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We’re back with Season 8 of The HPScast. Join us as host Colbert Cannon sits down with Hugo Nathan, a Founding Partner of Beaumont Nathan, an art advisory firm based in London and New York. Hugo shares how he found his way into the alluring world of international art trading, and his formative early years at Simon Dickinson. Hugo shares stories from his 15-year tenure at the firm as he rose through its ranks, eventually being named President. Then, we discuss his decision to strike out on his own, alongside now partner, Wentworth Beaumont, to form their international art advisory and market intelligence firm, Beaumont Nathan. Hugo offers keen insights into entrepreneurship and how to do well in an industry built on relationships. He also shares his recent work with HPS Investment Partners' to help build out its diverse, and highly thoughtful art collection, including some of his favorites by both accomplished artists such as Alexander Calder and McArthur Binion — and emerging artists like Jordan Nassar.

Learn more about what Hugo Nathan is working on at Beaumont Nathan here. Check out Hugo’s Best Idea, The European Fine Art Fair, here. And discover works by British painter Cecily Brown, Colbert’s Best Idea for this week, here.
 

Host Colbert Cannon speaks with Deji Davies, Head of European Loan Trading at J.P. Morgan. We discuss his experience managing J.P. Morgan’s par and stressed trading operation through market volatility. He shares how he balances a foundational understanding of corporate credits against a commitment to remaining nimble as markets evolve in the short term. Deji also shares his background as a semi-professional soccer player, or footballer for our international audience, at clubs including Boreham Wood and Slough Town. Then, we discuss his most recent appointment as Chair of the Inclusion Advisory Board at The Football Association and how he plans to lead the charge for greater representation and more accessibility in the sport.

Learn more about Deji Davies tenure at JP Morgan here and his new position Chair of the Football Association Inclusion Advisory Board here. You can check out our guest’s Best Idea, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by Dr. John Sarno, here. Or read Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby, Colbert’s Best Idea for this week, here.

This week, host Colbert Cannon sits down with friend and colleague Michael Fenstermacher, a Managing Director and the Co-Head of North American Core Senior Lending at HPS Investment Partners. We talk about his early days at Bank One, where he got his start in credit lending. He walks us through Bank One’s eventual merger with J.P. Morgan and how he decided to make the move to the latter’s New York City office during that transition. We discuss the diversity of learning opportunities and exposure to investment banking that Michael steeped himself in during that time before coming to HPS in 2008. He shares what it was like to join the firm’s direct lending arm amid the global financial crisis. Then, he offers a look into the evolution of the direct lending landscape in relation to the broadly syndicated market and how current market  volatility is impacting the space.

Learn more about Michael Fenstermacher’s tenure at HPS Investment Partners here. You can check out our guest’s Best Idea, The Cook Political Report, here. Watch The League, Colbert’s Best Idea for this week, here.

On this week’s episode, host Colbert Cannon sits down with Patrick McGinnis, a venture capitalist, podcast host and international best-selling author who, in 2004, coined the popular term FOMO, or fear of missing out. We hear the origin story of the phrase, which Patrick first started using amongst friends at Harvard Business School after suffering from an extreme bout of it in the choice-rich environment. He tells us how that mentality led him to reevaluate how we make decisions more effectively. We also hear how Patrick weathered the 2008 financial crisis at AIG before joining its investing arm spinoff PineBridge Investments, and eventually starting his own investment and advisory firm, Dirigo Advisors, working with fast growing companies, corporations and international organizations. 

Learn more about what Patrick McGinnis is working on here. Listen to his podcast FOMO Sapiens here.

On this week’s episode, host Colbert Cannon sits down with Chris Halpin, the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of IAC, or InterActiveCorp, the holding company behind digital consumer brands like Angie’s List, Dotdash Meredith and Care.com. Chris launched his career at Goldman Sachs’ real estate investment principal investing arm before pivoting to private equity at Providence Equity Partners. There, he had the opportunity to establish the firm’s China business from Hong Kong – and a front row seat to the 2008 global financial crisis. Upon returning stateside, Chris tackled a new and humbling challenge with the NFL. He shares how he navigated the complexities of building consensus among 32 teams and steered the league into international markets before exiting to explore a new frontier in digital media tech.

