Live Virtual Fireside Chat · Private Equity Value Creation

33,575^* and Counting: What Private Equity Does Now.

The exit got pushed. The value-creation plan can't. Join operating partners and portfolio company leaders for a live conversation on where the next EBITDA comes from.

Longer holds.
Higher expectations.
A new mandate for value creation.

The Hold Period Problem

More Than 33,575 PE-Backed Companies Are Still Waiting for an Exit.

The result is longer holds and more pressure on sponsors to keep creating value. But the original value-creation plan was never built for this.

Higher Interest Rates

Softer Buyer Demand

Stalled Value-Creation Initiatives

An AI-Driven Reset Across Software

The Mandate

For operating partners, the mandate has changed. Find your next EBITDA lever. Not someday. Not when the exit market improves. Now.

The Conversation

What PE Firms and Portfolio Companies Can Do When the Hold Period Stretches.

Xiao (Greyson) Zeng moderates a live conversation with Traci Robinson-Williams and Oscar Carrasquillo, for when the obvious value-creation moves have already been made.

Question 01

Where Does the Next EBITDA Come From?

When pricing, headcount, procurement, and other familiar levers have already been addressed, where can operating teams still find material earnings growth?

Question 02

When Should You Reset the Value-Creation Plan?

How do you distinguish between a plan that needs more time and one that needs a fundamentally different approach?

Question 03

Where Does AI Actually Move the Needle?

Beyond the hype, which AI opportunities can produce measurable productivity, margin, and growth, and which aren't ready for prime time?

Question 04

How Do You Create Value for an Exit You Can't Time?

With timing uncertain, how should sponsors prioritize initiatives that improve performance today while strengthening the eventual equity story?

The Bottom Line

Longer Holds Don't Change the Mandate. They Raise the Bar.

The firms that outperform won't be the ones waiting for the exit market to come back. They'll be the ones finding new sources of EBITDA, resetting what's no longer working, and turning emerging technology into measurable operating leverage.

The next value-creation opportunity may not be in the original playbook. It's time to find it.

Featuring

Meet the Speakers.

Headshot · Traci

Traci Robinson-Williams

CEO, Claroti · Author, InnoMaginate!

Revenue growth strategist and author of InnoMaginate! Turn Yesterday's Products into Tomorrow's Revenue. Traci's approach surfaces and documents the strategic options already inside a portfolio company, turning untapped value into a growth case with the documentation to support it. Former GitLab, Accenture, and Verizon Wireless.

Headshot · Oscar

Oscar Carrasquillo

CEO, The Gen AI

AI implementation and operational leverage specialist with two prior exits. Oscar covers the role of embedded AI and automation in building a business that scales without adding friction. Former Bank of America and AT&T.

Headshot · Xiao

Xiao (Greyson) Zeng

Moderator · Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, The Gen AI

Xiao is an international AI strategist and speaker with experience advising Fortune 500 enterprises, including Schneider Electric. His work bridges emerging technology, business strategy, and measurable growth, bringing a global perspective to enterprise AI transformation. Xiao moderates the conversation, pulling the AI and revenue growth threads together into questions operating partners can act on.

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