This episode’s guest is Wayne Marhelski, a former US Air Force veteran and operations executive with over three decades of experience transforming manufacturing businesses across defense, aerospace, and nuclear industries. Wayne shares why private equity’s value creation gap lives on the shop floor and not in the spreadsheet, why the AI pilot is the new 5S, and what it means to truly underwrite operational capability before a deal closes.
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