We are expert private equity recruiters and headhunters. For nearly 20 years, The Avery Point Group has been a trusted top Atlanta-based executive search firm specializing in private equity recruitment. As Executive Search Catalysts for Change™, we are dedicated to identifying, assessing, and recruiting world-class leaders and transformation leadership talent for private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
We understand the complexity and challenges of the private equity space and specialize in finding operations, supply chain, continuous improvement, and manufacturing leadership talent that can transform underperforming portfolio companies into industry leaders. Our focus is to help private equity firms recruit transformation leadership talent that can navigate the demands of venture capital investors and PE boards, ensuring success in a competitive marketplace.
As leading private equity headhunters, we are focused on transformation leadership executives with proven experience in leveraging Lean, Six Sigma, Business Intelligence (BI), and Industry 4.0 technology and methodologies in PE settings that yield significant results. Our partners’ track record of delivering transformational leadership talent speaks for itself. Our executive search firm is focused on placing private equity leaders who excel at driving value creation, turning around underperforming businesses, and leveraging industry roll-up strategies that ensure your portfolio companies reach their fullest potential.
Our firm leverages its extensive industry expertise to find and recruit operations, supply chain, continuous improvement, and manufacturing executives who can drive efficiencies, implement business strategies, and turn around underperforming operations. With over half a century of combined experience, our firm’s search partners have held global director, VP, and executive leadership positions in manufacturing, operations, and transactionally focused Fortune 500 businesses. They possess a deep understanding of what it takes to succeed in the demanding result-focused private equity world. Our partners are true subject matter experts and industry thought leaders that bring tremendous industry insight to the executive search process for transformation leadership talent.
Shaped by their global executive leadership experience, our partners have successfully directed operations and spearheaded transformative initiatives across diverse regions, including Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia, and North America. This breadth of executive experience has equipped our firm’s partners with a deep understanding of what it takes to gain a competitive advantage in today’s global economy and its challenges. It influences our partners’ robust approach to recruiting transformation leadership talent that aligns with the unique demands of private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Building on this extensive global executive experience, our partners are uniquely suited to identify transformation leaders with the savvy to excel in private equity settings, contributing to your PE firm’s enhanced portfolio performance.
As true PE industry experts and thought leaders, our firm and its partners have been featured in over 8 books and in over 50 trade journals and magazine articles. As a leading executive search firm, we have earned the trust of over 100 industry-leading clients across 18 diverse industries. For nearly 20 years, we have served as a trusted partner to the private equity industry serving their operations, supply chain, continuous improvement, and manufacturing leadership talent needs. Your Private Equity Transformation Success Starts Here™.
As top private equity headhunters, we specialize in recruiting transformation leaders for PE firms and their portfolio companies, with a particular emphasis on leadership talent that knows how to drive world-class performance in these demanding environments.
As Executive Search Catalysts for Change™, we focus on talent who can drive acquisition integration and industry roll-ups for portfolio companies operating in fragmented markets and industry sectors. We also know the importance of filling critical positions at the CXO, SVP, VP, and Director level across various functions that can quickly assess a portfolio company’s financial and operational condition and determine the right course of action and strategies to turn around the organization to maximize value creation. These executives offer fresh perspectives, innovative strategies, and a results-driven approach to your organization in order to propel their growth, efficiency, and value creation.
Partner with us to unlock the true potential of your portfolio company in your journey toward world-class performance. Your Private Equity Transformation Success Starts Here™.
As top plant management recruiters and general management recruiters, we specialize in recruiting transformation leadership talent for PE firms and their portfolio companies, with a particular emphasis on leaders who know how to drive world-class performance in these very challenging environments.
As Executive Search Catalysts for Change™ and leading private equity recruiters, we focus on identifying transformation leadership talent who can leverage and integrate Lean, Six Sigma, and Industry 4.0 tools and methodologies that help portfolio companies become world-class performers. Whether you need a plant manager who can optimize daily operations, streamline processes, and implement continuous improvement initiatives or a general manager who can provide visionary leadership, foster innovation, create value, and steer the organization toward growth and success, we have a wealth of experience in finding exceptional transformation leaders.
