About

At Erudite, my specialty is to conduct strategic assessments of
a target technology company's Product Development Organization by evaluating
the product strategy, the technical architecture,
the engineering talent, and the development processes

-- a focused assessment of the "Product Side" of a business --

With "broad & deep" experience as a practitioner inthe B2B and Enterprise Class software solutions space, Erudite brings the technical savvy and business acumen togetherto thoroughly conduct the strategic assessment and technical due diligenceof a company's Product Development Organization,asking the right questions and uncovering both hidden risks and opportunities.

Gregg Schoonover

Founding Partner

I've been fortunate in my career to have been a part of some world class software development organizations. Once upon a time people would debate whether software development was
a science or an art ...
I 've always considered it a bit of both.

When applying both science and art, you need world class engineers to deliver on the Science, but you also need those creative visionaries that bring the Art into defining the mission. At the intersection of these domains is Design, which is both where the magic happens, yielding success and failure largely based on the culture of the organization.

As a CTO in enterprise software, I've participated in numerous Acqusition assessments, as both a buyer and seller, but always on the technical side. And I've got the scars and stars to prove it. I've helped evaluate large strategic acquisitions and also smaller rollups, usually with the added responsibility for post-transaction integration and execution against the strategy laid out in the original investment thesis.

On the sell-side, I've owned the product & tech diligence workstreams for start-ups shopping to strategic buyers, jumping through the hoops and checking off data room request lists, always with the intent to provide a fair and accurate representation of the current state and future potential of the target's solution. And I've stayed around post-transaction to assist in the integration and ensure the potential of the original investment thesis isn't lost in the post-acquisition fizzle.

All of this has given me a unique experience base, providing deep visibility into a broad sample set of software development organizations - large vs small, start-up vs public, vertical vs horizontal, legacy vs next-gen. The opportunity to ask and learn: What do they do well? What do they not do well? Why do they struggle? Why do they succeed? What can they do to improve?

For some reason, I think of all of this as fun!

The question is: How can I help you?