Sean Lang & Jeff Watters - Appointing a Non-Family CEO & Selling a 5th Generation Business

Episode  |  19 September 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 9 mins

5th generation, exit, family business, family council, g5, outside leadership, selling, succession, transition, usa, ypo

The Lang family recruited Jeff Watters as the first outside CEO to lead Ainsworth Pet Nutrition in it's 5 generations. Sean Lang and Jeff Watters worked together, partnering with a private equity firm to scale the $100m per year business into a $2 billion dollar exit over the space of a decade.