Moderator, Meahgan O’Grady

Meahgan O’Grady is a Vice President of Business Development for KPS Mid-Cap. Her primary focus is on new investment generation and intermediary, founder, executive and corporate relationship management across North America and Europe. Furthermore, Meahgan assists portfolio companies with add-on acquisition strategy development and the sourcing of tuck-in opportunities.

Meahgan is well known in the Middle Market M&A community for her knowledge of and views on investing trends, creative and effective deal sourcing techniques, macro-market perspectives and best-practices in which private equity firms can bridge the gap between “Main St. and Wall St.”

Meahgan has a specialized expertise in “market mapping;” identifying the gaps in deal flow from multiple angles and effectively and efficiently filling those gaps. She takes an analytical approach to sourcing, seeking the highest ROI situations and ensuring that they are tagged well in advance. This approach lends itself to long-dated pipeline visibility.

Prior to joining KPS, Meahgan worked for Long Point Capital, where she was Head of Origination. In this capacity, she built the business development function from the ground up increasing actionable deal flow 40% y-o-y and closed deals by 2x. Before that, Meahgan worked at Goldman Sachs in the Fixed Income Currency and Commodities division. She received her Master’s in Business Administration from Duke, The Fuqua School of Business and her B.B.A. from William and Mary’s Mason School of Business.

Meahgan is on the Board of the Association of Corporate Growth’s “Women of Leadership” committee, was named one of McGuire Woods’ “Women to Know in Private Equity” and has been a featured speaker at multiple professional association conferences as well as “Women in Business” focused events.