Collected Intelligence is dedicated to helping venture capital, private equity and mutual funds gain a deeper, more complete understanding of the management teams they invest in.

Since 2001 Collected Intelligence has been providing top-tier investors such as New Enterprise Associates and Wasatch Advisors with valuable insights into the backgrounds, skill-sets, management styles and ethics of current and prospective portfolio company executives. We also assist our clients’ portfolio companies with assessing their own potential management hires.

Never has the need to truly know who is running your portfolio companies been so acute. Hyper-competitive markets, the heightened importance of fiduciary duties, and increasingly visible cases of corporate misdeeds and mismanagement have made that painfully clear. But gathering such critical information on the quality and reputations of management teams is extremely time-intensive; meanwhile, the pace of new deals, company visits, quarterly earnings, news releases, road-shows and investor conferences never slackens.

Collected Intelligence helps clients narrow that information gap. Our team of former financial journalists, led by founder Robinson Clark, goes to work “reporting the story” on the target executives’ backgrounds – finding and interviewing sources such as former superiors, peers and subordinates, and sifting through news articles and court records.

We customize our investigation to your needs: What are the executive’s weaknesses? Do his experience, personality and skills fit the company’s needs? How much turnaround work has she done? Has he commercialized a product? Does she build/manage teams well? How does he deal with boards and investors? Does she have legal issues? What else is “out there”?

Each conversation, each key bit of information, becomes a tile in the mosaic we assemble, creating an image of the executives that helps clients see just who it is they would be investing in, backing or hiring, allowing them to make sounder investment decisions.

Working with Collected Intelligence is like having your own investigative reporters on staff. You get the story first, fast and exclusively. We adhere to the hallmarks of good journalism: thoroughness, accuracy and objectivity. And we operate with the utmost sensitivity, allowing investors to kick a company’s tires without damaging relations with management.

If your firm ascribes to the belief that superior management is crucial to superior returns, we invite you to try Collected Intelligence. Many of our clients have made our process a key part of their process.

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