Graham Rose

Head of Americas Private Equity Practice at Bain & Company

Interviewer

Graham Rose is a partner in Bain & Company’s Boston office and is head of the firm’s Americas Private Equity Practice. He joined Bain in 2001. Mr. Rose has deep experience working with financial investors on strategic due diligence and portfolio improvement. He has led nearly 950 cases focused on conducting diligence on assets across a range of industries and evaluating growth prospects, profit improvement opportunities and the resiliency of business models. He is also one of the leaders of Bain’s work in fund strategy – helping investors define their own investment strategies and business models. Over the last decade, he has worked with leading investors on topics including international expansion, sweet spot definition, fund raising, operating model and governance. In addition to working with direct investors, he has worked extensively with diversified asset managers and other pools of capital. Mr. Rose has helped to author Bain’s point of view on fund and LP strategy.