November 2022

Doug Kaplan joins ChampionScott Partners

We’re delighted to let you know Doug Kaplan has joined ChampionScott Partners (CSP) as President & Managing Director. Doug is a dynamic leader and change agent with experience leading organizations delivering SaaS and business services in a number of fast growth industry segments.

Doug is culturally adept, possesses a superb record for building SaaS technologies and growing businesses including new product launches, creating partnerships and leading strategic M&A. He’s an exceptional team builder who’s led transformative growth leadership teams in Europe, Asia, LatAm and the US. Doug’s network, ability to cultivate relationships and successfully drive business transformations will be critical for supporting our client’s evolution to Industry 4.0. His previous leadership roles include PE sponsor and public company experience at CEO Warrior (PE), Aquent (VC), Ascend Learning (PE), LexisNexis (NYSE) and RealNetworks (NASD – now Private). He’s also Launched two startups, raised funding internally and externally from Private Equity, strategic sources and public companies. Doug has scaled fast growth enterprises from $10M to $500M while building product, marketing, sales teams.

“We’re thrilled Doug is joining CSP. Having had the pleasure of supporting his success as a candidate and client, we’re confident that he’ll add great value to our team. Doug joins a team of professionals who’ve led businesses as CEOs, served on Boards and as senior executives led transformative growth initiatives globally. Our valued added IP and advisory expertise in support of our clients has never been stronger.” adds CEO, Geoff Champion.

2022 marks the 20th anniversary of ChampionScott Partners. Over this span we’ve completed 600+ appointments, 430 of which were Private Equity Sponsored including 90+ CEO’s and Board Directors as well as 41 enterprise leadership team build-outs. Our team is bullish about our future founded on our steadfast focus of recruiting “Great Leaders who deliver Exceptional Outcomes” for our clients. ChampionScott Partners measures our achievement on the value our client partners deliver for their businesses.

Please contact us to learn more about how we can support your success now and for the future!