Developing a Deal Origination Process

Jay Parini: I started out as an English major at the University of North Carolina and was able to be asked my way into a job in investment banking. He worked for Bull's Holloway Connor, one of the OG, non-Wall Street M&A boutiques back in wave one of modern private equity. Parini: In 1999, Jeff Renner and Mark Walpo, who were two of the early guys at Bain Capital, invited me to come join OddX; got to spend 20 years in Boston shaping their platform.