Entrepreneurs: come one, come all!

 

Bill Hunscher P'19, P'20
Job Title: Partner
Organization: TZP Group
Host Date: 2020 TBA
Time: TBA
Location: San Francisco, CA

 

 

We asked Bill...

How would you describe your role and organization?
I am a Partner with a Private Equity firm based in New York City (although my office is in San Francisco). My role is the overall management of a $175 million fund geared toward investing in small, middle market businesses. I am responsible for overall leadership of the fund, including sourcing transactions, overseeing the execution of investing in a variety of businesses, leading the strategic initiatives with the company post close and overall coaching and management of my team of investment professionals.

What can a student expect to experience by job shadowing you?
Before Private Equity, I was an investment banker. I can provide an in-depth look at the world of finance, what makes it tick, and how to deploy a liberal education to maximize your outcome. Last year, I spent a day with my shadowee giving him a good sense of how to analyze, finance and close the acquisition of a business.

I have also been an entrepreneur for a large chunk of my career. Over the course of 20 years, I built several businesses and can provide my perspective on what makes a business successful, traits of the entrepreneur, transforming an idea into a business, and the oftentimes painful (yet incredibly fulfilling) process of being an entrepreneur.