Jeffry Krajacic

Jeff Krajacic is a Managing Director in the Private Equity practice at SSA & Company, a U.S. management consulting firm founded in 1994 as the successor to the original Six Sigma Academy. The firm specializes in operational excellence, performance improvement, digital transformation, and analytics, and runs a dedicated Private Equity practice that helps sponsors and their portfolio companies drive value creation. According to SSA, the practice already serves dozens of leading venture, growth, mid-market, and large-cap investors (the firm has stated it works with 20 of the top 30 global PE firms).

Krajacic brings more than 35 years of experience across private industry, consulting, and private equity, focused on implementing transformational change within Global 2000 businesses. His functional expertise centers on business turnarounds, acquisitions and post-merger integration, asset optimization, operational excellence, and revenue and profit enhancement. He joined SSA in 2015 from Celerant Consulting, where he was Managing Partner of the North American Private Equity Practice. His earlier career includes roles associated with Foxcode Operations Advisors, Radius Equity Partners, and Bourton Group.

Krajacic earned a B.S. in Business Administration and Management from the University of Pittsburgh. He is based in Hartland, Wisconsin, in the greater Milwaukee area. Outside of work, SSA's profile notes he is a guest speaker, advocate, coach, and guide for the Mayo Clinic and rare-cancer treatments, and that he enjoys running, motorcycling, and time with his grandchildren.

• Krajacic's work is operational, not capital allocation: he advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on creating and accelerating value rather than writing investment checks.
• Core areas he is engaged on, per SSA: business turnarounds, acquisitions and post-merger integration, asset optimization, operational excellence, and revenue/profit enhancement.
• SSA's PE practice positions its value levers as revenue growth, margin enhancement, capital return, and "the next frontier" of operational excellence through advanced analytics — including LEAN transformation, digital acceleration, shared-services implementation, and supply-chain/vendor optimization.
• No personally stated investment thesis, target stage, sector mandate, or check size could be verified — consistent with an advisory (not investing) role.