Two months inside a live ERP rollout: warehouse printing across every printer type, team training, and a production fix, all delivered remotely. The short version: A merger, then an ERP The sequence here is one PE readers will recognize, because it’s the standard playbook. The distributor merged, got bigger, and the legacy ERP that ran … Read more
Two sister engineering firms, one on each side of the US-Canada border, and the quiet IT work that kept them secure through customer security reviews and into an acquisition. The short version: Two firms, one border between them These two companies came to me about seven years ago. Sister firms, shared ownership, one operating in … Read more
From Breach Cleanup to Buyout: Cybersecurity Due Diligence in a Real Acquisition How 4.5 years of security work turned a single-location self-storage company into a clean acquisition target, and what a three-week technology handoff looks like when the buyer runs 50+ facilities. The short version: It started with a breach They found me the way … Read more