Sir William Felix Browder provides a distinguished start to Season 4.  As CEO and Founder of Hermitage, Bill Browder became the largest portfolio investor in Russia.  He traces his family’s early connections to Russia, and then tells ...

Les Alexander takes MMM on a picaresque back-and-forth between the lowlands of Louisiana and the rolling hills of Virginia.   Childhood in New Orleans, college at UVA, a private equity and business career back home, then a return to Charlo...

Another episode, another chat with a Navy pilot / SEAL team member / US-Senate candidate / private equity star / private company CEO….Gabriel Gomez stops by to talk about his boyhood in Washington state, his extraordinary military service, and ...

Jeff Giles is the latest deal professional to run out of excuses and end up in the MMM studio. He is Executive Vice President for Corporate Development at Core & Main, a St. Louis-based publicly traded specialty distributor focused on water...

This episode features: a University of Missouri starting quarterback who tackled Brian Bosworth, a hardworking youthful entrepreneur, a standout networker in the M&A industry, a pioneer podcaster and a leader in the field of insurance / due...

If this were a Friends episode, it would be “The One Where Gretchen Shows Up With a Glass of Wine.”  Gretchen blows the doors off with insights into Avance’s deal activity, the current temperamental condition of the M&A market, and her...

Steve was the one “first time, long time” guest in the DealMax extravaganza.  Even so, he is as cool as the other side of the pillow in recounting his activities as TM’s head of sponsor coverage and the firm’s recent acquisition by Janney ...

Brent returns to the big stage for his first DealMax conference since assuming the reins as ACG’s CEO.  He shares some impressive numbers on this year’s event – more than 3,000 attendees and an estimated 35,000-40,000 meetings.  Then ...

Christina Pai is a partner at Fort Point Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on service businesses with high growth potential.  This episode begins and ends with Christina and Charlie swapping captivating Boston sports insi...

Mark Chesen is a founder and managing partner at SSG Capital Advisors, a special situations-focused investment bank that has completed more than 400 transactions since its founding in 2001.  Mark zips through growing up in Iowa, college at...

The Middle Market Musings tour bus rolls into southwestern Ohio for a discussion with Ashley Hess, Partner-in-Charge of Baker Hostetler’s Cincinnati office.  Ashley draws vivid stories out of a succession of stops in his journey:  Wes...

This time around, Chrisanne Corbett classes up the proceedings.  Chrisanne is  Managing Director of KPMG Corporate Finance LLC, leading the Diversified Industrials Team, and co-leading the Private Equity Coverage Team. She starts off ...

Jon Skinner is CEO of PSP Partners, a diversified private investment firm founded by former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.  Jon is the latest financial honcho to miss his exit and end up in the Middle Market Musings recording c...

Andy Souder grew up in a steel town and attended Notre Dame, but the similarities to “Rudy” end there.  Andy is vice president of acquisitions at RAF Equity, a family office turned private equity fund based in suburban Philadelphia.  ...

Bob Whalen is CEO of HB Global, a $550-million revenues commercial specialty contracting firm based in Harrisburg, PA.  Bob talks about HB’s evolution since his acquisition of the business and its transition to ESOP ownership in 2008, as w...

Brent Baxter is several months into his tenure as Chief Executive Officer of the Association for Corporate Growth, the premier trade organization serving the M&A deal making community.  Brent shares his immediate vision and priorities ...

Jim Apple is partner and head of sourcing at The Sterling Group, an operationally focused private equity firm based in Houston.  Jim hits the ground running with stories of a rich upbringing that included antique road shows and no TV in th...

Jim Andersen wakes up as if from a bad dream, and finds himself in conversation with Andy and Charlie.  Jim is a managing partner and co-founder of Clearview Capital, a Stamford, CT based private equity fund that is often the first source ...

This time out, Rob Brown takes us inside Lincoln International LLC, one of the preeminent middle market investment banks.  Rob joined Lincoln as one of its first employees in 1998, rising to become CEO in 2021.  He charts his own and ...

Hollywood settles the writer’s strike, the vast creative team supporting Middle Market Musings swings back into action, and we launch our third season with a standout guest!  Nishen Radia is Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of M&A ...

Chris Burbach draws the black marble and finds himself on the podcast with Andy and Charlie. Chris is Co-founder, Partner and CEO of Fundamental Income, an institutionally backed firm that offers efficient real estate-based capital to business ...

Ted Kramer is the CEO of HKW, a private equity firm that traces its lineage to the early years of the 20th century.  Ted not only shares an overview of his firm’s lineage, but also traces his own beginnings in northwestern Ohio and his imm...

Devin Mathews wanders out onto the Middle Market Musings stage and the audience goes wild at the cross-platform possibilities.  Devin is co-founder of ParkerGale, a Chicago-based private equity fund focused on profitable technology investm...

Parker catches the guys up on Cowen’s successful integration into TD since his last visit.  He discusses the current market from the perspective of a larger firm with two dozen professionals on the ground in Vegas.  Parker and Charlie...

Michelle drops by to talk about how Crest Rock – a Denver-based PE fund founded in 2019 and devoted to software, tech and business services – set out to establish a market presence in the midst of the pandemic.  She ignores the premise of ...