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Wind Point Hires the CEO First. Then It Goes Shopping for a Company.
For 42 years the Chicago firm has run the buyout playbook in reverse - recruiting a billion-dollar operator before it writes a check. In July it closed a $3.2 billion fund to keep doing it.
Alignment Theatre Is Expensive
Alignment theatre is the term Hanadi Usman, a PMO director with more than 15 years in enterprise transformation, uses for the gap between what teams say in the steering committee and what they admit in the corridor afterward. The dashboards are green, the sponsors nod, the minutes record consensus, and the program bleeds quietly for six more weeks. Her argument: the fix is not a better reporting framework but psychological safety built into governance design, so surfacing the real picture is safer than protecting the performed one.
Michael Richards
Michael Richards is the Interim Chief Executive Officer of Wiser Solutions, a San Mateo-based commerce execution platform serving brands and retailers with pricing, promotions, and retail intelligence. A career operator and transformation specialist, Richards spent three decades inside private equity and Big Four advisory before stepping into operating roles, including stints as COO/CFO of Muse Group and Chief Transformation Officer at Whip Media. He joined Wiser in his interim capacity backed by Symphony Technology Group, where he serves as Operating Partner.
Klarity
Klarity is a San Francisco enterprise AI company that watches how work actually gets done inside a company - passively, across apps - and turns that mess into a structured map of processes, SOPs, and improvement opportunities. Founded by a Harvard lawyer and an MIT computer scientist, it started by automating contract review for finance teams and has expanded into a Context Graph platform used by OpenAI, DoorDash, Stripe, Salesforce, Zoom, and Cloudflare to bend the G&A cost curve.
Tigerhall
Tigerhall is an AI-powered Change Activation Platform that helps Fortune 1000 transformation leaders communicate, train and measure organizational change at speed. Founded by Nellie Wartoft in 2018, it serves enterprise customers in 32+ countries.
Janet Czifrus
Janet Czifrus (born Zsanett Czifrus) is a Hungarian-born transformative coach, TEDx speaker, yoga and meditation teacher, mindful eating coach, and certified doula with over 14 years of management consulting experience across top-tier firms and multinationals. She bridges rigorous business strategy with holistic personal development, focusing on daring women, female founders, and global citizens navigating reinvention. Operating under her coaching brand Zsanett Czifrus Coaching, she runs the newsletter and podcast 'Less Traveled' and the 'Mindful Entrepreneur' community for female founders building service-based businesses.