Former founder/ceo from the services sector who now helps lower middle market private equity firms de-risk investments through a focus on the management build out part of operating plans.Received Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist Award -- Business Services. Started, ran and successfully sold two outsourced customer support/CX businesses. Partner at Signal Partners since 2017, helping lower middle market PE-backed companies execute on their operating plans through a top-heavy approach to executive hiring. Operator-led search model helping the firm calibrate quickly and better empathize with needs of CEO and investors. Works across business services sectors and functions, with unique experience leading CEO searches for companies collaboratively effecting founder transitions as part of a recapitalization. Founder and non-executive chairman at Granada Corporation, a boutique provider of customer support solutions to the Fortune 500 and middle market. Sold in Dec 2017.Co-founded Hispanic Teleservices Corp (HTC), which he and his partners grew to 3,000 employees and sold to Carlyle Group. Sold in 2007.Founder of the CEO Experience Series -- www.ceoexperienceseries.com .Founder of QualityofLifeProject.org,a 501c3 that helps people live better lives. Interviewees include well-known individuals such as Richard Branson to lesser known but equally interesting individuals such as Solly Amon, who runs a successful fish market in Seattle. Passionate about entrepreneurship, human capital and private equity and has spoken on the topics for YPO, conferences like South by Southwest, and at MBA programs at UCLA, USC, Pepperdine and Rice University.Kit holds a BA in History from UCLA and a MBA from Georgetown University.
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