Steve Ressler’s Post

My co-worker Dudley Arbaugh is going to be at DealMax next week in Vegas. Anyone else going to be there? Any events he should attend? #dealmax

We’ve been active at The Brydon Group with seven acquisitions closed in 2023 and 2024 is already off to a great start with a couple closed but not yet announced. We are expanding our deal team and looking to bring in a Principal (Healthcare/Business Services) at Brydon Group to be based in our DC office. We are looking for an investment professional who has experience leading buyout deals end-to-end across healthcare and businesses services. Great opportunity to get in early at a growing private equity firm, build upon a strong foundation, and have a real impact in the next phase of growth. DM or email me (steve at brydon) to learn more.

Honored to be recognized as one of the two Faculty Excellence in Entrepreneurship award winners tonight at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business for work around Entrepreneurship through Acquisition. Thanks to Jack Eldridge Jeff Reid Cole Wasowicz Ibrahim A. Benjamin Zimmerman Aveline Argo and all the folks helping to build ETA at Georgetown.

Once a year, I get to humble brag about my awesome wife Elizabeth Vaquera and ask you for a favor. She is the Executive Director of the GWU Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute, a great organization that supports scholarships, programs, & research programs for the Latino community. It's Giving Day and the goal is numbers of donors to the cause. Can you take 30 seconds and donate $5 today or Thursday? You'll have done me a favor & supported a great cause. Link in comments.

Headed off to Philly to head to my alma mater for 24 hours. If you are at the Wharton ETA event tonight or tomorrow (Friday), come say hi or send me a note.

We are thrilled to announce The Brydon Group's strategic investment in NATA Compliance Services with our Brydon CEO-in-Residence (now CEO) Jiri Marousek NATA Compliance Services provides personnel regulatory compliance software and solutions to the aviation sector. We are thrilled to partner with Jiri and the whole NATA CS team on this journey. PR release in comments.

Had a blast at the latest DC ETA meetup - great crowd! Was a great mix of 50+ CEOs (like Tyler Tuggle), active searchers, investors (like Tony Cappaert), Twitter ETA celebrities (like Rand Larsen), and Georgetown MBA ETA leaders (like Ibrahim A.). Sign-up for our newsletter at The Brydon Group website & you'll get information on all future ones.

Awesome COO / CFO role based in DC working with my friend Meghan Ogilvie at Dog Tag Bakery. "Dog Tag has empowered veterans with service-connected disabilities, military spouses, and caregivers to find renewed purpose and community through an innovative business and entrepreneurship-focused fellowship program" https://lnkd.in/esW6aa_f

Last call... Applications due this Sunday, February 4th at 11:59pm for our 3rd cohort of CEO-in-Residence (link in comments). We partner with outstanding mid-career operators and PE-backed executives with deep experience in Business to Business (B2B), Business to Government (B2G) and healthcare software and services. We provide the capital, the diligence support and the operating playbooks (and lots of the deal sourcing!). All six of our first Cohort CEOs-in-Residence are CEOs of great businesses just over a year later and Cohort II is on the same trajectory. P.S. Actual photo from our CIR training site in the Caribbean where we hold the *required* weeklong initial private equity training program for our CEOs-in-Residence. P.P.S. Got any questions? Send me a short email (steve at brydon) or DM with your questions.

Last week I took 15 short phone-calls with potential applications for Brydon CEO-in-Residence program (due 2/4 - link in comments). Here's 4 general tips I give to all applications. 1 - Everyone wants to be a CEO but do you want to be a CEO-in-Residence? Are you willing to sign-up for the unglamorous world of sourcing (although we make it fun by doing it together)? Make it clear you are ready and understand the model. 2 - Refine your thesis & "right to win". We love industry thesis and even better if you can also share a few sub-thesis and really refine why you win in those categories. 3 - Why Brydon? Our model is a deeper partnership on both sides and it's not for everyone. How do you tie into our sector-focused areas we thrive in (Business to Business (B2B), Business to Government (B2G) and healthcare software and services)? What excites you about our model, our values, our approach? 4 - Submit an Application. Some folks aren't 100% sure if they are ready for CIR this year or next. Or maybe they are on unsure on their thesis or unsure if they'd rather be a CEO or CXO. I always encourage folks to submit. We keep the application relatively short up-front and there's time to refine throughout the process. P.S. Got any questions? Send me a short email (steve at brydon) or DM with your questions.