During mental health awareness week, I had the great pleasure to sit down with Adam Carey, the Founder of CorPerformance and Chief Health Officer of Ineos, to discuss the importance of well-being, my own journey with mental health, and how we at Essenta are helping both ourselves and our clients to better understand the impact of leading with compassion and the importance of treating people with respect. In the discussion we cover a wide range of preventative and responsive approaches to ensure good mental health which recognises the role of body-up alongside more traditional 'mind-down' approaches.

Essenta’s CFO Practice advises a broad range of private equity funds on hiring worldclass CFOs into their portfolio companies. Given the impact that recent global affairs have had on the volume of private equity transactions, we have carried out research to analyse whether there is a correlation between portfolio companies hiring CFOs with prior PE CFO experience and value creation. Whilst not a pure science (given other factors such as Board construct, deal timing and business model), the report provides some interesting insights which we believe to be critical considerations when hiring a CFO into PE-backed businesses. Read more here: PE Fund Experience