leadership

Operators First

We've sat in the rooms where the hard calls get made. That's why we work differently.

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Lee McCabe

Partner, Strategy & PE Advisory

Lee McCabe is a private equity operating partner and growth leader with 25 years across big tech, marketplaces, and PE-backed portfolios.

He is a Partner at Claymore Partners, a value-creation firm built for PE-backed and founder-owned mid-market businesses that need a real commercial engine — revenue truth, attribution clarity, conversion performance, and execution ownership without the agency theatre.

Prior to Claymore, he served as Operating Partner at AEA Investors across a 45-company portfolio, and held GM-level roles at Alibaba, Facebook, and Expedia across North America and Asia Pacific. He started his career at eBay, where he played a foundational role in international growth.

“Strategy is just a hypothesis. It only becomes real when someone owns the outcome.”

Kingsley Taylor

Partner, Growth Operations

Kingsley Taylor is a growth operator and commercial leader with 20 years across blue-chip agencies, enterprise clients, and PE-backed businesses.

Prior to Claymore, he owned the regional P&L at Digitas, Organic, and Starcom, and ran the global Qualcomm business at Ogilvy — a $200M marketing operation across 11 markets. His client work spans some of the most commercially demanding brands in the world: PlayStation, T-Mobile, Sephora, Hulu, Samsung, and Wells Fargo.

He started his career in London before moving into US enterprise leadership. He is based in Los Angeles.

“Revenue clarity isn't a reporting problem. It's a leadership problem. Fix the lens, not the dashboard.”