our focus

Hiring top tier leaders for investor backed growth businesses:

1. Results Focused Leaders

Leaders who are ambitious as to what is possible for the business, work at pace to make it happen and are laser focused on performance and results.

2. Adaptive Leaders

Leaders who are confident, fully commit, can quickly adapt when things are not working and be highly creative with limited resources.

3. Visionary Leaders

Leaders who dedicate time to strategy, have the nous to develop winning business plans, make decisions based on evidence and data in its absence have good intuition.

4. Exceptional Executors

Leaders with the ability to successfully execute against strategic plans by leading from the front and intelligently building and utilising high performing teams.

5. Leaders for Investor Backed Environments

Leaders who meet expectations by providing investors with the insight they are looking for and achieving good business outcomes.

Solving clients’ key challenges on the growth journey:

1. Pre Deal

Chairmen, CEOs and CFOs who can help investors conduct comprehensive due diligence into a prospective investee company and maximise the value and mitigate the risks of the potential investment.

2. Professionalisation

Chairmen, CEOs, CFOs and COOs who can come into the business post investment and, knowing what good looks like, quickly improve people, processes and systems and put the right infrastructure in place for growth.

3. Accelerating Growth

CCOs, CROs and CMOs to develop winning commercial strategies, develop sales, marketing and customer success functions, develop innovative product suites, expand internationally and buy & build.

4. Turnaround

Turnaround CFOs, CEOs and Executive Chairmen, often on an interim basis, to take control of cashflow, reduce costs, refinance, restructure, improve the business proposition, finance the turnaround and execute.

5. Succession Planning

For example Founder to CEO transition, hiring proven board and executive leaders to take the business to the next level or hiring new leadership fully committed to the business for the next investment cycle.

6. Exit Preparation

Chairmen, CEOs and CFOs who can quickly assess a company’s sale readiness, take steps to position the business favourably to possible acquirers, manage due diligence and negotiate the sale.