By partnering with us, you can access leadership talent who understand the importance of Lean, Six Sigma, and Industry 4.0 methodologies and know how to effectively apply them to achieve transformative results in demanding private equity settings. Your Private Equity Transformation Success Starts Here™.
As top Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement recruiters and headhunters, we specialize in recruiting operational excellence talent for PE firms and their portfolio companies, with a particular emphasis on transformation leaders who know how to drive world-class performance in these very challenging environments. As Executive Search Catalysts for Change™ and leading private equity recruiters, we connect PE firms with exceptional talent capable of driving operational excellence within portfolio companies through Lean Management principles, data-driven Six Sigma strategies, and a culture of continuous improvement.
Partner with The Avery Point Group to secure leaders who can seamlessly integrate these methodologies, enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, fostering innovation, and propelling your portfolio companies towards world-class performance. Your Private Equity Transformation Success Starts Here™.
As top supply chain recruiters and headhunters, we specialize in recruiting leadership talent for PE firms and their portfolio companies, with a particular emphasis on transformation leaders who know how to drive world-class performance in these very challenging environments. Our supply chain management search expertise spans sourcing & procurement, logistics, supply & demand planning (S&OP), inventory management, distribution, operations, strategic sourcing, supply chain design, transportation, and warehouse management. As Executive Search Catalysts for Change™ and top private equity recruiters, we specialize in identifying and recruiting leaders who can navigate the complexities of private equity portfolio companies and drive transformational results within these critical roles.
Partner with The Avery Point Group to secure transformation supply chain leaders who are adept at driving operational excellence within demanding private equity settings. Your Private Equity Transformation Success Starts Here™.
In a survey of private equity portfolio companies, it was found that higher-performing operational leaders were able to generate 40% more in productivity gains versus their average-performing counterparts.
Where does your business stand?
We focus on recruiting private equity transformation leadership that can drive value creation, operational efficiency, and successful exits for your portfolio companies.
In a survey of private equity portfolio companies, it was found that higher-performing managers were able to generate 50% more in profits versus their average-performing counterparts.
Where does your business stand?
Is your private equity portfolio company facing similar leadership performance challenges? Our expert focus on private equity transformation leadership talent recruitment and executive search services can help.
A recent major consulting firm survey of Private Equity portfolio company senior executives found that higher performers in their organization outperformed average performers by a wide margin. This should come as no surprise to any of us. However, what came as a surprise was how much this difference could impact the overall performance of an organization. The study went on to highlight some significant findings:
Similar studies have found even more profound differences between top and bottom performers in key value stream leadership roles. For instance, in manufacturing portfolio companies, one study concluded that the best plant managers grew profits by 130% while the lowest-performing managers achieved no improvement.
As leading private equity recruiters and headhunters, this is where The Avery Point Group can help add value in your search for the right private equity transformation leadership talent.
As Executive Search Catalysts for Change™, we recognize that hiring the right transformation leadership and operations talent can profoundly impact a portfolio company’s overall performance. As private equity recruiters, our focus is to help our PE clients find the right operations, supply chain, and manufacturing talent that possesses transformation and continuous improvement leadership skills as a part of their core DNA. These transformation leaders will know how to maximize your portfolio company’s profit, productivity objectives, value creation, and investment returns.
As a leading private equity recruiter and headhunter, we are focused on finding operations, supply chain, continuous improvement, and manufacturing transformation leadership talent who knows how to drive acquisition integration and industry roll-ups for portfolio companies that operate in fragmented markets. When private equity portfolio companies leverage and drive operational strategies around acquisition integration and industry roll-ups, the right leadership talent can successfully create economies of scale, market leverage, reduced overhead, and efficiency improvements that lead to tremendous value creation and returns.
We understand the importance of finding transformation leadership talent that can maximize results by leveraging existing infrastructure and taking advantage of the synergies between the merging entities.
