From Corporate to Private Equity: Pick a team
Not all PE Associates come from Banking/Consulting. Most did. But not all.
What roles within corporate America (NOT Investment Banking/Management Consulting firms) provide a recent grad with the background needed to land an interview at a private equity fund?
For example; I have seen/have met PE associates that come from:
- Corporate Development M&A Deal Team (basically internal facing banking)
- Corporate Strategy Team (basically internal facing consulting)
What about other departments? Are these the only two that can realistically get you into PE? What about....
- M&A Integration Team (works very closely with M&A deal team)
- Corporate Ventures Team (VC & PE are similar, top CVC's are very prestigious)
- Sales (I've seen some kids at growth PE shops who came from sales)
- Product Management (probably a better fit for VC than PE)
- Engineering (probably a better fit for VC than PE)
- Corporate FP&A (kind of a long shot but seems like similar skill set)
- Business Operations (long shot)
- Marketing (long shot)
- HR (long shot)
side note A; assume the corporation is extremely prestigious (i.e. Google/Amazon).
side note B; I am well aware that 'mega' funds have a more stringent barrier to entry than lesser known PE firms.
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