The Acquiror Summit Key Takeaways
Dates: January 26th - 30th, 2025
Location: New York
Agenda
01
Deal Sourcing
9.00am:
Keynote: How PEs are leveraging Data & AI in diligence, value creation and exits - Cerberus Technology Solutions Partner, MD & CTO, Pavan Arora
9.30am:
Excellence in sourcing - Axial CEO, Peter Lehrman
10.00am:
AI-powered sourcing - Fintent.ai CEO, Alex Lukashov
10.30am:
Quality of revenue (QoR) - Blue Ridge Partners senior MD, Pat Donegan
11.00am:
Pitches by businesses for sale
Lunch & networking @ 12.00pm - 1.30pm
02
Value Creation
1.30pm:
New ways to build a Brand. “You may want to consider bringing a knife to a gunfight.” - Director/Executive Creative Director, Amir Farhang
1.45pm:
2025 value creation trends - Sagard VC/PE operating partner, Ian Sherman
2.00pm:
Leveraging technology to drive value creation - Pilot Wave Holdings CEO, Afsheen Afshar
2.15pm:
Lessons learnt from bootstrapping eCommerce holdco - 365 Holdings CEO, Kelcey Lehrich
2.30pm:
The future of the creator economy - Grapevine.ai Founder & Chairman, Nick Shah
2.45pm:
Driving sustainable growth - Sharma Brands CEO, Nik Sharma
3.00pm:
Spotlight on ecommerce value creation - Barlow & Williams, Getida, IG PCC, Kapoq, Standvast and Titan
03
Successful Exits
4.00pm:
A CEO's perspective: Positives, negatives, and driving towards exits - Private Equity CEO/PE advisor, Charlie Cole
4.15pm:
Ned’s exit to Foria in November 2024 - Ned Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Ret Taylor
4.30pm:
Carbon6 $210m exit to SPS Commerce - Carbon6 CRO, Shawn Green
4.45pm:
2025 volume and valuation outlook - The Fortia Group CEO, Emmett Kilduff
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