OxPEN 2006
Yesterday I attended the 2nd Annual Oxford Private Equity Network Conference held at SBS. As I've missed out on the Private Equity course this term, I thought it would be a shame to get an MBA without having formed an opinion about Private Equity. I'm very glad I went, it was a very interesting conference with an entertaining keynote speaker, Guy Hands, founder of Terra Firma and superb panelists.
The thing that did interest me was the thought that once a PE firm buys a company, one of the things that they do is look closely at the existing management and sometimes replace them. This means that there is a need for good managers who will go into a distressed firm, turn it around, establish new managers to take over from them and move on to the next firm.
A very appealing career prospect... hmmm...
The thing that did interest me was the thought that once a PE firm buys a company, one of the things that they do is look closely at the existing management and sometimes replace them. This means that there is a need for good managers who will go into a distressed firm, turn it around, establish new managers to take over from them and move on to the next firm.
A very appealing career prospect... hmmm...
posted by Vaniah | 12:17 am
1 Comments:
Hey!
I attended the same forum in 2005, (I came from Warwick Business School) - was very impressed with quality of the speakers too. Hope they will continue these forums. Definitely going there next year.
Dan
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