Peter Pacelli
is a Principal at Knox Capital, where he focuses on deal sourcing and execution
in the business services industry. Prior to Knox , Peter worked at Victory
Views, a technology-enabled managed services company...
Peter
Pacelli is a Principal at Knox Capital, where he focuses on deal sourcing and
execution in the business services industry. Prior to Knox , Peter worked at
Victory Views, a technology-enabled managed services company serving customers
in the education space.
Peter Pacelli is a Principal at Knox
Capital, where he focuses on deal sourcing and execution in the business
services industry. Prior to Knox , Peter worked at Victory Views, a
technology-enabled managed services company serving customers in the education
space.
Raised in the Chicago area, Peter
graduated from New Trier High School before attending Yale University. After
Yale, Peter worked at Bank of America in New York before moving back to Chicago
work at Wind Point Partners, a middle-market private equity firm.
Peter holds an MBA from The
University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a retired veteran of the
U.S. Navy.
Peter credits his experience running
Victory Views for considerably shaping his leadership philosophy:
·
Time Is Our Most
Valuable Asset
Focus on what’s
going to move needle 10x.
Think through the
most efficient use of capital by using ROI-based decision making for every
aspect of a business. This is especially important in resource-constrained
environments.
·
People Matter
Develop frameworks
for hiring the right people. What kind of role needs to be filled and how do we
find that person? Hard to do as a small company on your own; more established
business have the scale to provide those insights across a portfolio of
divisions or companies.
·
Have a Clear View
on What Success Looks Like
What are the
metrics that define success? Are they connected to business outcomes,
communicated to stakeholders, and tracked regularly? Is everyone working toward
a common goal.
At Victory Views, Peter built a team
that meets the demands of the business. Releases are performed by a continuous
integration system – the process whereby testing and releasing is performed
automatically at any time someone makes a change by a system that is always
running and watching for those changes. This results in very short turnaround
times. The time from when business needs are expressed to when the software is
enabling those needs is short, in general.
The team can support a constant
stream of requirements and evolutions of the product.
The Victory Views development team
averages two production releases per day with 99.98% uptime. When there are
requirements, the team works on it and releases it as opposed to arbitrarily
delaying changes. This wouldn’t work if there were not a process of development
and release that enforces quality at every step supported with automated
testing. No release makes it to production without an automated test case. Any
time a change is made to some behavior, it’s accompanied with some additional
code that sets up some circumstances, runs some new function that the team
wrote and makes sure it exhibits what is expected. Rigid test release system
that is highly automated so that no one can cut corners if they wanted to.
