Ep. 135: Nuance & CEO Succession

Why is it taking Nuance’s (https://www.nuance.com/index.html) Board so long to name the next CEO? • Disagreement at the Board Level? • No qualified candidates? • Nuance in-process selling itself? Speaking from experience we believe that Satish Maripuri would be a fine CEO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satishmaripuri If Nuance is indeed working to sell itself we believe private equity is the logical buyer and that one of the three following PE firms would win the day: o Vista Equity Partners: https://www.vistaequitypartners.com/ (active in software M&A) o Thoma Bravo: https://thomabravo.com/ (active in software M&A) o Warburg Pincus : http://www.warburgpincus.com/ (prior relationship with Nuance)