Thought Leadership
Maximize Your Exit Valuation Multiple
Co-authored with @StenningSchueppert. Successful private equity (“PE”) firms generally execute well in the three commonly accepted phases of portfolio company value creation: 1) Buy right, 2) Grow EBITDA, and 3) Sell that EBITDA at highest multiple possible. In our experience, many PE firms are missing critical low-hanging fruit by not maximizing their exit multiples because they […]
5 Approaches to Profitability
With the economy slowing, many companies will shift their focus to improving their profitability. Is your management team prepared to take a fresh look at how to grow profit margins? In our work with mid-market companies over the last decade, we have helped uncover many different ways to improve profits. Here are our Top 5 approaches to improving […]
A Client’s Perspective: Drew Clancy
”Overall Maven’s involvement was a great value and we believe the project was a big success.” -Drew Clancy Drew Clancy is the President of Publishing Concepts (PCI). After acquiring one of its biggest competitors, the PCI team was not done. It needed to streamline the two businesses as well as continue the total company growth […]
Meet Gregg Fellows
One strength of the Maven Associates model is to partner with experts in key functional areas and industries. Maven leverages these partnerships when working with mid-market organizations to create specialized solution plans. One area the mid-mid-market organizations often struggle is in Technology. They tend to have out-dated impressions of what technology can do and the […]
Meet Stenning Schueppert
Clients select Maven Associates when they face a very specific business challenge, and when they need a highly skilled team of consultants who can help them to understand and address the challenge quickly and affordably. Stenning Schueppert is a consultant at Maven Associates who is specialized in private equity investment strategy and M&A. Stenning earned […]