Ep. 129: Arjan Hannink, Keensight Capital | Building an Embedded Value Creation Team at Scale

Podcast: Private Equity Value Creation Podcast · Gordon Cheng

Opublikowano: 2026-05-19

On this episode, Arjan Hannink, Partner at Keensight Capital, explains how their growth buyout firm structures hands-on value creation support across a portfolio of B2B software and IT services companies. Learn why Keensight built an internal team of close to 40 value creation professionals—including in-house CPO, CTO, CMO and CRO functions—and how that team operates alongside management rather than above it.Hear about an approach to prioritizing growth initiatives when there is always more to do than bandwidth allows, why an all-you-can-eat resourcing model avoids the wrong incentives and how embedding value creation expertise into the deal process lead...