Corporate engagement
Hands-on support for private equity firms and corporations on their hardest strategic, financial, and transformation challenges.
Scope of work
I can support you across strategy and transformation, due diligence, financial modeling, and M&A execution.
Board-level strategy, AI, and digital transformation from diagnosis through execution.
C-suite and board-level strategic advisory: problem framing, options, recommendation.
Identify and implement AI use cases that increase productivity.
Modernize operating models, systems, and ways of working to unlock scale.
Complete assessments in an accelerated timeframe to reduce information asymmetry.
Pressure-test demand, retention, pricing power, and growth assumptions.
Financial analysis, CIM preparation, and 5-year plans for vendor due diligence processes.
Stress-test management forecasts, unit economics, and the investment case before you commit capital.
Models that investment committees and leadership teams can actually decide on.
IRR/MoM analysis and returns models for platform and add-on acquisitions.
ARR analysis, cohort analysis, SaaS metrics.
Multi-year P&L models to stress-test downside scenarios and response levers.
Hands-on support through deal close, value creation planning, and post-merger integration.
Manage financial, commercial, legal, and tax workstreams through close.
100-day plans, pricing, cost-out, growth initiatives, KPI cadence.
De-risk large-scale carve-outs and accelerate post-close integration.
Who it is for
What you walk away with
Discovery Session
Book a discovery session. We will map where you are, where you want to be, and the precise work required to close the gap.
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