Learn more about Chris Halpin’s role at IAC here. You can check out our guest’s Best Idea, the book Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World by Kevin Dutton, here. Or read The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by  J. Kenji López-Alt, Colbert’s Best Idea for this week, here.

This week marks the end of Season 6 of The HPScast. Host Colbert Cannon shares key moments from a season full of diverse perspectives and insights across industries – from restaurants to global logistics and credit lending to making television. 

We’ll be back soon with all new episodes, but in the interim, check out the over 50 conversations of The HPScast available now in your feed. You can also try some of the Best Ideas featured in each episode – they’re meant to be recommendations that are well worth your time. You can find links to those in the show notes of each episode.

This week, host Colbert Cannon sits down with Jackie Hernández, the CEO and co-founder of New Majority Ready. Jackie is a media executive with a storied career at iconic companies like TIME, People en Español and NBCUniversal’s Telemundo. She shares how she rose through the ranks to help shape Spanish-language television and expand the industry’s understanding of the rapidly growing Hispanic market. We also hear about Jackie’s latest venture, New Majority Ready, a marketing strategy consulting company that helps companies to attract and retain Hispanic audiences through more nuanced marketing strategies that meet these consumers where they’re at. 

Learn more about Jackie Hernández tenure at New Majority Ready here. You can read our guest’s Best Idea, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take by Paul Polman & Andrew Winston, here. Watch Money Heist, Colbert’s Best Idea for this week, here.

Join host Colbert Cannon as he sits down with Paul Taubman, CEO of PJT Partners, a global advisory-focused investment bank, Paul started in 2014 which has now grown into a $3 billion market cap public company. We discuss how Paul started the firm against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis, and how clients emerged from that period more open to leaving traditional bulge bracket banking than ever before. We also hear about Paul’s own departure from big banking when he stepped down from Morgan Stanley in 2012 after 30 years spanning several key leadership roles. He also shares insights into how the evolution of private credit over the last decade has impacted the traditional banking business.

Learn more about Paul Taubman’s career here. Read Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, Colbert’s Best Idea for this week, here.

This week, Colbert sits down with Adam Miller, Managing Director and Global Head of Talent and Professional Development at HPS Investment Partners. Adam shares how the scope and perception of human resources has evolved into high-value add talent management, and he shares insights into how employee’s addressable needs will continue to grow and change in the post-pandemic work environment. He also discusses his early career at First Reserve and private equity firm The Riverside Company before forming his own human capital consulting company, Hygge Capital Partners. Lastly, he shares how his path has led him to HPS – and how he plans to grow a corporate culture here that is “entrepreneurial, down to earth and intellectually gifted”.

Learn more about Adam Miller tenure at HPS Investment Partners here. Watch The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Colbert’s Best Idea for this week, here.

The HPScast is taking a brief midseason break, but we'll be back in two weeks with all new episodes. If you’ve missed any of our earlier episodes, we highly encourage you to take a listen to those. Or, take a page from our Best Ideas and check out any one of the many great books or TV shows shared so far. You can find links to all of our Best Ideas in our show notes for every episode.

Join host Colbert Cannon as he sits down with Bill Stephenson, the Chief Executive Officer of HPS’s Global Leasing platform. We do a deep dive into the vendor finance industry and gain insight into that $1 trillion market. Bill shares key lessons learned from his over three decades long tenure at DLL and how he helped grow that business into the world's largest global leasing company. He also discusses how he is bringing that expertise and experience to HPS. 

To learn more about Colbert's Best Idea, the HBO Max series Station Eleven, visit the show’s website here.

Welcome back to Season 5 of the HPScast. Today, host Colbert Cannon sits with two special guests: CEO of the Equity Alliance, Claude Grunitzky, and board member, Julia Paliare, who also serves as Managing Director at RSL Investments. We hear how they're leading the charge for a more diverse asset management industry through the Equity Alliance. We see how Claude’s education in London and at MIT contributed to his success as an entrepreneur, launching diverse companies like Trace, a leading music and fashion magazine. Julia shares her journey as an investment banker at Scotiabank, a private equity investor at Providence, and how she made her way to a single family office at RSL Investments. 

