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Episode 75

Sep 6, 2024

Consultant, Heal Thyself: The Roadmap for Increased Valuations and Glorious Exits w/ Tom Rodenhauser & Ramone Param

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In this compelling episode of the Professional Services Pursuit, Brent welcomes back Tom Rodenhauser and introduces Ramone Param, both from Kennedy Intelligence. They discuss the pivotal role private equity (PE) is playing in reshaping the consulting industry. They also delve into emerging trends, strategic growth, and the increasing influence of PE firms in transforming traditional consulting practices into more robust and scalable business models.

Key Topics Covered:

  • How traditional private partnership models are evolving
  • The factors driving the surge in PE investment in the consulting sector
  • Qualitative and quantitative elements that attract PE investment
  • Analysis of supply and demand dynamics, and future trends in the consulting sector
  • The necessity for consulting firms to adopt strategic operational reviews and benchmark against industry standards

To learn more about Kennedy Intelligence, download the report or listen to their podcast, The Consulting Monitor, visit their website - https://www.kennedyintel.com/

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Host

Banoo Behboodi

Vice President, Success Engineering

Banoo Behboodi is a 20+ year software and services leader with extensive experience executing change initiatives with oversight of Customer Success, Professional Services and Delivery and Consulting functions. Banoo’s earlier experiences with AT&T Mobility, Coca-Cola Company and Ernst & Young leading key transformational and compliance projects, provided the foundation needed to be an effective leader and a change agent with a customer first mindset. Banoo is passionate about driving continuous improvement through sharing best practices and empowering resources through technology and analytics to optimize performance and job satisfaction while driving business outcomes.

Host

Brent Trimble

Vice President, Value Engineering

Brent brings more than 15+ year’s of leadership experience in Management Consulting, Strategic Delivery, Marketing services and product development firms to his technology role at Kantata. As the VP of Value Engineering and the Managing Director of Marketing Service & Agency Vertical, he specializes in identifying process improvement potential, business optimization and key health metrics for alignment and orientation.

With deep business understanding through an operator lens - Brent works with Kantata partner firms to refine intrinsic and extrinsic value drivers - giving firm principals the focus required for adoption, mobilization, value realization and ultimately - success.

Prior to joining Kantata, Brent was a client of the platform and held positions at Interpublic Group, Accenture, WPP, and independent marketing consulting firms.