Kayne Partners Summit
Kayne Anderson's growth capital group hosts a biennial conference for its management teams.
Our Goal
Providing management teams the chance to network with operating partners, industry executives, vendor partners, and Kayne Anderson. Sharing ideas, best practices and discussing common challenges which influence the growth trajectories of their respective businesses.
Main Stage
March 2, 2023
DE&I: The Catalyst for Positive Change Within Your Organization
Nishita Cummings
Managing Partner, Co-Head of Growth Capital, Kayne Partners
Lorenna Buck, MD
Managing Director, Ariel Alternatives
Patrick Spence
CEO, Sonos
Jocelyn Mangan
CEO & Founder, Him for Her
Unlocking Growth in Uncertain & Inflationary Times
Eddie Hartman
Partner, Simon-Kucher
Recession Proofing Growth Through Marketing
Andy Lark
CEO, Group Lark
A Brave New World Navigating the Reality of Today’s Capital Markets
Leon Chen
Managing Partner, Kayne Partners (Moderator)
Ben Howe
CEO, AGC Partners
Sinclair Ridley-Thomas
Managing Director & Head of TMT Private Placements, UBS
David Dolan
Managing Director – Tech & Software Industrials, DC Advisory
Meeting the Challenge of Burnout in Changing Workplaces
Christina Maslach
Professor of Psychology (Emerita) at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley
The Metaverse
Matt Ball
Venture Capitalist & Best-Selling Author
Afternoon Tracks
March 2, 2023
Executive
Solving the SaaS Services Equation
Andy Lark
CEO, Group Lark
Build, Buy, or Leverage New Technologies: A Tailored Discussion for CXO’s in PE-Backed Organizations
Michael Greenberg
AWS Startups, Amazon
Six Paths to Better Matches Between People and Their Jobs
Christina Maslach
Professor of Psychology (Emerita) at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley
Jeanette Bronée
Global Keynote Speaker & Culture Strategist
Finance
Maximizing The Value of A Banking Partnership
Rod Werner
Managing Director, City National Bank
Randy Churchill
Managing Director, Avidbank
Seldom Right, Never in Doubt: Forecasting in a Constantly Changing World
Evan Meagher
CFO, CoreWeave
Achieving Top Quartile: Performance Benchmarking for Continuous Efficiency and Growth
Lauren Kelley
CEO, OpexEngine / Bain & Company
Sales & Marketing
Getting Back to Basics: How to Approach GTM in the New Economy
Forrest Hobbs
Operating Partner, Kayne Partners
How Customer Success is Essential for Recession Proofing
Max Powers
Chief Customer Officer, CreatorIQ
Revenue Operational Excellence: A Maturity Model for Your Sales Organization
Pete Kazanjy
Founder, Atrium & Modern Sales
Technology
Leveraging Effective Product Roadmaps to Align Customer Expectations and Improve Company Operations
Steve Hau
Chairman & CEO, NewFire Global Partners
AWS Security Best Practices – Tips, Tools, and Practical Security Applications
Nick Powell
Senior Manager, PE Solutions Architecture, AWS
Effectively Building Out and Managing Near-Shore and Off- Shore Resources
Declan Morris
AWS Transformation Advisor, AWS
Defense to Offense – Modern Cybersecurity for the Lower Middle Market
Danny Tijerina
Managing Director, Crosslake Technologies
Keynote Speaker
March 3, 2023
The Future of Leadership
Stephen M.R. Covey
Co-Founder & Global Practice Leader, FranklinCovey Global Trust Practice
Speakers
Courageous Leadership
Catherine Peters
Leadership Coach and Business Strategy & M&A Consultant, Catherine Peters International
Why Should We Care About ESG
Michael O’Neal
Chief Compliance Officer, Kayne Anderson
Daimon Geopfert
National Leader, Security & Privacy, RSM
The Science of Productivity & Sustainable Peak Performance: How to Stop Draining Your Brain’s Resources and Get More Done in Less Time
Dr. Sahar Yousef
Cognitive Neuroscientist & Facility Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Lucas Miller
Productivity & Cognitive Performance Researcher, Author, Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Introduction to the Strategic Operator Network
Steve Jillings
Chairman & CEO, Treo Technologies
Rick Webb
Director, Grit Studios
Building a Competition Killing Company
Wes Nichols
Founder, MarketShare
Change or Die
Andy Lark
CEO, Group Lark
Round Table Workshops
The Science of Focus & Human Peak Performance: How to Increase Productivity by 20%
Dr. Sahar Yousef
Cognitive Neuroscientist & Facility Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Lucas Miller
Productivity & Cognitive Performance Researcher, Author, Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Effective Board Presentations with Saas Benchmarking
Lauren Kelley
CEO, OPEXEngine
Maximizing the Value of a Banking Relationship
Rod Werner
Managing Director, City National
Porter McKay
SVP, Venture Lending, Avid
New Approaches to Executive Development
Catherine Peters
Leadership Coach and Business Strategy & M&A Consultant, Catherine Peters International
Saving Money on the Cloud with AWS
Tom Laszewski
PE Technology & Advisor, AWS
Winning the Talent War
Michael Morell
Managing Partner, Riviera Partners
Todd Gitlin
Partner, Safire Partners
Security in the Trenches: Real World Updates
Daimon Geopfert
National Leader, Security & Privacy, RSM
M&A, Equity Financing & Key Legal Matters
David Smith
Partner, O’Melveny & Myers
John Yates
Partner, Morris, Manning & Martin
Mastering the Enterprise
Brett Queener
General Partner, Bonfire Ventures
Building a Culture of Success in Your Sales & Services Organizations
Jennifer Loytty
General Manager, Services, Microsoft
John Seitz
Former CEO, HighPoint Solutions
Making AI Work for Enterprise Software Companies
Pranay Ahlawat
Associate Director, Enterprise Software and Cloud at BCG
Co-Lead AI in Tech Sesh Iyer – Senior Partner, BCG
Sales vs. Marketing
Andy Lark
CEO, Group Lark
Steve Jillings
Chairman & CEO, Treo Technologies
Our People
We are a leading partner to private, high-growth mission critical, enterprise software and technology enabled service business in the lower middle market.
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