Operators for the value creation plan, searched for your thesis
Whether a value creation plan lands usually comes down to the leadership inside the portfolio company. We search our collective for operators who have worked under institutional owners, match them to the company and its thesis, and keep governance around the engagement, typically embedding within weeks.
What portfolio leadership needs
Value creation needs operators who think about equity value, not just their function:
A line of sight to EBITDA
The executive has to see how their function moves EBITDA and how to report it in a board pack.
The first hundred days
A permanent appointment takes months, and in the first hundred days after a deal, the gap between week one and week eight matters.
Growth or exit
Running a company for growth and preparing it for exit are different jobs, and few general executives have done both.
Working with the founders
Many founder and family teams in the Gulf have never had an institutional owner. Working alongside them takes tact as well as skill.
We search for executives who have worked in or alongside businesses backed by private equity or sovereign-linked capital, such as portfolio companies of Mubadala, L'Imad, IHC, Lunate or Chimera, so the brief can start from the thesis rather than the basics.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Best for
- Deploying a senior operator inside a portfolio company
- Executing a 100-day plan the moment the deal closes
- Value creation through the hold, not another advisory report
- Building reporting, systems and management credibility before an exit
- Operational diligence and leadership-gap assessment before you buy
Not for
- A strategy deck or set of recommendations to hand back
- A business that wants an adviser, not an operator inside it
- Pure diligence with no operator deployed afterwards
- A mandate for oversight rather than hands-on execution
What we bring to a private equity portfolio
Built around how portfolio companies in Abu Dhabi and the Gulf are actually owned and run.
Within weeks
Brief to embedded operator usually takes two to three weeks. If completion leaves less time than that, tell us at the brief and we will set out honestly what timing is realistic.
Operators who know the owner's view
We match executives who understand board dynamics, KPI design and the reporting institutional owners expect, so little time goes on explaining how private equity works.
One relationship across the portfolio
One relationship with us across your portfolio. We run each search separately and coordinate the executives where sharing context helps.
The plan keeps moving
We keep the brief and the engagement notes current. When an executive moves on, those notes become the next brief and we manage the transition, so the plan keeps moving.
Governance your investors expect
Defined scopes, structured reporting and regular check-ins: an accountable arrangement that sits comfortably alongside your own governance.
Across the PE investment lifecycle
From pre-deal to exit preparation.
Pre-deal: operational due diligence
Embed a Fractional COO or CFO to support your ODD. They identify gaps your model hasn't priced.
Post-acquisition: fill the leadership gaps
Start the search within days of instruction and have the right operator embedded within weeks. No recruitment pipeline, notice periods, or trial risk.
Value creation: operational improvement
Build financial infrastructure, operating cadences, commercial engines, and professional people structures.
Exit preparation: build credibility
A Fractional CFO producing clean board reporting and investor-grade financials is a meaningful credibility signal in any sale process.
The value-creation matrix
Each value-creation lever maps to the operator built to own it. Most plans pull two or three at once.
Leadership for portfolio companies
Each search starts from the company's role in the thesis.
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