Caprae Capital Names Former Google Chief of Staff Eric Nehrlich Interim Chief of Staff

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Caprae Capital Names Former Google Chief of Staff Eric Nehrlich Interim Chief of Staff | Newswire You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience. Caprae Capital today announced that Eric Nehrlich, executive coach and former Chief of Staff for Google's Search Ads organization, has joined the firm as Interim Chief of Staff.

How it works

• Nehrlich has worked with Caprae Founder Kevin Hong and members of the company's leadership team for several months.
• Nehrlich spent more than a decade at Google, including six years as Chief of Staff leading business strategy and operations for the Search Ads product organization as it grew past $100 billion in revenue.
• A Relationship That Started Before Caprae Nehrlich first worked with Hong while Hong was leading a search-fund-backed company.
• I have worked with people who genuinely disrupted industries, and I saw that same instinct in him.
• He will work closely with Hong on leadership development, organizational structure, hiring and training plans, and helping Caprae and its portfolio companies identify the right personnel for critical...

What to take from it

The expanded role formalizes that relationship and gives him a broader mandate across leadership development, organizational design, hiring, and portfolio-company execution. He operated without direct reports, relying on influence, analytical rigor, and cross-functional leadership. They stayed in touch after Hong left, and Nehrlich became an early believer in Caprae when Hong first pitched him the concept.

Example or evidence

• Eric Nehrlich, Interim Chief of Staff at Caprae Capital, said: "When Kevin said, 'I don't build companies, I build cults,' I knew he thought about organizations differently.
• Founder-led, operator-driven, and globally expanding, Caprae is building an operating system for lower-middle-market M&A.
• built for private equity firms, family offices, independent sponsors, and acquisitive companies pursuing platform build-out and roll-up strategies.
• I'm just not wired that way." Building the Leadership Bench As Interim Chief of Staff, Nehrlich will take a central role in developing Caprae's leadership team and helping the firm build the people and...

Details worth keeping

Kevin Hong, Founder of Caprae Capital, said: "Eric was the first person in my life who basically told me, 'You seem to be doing just fine. "Parents, teachers, professors, friends, investors, board members. Almost everybody at some point told me to tone it down.

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