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Excellence with Ease

We leverage decades of experience serving CEOs and Private Equity Leaders. Our research preparation and networking capabilities open doors, while our highly refined, process-driven systems drive opportunity intersections.

Ropella uses specialized software, information research, and marketing excellence to support networking and prospecting campaigns to help you source, assess and close proprietary deals.

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YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

ABOUT US

Ropella is your partner for SME Search Services

For 35+ years, Ropella Group has been a global leader in executive search. The firm's placements include transformational, high-impact C-suite leaders at many Fortune 500 and mid-market leading chemical, technology manufacturing, and material sciences companies. As well, many have gone on to become founders and partners at leading private equity firms.

Our search firm regularly solves investor and board-driven search mandates for C-suite executives (and board directors), PE investment partners, and operating advisors.

Through Venture Visions (VV) Ropella Equity Ventures provides PE firms with an extensive network of industry-specific, backable C-suite leaders.

Combined with Ropella's dedicated in-house business development team, Venture Accelerators (VA) facilitates a platform search partnership between the CEO and PE sponsor, maximizing successful acquisition opportunities.

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SMARTER EXECUTIVE SEARCH

Ropella SME
Search Services

Ropella leverages our extensive network of subject matter executives (SMEs) with industry specific experience, accomplishments, interests, and targeted investments to support your due diligence and investment goals at nearly all stages of the deal lifecycle.

BACKABLE CEOs

Ready to establish (together with Ropella) an acquisition search focus and company search process. Aiming to generate sufficient deal flow for business acquisition shaped by pre-defined criteria.

BOARD MEMBERS / SR. ADVISORS / INTERIM EXECUTIVES

Utilizing their knowledge and skills to complement operating teams and solve problems / create opportunities essential to executing your vision.

RIVER GUIDES / SME CONSULTANTS

Providing diligent expertise to help your sector explore multiple deals efficiently in a fast-paced, competitive market.

OPERATING ADVISORS

Efficiently conduct diligence with expertise relevant to your sector to hone in on key focus areas for multiple deals allowing for speed and clarity which are critical in the current market.

HOW WE WORK

Most (if not all) successful investments possess two things: The Right Leader, and the Right Vision. Venture Visions and Venture Accelerators applies a Six Sigma like approach to thesis discovery, strategic deal sourcing, network connections, and managing due diligence.

Transformational leaders are like eagles, they don't flock. You find them one at a time.

EXPECTATIONS

When you partner with Ropella, here's how you can expect us to ACT

ACCOUNTABILITY

We are available 24-7 and support all engagements with a dedicated partner who leads a team of associates and researchers. Our internal culture and leader development model reinforces our client-first approach through accountability, quality, and quick-response.

COMMUNICATION

Our approach to relationship building is rooted in hyper-relevant, value-adding communications. We foster open dialogue with all leaders and investors we serve. Our guiding principle requires listening and responding to concerns from all stakeholders.

TRUST

We take the privacy and security of your information seriously. Ropella has worked with the Department of Defense to implement security safeguards in all aspects of business operations. We exceed industry norms for confidentiality with our best practices and deploy control mechanisms to protect our clients (and their firms).

We have established networks with C-suite
Transformational Leaders globally

DARREN BIRKELBACH

CEO

MILES HUTCHINGS

Executive Vice President

PHILLIP MANGOLD

President

RAY FAHMY

President

BRIAN ALLISON

Senior Vice President of R&D

ROBERT KINTON

Chief Information Technology Officer

NOEL CRICHTON

President

KATELYN HOKENBERG

Chief Talent and Culture Officer

CHRISTOPHER BEASLEY

General Manager

MARC POORTENGA

Operational Marketing Manager/Business Director-Europe

PHIL DALEY

Chief Operating Officer

RO OTERI

Chief Operating Officer

GREG GAUDET

Chief Technology Officer

TOMMASO BUCO

President

BRIAN CHERMSIDE

CEO

CASSANDRA TODD

Chief Supply Chain Officer

MICHAEL SANSONETTI

President

BILL HARVEY

Board Director

TESTIMONIALS