Consultant-friendly PE to IB-heavy PE?

I understand there are ~10-15 PE funds that typically hire former consultants, and many more that almost exclusively hire former bankers at the Associate level. My question is: Once you've done your Associate years at a consultant-friendly shop and gone to business school, are you "eligible" for VP roles at more IB-heavy funds? For example, could someone who cut their teeth at MBB then went to say Golden Gate Capital and got an MBA from HBS/GSB recruit for a VP role at a Lindsay Goldberg, GTCR type fund? Or does the fact that they were never an IBD analyst still matter?

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