Northstar Podcast

Private Equity Fast Pitch
Episode 83 - Jeffrey Hooke, The Myth of Private Equity

Jeff Hooke is a senior finance lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business. Earlier, he was a managing director at Focus, LLC, an investment bank serving middle market companies. He served as Vice President of Research at the Committee on Economic Development. Previously, Hooke operated his own consulting firm, was a director of Emerging Markets Partnership (a $5 billion private equity fund), a principal investment officer of the World Bank Group, and an investment banker with Lehman Brothers and Schroder Wertheim, respectively, two prominent securities firms based in New York.

In addition to " The Myth of Private Equity," Hooke is the author of four other books: Security Analysis on Wall Street
(1998, 2nd edition 2013), M&A: A Practical Guide to Doing the Deal (1996, 2nd edition 2015),
The Dinosaur Among Us: The World Bank and Its Path to Extinction, and
The Emerging Markets (2001). He has co-authored several peer-reviewed academic papers in finance and has written many position papers for non-profit think tanks. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BS from the University of Pennsylvania.

Besides Hopkins, Mr. Hooke has taught at several universities and the New York Institute of Finance. He lectures on finance topics at industry forums around the world, including the CFA societies of New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Baltimore, Washington, London, Paris, Moscow, Munich, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Beijing, and Bangkok.

Consistent with all programs delivered by Northstar, “Private Equity Fast Pitch” podcasts are meaningful, insightful and provide actionable information from leaders in the Private Equity community that will help you connect with the speaker in an efficient way. Each Tuesday, Jeff Henningsen from Lockton will spend time talking with his friends in the private equity community while they share insight into their world. Similar to an introductory meeting, Private Equity and Investment Banking guests will talk about their firms, recent activities, target industries, desired acquisition profile or companies they are prepping for sale,
advice to aspiring professionals and their “closing pitch”.

If you would like to be considered for a Private Equity Fast Pitch interview please email jhenningsen@lockton.com
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Northstar’s Private Equity Heavy Hitters format attracts senior level leaders from the private equity and investment banking world to efficiently connect in a unique setting that has resulted in thousands of beneficial connections. Each podcast, moderated by Jeff Henningsen from Lockton, will focus on gaining insight from our guests while exploring the personal side of who they are, their challenges, successes and often providing listeners with sage advice to apply to their own career.
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About our Moderator

Jeff Henningsen with Lockton Companies
President – Partner

For more than 23 years Jeff Henningsen has served the insurance needs of entrepreneurs, capital providers and private equity sponsors, leading insurance due diligence efforts on over five-thousand transactions. Prior to his role in M&A insurance services he spent four years working with Randy Best of Best Associates, a Texas based merchant bank, which provided an invaluable experience for the services Jeff and his team now provide to his clients. Today, Jeff has a reputation in the financial community as a leader in serving the insurance needs of business owners, specializing in enhancing investment outcomes through insurance due diligence pre acquisition and aggressive placement of operational and transactional insurance products.

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Episode 45 - Franny Jones, The Sterling Group

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Episode 47 -Jerry Johnson, RLJ Equity

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Episode 52 - Joe Linnen, The Jordan Company

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Episode 56 - Lauren Mulholland, MiddleGround Capital

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Episode 65 - Craig Hurlbert, BrightStar Partners

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Episode 68 - Jerry Johnson, EnPro Industries

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