Tom Barrett is a private equity value creator with 30+ years of experience accelerating growth, driving operational transformation, and delivering outsized investment returns across SaaS, technology, business services, and multi-site organizations.
The operator behind the coach
Private Equity Operating Partner, Chairman, 2X CEO, VC and Family Office Executive
Tom Barrett is a private equity value creator with 30+ years of experience accelerating growth, driving operational transformation, and delivering outsized investment returns across SaaS, technology, business services, and multi-site organizations. His career spans more than 10 acquisitions and multiple successful exits with returns ranging from 5x to 21x EBITDA, underscoring a consistent ability to unlock meaningful enterprise value expansion.
Tom is known for having a disciplined, system-driven approach that creates predictable growth, strengthens EBITDA, and enhances exit multiples for investors.
Tom is an active investor in Private Equity, VC, and direct early-stage companies. He has been a YPO member for 15 years and has served as Chapter Chairman and as a board member for 5 years.
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Working with Tom
Tom Barrett, Consumer Products and Manufacturing CEO, is especially valuable to CEOs focused on M&A integration, PE-backed scale, and SaaS scaling.
Private Equity Operating Partner, Chairman, 2X CEO, VC and Family Office Executive
Direct, operator-driven, and rooted in real P&L experience. Tom Barrett coaches CEOs the way a former operator coaches, focused on the decisions that actually move the business, the metrics that expose the truth, and the leadership behaviors that compound over time.
Tom Barrett is based in the United States and works with CEOs across North America and internationally through 1:1 coaching, board observation, and on-site strategic offsites as part of the CEO Coaching International team.
Companies coached by CEO Coaching International for two or more years have averaged 22.8%/yr revenue growth and 37.5%/yr EBITDA growth, roughly 2-3x U.S. benchmarks. Tom Barrett coaches to the same operating standard: measurable growth, real leverage on the CEO's calendar, and a leadership team that can execute without you.
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