Brydon CEO in Residence (2025 Cohort)

Company: The Brydon Group
Location: Washington
Posted on: February 2, 2025

Job Description:

At the Brydon Group, we accelerate the trajectory of outstanding mid-career operators who want to become CEOs and build and grow industry-leading platforms with private equity support, resources and capital.

If you want to know about the requirements for this role, read on for all the relevant information.

Brydon CEO-in-Residence (CIR) Program:

Brydon selects 6-8 unique CEOs-in-Residence (or partnered CEOs-in-Residence ) each year:

We invest the equity to support a two-year sourcing phase
We look to invest $10-20M of equity (+ additional debt) behind each platform (between initial equity check and add-on acquisitions)

Requirements

CEO-in-Residence

We look to partner with CIRs / CIR teams who have operating and/or industry experience, typically 3-12 years out of business school or equivalent
We believe that industry-focus theses win: our CIR applicants either submit sub-industries / areas of interest or expand upon several of Brydon's core theses (vertical market software, regulatory & compliance services, technical services, healthcare services, etc.) based on their backgrounds
For example:
You worked in banking or private equity on a PE-backed roll-up and see a similar opportunity with dedicated capital and support (and a unique thesis)
You are a McKinsey Associate Partner with extensive work experience and deep understanding of the growth levers in a sub-industry. Now you want to operate and build equity value in a business in that sub-industry
You ran a P&L or were General Manager in a vertical and know the space well. You see an opportunity to buy small mom and pop players in the space

Do you have a thesis-based acquisition approach? Know an industry or have an angle on an interesting niche? We would love to discuss it
Don't have an industry thesis? We have several industries where we have deep relationships and experience and are looking for CIRs: Vertical SaaS (with a sub-focus), GovTech, B2B Services, Healthcare / Healthcare Tech, Targeted Roll-Ups, Compliance / Regulatory Software & Services
We're happy to leverage our relationships and expertise to help you build out an area of focus


Benefits

Better Economics: Salary and Equity

We fund our CIRs at higher salary levels commensurate with their experience
CIRs earn much more equity than standard PE-backed CEOs

Mix of In-Person & Remote

The CIR program kicks off with a week of intensive training in the Caribbean focused on sourcing, CRM best practices, and due diligence; our CIRs begin reaching out to owners within their first week (and on average our CIRs are under LOI / in the CEO seat within a year)
We strongly encourage CIRs to base and focus their sourcing efforts where they want to live
Through weekly one-on-ones, cohort calls and quarterly in-person off sites around the US, our CIRs build great connections and friendships, share insights and advice, and support one another throughout the challenges of sourcing and operating a small business

Better Support: Private Equity Sourcing, Diligence and Operating Resources

We have backed 3 cohorts and 19 individuals/teams to acquire small businesses in software, business services and healthcare services (and others)
Our Brydon team is "in the trenches" sourcing deals with our CIRs (in fact, we have sourced over half of the deals that we and our CIRs have closed in the last two years!)
We understand how frustrating it can feel to "re-create the wheel" when it comes to sourcing, diligence, valuation, deal structures, and operating best practices
We bring playbooks and best practices from large-cap PE and work hand-in-hand with our CIRs and CEOs to apply them across the full journey: from sourcing to diligence to closing and operating (including an existing deal sourcing engine and a dedicated investment team at Brydon)
The proof is in our results: On average, our CIRs are under LOI / in the CEO seat within a year

Application Process

Please submit your application by February 3rd, 2025 at 11:59pm PST. Early applications are encouraged and we make official offers by early March
Selected individuals undergo an interview and background-check process with several rounds of interviews (including in-person sessions with the Brydon leadership team and a final round thesis presentation)
CEO-in-Residence offers will be made in March and the cohort start date will be May 12, 2025 in the Bahamas
Any questions? Please email sarah.higgins@brydon.com
If you are interested in submitting as a partnered team, please do submit two individual applications and indicate that you are applying as a partner / pair (fine to include the same answers to the application questions in each application)
A recording of our 2024 CEO-in-Residence Information Session is located here - this answers the most frequent questions we get about our approach, our industry / vertical areas of investment, this program and the application process, etc.

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