Operating Advisory
Businesses need more than capital.
Founders get tired. Boards get stuck. Businesses drift. A company in difficulty does not need another consultant — it needs someone who has already run a business and is willing to do it again.
The work
Four shapes of engagement.
Interim CEO / COO
The founder steps back — because they are tired, conflicted, or the situation demands it — and we run the business while the future is decided.
Board seat with an operational remit
Not an observer seat. A defined mandate — fix the cost base, resolve the shareholder dispute, prepare the exit — with the authority to see it through.
Chief Restructuring Officer
In a workout, someone must hold the pen: negotiate with creditors, keep the operations alive, and make the calls a conflicted board cannot.
Operating partnership
Alongside existing management in a business we also finance — the goal is to add what is missing, not to replace what is working.
Track record
The advice is hands-on because the experience is.
This is not a consulting practice with frameworks and a bench of analysts. It is two partners who have built, run, turned around and sold operating businesses — and who take a seat only when the mandate is clear and the authority is real. Names and figures beyond the outline here are discussed with principals under NDA.
A 1,000-person hospitality group in Indonesia
Turned around and exited at 18% IRR.
A consumer-brands platform
Built and sold.
Ongoing board and commissioner roles
Across operating businesses today.
With your team
Add what is missing. Keep what works.
We usually work alongside the founders or operators who know the business. When the founder is the bottleneck and accepts that, we will take the seat. When the team is the asset, we sit on the board and stay out of the kitchen.
Every operating engagement is run directly by a partner. There is no bench to hand you off to — which is also why we take few of these, and say no quickly when the fit is wrong.
Talk to us about an operating mandate.
A short confidential form, a private reply from a named partner within 24 hours, and an honest view on whether we are the right people for it.