Jim and Paul kick off the 2025 podcast year. We discuss economic uncertainties, private equity challenges, and evolving market strategies.... more

Matt Van Itallie from SEMA Software joins Jim to discuss the value of SEMA’s code analysis tools for private equity... more

Jim welcomes old friend and colleague, Jeremy Burton, CEO of Observe, to the podcast. They discuss the importance of observability... more

Jim welcomes Phillip Weinstein, founder of Atropates Capital who discusses his background, entrepreneurial journey, and the concept of starting a... more

Join Paul from the ParkerGale Ops team as he unpacks the concept of “product-market fit” with special guest, Rob Snyder... more

Devin spends an hour with Ankur Gupta, PNC's Global Head of Technology Finance, to discuss the current state of software... more

ParkerGale Principal Cass Ziebel sits down with CFO Jon Danielson to discuss the priorities of a PE-backed CFO and what... more

In this interview, Jim and Yuval Yeret discuss the implementation and challenges of agile methodologies within the private equity space.... more

Product positioning expert April Dunford joins Operating Partner Paul Stansik to talk about the curse of product pessimism (and how... more

Ryan Milligan dives deeper into our investment in Big Band Software, joined by Big Band founders Kevin McArdle (CEO), Chris... more

"Value Creation" - It's one of the most over-used terms in private equity today. What does value creation mean? What's... more

We welcome back our friends Christoph and Peter from FLEX Capital in Berlin, Germany. Our conversation covers everything you would... more

Jim welcomes the CEO of Master Storytelling and former host of Planet Money, the always-entertaining Adam Davidson. We explore the... more

Jim talks Low-Code/No-Code with Jon Kragh, founder of Proactive Logic Consulting.  Jon and his team provide fractional CTO, cloud architecture,... more

Jim talks with IBM Champion and the Incredible i Show host, Peg Tuttle.  IBM's Power Systems platform running the... more

Jim talks with Stanford's Dr. Mohammad Rasouli about AI's pending disruption in Private Equity.  He is an ex-McKinsey consultant from... more

Bill Snow, a noted authority on mergers and acquisitions, is back with the second part of our discussion on his... more

 Devin is joined by Tuck Hardie, a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring Group. After operating through the bankruptcy... more

Bill Snow, a noted authority on mergers and acquisitions has represented buyers and sellers in a multitude of industries. He... more

Two Hundred and Seventy Three Episodes and Two Million downloads later, it's the 10th anniversary of the PE Funcast.  Indulge... more

This week we sat down with Clark O'Niell and Jay Barlett from BCG to discuss their most recent research report... more

In this episode of the PE Funcast, we take a deep dive into the relationship between the portfolio company CEO... more

We’ve been hearing more questions and interest in operating partner roles than ever before. In our latest episode of the... more

Ted Bililies, Managing Director and Head of Global Transformation Leadership Practice at AlixPartners joins Devin again to review the findings... more

In this episode of the PE Funcast, Devin and our Head of Research, David, discuss our research on software valuations,... more

The grand finale of our two-part conversation with Kelley Powell, a long-time ParkerGale collaborator, and ex-portfolio executive.  Kelley talks about... more

Part One of a two-part conversation with Kelley Powell, a long-time ParkerGale collaborator and ex-portfolio executive.  Kelley talks about the... more

Jim spends an hour talking about technical due diligence with Dan Bender, and Lukas Ingelheim from Code & Co.  Dan... more

Jim talks with an old friend and comrade, Alan Williamson, about his new book - Think Like a CTO.  Alan... more

Jim talks Mergers and Acquisitions Roll-up strategies with Matt Lynch, Managing Director at District Capital Partners.  We discuss the various types... more

Jimmy is joined by Katrina Calihan, Executive Coach and Co-Founder of Wind + Sail Leadership Partners, to discuss and demystify... more

In this episode of the Private Equity Funcast, Operating Partner Cici Zheng is joined by Jared Ranere, President and COO... more

Jim talks with Paul Stansik about his experiences digging in on the sales and marketing function within our portfolio.

In the latest episode of the Private Equity Funcast, Operating Partners Cici Zheng and Paul Stansik discuss the ICP -... more

Jimmy is joined by David Cohen, Human Capital Partner at Kelso and Company. David has been working in the Human... more

In this episode, Jimmy is joined by Laura Queen, founder, and CEO of 29Bison, a Human Capital Consultancy focused on... more

Jim talks all things DevOps with Dave Mangot from Mangoteque.  Dave's philosophy is "Get Good at Delivering Software", and he... more

No prospect is going to buy enterprise software on impulse.  Prospects don't need advertising, they need help, help understanding that... more

Your company acquired another company - congrats! But what happens next? In this episode, Operating Partners Cici and Jimmy break... more

Jimmy is joined on the show by Ted Bililies, Managing Director at AlixPartners, for what is now becoming a yearly... more

On this episode of the Funcast, Operating Partner Paul Stansik is joined by CEO Elias Rubel, whose team at Matter... more

It's the grand finale of our annual March Madness episodes -- the final four.  Cass versus Jimmy and Paul versus... more

It's our annual March Madness show.  This year our intrepid Operations Team picks their 16 favorite podcasts.   Have a... more

Sometimes the recipe for a good discussion is to simply pick an important topic, invite two smart people who disagree... more

Jim and Attorney Peter Halprin from Pasich, LLP discuss the ins and outs of Cybersecurity Insurance and Litigation. We cover... more

In this episode, Cici Zheng talks with April Dunford, a positioning consultant, speaker, and author on how she helps growth... more

In this week's episode, we are talking with Pam Lang, CEO of Xcelerated Data, a company that focuses on fixing data... more

Jim, Cici and Jimmy discuss community building within our portfolio. We cover everything from organizing small teams across our companies... more

It's our annual predictions show for 2022 with your original hosts, Devin and Jim. With the glut of other pontificators doing... more

Devin walks us through three (yes 3!) new additions to the ParkerGale team. We're calling it the Platform Team and... more

It's our annual holiday episode, with your original hosts -- Devin and Jim. While the debate over "Die Hard as... more

Jimmy is joined by Tim Schumm, CEO of Lucas James Talent Partners to discuss The Great Resignation. Just about everyone... more

We’re hiring! ParkerGale VPs Ben and Nori join Jimmy to discuss the Investment Associate role at ParkerGale. They discuss Associate... more

Jimmy is joined by Eric Green, co-founder of WPD Management, a Chicago-based real-estate and property management company, to discuss the... more

Jimmy is joined by Amanda Lannert, much lauded CEO of Chicago-based Jellyvision, to discuss how Jellyvision is transforming their culture... more

ParkerGale Operating Principal Paul Stansik is joined by Zorian Rotenberg, former head of Sales, CRO, and now a PE growth... more

Jimmy Holloran and Paul Stansik share the lessons they’ve learned inside the portfolio from the last 2+ years working on... more

Ryan Milligan discusses the state of the Canadian M&A market with Pierre Chamberland, founder of NetGovern. Pierre describes his roughly... more

Inspired by their friend Dave Kellogg, Devin & Jim discuss the questions Limited Partners (and prospective Limited Partners) ask that... more

Devin and Cici sit down to discuss how we do commercial due diligence at ParkerGale. You know, all the market... more