Being kind of vague on purpose since I’m in a very niche industry, and don’t want it be obvious which company I’m referring to, especially since it’s not common knowledge that we’re private equity owned.
The question: I currently run a small business for a private equity firm (subsidiary headcount < 20, consistently profitable, a 7-8 Million-Dollar business). But I’m employed by the subsidiary, not the owners, so there’s very little upside for me, despite the fact that I’m critical to keeping one of their portfolio companies alive.
Is there any way to leverage this experience to transition into a real PE role? For context, I’m a PhD with a STEM background, and plenty of quantitative skills if that’s helpful, and many standard business development and project management skills, but no real finance background, at least not by education.
This could easily turn out be a completely stupid question, but not like I have much to lose by asking it.
I'd say it seems tough but given the niche industry and your operating experience, it probably makes more sense for you to partner with a LMM PE firm to find a similar business to operate and grow. Assuming you like the operations side of course.
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