Operating capability behind the capital.
Toronto is home to asset managers, family offices and pension investors who all face the same constraint: capital is easier to find than operators to deploy it with.
Where firms run into limits
The strategy is set. Delivery depends on a small number of senior people:
Diligence needs operating judgement
The models get built. An honest read on whether management can deliver them is harder to find in time.
Portfolio support is stretched
A handful of people cover many companies, and the ones in trouble take all of it.
Interim cover is slow to arrange
When a portfolio executive leaves, a search runs for months and value leaks in the meantime.
Co-investments need a trusted voice
Partners want an operator on the ground who reports to them and not only to management.
A fractional executive gives an investment firm a senior operator to call on, whether for diligence, interim cover or a portfolio company that needs another experienced pair of hands.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Best for
- Adding operational value to investees without taking on management risk
- Giving founders a vetted operator you can refer with confidence
- Supporting several portfolio companies from one standing relationship
- Professionalising an investee while respecting its existing culture
- Staying in your governance role while the engagement is run for you
Not for
- Installing a controlling manager to run the company for you
- A single one-off introduction with no ongoing oversight
- Investors who want to direct day-to-day operations themselves
- A freelancer directory rather than a managed engagement
Working beside investors
A brief from the firm, and our governance around the portfolio company and the executive for as long as the work runs.
Reporting lines agreed
We agree who the executive answers to before the start and check in with both sides on a set rhythm.
Depth across the portfolio
Each executive can draw on 800+ operators when a holding's problem falls outside their own field.
Briefs we keep
We keep each company's brief current, so any later search starts from the present situation.
Fit with management
An operator the management team trusts gets further than a stronger CV they resist.
The partnership model
One relationship. Portfolio-wide coverage.
Establish the standing relationship
We understand your investment thesis, your portfolio, and the types of leadership gaps most common across your investments.
You introduce us when needed
When a portfolio company needs operational leadership, you make the introduction. We handle everything else.
The right operator, fast
Discovery, matching, scoping, engagement management, and ongoing oversight, without you managing or coordinating it.
Visibility without burden
Lightweight reporting to you, not operational detail, but confidence that the engagement is performing. Investor-grade oversight without investor-level involvement.
Support by investor type
Different investors carry different portfolio needs. We match the operator to the need and manage the engagement, so it never lands back on you.
The operators we embed in your portfolio companies
Every operator is matched to the portfolio company's stage, sector and challenge.
Our executives have worked across
