Secrets of Private Equity

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A conversation with Brian Wardrop

In this episode we have an interesting guest, and a just as interesting guest host – Marko Ketler, Senior Partner in our network, who specializes in M&A and Finance and has tons of experience in private equity. His guest is Brian Wardrop, Managing Partner at Arx Equity Partners, one of the leading private equity firms in Central Europe, and if you want to know how PE firms select deals and what they look for in transaction partners, we highly recommend that you listen to the new episode.

 

Are we going to travel for meetings as we used to? Or is Zoom something that is here to stay; what will happen to working from home and working from offices; can we and when can we expect the post-pandemic recession – these are only some of the topics that we are covering in this episode of k/talks. You should also get recommendations for good books on negotiation or maybe secrets and lies in the Silicon Valley, to read this summer.  

Banking Cord Blood

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A conversation with Dr.
Far too often, parents ask questions around cord blood banking. Most commonly, these two – one: should we do it, and two: which bank. To address this recurring topic, and one that can be incredibly important and consequential for families, we hosted one of the most knowledgeable authorities on this topic, Dr. Frances Verter.
  
Dr. Verter founded the Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood in 1998, in memory of her daughter Shai. As a mother, a patient advocate and science researcher, she began compiling resources to help other parents make decisions on storing their children’s cord blood. As the body of knowledge around the clinical use of cord blood expanded, her work extended to those issues as well. The wealth of resources she has compiled addresses the questions from the beginning: whether parents should decide to bank cord blood, i.e. are there clinical uses for cord blood; and how to choose the right bank.Frances is also a cofounder at Celltrials.org, which collects and provides the data on clinical trials of advanced cell therapy. 

This episode is in English.

Resources:
– [https://parentsguidecordblood.org/en]
– [celltrials.org]
– [https://www.cekammiminko.cz/2020/10/05/vnucka-darovala-pupecnikovou-krev-svemu-dedeckovi/]