HeyJaredShawn Cole
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 22, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for forbes.com
- Top 5K sites
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- Jul 28, 2026
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Why The Boardroom Has A Succession Problem Of Its Own (opens the original)
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Shawn Cole is the president and cofounder of Cowen Partners, with 20+ years of experience building and growing successful businesses. Every board treats succession as something it oversees, not something it is part of. The CEO succession plan gets its annual line on the agenda, a binder update or a discussion that closes with some version of “We’re in good shape.” That answer assumes the problem sits somewhere downstream of the room. It assumes the pipeline is out there, developing on schedule,
The Case For Bringing Tax Leadership In-House At PE-Backed Companies (opens the original)
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Shawn Cole is the president and cofounder of Cowen Partners, with 20+ years of experience building and growing successful businesses. I've had a version of the same conversation more times than I can count. The sale process is underway. The buy-side diligence team pulls the tax workstream, and what they find is a combination of deferred liabilities, incomplete transfer pricing documentation and planning opportunities that should have been captured two or three years earlier but weren't. The sel
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