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Carlyle Group Finds Exceptional Executives to Build Mid-Market Growth Businesses:
Proprietary Knowledge Management Drives Process to Identify Exceptional CEOs
CHICAGO, Illinois (November 27, 2006) – Carlyle Group, a Chicago-based executive search firm, is using knowledge management to drive superior performance in executive search. Knowledge management (KM) refers to best practices used by organizations to identify, create, and distribute knowledge for reuse and learning across the organization. Carlyle Group’s proprietary KM process accelerates and enriches the sharing of information within the firm and is readily accepted in their teamwork-oriented culture. KM can produce specific business results such as improved performance, competitive advantage and in Carlyle’s case – an innovative way to identify outstanding executive talent. Carlyle Group speaks of “The Exceptional CEO” poised for breakthrough success building and growing mid-market businesses and they know how to leverage their KM process to find them.
“The Carlyle team is extremely dedicated to our knowledge management process,” said Samantha Whitney, Managing Director of Knowledge Management at Carlyle Group. “Our proprietary database, information sharing systems and strong teamwork, along with our search consultants’ keen ability to identify high potential executives, allows us to look at C-level candidates through our own unique lens. Our team is trained to identify true business builders.”
By developing a proprietary KM process to capture quantitative and qualitative data, Carlyle Group has identified particular baseline qualities that can be used to differentiate between executives best suited to mature and established companies versus those looking to build a business that dramatically accelerates growth and profitability. Carlyle Group is successfully finding exceptional executives whose achievements include substantial business building experience and a track record of delivering sustainable profit and growth, as well as demonstrating a style rich in confidence, authenticity and a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
Carlyle works closely with its sister company, Akoya Capital LLC, a merchant bank that connects exceptional CEOs with private sources of capital enabling them to transform businesses into high performance market leaders. The entire process begins when a Carlyle search consultant brings “The Exceptional CEO” candidate to Akoya for discussion. Akoya then works to validate and test business ideas, assemble a management team and bring together the capital that is necessary to fund the venture.
Carlyle and Akoya are both led by Max DeZara who has more than 25 years of experience in executive search and human capital consulting. His desire to bring together “The Exceptional CEO” and capital sources to create highly competitive companies that create significant shareholder wealth, led him to form Akoya in January 2004.
“The partnership between Carlyle and Akoya has served both organizations well,” said DeZara. “Carlyle is able to utilize its strong knowledge management process to pinpoint exceptional CEOs and Akoya can help them to take action. It is a win-win for everyone involved.”
About Carlyle Group
Carlyle Group is a boutique executive search firm whose hallmark is long-term client relationships based on delivering high quality results. Established in 1982 and headquartered in Chicago, IL, the firm has a remarkable history of helping to build and grow hundreds of innovative organizations ranging from start-ups to multi-nationals. Long recognized as a leader in Real Estate, Construction & Development, and Technology, Carlyle Group also has practices in Professional Services and Consumer, Commercial & Industrial and Competitive Intelligence.
(www.carlylesearch.com )
About Akoya Capital, LLC
Akoya Capital, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a merchant bank that brings together market-leading Chief Executive Officers and private sources of capital to execute acquisition based strategies. Akoya is unique in its human capital approach beginning with CEO-led strategies and resulting in the creation of new organizations with significant competitive advantage that create substantial shareholder value. (www.akoyacapital.com)
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