Jack Thompson

Experienced Portfolio Company CEO with 44 years of business leadership including: startup, turnaround, transformation, growth and exit. Proven track record of visualizing, creating, and presenting business roadmaps to investors and boards followed by successful execution in leading business reinvention and accelerating growth at both the top and bottom lines against market challenges and within capital constraints.

Hard Skills:
• Ability to listen to and understand a portfolio company’s business model, value proposition, and assess the company’s viability
• Proven successful leadership through building a vision, trust and credibility amongst peers and employees
• The ability to conceive and implement a strategy and plan within the micro and macro limits; communicate a vision and path forward to investors and board members with confidence and conviction

Soft Skills:
• Ability to manage through change and adversity to shape, communicate and transform the core DNA and culture of a company
• Proven ability to multi-task, make sound decisions quickly, focus on priorities, and the resiliency to recover from setbacks and achieve stated goals
• Demonstrate clear understanding of private equity company investment and divestment decision making, the dynamics of turning a strategy into practice, and interfacing between employees, active and knowledgeable private equity company management, and boards