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Approach & Alignment: 
Strategic & Operating Resources

Resources Tailored for Your Business

Growing Your Toolbox

Saw Mill and portfolio company management choose outside board members to provide independent, strategic, and diverse advice. We look for experienced, industry-relevant senior executives who understand the portfolio company’s industry and strategic vision.

Conversation on the warehouse floor at Versatrim
Thilo Hessler, Founder of Versatrim, walking the warehouse floor with Roger Farabee and Scott Rivard
Keith Medick, President & CEO of Versatrim, demonstrates product with Scott Rivard and Scott Vandekerkhoff of Saw Mill
Scott Rivard in conversation
Markus Schalkamp, COO of Versatrim demonstrates product

Versatrim President & CEO Keith Medick, also a board member of ARCXIS, on the warehouse floor with leaders from Saw Mill and Versatrim.

A Board tailored to meet your needs.

Although our approach to Board creation is tailored to the needs of each company, the management team, and investment thesis, we have identified several recurring themes we seek to represent on each Board.

Collaborative Board Creation

Experienced
Private Equity Executives

Executives with relevant private equity experience to help guide our partners through what is sometimes their first experience with an institutional investor

Voice of 

the Customer

Executives with a customer-focused industry perspective to complement and challenge management’s inside view

New Product
Development

Executives that are experienced in a direct or adjacent industry and offer a broader growth perspective to management

Market

Expertise

Executives who have held CEO or top management roles at the largest players in an industry