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An opportunity to make an impact on our people and businesses
Evergreen Executive Program (eXp)
The Evergreen Executive Program (eXp) is designed for high-performing, upcoming and recent MBA graduates who want to build, lead, and create lasting impact.
Participants step directly into high-impact leadership roles within Evergreen’s portfolio companies, gaining hands-on operating experience while driving meaningful growth initiatives. Through executive mentorship and a community of principled leaders, eXp develops leaders who deliver results with integrity and long-term perspective.
This is not a passive rotational program — it’s a launchpad for those ready to take ownership, lead teams, and build enduring businesses.
Accelerate your leadership career — and create lasting value — with Evergreen.
Evergreen is a great place for leaders because of the other leaders. Looking towards them for assistance, inspiration, and advice is the differentiator. There is such a community of support when you’re entering a somewhat daunting experience, but having a community of leaders within my grove who are so supportive and intentional with their leadership is inspiring but also carve the pathway for new leaders like myself.
[I chose Evergreen for] the chance to step into a high impact executive role from day one and run a business end to end. Coming from banking, I wanted the opportunity to move beyond advising and actually operate, making decisions that directly impact a team, drive growth, and create real outcomes. Evergreen’s eXp program offers the autonomy of entrepreneurship with the support of an experienced community, and that combination is what drew me in.
Evergreen’s ExP was the first model I saw that truly combines autonomy with a strong support system: an operator peer network, coaching and best practices, and a board structure that helps you move faster and make better decisions. The long-term orientation—supported by Evergreen and Alpine—also mattered to me. It felt like the closest thing to owner-level leadership with the benefit of being part of something bigger.
I joined Evergreen’s portfolio for the exciting challenge of running a business end to end. In my role, I touch every aspect of the business and make decisions that impact my team, our growth, and clients. Evergreen roles are dynamic – you’re constantly learning with the support of a community of experienced operators to lean on for tactical guidance and thought partnership. The impact you get to have is truly unmatched – it’s incredibly rewarding to see our teams thrive and make a real difference for our clients and communities.
Frequently Asked Questions
What industries does Evergreen invest in?
We invest broadly in B2B Services companies in technology services:
- Managed IT Services
- Application Software Partners
- Government IT Services
What is the expected duration of the CEO seat?
- As a long-term hold company, our CEOs plan to be with Evergreen for the long term. We invest in our companies with the intent to hold on to them forever, and similarly, we invest in our leaders with the goal that they will grow their careers and flourish with Evergreen for the long term. We reject the paradigm of thinking of your career as “climbing the ladder” but rather, recognize that being CEO is the end-game. We hope to be a place where you can do that for the rest of your career. We believe that remaining in the same CEO role of the same business to exponentially grow it, is an awesome career path.
- However, Evergreen has 10x’d EBITDA over 5 years and we plan to continue to grow at that pace, there will be no shortage of opportunities for great leaders to increase their sphere and scope of influence through a variety of career paths.
What experience do I need to be a CEO?
For us, we remain less prescriptive around specific experience and rather focus on attributes that we believe make a successful generalist leader. We do this by making our program different in two key ways:
- Empowerment: We offer a CEO- Program rather than a CxO- Program, where we place top talent in High Impact Executive/CEO/P&L Ownership roles on day 1.
- Permanence: We invest in companies and people for the long-term, your next role isn’t dependent on an exit event.
What is the Matching Process?
- With our Executive Program, we place folks on the Executive bench, where they will then go through a matching process to find the company that is right for them.
- We set expectations for the matching process to take between 3-9 months but our goal is to match you as soon as possible. We understand that your main goal is to operate a business and develop into the best leader possible so we do our best to get you there quickly. While there are meaningful ways to learn and create an impact on the bench, we remain adamant to get you on a path to work towards your goals.
What does onboarding and training look like?
- We believe that the CEO job is one that is best learned in the seat rather than the classroom. We strive to get you direct experience working with our seasoned executives.
- You will have access to the Evergreen Growth Playbook, that includes a host of materials on driving business growth and building teams.
What does growth and development look like for our CEOs?
- As an incoming GM or CEO, you will have the opportunity to lead and build a business. Your primary responsibility will be growing organic EBITDA and recurring revenue, improving employee NPS and building a high performing leadership team. Upon establishing a successful track-record as a GM or a CEO, a variety of career paths have the potential to be explored, therefore, we are able to customize your career path to your goals. Some of which include: continuing to lead and grow your business, leading multiple groups of businesses while hiring other GMs and Executives, or starting to drive M&A strategy and deal execution.
- Through your CEO, CPO Advocate and mentors along the way, we are extremely committed to helping you develop and pursue a fulfilling career path for the long haul!
What does support look like in this role?
- We take big bets on our leaders, placing them in high-responsibility roles early in their careers, setting them up for success with autonomy paired with a supportive infrastructure:
- CEO Mentorship
- Database of Resources
- One- on- One Executive Coaching
- Community and Development
- Evergreen brings together inspired, team-oriented and high integrity individuals for mutual support, thought partnership and camaraderie. Leaders accelerate their development by learning through Evergreen Peers.
- Our Executives have access to this community of GMs with annual summits and small peer groups.
Interested in joining our team?
To support a diverse and inclusive community, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all the above qualifications. Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented groups apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Evergreen encourages you to break that statistic and apply. No one ever meets 100% of the requirements.
We look forward to your application!
Contact Info
Ben Boatwright
bboatwright@evergreensg.com
What is eXp?
- We believe that great people are the lifeline of our businesses. Our Executive Program (eXp) enables you to become a high impact executive day 1, empowering you to be one of the most crucial inputs to our long-term growth and operating success! On top of this, you play a role in positively impacting the lives of our people.
- Our leaders function in a decentralized operating system, allowing them to run their businesses autonomously with accountability around outputs. We put resources under our executives rather than at HQ. Evergreen is a supportive, anti-bureaucratic growth partner rather than leader of the business.
What is EIR?
- Our Executive in Residence (EIR) Program enables you to become a CEO by next year, empowering you to be one of the most crucial inputs to our long-term growth and operating success! As a leader for Evergreen, you will not only get the opportunity to impact the success of our businesses, but positively impact the lives of the employees in them!
- Our leaders are given the opportunity to call the shots and run their business in a decentralized system based on accountability around outputs.
Support
We take big bets on our leaders, placing them in high-responsibility roles early in their careers, setting them up for success with autonomy paired alongside support through:
- CEO Mentorship
- One- on- One Executive Coaching
- Chief People Officer Partnership
- Community and Development
- Evergreen brings together inspired, team-oriented and high integrity individuals for mutual support, thought partnership and camaraderie. Leaders accelerate their development by learning through Evergreen Peers.
- Our Executives have access to this community of GMs with annual summits and small peer groups.
Inclusivity
- We find strength in diversity at Evergreen and are a company proud to acknowledge that true innovation is unleashed through diverse perspectives and viewpoints.
- To support a diverse and inclusive community, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all the above qualifications. Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented groups apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Evergreen encourages you to break that statistic and apply. No one ever meets 100% of the requirements. We look forward to your application!