Adam Weinstein is a Managing Director, COO, and CFO of New Mountain Capital, a $50 billion private equity firm focused on middle market buyout, credit, and net lease strategies.

I really enjoyed this conversation because we focused on two critical elements of building investment firms: people and process.

Adam discusses their investment committee governance process that seeks to foster broad input from the team to mitigate errors and promote consistency. We also uncover some of the challenges in group decision-making and why New Mountain is opposed to the term “back office.”

We then dig into how inclusiveness drives performance reviews, compensation structures, and how to develop a mentor program.