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The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast
From the health sector to financial services: Insights from Dr. Alex Dibelius, managing partner at CVC Capital Partners
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In this podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Roman Wecker speaks with Dr. Alex Dibelius, managing partner of global private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. Well-known for being the dealmaker behind the mega-deals Mannesmann-Vodafone and Daimler-Chrysler and a long-standing supervisory board member of several publicly and privately traded companies, Dibelius discusses the specifics of leadership at a private equity firm, what private equity–led firms can learn from other companies in other sectors, and what he learned moving from a career as a heart surgeon to consultant at McKinsey to partner at CVC, as well as what lessons from 2020 his firm is carrying forward into the future.
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