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Kingsway: Search Xcelerator

The Position

Search on Salary. A listed holding company's operator track: source your own acquisition, then run it as CEO inside the holdco.

Cycle: Rolling; each new operator-in-residence is announced by the firm.

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At a Glance

Location
Chicago headquarters, buying US businesses at $5M to $30M of revenue and $1M to $5M of cash flow.
Compensation
Not published; operators join the company as employees and take the CEO seat at the business they buy.
What You Do
Source, acquire and then manage your own business with the firm's support behind you.
Who Can Apply
Talented, early-in-career managers, in the firm's own words.

The Company

Kingsway is not yet reviewed in the directory. Start from its own pages: Kingsway ↗.

Interview Prep

These programs do not publish their interview scripts, so this is the shape a search on salary program hires on, what it is really weighing, and how to arrive ready.

The Typical Arc

  1. A written application and resume screen, weighing operating exposure as much as deal exposure.
  2. A case or deal exercise: a target to assess, or a plan for one of the firm's portfolio companies.
  3. A panel with the partners who would back and govern you.
  4. 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

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A salaried seat is a form of capital: the employed lane on Investors weighs these programs beside the funds, and the Path Economics Comparer prices it against searching on your own money.