Beatrice H. Mitchell
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Beatrice is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sperry, Mitchell & Company. She is an owner and Board member of Percival Scientific, a leading Iowa-based designer and manufacturer of controlled-environment chambers serving the plant science and entomology end-markets. Beatrice is on the Board of Managers at Haverford College, on the Board of Goodwill Industries of Greater NY and Northern NJ, Inc., and on the Board of Governors of Off-the-Record (previously served as Vice Chair), a foreign policy forum.
Beatrice has been a regular lecturer at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, the Stern School of Business at New York University and the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. She has been widely quoted in the financial and business press, including PE Hub, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, Crain’s, USA Today, CNN and National Public Radio. Beatrice has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences and forums, including Bloomberg Breakaway Summit, ACG New York’s Annual Women’s Leadership Summit, Kayo Women’s Private Equity Summit, and most recently at the Private Equity International NEXUS 2025 Forum held in Florida. She has consistently been recognized as one of The Most Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A by Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine.
Beatrice is the co-author of The Complete Guide to Selling Your Business, which is in its third edition and is also published in Chinese.
Beatrice received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Columbia University Business School.
Contact Beatrice at bmitchell@sperrymitchell.com.
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