Great Hill Partners hires tech veteran Suaad Sait as growth partner | AltAssets Private Equity News
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Boston-based private equity house Great Hill Partners has hired tech veteran Suaad Sait as growth partner to explore new investment opportunities and design and execute growth strategies for portfolio companies. Sait joined the firm from cloud-based revenue-growth platform SharpSpring where he was president. Never miss a story – click to sign up to AltAssets’ free daily PE newsletter The firm said Sait brings substantial experience scaling software, cloud computing and marketing technology companies through product strategy, marketing, sales and customer success, and had helped created over $15bn in value for businesses over his three-decade career. Chris Busby, managing director at Great Hill, said, “With decades of experience implementing successful growth and business improvement strategies across the technology industry, Suaad has a wealth of industry expertise that will help drive value across our portfolio.” Great Hill Partners targets investments between $25m and $500m in high-growth companies across the software, digital commerce, financial technology, healthcare, and digital infrastructure sectors. Great Hill hit the $2.5bn hard cap to close Great Hill Equity Partners VII in 2019, beating its initial $2bn target after just five months on the road.