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General Atlantic: Leadership Change
General Atlantic appointed tennis champion Novak Djokovic as Global Strategic Advisor in a newly created advisory role to work with leadership, portfolio companies, and investors on leadership, resilience, innovation, and long-term performance.
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The leadership read
Leadership transitions often precede broader technology bench-strengthening over the next two quarters.
Market context: Backdrop: a 113.9 (Hot) Talent Market Index (up 13.8 on the month) with Americas activity easing (-3pts).
General Atlantic: 4 signals in the last 90 days — above the Technology median of 1 across 196 tracked companies; 0.2% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow; 4 tracked across 44 days.
MitchelLake in this thematic
Our work · 2019
VP Sales (US) / CEO
Multiple (Longtail UX, Genbook)
Americas · Technology/SaaS · founder-transition · international-expansion
Our work · 2020
Chief Technology Officer
Splitit
Americas · Fintech · payments · fintech
Our work · 2019
CEO
Everguard
Americas · Computer Vision Technology · computer vision · bcg digital ventures
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Leadership Change · Americas
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