
Highly leveraged balance sheets. Pressure to drive EBITDA and working capital performance. Lean resources. CFO’s for private equity-backed companies perform against this backdrop every day. The best can add millions to your valuation at exit whereas a hiring mistake can hamstring your leadership team and leave you flying blind. Successful private equity CFO’s are a breed apart. We’ve built our entire CFO practice around recruiting these world class financial leaders for our industry-leading clients in private equity. Our placements all have demonstrated success working with world class private equity firms and generating top tier results for their investors.
Unique focus. Unique process. Unique results. That’s Ventura.
Clients served include:

Representative Private Equity CFO Assignments
All projects included in this list were conducted for private equity-sponsored companies and were led by Kevin Ford.
ACG Materials
Industrial manufacturing – Oklahoma
Affinitiv
Digital marketing – Chicago
Alacrity Solutions
Business process outsourcing – Indianapolis
All States Ag Parts
Industrial distribution – St. Paul
Alliance Ground International
B2B services – Miami
Area Wide Protective
Commercial services – Canton, Ohio
asTech
Automotive technologies – Plano, Texas
Black Rifle Coffee
Consumer products – Salt Lake/Austin
Boyd Corporation
Industrial manufacturing – NoCal
Childcare Network
Early education – Chicago
Circle Graphics
B2B services – Boulder
Cisive LLC
Tech-enabled B2B services – Long Island
Copperweld Bimetallics
Industrial manufacturing – Nashville
Dakine
Consumer products – Portland
EN Engineering
Professional services – Chicago
eResearch Technology (eRT)
Healthcare technologies – Princeton
Familia Dental
Healthcare services – Chicago
Homewerks Worldwide
Consumer products – Chicago
The HydraFacial Co.
Medical device manufacturing – SoCal
Infinite Electronics
High tech products/services – SoCal
Infogix, Inc.
Software – Chicago
InnovateMR
Marketing services – New York
K2 Sports
Consumer products – Seattle
Magna Legal Services
Legal services – Philadelphia
Marcone
Industrial distribution – St. Louis
The Meadows of Wickenburg
Healthcare services – Phoenix
MW Industries
Industrial manufacturing – Chicago
Nelipak Healthcare Packaging
Industrial manufacturing – Chicago
Nellson Nutraceutical
Consumer products – SoCal
PaperSource
Specialty retailer – Chicago
Prairie Dog Pet Products
Consumer products – Dallas
Primeritus Financial
B2B services – Nashville
RevSpring
Tech-enabled B2B services – Detroit
Senneca Holdings
Industrial manufacturing – Cincinnati
Serta International
Consumer products – Chicago
Signature Flexible Packaging
Industrial manufacturing – SoCal
Sonny’s Enterprises
Industrial mfg. and services – Ft. Lauderdale
Symplicity
SaaS provider – Arlington, Virginia
Spinal Elements
Medical device manufacturing – SoCal
Therma LLC
Engineering and construction – NoCal
Total Safety, Inc
B2B services – Houston
Transport Investments, Inc.
Transportation services – Pittsburgh
TRX
Consumer products – NoCal
UBEO
B2B services- Austin
Valtris Chemicals
Specialty chemicals – Cleveland
Velosio
Professional services – Columbus
Vision Integrated Graphics
Tech-enabled B2B services – Chicago
Wilson HCG
Business process outsourcing – Tampa
Young & Associates
Business process outsourcing – Nashville
Learn more about our team – Kevin Ford