To learn more about Equity Alliance, a fund of funds focused on investing in diverse emerging venture capital fund managers with a focus on managers of color and women, and a partner of HPS, visit here. For more context on the founding on Equity Alliance, please check out our HPScast interview with legendary executive Dick Parsons here. And catch Dick's CNBC Closing Bell interview where he talks about the Equity Alliance here.

Check out Claude's Best Idea, the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, here -- and Julia's Best Idea, her dance running “Equity Alliance” playlist on Spotify here. You can find out more about Colbert's Best Idea, the french show The Bureau, here.

On this special recap episode, host Colbert Cannon rounds up the best bits from The HPScast's fourth season. We'll return in the new year with more great interviews, but in the meantime, be sure to revisit recent episodes and enjoy some of the Best Ideas from our guests.

On this week's episode of The HPScast, Colbert Cannon sits down with Managing Director at HPS, Anders Fisher. The Harvard undergrad and Stanford postgrad shares how he started his career at private equity firm Hicks Muse in their London office and later moved to private equity firm Golden Gate Capital in San Francisco.  Fisher also describes what it was like starting his own firm, Tålamod Asset Management in 2008, before joining HPS in 2018 where he and his team continue to grow their investing strategy.

Check out Anders's Best Idea, The Cicero Trilogy, written by Robert Harris here. Also be sure to check out Colbert's Best Idea, the Coen brothers Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men here. 
 

Bill Raftery, a living legend in the world of sports broadcasting, is Colbert Cannon’s guest on this week’s episode of HPS. Bill takes Colbert back to his early days of playing basketball in his neighborhood and how that led to his career playing and coaching ball at the collegiate level. Bill shares stories about the many people who impacted his life along the way and lessons learned from a life in the broadcast booth.

Listen to some of Bill’s broadcasting highlights here. 

Check out Bill’s Best Idea, the book, Miracles on the Hardwood by John Gasaway, here. Also be sure to check out Colbert’s Best Idea - John Banville's murder mystery novel, Snow, available for purchase here. 

On this week’s episode of HPS, host Colbert Cannon is joined by Carsten Quitter, Allianz Group CIO. Carsten, who graduated from Dortmund with a degree in computer science, shares with Colbert why he made a switch to risk capital management and all that came to follow after his successful career change.  He also discusses what its like to manage risk and make investments in different geographies and what we can learn from different regions business cultures.

To learn more about Allianz's impact in more than 70 countries, click here. 

Colbert’s Best Idea is to check out the German science fiction series, Dark. Click here to watch the show, available to stream on Netflix. 

On this week's episode of the HPScast, host Colbert Cannon sits down with Hg Capital former partner, Richard Donner.  After a series of roles in finance in London, Donner eventually landed at Hg Capital and spent nearly 20 years with the company, notably driving the success of their capital markets business.  He recently retired, and is focusing his time on the Hg Foundation, a non profit focused on developing skills for employment in the tech industry. 

Find out more about Richard and Hg Capital here.

Click here to check out Richard's Best Idea of the week, Robert A. Caro’s biography of Lyndon B Johnson, The Passage of Power. 

On this episode of The HPScast, Colbert Cannon sits with the CEO of one of the great auction houses in the world, Laura Doyle of Doyle Auctions. Laura joined after graduating undergrad from Pennsylvania University. Colbert discusses all of her noteworthy successes, including expanding the auction presence to a digital platform and how that effort has been incredibly important in the auction world during the pandemic.

Click here to view the Doyle digital presence. 

Laura's Best Idea was a piece of advice we might tend to take for granted -- remember to self preserve during this time. For Laura, she says that can be as simple as masking up or taking a walk at lunchtime. Colbert's Best Idea can be found here. It's Lin Manuel Miranda's hit musical made movie, In the Heights.