Kylie Wright-Ford has an interesting specialty: leading companies backed by private equity (PE) investors. She currently serves as CEO of the RepTrak Company, a reputation intelligence company whose majority shareholder is growth-equity firm Catalyst Investors. Previously she served as chief operating and strategy officer of peer-to-peer community World 50, which also had private equity backers. In all, Wright-Ford has been an executive at three PE-backed companies and served on the boards of three others. She spoke with Fast Company editor-in-chief Stephanie Mehta about the special skills needed to collaborate with private equity investors, and why, in her mind, running a PE-backed firm is “the best job in the world.” READ MORE