Candela Partners is a boutique consulting firm that focuses on commercial value creation for private equity firms and their portfolios. We bring urgency and passion for driving profitable growth and tuning revenue engines to deliver enhanced performance. With a focus on operationalizing commercial strategy informed by rigorous analytics, we move companies forward with a combination of quick wins and longer term, sustainable revenue and profit growth initiatives. The founding team brings more than 100 years of combined experience in operating and advisory roles across a range of industries, including restaurants, retail, industrials, software, consumer and business services, consumer goods and education.

Selected to serve on the Board of PierceGray, a trusted executive search firm that partners with clients involved in growth and business transformation. Their focus is on building great leadership teams that make change happen. From a network of office locations, PierceGray serves a range of sectors, including consumer, industrials, health care, energy, technology, and services.

Health Prime was created to empower physicians to spend more time with patients and less time attending to paperwork. As a physician owned and managed company, we continually improve the value of our services through dedication to the physicians we serve, leadership and teamwork among our staff and our clients. Health Prime provides a full line of practice management and optimization solutions and services for physicians and hospital owned physician groups throughout the US.

Served as Chair of the Strategy Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee.EverView transforms paper billing and payment operations into digital interactions that cut costs, shorten payment cycles, and reduce a company’s environmental footprint.A unique blend of MarTech, FinTech, and AdTech capabilities, the EverView omnichannel Software-as-a-Service platform processes more than 15 billion consumer interactions, to help more than 6,000 clients turn obligations into business opportunities

Co-founded Growth and Customer Experience (GCX) practice in 2007 (formerly known as Revenue Enhancement). Built team, led practice development and business development activities across all A&M routes to market: corporate restructuring, private equity and direct to publicly-held corporates. Led complex engagements for clients across industries, company size and stages of the company lifecycle - from high-growth to mature, from distressed to underperforming to healthy. Served as a Senior Adviser to the GCX practice from 2015-2023.

Boutique consulting practice focused on driving improvements in all aspects of the revenue engine for clients ranging in size from $40M to $2B. Client work is focused on accelerating growth, operationalizing growth strategies, driving efficiencies in marketing spend, organization and processes, as well as all components of sales effectiveness. Sales effectiveness work spans sales organizational design, territory design, compensation plan development and implementation, opportunity management process design and implementation as well as design and optimization of CRM and other sales enablement tools/ technologies. Primary clients are PE firms and their portfolio companies. Selected engagements include: - Marketing organization redesign for $800M, private industrial and consumer products company - Major product launch strategy for PE-owned enterprise software company - Partnered with diligence team of a global PE firm to develop and refine the investment thesis for a potential acquisition which relied heavily on the ability to redesign the sales model and increase productivity of the existing sales force - An organizational redesign and transformation effort for a $2B division of a global industrial manufacturer - Growth strategy development for $1.5B pet food manufacturer

Recruited as Independent Board Member to enhance diversity and supplement relevant industry expertise. Served on Compensation Committee. Participated in sale to strategic buyer following an unsolicited bid.

Founded boutique consultancy focused on branding, marketing and growth strategy serving a range of clients across industries.

Recruited to Gillette after business school and participated in Brand Management Training Program. Worked on the Writing Instruments business which owned the Parker, Waterman and PaperMate brands of writing instruments as well as the Liquid Paper brand of correction products.

General Manager of family-owned supperclub/ nightclub concept.

General manager of second microsbrewery restaurant to open in CA after laws were changed to allow on-premise production and service of beer. Ran original location in Mountain View, California and supported opening of two more locations and beer distribution business. Ultimately managed all three locations for the family that owned the business.