BIG MONEY IN ABA SERIES: Review of the Data
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This recorded follow-up to Big Money in ABA reviews the research behind the series. Karen Chung, introduced as Special Learning’s founder and CEO and a former investment banker, walks through historical ownership, workforce and geographic data, platform acquisitions and investor exit strategies.
Presenter credits: Karen Chung.
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Chung explains how an initial platform purchase supports later add-on acquisitions. She compares the recording’s private equity timeline with insurance mandates, then examines clinician availability and the distribution of agencies, BCBAs and RBTs across states.
The session distinguishes investment funds, platform agencies and eventual buyers, and discusses how exit horizons and profit goals shape business decisions. Chung also acknowledges that ethics hotline reports reflect people seeking help with dilemmas and asks for positive acquisition experiences to broaden the picture.
What does this recording cover?
- Platform companies and add-on acquisitions
- Investment activity and insurance mandate timelines
- Clinician availability and state workforce concentrations
- Private equity funds, ownership and exits
- Profit incentives and limits of ethics hotline evidence
Recording context: The presentation references 2020. Workforce counts, ownership lists and transaction discussions reflect that historical presentation.
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Meet the Presenter
Karen is the Founder and CEO of Special Learning. She started the company in 2010 after learning about the effectiveness of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) juxtaposed against the reality that over 95% of the world did not have access to ABA. As an entrepreneur with over 20 years of corporate experience, she started Special Learning to leverage existing and emerging technology to make quality ABA resources and services available to parents, educators and professionals around the world.
Karen’s entrepreneurial experience includes starting and growing a diversity retained executive search firm specializing in placing women and minority executives in leadership positions of Fortune 1,000 companies. Her investment banking background includes working with various venture capital and private equity companies to facilitate deal flow while representing CEOs of rapidly growing companies seeking to raise equity and debt capital for various middle market businesses and commercial real estate developers. Her corporate background includes various leadership and functional roles in Fortune 1,000 and middle market companies. Her additional entrepreneurial activities include owning and operating high end boutique
She graduated with a Masters of Management degree from Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a recipient of the Elijah Watts Sells Award from the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA), an award granted to less than top 5% of all CPA exam candidates.
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