Private Equity Funcast Podcast
1) Software Holdcos in Australia
Devin sits down with Funcast listener and Terem Capital CEO Scott Middleton. Terem is a software holdco in Australia, and Scott shares his strategy, investment criteria, sourcing approach, and the dif...Show More
2) AI-First (Whatever That Means): Hiring Product & Engineering Leaders with Sean Lucq from SPMB
Jim sits down with Sean Luke (Partner at SPMB Executive Search) to talk about the art of hiring senior engineering and product leaders—especially now that every job description on Earth has "AI" duct-...Show More
3) Modernizing Legacy Systems: The CNX Journey from Green Screens to Great Screens
In this episode of The Private Equity Funcast, Jim Milbery sits down with Jennifer Nelson (CEO of Izzy Software), Richard Malone, Rob Swanson (co-founders of CNX Corporation), and Iwona Montgomery to ...Show More
Modernizing Legacy Systems: The CNX Journey from Green Screens to Great Screens
53:13 | Oct 29th, 2025
4) Marionettes, Metrics, and Medieval French Lit: A Conversation on UX and Life with Leah Reich
Jim and Leah dive headfirst into a whirlwind chat that covers everything from the fine distinctions between puppets and marionettes to the equally delicate art of building great user experiences. Leah...Show More
Marionettes, Metrics, and Medieval French Lit: A Conversation on UX and Life with Leah Reich
1:56:57 | Sep 30th, 2025
5) Exit-Ready Marketing: Shiv Narayanan on Making Marketing Measurable in PE-Backed Companies
Paul Stansik sits down with Shiv Narayanan—founder of How to SaaS and author of Exit-Ready Marketing—to break down what most private equity firms and portfolio companies get wrong about marketing. The...Show More
Exit-Ready Marketing: Shiv Narayanan on Making Marketing Measurable in PE-Backed Companies
1:01:50 | Jun 10th, 2025
6) Continuation Vehicles 101 with Houlihan Lokey
Devin sits down with Sameer Shamsi, Co-Head of Houlihan Lokey's GP Led Secondaries group. We cover everything you want to know about continuation vehicles, but were afraid to ask (or too dumb to ask?)...Show More
7) Real-Time Inflation Tracking and Forecasting: A Deep Dive into Open Brand’s Proprietary Consumer Price Index
In this episode of the Private Equity Funcast, host Ryan Milligan speaks with OpenBrand CEO Greg Munves and Chief Economist Ralph McLaughlin about their innovative approach to tracking inflation throu...Show More
8) From Hype to Impact: Deploying GenAI in Real Businesses with Chris Taylor of Fractional AI
In this episode, Chris Taylor, CEO and Co-Founder of Fractional AI, joins the show to discuss how his company helps traditional businesses adopt and implement generative AI (GenAI) to improve operatio...Show More
9) Open Brand’s AI-Powered Market Intelligence Revolution
In this episode of the Private Equity Funcast, Greg Munves (CEO) and Kristopher Kubicki (CTO) join Partner Ryan Milligan to discuss the rapid growth and transformation of Open Brand, a company formed ...Show More
10) Shock and Nawww : DeepSeek and the Future of LLMs
Join host Jim Milbery along with guests Alan Williamson (CTO of HiBid) and Kristopher Kubicki (CTO of OpenBrand) as we react to the recent DeepSeek AI announcement, its implications for the AI industr...Show More