Longer term F500 exits from PE

Could PE help with F500 careers? From my LinkedIn research I think there are very few C-suite executives that have any experience with PE, which is surprising. I can see their are many executives with banking and consulting but even the CFOs usually just have accounting or IB experience. 

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