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• May

  14
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  PE Club Lunch & Learn: How Deal and Ops Teams Collaborate w/ Paceline Equity Partners

  We’re excited to welcome Kellogg alumni Chris Tanner and Parth Mirani of Paceline Equity Partners for a lunchtime discussion on how middle market PE deal and ops teams collaborate. Chris and Parth's bios are listed below: Chris Tanner: Chris Tanner joined Paceline in April 2025 and is responsible for the asset management and value creation planning of the firm’s corporate investments. Prior to Paceline he worked as a Principal at Leon Capital and spent over 5 years as a Vice President at Kelso & Company. During his time at Kelso, Chris supported 12 portfolio investments including 3 significant exits across a wide variety of industries and engagements including value creation planning, go-to-market, data and analytics, pricing, digital marketing, procurement, post-merger integration, IT roadmaps and cost-takeouts, and is credited with developing the firm’s business intelligence playbook which was scaled across the portfolio. Prior to Kelso, Chris worked for Breakout Capital, a Chicago-based venture capital firm, and he started his career as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman, where he worked across industrials, healthcare, retail and financial services. Chris received an MBA from Kellogg Northwestern University and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Management from Brigham Young University. Parth Mirani: Parth Mirani joined Paceline in October 2025 as a Vice President. Prior to joining Paceline, Parth served as a Vice President at BDT & MSD Partners in Chicago, a $50 billion private capital platform dedicated to partnering with family- and founder-led companies. He has directed and executed majority and minority investments and advisory engagements across the consumer, aerospace & defense, healthcare, and technology services sectors. Prior to joining BDT & MSD, Parth worked in private equity at Bregal Investments and Trive Capital, and began his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. Parth earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his BBA with Highest Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. Outside of work, he enjoys running, cooking, music, and astronomy, and volunteers on the Advisory Council for UT’s Financial Analyst Program and with Swaminarayan Gurukul, Dallas. thu, 12:15pm - 1:15pm