TEOCO (The Employee Owned Company): Principled Entrepreneurship and Shared Leadership

Thomas J. Calo, Olivier P. Roche and Frank Shipper

Chapter Chapter 10 in Shared Entrepreneurship, 2014, pp 179-208 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Fairfax, VA, October 6, 2009. Atul Jain, founder of TEOCO, a provider of specialized software for the telecommunications industry, had been meeting all day to finalize a partnership agreement with TA Associates, a private equity firm. For Atul, the pace of activities had been relentless on this special day.1 By all accounts, the last 12 hours had been hectic but the closing of the transaction was a success. The event had started with back-to-back meetings between TEOCO’s senior management and their new partner’s representatives and had culminated with the usual press conference to mark the occasion. The senior management teams of both organizations announced to the business community that TA Associates (TA hereafter) had made a minority equity investment of $60 million in TEOCO. It was indeed a memorable day, the culmination of intense and uneven negotiations between two organizations that did not have much in common except for deep industry knowledge and a shared interest in seeing TEOCO succeed.

Keywords: Venture Capital; Cost Management; Telecom Company; Shared Leadership; Chief Financial Officer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137405807_11

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