All right, everyone, welcome back to you've been heard.

Really stoked's today to have Mr. Stokes on the show, four times CIO, six times private equity digital transformation leader i think you probably

have the best headline that i've seen on lincoln for cio you introduce yourself mr bradley

stokes and let's go man talk to me what does six times private equity mean for you what are you doing

how do you get started give me the short story, I've been in IT for a long time.

I kind of fell into private equity through technology startups back in the day and had now done that,

as you kind of mentioned, six times. So currently in a private equity opportunity, right? And so

generally my sort of MO, if you will, is brought on to private equity owned businesses to either help with

relaunch, course correction, standardization, consolidation, and then sometimes obviously brought in

for more business enablement, right, business value generation. So it's a model I've been in now

a long time. And so just kind of used to the template I follow. And it's a model I've been in now a long time.

And so just kind of used to the template I follow.

And it's a good thing.

And people seem to appreciate it.

Hence why I've done it six times now.

And so, yeah, the goal for me always is to provide value, drive transformation.

And I think for a private equity standpoint, that's what they're looking for, right?

Like how do we get quick wins?

How do we build value quickly so we can exit companies and make a lot of money and help enable that?

This is actually really exciting and just in the vein of what we want to try to.

I guess as far as the podcast goes, as you've been heard, is really amplifying IT voices more from a business standpoint

and making sure that they not only just have a seat

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