Tye Howell Named Catalant's Managing Partner of Private Equity

Howell will scale Catalant's private equity business as demand grows for accelerated value creation, hands-on operating expertise and AI adoption across portfolios

BOSTON, Aug. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Catalant, creator of Consulting 2.0 — delivering flexible, fit-to-purpose solutions to leading private equity firms and enterprises — today announced the appointment of Tye Howell as Managing Partner of Private Equity. Catalant partners with three-quarters of the top 100 private equity firms by assets under management, helping firms accelerate value creation plans and execute transformation across their portfolios. In this newly created role, Howell will play a pivotal part in the next phase of growth for Catalant's private equity business, partnering directly with operating partners, deal teams, and portfolio company leadership to deploy purpose-fit expertise where it's needed most.

"Operating partners are asking us to provide increasingly sophisticated solutions focused on outcomes as they look for alternatives to the legacy consulting model, and Tye is exactly the kind of leader to help us continue to evolve to meet this demand," said Pat Petitti, Co-Founder and CEO of Catalant. "As a former operating partner and portfolio company board member, Tye has been in our clients' seat, from diligence to value creation, so he knows firsthand what operating partners need: deep expertise, deployed fast, focused on driving real change."

Howell joins Catalant at a pivotal moment for private equity. Longer hold periods, mounting pressure to return capital to LPs, and a higher cost of capital are pushing firms to execute value creation plans faster and drive more organic growth within portfolio companies, making the role of the operating partner even more critical. At the same time, rapid advances in AI are creating new opportunities — and new pressure — to find measurable sources of value. That shift is driving significant demand for Catalant's model.

Howell brings experience from across nearly every stage of the private equity value creation lifecycle. He joins Catalant after several years as a private equity operating partner at both Rubicon Technology Partners and Blue Point Capital Partners, a board member and observer for multiple companies, management consultant, and, most recently, CEO. He has served as de facto Chief Information Officer for 40 portfolio companies, contributed to diligence on dozens of deals, and supported seven portfolio companies to successful exits.

With Howell in this role, Catalant's private equity practice will accelerate in pace and deepen impact across the firm's core private equity services. AI runs through nearly all of that work now, not as a standalone offering but as a layer built into how each capability gets delivered, including:

• Sales & Marketing: Pricing, sales operations, and go-to-market execution, increasingly powered by AI-driven customer and pricing insights, that convert directly into top- and bottom-line growth.
• Operations: Procurement, supply chain, and process improvement, often accelerated with AI-enabled forecasting and automation, that drives structural efficiency across the portfolio.
• Strategy & Finance: FP&A, office-of-the-CFO support, and reporting and analytics, increasingly built on AI tools that speed up modeling and reporting, and sharpen decision-making.
• Digital & AI: Tech implementation and AI adoption and enablement that turn AI strategy into measurable business outcomes across the portfolio.
• Transformation, Org & People: Transformation and program management offices, HR, and chief-of-staff support that keep value creation plans, including AI-driven initiatives, on track.
  

"I spent years as an operating partner wishing I had access to a model like Catalant's," said Howell. "Firms and portfolio companies don't just need expertise, they need it deployed fast against the specific value creation plan they're executing, but flexible enough to scale up or down as that work evolves, whether that's one expert or a full team. That kind of hands-on expertise is what actually drives outcomes and gets capital back to LPs faster. It's exactly the caliber of work I want to help more operating partners and portfolio company leaders access."

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