About Us

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Backbone Technology Partners is a boutique HR consultancy built for the high-stakes world of private equity and venture capital. We drive measurable operating results where value creation depends on talent, leadership, and organizational agility. Our clients—spanning buyouts, start-ups, roll-ups, carve-outs, and integrations—turn to us when success or failure hinges on getting the people equation right.

In today’s unforgiving investment environment, time and talent are the ultimate constraints. Portfolio companies rarely have the runway to build world-class HR capabilities, and most financial sponsors don’t carry the internal capacity to meet every human capital need across their holdings. That’s where Backbone comes in.

Our partners bring proven experience from three critical arenas of impact: as corporate HR executives, private equity operating partners, and hands-on consultants to portfolio company leadership teams. We’ve been in the trenches—aligning human capital strategy with growth, transformation, and exit objectives.

We also bring AI-powered insight and execution to the table. From analytics that link talent decisions to enterprise value, to AI-enabled recruiting, workforce planning, and organizational design, we help our clients move faster and smarter.

Backbone was founded on one clear purpose: to ensure your investment delivers. We connect every HR policy and process directly to your Business Plan and Operating Plan, ensuring your largest OPEX—salaries and bonuses—drives measurable ROI. When speed, precision, and seasoned execution are essential, Backbone delivers.

Charley Krause

Charley@backbonetechnologypartners.com

Charley’s focus is an outstanding global network and expertise in executive search, training, change management, talent management, performance management, talent-assessment during due diligence, and contract negotiation. He drives projects and programs to successful resolutions while identifying and resolving obstacles on the fly. More specifically, Charley brings integrity to the process of building teams and managing talent around business plans, programs, projects and deals. His global industry experience spans private equity investments in technology, finance, manufacturing, consumer products, healthcare, media, professional services, as well as many others. He is also an HR professional and executive coach committed to accountability and driving process to meet the needs of business. Charley is a results-oriented and focused leader who achieves savings and adds revenue to measurably augment company profitability.  He has a B.A. from Northern Arizona University and a J.D. from New York Law School.

Scott Rodin

Scott@backbonetechnologypartners.com

Scott’s focus is aligning a company’s strategic goals with executive and employee rewards. 30+ years as a professional manager and consultant for the world’s leading private equity, financial and technology companies. As a former CPA Scott has deep technical expertise. As a Manager, leading large multinational teams, he has provided ideas, energy and ”roll up your sleeves” capability. Competencies include: due diligence, post-merger integration, board and management advisory. Experienced with: acquisitions, mergers, turn-arounds, carve-outs, workouts, IPO’s and interim HR Management. Recent highlights: Scott was SVP of Total Rewards for a Fortune 250 FinTech company, where he led the company’s HR programs related to their 2015 IPO.  He held similar roles at large global banks in the US, Japan and Europe.  In between, Scott spent four years as an HR Operating Executive with one of the world’s largest private investment firms, where he worked with portfolio companies around transformation and turnaround efforts involving executive and employee compensation, performance management, health, welfare, retirement, technology and business operations. Earlier in his career, Scott spent time in advisory firms including Towers Perrin and Ernst & Young, after several years in investment banking with Morgan Stanley.