The Private Equity Podcast: Dan Shockley on How to Build Trust Between Private Equity Firms and Portfolio Companies

Alex Rawlings hosts The Private Equity Podcast, where he interviews the leading experts working in the Private Equity industry, unlocking their secrets of success to share with you. Discover how some of the top private equity professionals got into Private Equity, how they rose to success and learn about some of the mistakes they made along the way. Alex has strong connections to the Private Equity industry through his executive search firm, Raw Selection, which specialises in working with Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies across Europe and North America. Alex is straight talking and to the point and aims to unlock real gold you can build into your firm or portfolio companies.

Today’s Guest

Today we welcome Dan Shockley, Managing Director and Co-Founder of LFM Capital. Dan has over two decades of experience in management leadership and operations. He has held managerial positions at American Axle, Caterpillar, and Amazon before entering private equity.

LFM Capital is a PE firm that invests in lower to middle market manufacturing companies and industrial service businesses. They help businesses develop world-class operations which increases long term value for all stakeholders. 

What You’ll Learn

How to build trust between PE firms and portfolio companies

Balancing the use of objective and subjective data

Creating a better strategy with the use of analytics and data 

Trends in the manufacturing industry

Catch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/dvcbsB7