ACCESS INSIGHTS
ABOUT OUR INSIGHTS
The Access team works hard to understand, develop, and help companies grow, and we want to share what we have learned from our diverse experiences.
Our Access Insights provide thoughtful, purposeful, and actionable perspectives. Explore our latest insights, written by our team to help yours.
“Speaking Sponsor”: How to Position Your Business for Private Equity
In today’s private equity landscape, financial success is no longer driven by engineering alone—it’s rooted in execution, alignment, and communication.
Unlocking Value Through Effective Change Management
Building and scaling a modern, enduring business is full of challenges. With today’s accelerating rate of innovation and growing macro uncertainty, “change” is often the only thing that is constant. We believe that business leaders must embrace different ways of thinking, leading, and acting to manage change and unlock value.
Building Modern Businesses
We are partners to our businesses. What drives their growth drives ours.
The six building blocks of the “Access Modern Business Framework” provide our partner companies with the guidance and support needed to thrive in today’s fast-changing business environment.
LOCATION SELECTION: A DATA DRIVEN APPROACH
Informed location decisions are critical for the growth of any business. In our new Access Insight, Managing Director Nik Kapauan and Chief Data Officer Matt Johl explore how a data-driven approach to location selection can lead to greater long-term stability and profitability for our partners.
“Advanced data analytics and machine learning are transforming how private equity firms approach location decision-making. These technologies can process vast amounts of data quickly, providing more accurate and timely insights than traditional methods of research and analysis. This may result in enhanced reliability, efficiency, and scalability, all of which lead to more informed location decisions.”
NAVIGATING CHALLENGING DEBT CAPITAL MARKETS TO ENABLE GROWTH
Today’s uncertain economy makes it increasingly important for business owners and investors to understand the state of debt capital markets and the options available to support growth.
In our new Access Insight, Senior Advisor Tom Gregory shares his view on the current condition of debt capital markets, the unique challenges facing midmarket private equity-backed businesses, and the opportunity for creative capital solutions.
“In the face of increased challenges, buyers and sellers still want to get deals done, and business owners want to grow and scale. The way capital markets are evolving, solutions are emerging to address this changing market context. To do this, more creative deal terms and financing are being considered.”
ENTREPRENEURIAL EMPATHY
The world of private equity is loaded with stories of failed investments and unsuccessful partnerships between investors, entrepreneurs, and founders of businesses.
What often started with the right intent—partnering to grow and scale a business—may not have played out as either side expected, leading to frustration and remorse.
ESG: THE ACCESS WAY
At Access Holdings, we are passionate about building enduring businesses that deliver long-term value to our partners. To achieve this, we believe a business must work to positively impact its stakeholders. This belief has been fundamental to our investment strategy as we have worked to consistently try and “do the right thing.”
Given the rapidly evolving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) landscape, we embarked on a journey to formalize our approach to implementing and managing ESG both at Access and our portfolio companies.
THE ACCESS WAY
Here at Access Holdings, we are often asked what differentiates us from the thousands of other private equity firms operating in a crowded – and highly competitive – investment environment.
The Access Way showcases and explains our purposeful approach to investing, our deep commitment to partnership, and our focus on scaling and creating enduring businesses.
FINDING TOP TALENT THROUGH BEHAVIOR-BASED INTERVIEWING
Access Holdings Partner, Steve Chang, sat down with Human Capital Expert and Advisor Kim Powell to discuss behavior based interviewing and how hiring has changed since the onset of COVID-19.
In this Q&A, you will find resources and guidance on what questions to ask to get the most out of your interviews and other key considerations when hiring.
DRIVING GROWTH THROUGH PURPOSEFUL AND SYSTEMATIC M&A
In order to achieve consistent growth through Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), a successful company systematically identifies and pursues opportunities with purpose.
In practice this means following a disciplined process of actively pursuing opportunities that align with a clearly defined growth strategy.