2023 Annual Private Equity Offer Report
We’re excited to release our Private Equity Offer Report, which details a subset of offers for private equity searches we completed in the last year.
Chad Oakley serves as the chief executive officer of Charles Aris Executive Search. He joined the firm in 2003 and founded the Strategy & Go-to-Market Practice, a practice that has to date completed over 1,400 searches. Today, Chad spends 100% of his time leading the Executive Leadership Practice, whereby he places CEOs, presidents and general managers at select clients.
Prior to joining Charles Aris, Chad worked as a consultant and case team leader in the Boston practice of Bain & Company. At Bain, he focused on solving strategic challenges for clients in a number of industries including software, telecommunications, manufacturing and financial services.
Before his time with Bain, Chad earned an MBA degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. During business school, Chad spent a summer at Nabisco as a summer associate for the Oreo Cookie portfolio.
Prior to business school, Chad served as a business analyst and consultant in the Philadelphia practice of Deloitte Consulting, where he focused on industries such as healthcare, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas.
Chad also holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from North Carolina State University.
Chad met his wife, Mindy, at Wharton and together they have three wonderful children. Chad enjoys playing golf, running, snow skiing, fly fishing, rooting for the Wolfpack of NC State and the Quakers of UPenn, and the occasional trek up to Boston for a night of baseball at Fenway Park.
Chad is a proud member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (Southern Seven chapter) and of Vistage.
Direct: (336) 217-9101
Email: chad.oakley@charlesaris.com
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