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The State of Portfolio Ops 2026: AI Ops Titles, Forward Deployed Engineers, and the EBITDA Capture Gap
How are elite Private Equity firms restructuring their internal Value Creation and Portfolio Operations teams to capture AI returns? In Episode 20 Paul and Dave welcome Dante Sacco, Head of Network at OneGuide, to deconstruct the findings from OneGuide’s State of Portfolio Ops Report 2026 (analyzing 60+ top PE/growth equity firms and 30+ value creation leaders).
Dante reveals a dramatic shift in PE org charts: the percentage of PE firms with dedicated AI ops titles jumped from 5% to 24% year-over-year. More importantly, 83% of these hires are deeply technical—with firms deploying "Forward…
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