As top private equity recruiters and headhunters, we are focused on finding PE leadership talent who can quickly assess a portfolio company’s financial and operational condition and determine the right course of action to turn around the organization to maximize value creation. This requires transformation leadership talent who knows how to effectively leverage these strategies by putting in place the right people, processes, metrics, and actions that drive improvements in operational efficiency, cost reduction, and streamlining of operations through restructuring to yield a turnaround that generates maximum returns.
Our focus is to help our private equity clients find transformation leadership talent that knows how to turn around and restructure their portfolio companies into industry leaders.
As a leading private equity recruiter and headhunter, we are focused on finding PE leadership talent who knows how to take a holistic and practical approach to leverage traditional continuous improvement with today’s Smart Factory digital technology. Today’s operations, supply chain, and manufacturing leaders must possess the ability to effectively integrate Lean, Six Sigma, Business Intelligence (BI), and Industry 4.0 strategies through a combination of data analytics, process engineering, automation, IIoT, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and other emerging digital technology to realize their collective potential fully.
Our executive search firm is focused on finding transformation industry leaders who can integrate these tools with proven leadership to help our PE clients drive greater efficiency, better asset utilization, improved customer service levels, higher return on capital, and value creation.
As leading private equity recruiters and headhunters, we are focused on funding the right PE operations, supply chain, continuous improvement, and manufacturing transformation leadership talent that understands the importance of having the right people and processes in place to facilitate value creation and achieve strategic objectives. As private equity recruiters, we know it is essential to have transformation leadership talent in key roles who can effectively build teams and think holistically and strategically while managing the short-term deadlines and the immediacy of the performance expectations of the private equity operating environment.
We target operational leadership talent with strategic insight and process-driven execution skills that know how to maximize performance outcomes that build trust with investment banks, venture capital investors, and PE boards.
True Transformation Thought Leaders & Industry Experts
As a result of our contributions and meaningful industry impact, we have been featured in 8 books and acknowledged in more than 50 industry-leading trade journals and magazine articles. Our expertise as an industry thought leader has positioned us to be your trusted source for industry and transformation leadership talent.
Over Half a Century of Combined Business Transformation Executive Industry Leadership Experince
Timothy Noble is the president & managing partner of The Avery Point Group. Mr. Noble has over 30 years of executive leadership experience in business transformation, manufacturing operations, supply chain management, distribution, and executive search. Throughout his career he has been consistently promoted and has held senior level executive band roles in major Fortune 500 companies like General Electric (GE) and The Stanley Works (SWK – now known as Stanley Black and Decker). As a GE trained Master Black Belt and Shingijutsu trained Lean executive, Mr. Noble has extensive transformation experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, and digital transformation globally.
Prior to starting the Avery Point Group in 2004, Noble was the Global Operations Executive for Stanley-Bostitch, the second-largest division of The Stanley Works . In that role, he had full operational leadership responsibility for 8 plants and over 1,900 employees with operations throughout North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia, supporting revenue of just under $1.0 Billion.
Yvonne Hite is a partner and board advisor at The Avery Point Group. Ms. Hite has over 30 years of executive-level leadership experience in manufacturing, financial services, Lean Six Sigma, and executive search. Throughout her career, she has been consistently promoted and has held senior-level executive roles in major Fortune 500 companies like General Electric (GE), Bank of America (BAC) and The Stanley Works (SWK – now known as Stanley Black and Decker). As an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Bank of America Certified Master Black Belt, and Shingijutsu trained Lean executive, Ms. Hite has extensive experience leading Lean, Six Sigma, and digital transformation initiatives on a global scale. Ms. Hite was also one of GE Lighting’s first female Executive Band plant managers in its over one-hundred-year history.
Before her career move into executive search, Ms. Hite was a Senior Vice President with Bank of America, where she led the Trust Services Operation for the Southeast with responsibility for over 8,300 client accounts and over $1.3B in assets under management (AUM).