On the latest Behind the Buyouts, GTCR managing director Mike Hollander discussed the firm’s approach to financial services and technology, emphasizing its leaders strategy and lower-leverage, operationally intensive investments.
Hollander led a review of GTCR’s 2025 activity, including 13 new deals such as WorldPay Inc., FMG Suite LLC and Clear Capital Advisors LLC, and he explained the firm’s predilection for carveouts.
The conversation spanned topics from GTCR’s approach to artificial intelligence in portfolio companies such as Captrust Financial Advisors and FMG to industry trends in net asset value returns.
The investor, who chairs the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, also discussed the crossover between private equity portfolios and portraiture.
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