Bregal Milestone Executive Summit 2022

00:00:00:00 - 00:01:16:23

We are very excited to be in this historic city. It's a great location for us. We've spent a day and the night together. I had some excellent discussions yesterday, some plenary discussions with guest speakers and panellists. So far, it's been great, we are now led away into day two. An amazing story from a fantastic cave diver, genuine hero to get the day started. And now we've just come out of a set of breakout sessions with portfolio company executives and our prospective investors talking about things on their mind.

Networking is a big piece. So, you know, everyone gets to meet each other, everyone gets to know what the other parties are up to. It's also nice to get away to a nice European city.

Real opportunity for us to get different windows, have different conversations with peers across the Bregal portfolio and really sort of share our challenges. What's been really interesting is to see how many how many of those challenges are reflected in other portfolio companies, which gives us an opportunity to work together to find solutions. 

00:01:17:00 - 00:01:55:21

This whole conference has been about people. And so, when we look about what where does Milestone stand out? I think they spend a lot of time thinking about people that are really both working in their team as well as the people that are involved in leading the companies that they make an investment. And that's really what I see as a differentiator from some of the other teams that you hear about in the market.

I always come back from conferences like invigorated, and this one has been particularly good, AI has been a huge focus. We also had a roundtable earlier on where we got some CEOs together, and e all talked about our biggest challenges, and they have great value over that.

It's very inspiring to hear, connect the practical things that people are doing with I would say the research that can fuel those things and get motivated, and try to apply this at home. I'm definitely coming back. 

00:02:07:24 - 00:02:55:02

Resilience has definitely been a strong theme, a meaningful theme. I feel that the events really had purpose in terms of helping us take some action.

These are challenging times and every management team that we work with is trying to navigate the current market turbulence. We think that resilient leadership is one of the key hallmarks of success and navigating these struggling in times. And so, what we can do is draw on the experience of many people who are going through different sets of challenges to learn and to evolve.

We love putting on these events. Thank you to everyone who has attended this year. We can't wait to bring everybody back together again. We look forward to seeing you then.