Private Equity: The Portfolio Company Perspective

During this session Al will be discussing his experiences as the Chief Operating Officer of Sun Products, a private equity portfolio company that was owned by Vestar Capital Partners. We monetized the Sun investment in 2016 for $3.6 billion. Most of the discussions at Columbia about private equity are from the perspective of the sponsor, i.e. the private equity firm that has invested in the company. In his session he will be talking about private equity from the perspective of the management of the portfolio company, a very different lens from that of the sponsor. He has led this Lunch and Learn in previous semesters and found that students who are interested in careers in P.E., even if it is working for the sponsor, find the sessions very valuable.

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