Ep. 135: Nuance & CEO Succession

Published: March 10, 2018, 5:48 p.m.

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:
oVista Equity Partners: https://www.vistaequitypartners.com/ (active in software M&A)
oThoma Bravo: https://thomabravo.com/ (active in software M&A)
oWarburg Pincus : http://www.warburgpincus.com/ (prior relationship with Nuance)