O’Brien joins Value Add as editor

Isabel O'Brien

Isabel O’Brien

Isabel O’Brien has joined Value Add, a publication for the operating side of private equity, as its first editor.

O’Brien will oversee all editorial operations, including writing and editing weekly buyout briefings, trend pieces exploring portfolio operations, and profiles of PE-backed executives.

Based in New York, she recently served as a reporter at PEI Group, covering the Americas beat for Infrastructure Investor, a leading trade publication for the private infrastructure market.

Her work has won numerous awards, notably the Aviva Investors Sustainability Media “Real Assets Publication of the Year” for 2022 and 2023, as well as “Best Script by a Female Screenwriter” for the 2022 New York Script Awards.

She is a 2021 graduate from the Dual BA Program between Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris. She studied economics, politics and creative writing (fiction).

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.