execution support for PE-backed businesses navigating change
Private equity is under pressure to deliver and value creation is getting harder. Multiples are tightening and exits are delayed - alongside which there is growing evidence that revenue is now viewed as the lead lever ahead of cost or capital structure.
I work with boards and leadership teams as businesses develop and investors adapt - most often where a business is fundamentally sound and strategy is clear, and where the challenge is less about what to do next than translating intent into delivery and results.
I am engaged where the priority is to ensure the right balance of interim transformation capability and operating ownership to drive disciplined execution. Engagements usually begin around priority execution and change and, where helpful, extend into broader and transitional operating responsibility.
In practical terms, this can mean transformation work extending into transitional commercial leadership, or post-transaction roll-up integration evolving into hands-on go-to-market leadership.
where i am most useful
In practice:
- During transformation - when programme activity alone is no longer sufficient
- Following ownership change - when operating rhythm, culture, leadership focus or execution discipline need to adapt
- During scale-up or consolidation - particularly across multi-entity or multi-disciplinary businesses, where material revenue-synergy value sits between organisations and must be realised through influence, trust and coordination
- Post-merger - when integration execution risks stalling and needs to give way to clear operating ownership, momentum and transitional business leadership aligned to PE expectations
typical roles
Interim Transformation or Integration Lead | Interim Chief Commercial Officer | Interim COO / Operating Lead | Transitional Operating Partner or Value Creation Support.
Case examples illustrate the transition points where I am asked to support and how roles evolve from initial change into sustained execution and operating ownership.
