The Portfolio CFO’s Role in Private Equity Value Creation

Ask any sponsor which hire matters most after the CEO, and most will say the CFO. Yet many portfolio companies still treat the finance seat as a reporting role. In today's market, that gap is expensive.

Holding periods are longer and exit windows are less predictable. As a result, returns increasingly depend on how the business runs, not on financial engineering. The CFO sits at that intersection, turning the investment thesis into day-to-day decisions. READ MORE