Interim CEO / CRO | Private Equity Turnaround, Restructuring & Value Creation Specialist
This executive brings more than two decades of experience operating within private equity environments as an interim CEO, CRO and portfolio advisor. Their career is defined by repeated success in stabilising underperforming assets, driving rapid financial improvement and executing complex integration and carve-out programmes. They combine strategic insight with highly practical execution, enabling businesses to regain control quickly and transition onto sustainable value-creation trajectories.
Their private equity exposure is deep and continuous, encompassing direct leadership roles within portfolio companies, advisory work for PE sponsors and hands-on involvement in diligence, value-creation planning and buy-and-build readiness. They are comfortable working with lenders, boards and investment committees, and are frequently trusted to manage sensitive stakeholder relationships during periods of stress or transition. Their experience covers both deal-side and post-deal execution, ensuring alignment between investment thesis and operational reality.
Well suited to interim CEO, CRO or portfolio advisory assignments, this executive offers decisive leadership, strong commercial acumen and disciplined execution. Their ability to combine cash focus, operational rigour and cultural reset makes them particularly effective in turnaround and transformation situations where speed, clarity and credibility are essential to protecting and enhancing investor value.
Stabilised a PE-backed industrial business facing acute liquidity pressure, implementing rapid cash preservation measures, restructuring asset financing, restoring lender confidence and accelerating delivery of planned synergies.
Supported private equity investment decision-making through commercial and financial diligence, stress-testing investment assumptions and shaping value-creation plans that directly influenced deal outcomes.
Designed a full carve-out and separation blueprint for a multi-division industrial group, including TSA architecture, Day-1 controls, governance structures and delivery sequencing.
As interim CEO across multiple PE-backed businesses, delivered material EBITDA improvement, accelerated revenue growth, integrated multiple acquisitions and rebuilt commercial and operational discipline.
About the Candidate
This interim executive is a highly experienced private equity operator specialising in turnaround, restructuring, integration and rapid value creation. With a strong blend of CRO discipline and CEO leadership, they are typically engaged in situations requiring urgent stabilisation, cash control and restoration of investor confidence. Their experience spans interim CEO and CRO mandates, portfolio advisory roles and deal-side support, with a consistent focus on driving liquidity improvement, EBITDA recovery and operational clarity in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
They excel in high-pressure scenarios such as covenant stress, liquidity shortfalls, underperforming integrations, carve-outs and post-acquisition resets. Known for establishing control quickly, aligning management teams and improving forecasting accuracy, they bring hands-on leadership across cash management, working capital release, operational stabilisation, commercial turnaround and governance uplift. Their background includes extensive international exposure and the ability to operate effectively across diverse markets and organisational cultures.