On this week’s episode of M&A Masters, to celebrate International Women’s Week we’re rewinding my conversation with Suzanne Yoon. In 2020, Suzanne’s firm, Kinzie Capital Partners, in Chicago was honored by the Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN) as the North American female-founded firm of the year. The Wall Street Journal has also recognized her as a top female dealmaker. 

We asked Suzanne how she felt about these honors, she said, “Companies outperform when they have diversity in their leadership ranks and when they have diversity on a board. So that’s both gender and ethnic and experience. I actually attribute some, a lot, of our success at Kinzie to that and not because I’m a woman and I have an ethnic background, but more when you look at our entire team and you see the different experiences we’ve had.” 

Listen as she walks us though: 

• What’s unique about Kinzie—what the Kinzie formula is and how it helps companies execute their vision
• Putting the formula into action, how Kinzie helped one company double its EBITDA in a very short period
• The beauty of reps and warranty insurance: a middleman between buyer and seller
• Women in finance forging the future
• And much more