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How Private Equity Carves a Business Out of a Company

October 28, 2026 · 50 min

In a corporate carve-out, figuring out what exactly you're buying is the hardest part. It's often a line-by-line exercise, requiring a scalpel to separate what stays and what goes. ParkerGale's Ryan Milligan sits down with his colleague…
Parker Gals | How I Became a Chief of Staff (w/ Lena Diasti, Ariel Investments)

October 26, 2026 · 39 min

Her college career office was supposed to forward her resume to a foundation. Instead, Ariel Investments kept it, and she ended up working next to the founder. Liz sits down with Lena Diasti, Chief of Staff to John Rogers, founder…
Measure Engineering Like You Measure Sales (w/ Dan Bender & Kirby Montgomery, Code & Co.)

October 21, 2026 · 60 min

In 1982, Bill Atkinson made Apple's Lisa faster by deleting 2,000 lines of code, and the management form asked how many he wrote. Forty-four years later we're counting tokens instead. Same bug. The good news: with agentic workflows…
Parker Gals | Trust Over Transactions: The Heart of Private Equity (w/ Nori Welles-Gertz, ParkerGale)

October 19, 2026 · 39 min

What does it really take to build trust in private equity over a five-to-seven-year hold? Cass sits down with her colleague Nori Welles-Gertz, a principal at Parker Gale, to find out. They talk about why PE is more about relationships and…
The Deal Closed. Now What?

October 14, 2026 · 38 min

Investment diligence is all about answering two questions: Do we want to own this business? And what would we do with it if we did? But then the deal closes, and all those problems you identified and opportunities you imagined during…

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Parker Gals | Building a Med Spa Roll-Up from Scratch (w/ Amanda Blank, Founders Beauty Group)

October 12, 2026 · 42 min

First, she sketched a med spa roll-up on maternity leave. Then, several law firms said it couldn't be done. Now? She owns five practices. Cass sits down with her old pal from grad school, Amanda Blank, to discuss her path from finance to…
11 Years as a PE-Backed CFO: What Sponsors Actually Want (w/ Jon Apter, Accordion)

October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

He left private equity, took a 75% pay cut, and joined a 12-person startup that was still finding its footing. Now, Jon Apter helps oversee 1,600 employees as CFO of Accordion – a seat he's held for the last 11 years. Jon sits down with…
Parker Gals | From Advising to Investing: Building a Career in PE (w/ Katie Yuan, Hg Capital)

October 6, 2026 · 41 min

What does it take to move from banking to the buyside, and what do you have to figure out once you're there? Liz sits down with Katie Yuan, a private equity associate at Hg in London. They met in 2022 in JPMorgan's investment banking…
Relationships are the Atomic Unit of Deal Flow (w/ Ken Fine, CEO of Affinity)

September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

We built our sourcing model around one goal: know every owner of every software company long before they decide to sell. Ken Fine, Affinity's CEO, joins us to explain why relationships and not process are the keys to deal flow, and how AI…
Parker Gals | How a College Point Guard Built a PE Career (w/ Brogan Magnarelli, Riverspan Partners)

September 28, 2026 · 50 min

Cass sits down with Brogan Magnarelli, Principal at Riverspan, to talk about her untraditional path into private equity — from point guard at Harvard to account manager at Boingo Wireless, to GE Healthcare sales leadership and finally PE…
Diminishing Returns to Scale in Private Equity (w/ Andrew Akers, PitchBook)

September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

Devin's mom's only instruction to her financial advisor was "the number should never go down." Downside protection is often the most attractive part of investing in a mega buyout fund, but the latest data from PitchBook calls that into…
Parker Gals | Why Private Equity is for Everyone (w/ Jessica Patton, 5th Century Partners)

September 20, 2026 · 48 min

What does it look like to "plant seeds" so aggressively that serendipity starts looking like a strategy? This week on Parker Gals, Cass sits down with Jessica Patton to trace her path from Detroit to Howard University to landing a rare…

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About the show

Your favorite GP's favorite podcast. Occasionally insightful, always entertaining. Deep dives into how private equity works, what happens after the deal closes, how money gets raised, and how companies get bought and sold. And everything in between with healthy doses of pop culture and humor. Straight from the team at ParkerGale Capital. For educational and entertainment purposes only. Not investment advice. Additional disclosures at www.parkergale.com.