Pamlico Capital Named to PE-CXO and Falcon Top 50 Private Equity Firms for Executives List

PrivateEquityCXO (PE-CXO), the world’s largest community of private equity-backed executives, in collaboration with Falcon Partners, a recognized executive search firm exclusively serving private equity, today released the inaugural Top 50 Private Equity Firms for Executives Report. The data-driven findings include a framework known as The Nine Dimensions of Governance Fit®. This framework enables both executives and sponsors with a strategic and intentional framework by which to assess fit at a level that can better predict successful outcomes.

The report reveals a host of instructive findings available in the full report. Among these insights, 56% of executives would gladly pursue another deal with sponsors who lead with transparency and pragmatism. Only 16% of respondents who felt their sponsor failed to partner with management said they would be willing to return to their former sponsor, while 97% of executives who felt aligned with their sponsor reported being willing to work with them again.

This report’s findings are timely: an unrelenting, decades-long increase in PE dealmaking has resulted in unprecedented demand for C-suite portfolio company executives. “The supply/demand trend continues to worsen in the PE marketplace, thereby making a competitive talent pool even more daunting. Elite executives will be diligent and selective in choosing the right opportunity and optimal sponsor fit,” said Cori Finefrock Audey, VP of PE-CXO.

Rob Huxtable, Partner, Falcon, added, “Aligned interests are a hallmark of private equity. Yet the key findings of this report show there is a significant opportunity for sponsors and executives to ensure that cohesion is better prioritized. The Nine Dimensions of Governance Fit® introduced in this report can serve as a framework for sponsors and management when conducting mutual diligence ahead of key hiring decisions, or when seeking performance improvement.”

The findings of the report are based on a survey of more than 1,000 private equity-backed executives in the U.S. conducted from July 2022 – December 2022, as well as interviews with numerous experienced portfolio executives. This research is just one of many ways PE-CXO is working to ensure the future of private equity by growing and strengthening the population of elite PE operators. To access the full report, click here.