chad Oney as Vice President of Operations, Ryan Jones as Director of Tax,...
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Vardis Proud To Support Nautic Partners & HB Performance Systems Inc. (HAYES) in Appointing Doug Adrian as Vice President of Global Operations
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Exits from buyouts exceeded $450 billion, surpassing the all-time high by a wide margin. The flow of so much capital came as a welcome relief to LPs and GPs alike and has infused the industry with new...
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Vardis Proud To Support Sun Capital And Heartland Automotive Services In Appointing Larry Magee As President, CEO And John Wesley As COO
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Vardis Proud To Support Platinum Equity & MXD Group In Appointing Terry Solvedt As Chief Executive Officer
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Vardis Proud To Support H.I.G. And Rolland In Appointing Guillaume Lavoie As Chief Financial Officer
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The Coller Institute of Private Equity presents descriptive evidence on the characteristics of a large sample of 3,847 US- based private equity advisors. They also study the factors associated with th...
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Private Equity Demystified For over two decades, from the early 1980s, the developing private equity industry largely flew below the radar of public scrutiny. In 2007 the private equity industry c...
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Vardis Proud To Support Nautic Partners & HB Performance Systems Inc. (HAYES) in Appointing Phil Malliet as President and CEO
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A lot is said about private equity but what is it really? The video describes the process by which private equity firms partner with investors such as pension funds and charitable endowments to purch...
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Vardis Proud To Support Platinum Equity in the Appointment of Phillip Hobson as CEO of BlueLine Rental
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Vardis Proud To Support CEVA & Apollo in Appointing Christophe Cachat as Chief Information Officer
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Vardis Proud to Support Platinum Equity in the appointment of John Hafferty as CFO of BlueLine Rental
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Vardis supports Atlas Holdings and Motus Integrated in acquisition of spin-out from JCI and in recruitment of Shannon White as President & CEO
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Industry performance is better than previously thought, but success is getting harder to repeat. Investors and firms will need to adapt to changing conditions.
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Vardis supports Nautic Partners in recruitment of George Psyhojos to Curtis Industries
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Vardis Proud To Support Fine Tubes, Superior Tube & The Watermill Group in Appointing Brian J. Malloy as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
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Vardis supports Keen Transport Inc.& Platinum Equity in moving Chris Easter to CEO from COO
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Most CEOs of private-equity-owned companies agree that private-equity (PE) firms can help their companies and advance their individual careers. But CEOs and PE firms often do not fully appreciate each...
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One of the most powerful tools available to CEOs and CFOs to drive growth is their company’s approach to capital allocation across its portfolio of businesses. BCG research and client experience sugge...
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Vardis Proud To Support Tenere & The Watermill Group in Appointing Greg Adams as CEO
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We rely on detailed assessments of over 300 CEO candidates in firms funded by private equity (PE) investors – both buyout (LBOs) and venture capital (VCs) investors. Performed from 2000 to 2006 by gh...
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Vardis Proud To Support Ryerson & Platinum Equity In Appointing Michael C. Arnold As President and Chief Executive Officer
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