Interim Leadership
Interim Leadership
Filling the Leadership Gap and Providing Stability to Maintain Value Creation
Good leadership is always hard to find; recruiting talent with the experience to navigate the complexities of a PE-backed environment is immeasurably harder. Interim functional leadership can serve as a critical bridge – ensuring continuity and growth, especially in the immediate aftermath of an acquisition, during times of business decline, or when facing business challenges.
Kratos Partners’ Interim Leadership helps sponsors and portfolio company management teams to optimize the finance function until the right long-term leader has been identified.
The three (3) differentiating factors:
We're the largest and fastest-growing partnership of experienced operators.
Averaging more than 20 years of experience, our Partners have served as top leaders in some of the most recognizable brands in the world.
Our Partners assume leadership responsibility, continue important initiatives, and handle the unexpected.
Our Partners help you evaluate what worked and didn't work last time, how the organization needs to change, and the key attributes needed for your next leader to be successful.
We’ll even help you interview and select the right candidate.
Interim Leadership
Leadership during times of transition requires a unique skill set and exceptional caliber to navigate uncertainty and complexity. When business environments become challenging and/or uncertain, and/or undergo a merger or carve –out a steady hand with experience is needed to
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Instill confidence and calm nerves.
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Provide transparency and honesty.
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Promote structure and tracking.
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Prioritize the right priorities.
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Bridge the company to the other side of the challenges.
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Establish the objectives for the end-state.
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Manage the business effectively during the transition period.
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Develop and implement an operating framework for newcomers.
Our interim leaders specialize in private equity backed environments and are able to deliver results fast and reliably by providing:
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Effective leadership – Provide a structure and repeatable process.
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Right talent management - Building a fit-for-purpose team.
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Cascaded performance - Instilling a culture of using financial and operational dashboards to run the business.
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Strategic planning: Achieving far more in far less time
Based on years of experience and the critical nature of the finance and technology function, we believe the most critical roles that private equity deal teams should focus in the near term and consider interim leadership are:
Interim CTO
Every company faces a unique set of challenges and opportunities, but these often fall into similar themes: integrating acquisitions; measuring the right KPIs; leveraging best practices across the enterprise; and more. At Kratos Partners, we work alongside our clients, combining their knowledge of the business with our performance improvement experience and industry expertise to deliver bottom-line results. We embed the capabilities, systems, and tools within the company so their employees can continue to identify, prioritize, and deliver sustainable results.
Kratos Partners Team includes top leaders who stay on the job anywhere from a few months to a few years to assess the company, develop a roadmap, and drive value-creation initiatives to support greater business objectives. They can even help identify the right candidate to become your permanent leader.
Interim CFO and Controller
Strong finance leaders are paramount to portfolio company success. Our interim CFO experts provide a strategic vision to drive value creation and establish rigorous finance and accounting processes. These hands-on leaders go beyond providing investor reports, board reports, and management reports and establish a culture of value creation across the organization. We understand that you are not satisfied with your current finance leadership team and status quo. Our interim CFO will drive the transformation from the day one. We are not afraid to hold the organization accountable to drive the results.
Interim CIO
Strong technology leaders are paramount to portfolio company success. Our interim CIO experts provide a strategic vision to drive value creation and establish rigorous technology processes and maturity. These hands-on leaders go beyond strategy; their responsibilities in six key areas: IT leadership and accountability, IT strategic planning, IT workforce, IT operations management, cybersecurity and privacy, and data management.
We understand that you are not satisfied with your current technology leadership team and status quo. Our interim CIO will drive the transformation from the day one. Other responsibilities include creating business value through technology, overseeing the development of customer service and internal support platforms, approving vendor negotiations and IT architecture, establishing IT policies, strategies, and standards, developing and approving technology futures and budgets. We are not afraid to hold the organization accountable to drive the results.
Chief Technology Officer
Senior technology leader responsible for commercial software product development, reporting to the CEO or similar; usually in a technology organization. We are not afraid to instill best practices around product organizations and enable development in agile fashion where faster value of investments are realized.
Chief Information Security Officer
Our interim CISO oversees an organization’s information, cyber, and technology security. The CISO’s responsibilities include developing, implementing, and enforcing security policies to protect critical data. The responsibilities of a CISO can spread across the following functional domains of the organization: End-to-End Security Operations, Compliance, HR Management. A CISO must contribute to the design and approval of a comprehensive security strategy. The CISO must ensure that their organization is adaptable to evolving compliance regulations.
Senior technology leader responsible for the overall security and compliance posture of an organization, generally, though not always, reporting to the CIO/CTO with CEO and Board autonomy, for technology and non-technology organizations. We are not afraid to instill best practices around cyber, and technology security to maturity the security posture.
