WoodLake Executive Partnership Program (WEPP)

Through the WoodLake Executive Partnership Program (WEPP), the WoodLake Group collaborates with experienced executives in different sectors and functions. We source hundreds of transactions each year, and deep industry knowledge helps us evaluate, invest in, and enhance our acquisitions. To leverage the depth of operational and strategic expertise of experienced managers, the WEPP welcomes successful executives to participate with us in building great companies and identifying value-creating transactions. The WoodLake Group contributes its multi-decade expertise in capital structure, analytics, and professional network as part of this collaboration. The WEPP is a perfect platform for executives who are interested in:

  • Holding C-Suite or Board-level roles at sponsor-backed portfolio companies to undertake in a collaborative effort to build long-term value

  • Leveraging operational, entrepreneurial, and strategic experience to improve high-potential companies through additional acquisitions

    • Running a growing company on a full-time basis with individual equity interest

    • Advising a private equity sponsor on acquisitions, ongoing operations across portfolio businesses, or business improvement

    • Sharing in equity ownership and its success

We believe that talented senior executives are essential to growing valuable assets. Before we identify a company as an acquisition target and as part of managing our portfolio, we continually seek to identify the management resources that are needed to grow a company based on its progress in its growth cycle. Based on these needs, we match executives from within the WEPP to opportunities within our portfolio companies.

The executives who join the WEPP are typically experienced, entrepreneurial leaders. Whether you come from a middle-market firm or a multinational corporation, we look for executives who have:

  • Maintained direct, goal-oriented, and accountable responsibility for a P&L and its associated growth targets

  • Built companies through a combination of organic expansion and acquisitive growth.

  • Developed a reputation for excellence within his or her industry and/or function

  • Demonstrated the highest levels of integrity, business ethics, and professional conduct

If you are interested in learning more about the WEPP and collaborating with us, please contact the WoodLake Group for more information.