![]() It also happened to culminate with the fact that the age of personal computers was starting to be at everyone’s fingertips. I moved into customer service, did procurement, and by the time I graduated from college with what today would be viewed as a "who knows why you get that degree" degree, I really had a great grasp on the business landscape. I mean literally in the warehouse, packing boxes, shipping stuff. I had my first official office job probably at 13, maybe 14, over the course of summers, and I learned business from the bottom. And, as a result, I went to work at an early age. ![]() I mean, I was always directing traffic, taking care of people, had responsibility at an early age. Stephanie Barter: I am the oldest of six, and as a result, I think I just was born to be the boss. Tanya Ott: How did you get from that English major all the way to where you are now? What was the career journey? So, I think we both learned a lot together. ![]() Our founder was headed down a very different path and learned about private equity as he realized that the services that we provided were ones that the market needed. And funny enough, I think our firm actually didn’t know what private equity was when we officially got started. As you can imagine, I had no idea what private equity was. Tanya Ott: So, I can only imagine when you were an English major back in college, you were just dreaming of M&A, right? She has a rather unusual background for this kind of work, and that’s where we start our interview. She also oversees the firm’s ESG working group. ![]() She runs the M&A Operations group, a large in-house diligence team that helps inform the firm’s investment decisions about what companies it should or shouldn’t acquire. Stephanie Barter is a partner with Platinum Equity, a private equity firm based in Beverly Hills, California. ![]()
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