Rudy Saad

Global Head of Private Equity & Private Capital Markets

Intapp

Rudy Saad is the Global Head of Private Equity & Private Capital Markets at Intapp. He joined Intapp from Investcorp, a $50 billion global private markets investor, where he was a Partner & Managing Director.

With over two decades of private equity experience, Rudy has more than 10 years of investing experience – from deal origination and execution, to post-acquisition value creation and exit. He also has more than 10 years of fundraising experience – from capital formation and relationship management, to secondaries and co-investments.

Recognizing the immense potential for innovation in private markets, he led the development of a fintech platform at Investcorp, served on the FinTech Bay Advisory Board, focused his graduate studies on the sector, and was awarded the Leader in FinTech endorsement for Global Talent by the UK Government.

Rudy currently serves as a Guest Lecturer on Private Equity at McGill’s Faculty of Management and is a Judge Panelist for the Oxford Private Equity Competition. He holds a BA from McGill University and an MBA from Oxford University.

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FundFire – Vista CEO: For Buyout Managers, AI Is ‘Like Electricity’

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Justin Mitchell, a senior correspondent from FundFire, recently attended Intapp’s webinar, Beyond traditional sourcing: Discovering opportunities with AI-driven origination in private capital, and included Rudy Saad’s comments in a subsequent article. In the article Rudy asserts that true market players will need to adopt AI in order to operate well in a changing market.  

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PE Hub – AI’s growing footprint in private equity

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  • Private capital
PE Hub reporter Irien Joseph recently spoke with Intapp’s Global Head of Private Equity and Private Capital Markets Rudy Saad about the growth in usage of AI in private equity. In the article he asserts that as AI becomes more deeply embedded in firm operations it’s helping to generate return on invested capital by translating operation alpha to market alpha.

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  • Intapp DealCloud
Intapp and SUBSCRIBE have entered into a partnership to digitize and centralize private fund investor onboarding and subscriptions.

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  • Intapp DealCloud
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Bloomberg – How AI’s three-minute models are changing dealmaking

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  • Financial services
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Bloomberg reporter Maggie Eastland wrote an article titled, “How AI’s Three-Minute Models Are Changing Dealmaking,” which quotes both Rudy Saad and Brian Bissonette on how AI-powered tools are helping dealmakers in the day-to-day business of buying and selling companies.

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The strategic challenges in investor reporting for private equity

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Join Intapp and UNTAP for our virtual webinar, “The strategic challenges in investor reporting for private equity.” We’ll explore new ways your private equity firm can increase transparency with investors through Intapp DealCloud — including AI-powered analytics, valuation, and portfolio management tools. A Q&A will follow.

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