When Tom Campbell first started his firm, DC Capital Partners, he and his partners laid out a five-year vision of where they wanted to invest. Today, that strategy is paying off, with six transactions closed last year and two pending. “We follow our own strategy, our own plan, and our own tactics and focus on [...]
What often makes it challenging for investors and stakeholders to identify a market bottom is that the signs of rebirth can be invisible to the naked eye. And then you have deals like the one announced last week that whacks you like an ice cream migraine. Carlyle Group’s purchase of a majority stake in Booz [...]
Talk about a meteoric rise. In 2006, David Ehrhardt came to Apptix, a Herndon-based company which provides hosted business communication services to small and mid-sized businesses, and took on the role of CFO. Less than two years later, he took on an even more challenging role, that of CEO. In the following Q&A, Ehrhardt talks [...]
You know him as the author of the E-Myth book series. For over 30 years, Michael Gerber has helped shatter preconceptions on what it takes to successfully run a business. As both the founder and chairman of E-Myth Worldwide, as well as the bestselling author of books such as E-Myth Mastery and Awakening the Entrepreneur [...]
On Saturday, May 10, after the gray clouds had cleared and rain disappeared, Capital Partners for Education, local business leaders and students from the mentoring program gathered for an intimate, private fundraising dinner featuring the culinary cuisine of an award-winning chef, Michel Richard of Citronelle. The event, dubbed “Visions for the Future,” celebrated Capital Partners [...]
Over the past 12-18 months, Cloud computing has been increasingly shifted from the ether to ground level and become a powerful – yet practical – computing alternative for organizations across all sectors. And while much of the cloud computing buzz to date has revolved around Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Hewlett-Packard’s announced $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS (headquartered [...]
A pioneer in the IT field, Linda Berdine has spent the past three decades connecting the government to innovative information solutions. Her company, G&B Solutions Inc., a leading Virginia-based information technology and management-consulting firm, has consistently ranked as one the fastest growing companies in the Washington, D.C. region. Now, with the recent sale of G&B [...]
