🎥 Brookfield Asset Management's David Nowak - "earn your seat" private equity
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The episode features a discussion with David Nowak about building a private equity firm within Brookfield Asset Management and the firm's unique approach to investing.
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode unpacks how to build a private equity firm within one of the largest and most unique investment platforms in private markets. We sat down in Brookfield Asset Management ’s Brookfield Place office in downtown NY with David Nowak , the President of Brookfield’s Private Equity Group . David and I dove into a conversation about the private equity industry, Brookfield’s approach to private equity, and how the firm’s culture and DNA shapes how they work with portfolio companies and LPs. David has overall responsibility for the Private Equity Group’s North American business. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield Private Equity Fund. He joined Brookfield in 2011. He holds a MBA degree from Duke University, where he graduated as a Fuqua Scholar, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Western Ontario. David and I had a fascinating discussion about private equity and the Brookfield platform. We covered: * How Brookfield’s owner-operator alignment informs how they approach private equity investing and their partnerships with portfolio companies. * How the industry has gone from “roll your dice…
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