Brydon Group: CEO-in-Residence Cohort
The Position
Search on Salary. Search inside a cohort of other chief executives in training, then lead the company you buy as its CEO.
Cycle: Applications open in December; interviews run through the winter; decisions by late March.
Applications are shut for now, and the firm publishes when they reopen.
Window: Applications open in December, interviews January through March, decisions end of March.
At a Glance
- Location
- Washington, DC, with a week-long cohort kickoff each May in the Bahamas.
- Pay
- Salaried
- Compensation
- A salary set to your experience, plus equity in the platform you build.
- What You Do
- Search full time, then lead the company you buy as its CEO; five cohorts of 36 CEOs-in-residence have produced 46 acquisitions, with $30M-plus of equity behind each platform.
- Recruits On
- It weighs operating experience: time running something, rather than a degree.
- Who Can Apply
- Consulting partners, P&L owners, and PE-backed executives.
The Company
Brydon Group is reviewed in full in the directory, with its model, pricing, and the searcher case for and against it, and because it also backs searches, the same page carries its fit as a backer and how to approach it: read the Brydon Group review.
Interview Prep
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The Typical Arc
- A written application and resume screen, weighing operating exposure as much as deal exposure.
- A case or deal exercise: a target to assess, or a plan for one of the firm's portfolio companies.
- A panel with the partners who would back and govern you.
- Reference and background checks before an offer.
What It Is Assessing
- Whether you can operate, not only analyze: the firm is hiring a CEO, not an associate.
- Deal judgment: telling a good acquisition from a merely plausible one.
- Fit with the firm's stated playbook and the cadence its portfolio runs at.
How to Prepare
- Know the firm's thesis and portfolio cold before the first call. Investors
- Bring a real deal you would pursue, underwritten end to end. Underwrite a Deal
- Have an answer to why you would operate on salary rather than own outright. Path Economics
- Make the operator case on one page, not a resume. Buyer Profile Builder
More on the Board
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