Services.
Overview
for
CEOs,
Private Equity and
Venture Capital
We work with CEOs, company leaders and their teams, company investors and boards when they are facing inflection-point business moments. There is a clear need and a shared motivation to act. Our work is designed to bring clarity, direction, and the execution process to master the moment.
Specifically, we work with people, projects and programs demanding strategy, leadership, product innovation & development, operational streamlining, and distinctive market-facing initiatives.
With an international team experienced in building cross-border and cross-cultural businesses throughout the US and Europe, we enable US and European companies enter and grow their markets through strategic partnerships, business development services, distribution & retail channel development, access to financing, and team development.
For CEOs, we are trusted advisors. We bring our experience of multiple companies and markets to be an effective sounding board as you navigate challenges or seize new opportunities, or to be a go-to-market strategist, or turn-on-a-dime to handle crisis communications, or be a fund raising channel, or even help improve board interactions.
For the business, we focus on growth acceleration, brand development, and demand generation. For example, we can enable rapid market entry into international markets in Europe and North America, or design and implement a complete brand activation (or revitalization) program, or deliver a detailed operating & financial plan for growth.
For company investors and boards, we offer knowledgeable & pragmatic services for turnaround management, operational streamlining, and exit-focused interim management.
CEO
Services
Trusted CEO Advisor
We’ve been in your shoes and understand your challenges. We can provide advice on situations which can’t always be discussed with your team or your board
Go-to-Market, Sales & Marketing
Companies often struggle to develop the right approach to delivering its products to customers efficiently and cost-effectively. We focus on developing the right strategy and implementing the sales compensation plan to deliver results
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Fundraising
We are experts at messaging, positioning, and presentation preparation and can provide access to sources of funding. We have collectively raised over $200 million for our own businesses and created equity value in excess of $1.2 billion and we believe we can leverage our experiences to enable your success.
Critical Communications
Whether you are confronted by an unexpected crisis or you are in the closing stages of confidential negotiations for a merger or acquisition, we can turn-on-a-dime to prepare you and your team to take charge of all aspects of direct, digital, and broadcast communications.
Board Interaction Improvement
Sometimes the investor-led board can have extra demands which are difficult to fulfill. Our years of experience in board interactions, board presentations, and creating smoothly functioning boards, provide invaluable assistance to CEO’s who wish to improve their board interactions.
Interim Management
When you have a vital management team gap to fill and no time to recruit or upskill internal talent, we can offer seasoned executives to be your interim leaders in finance, marketing, software engineering, product management, and business development. We will even take on the task of either finding a replacement or coaching internal talent to take on the role(s).
Investor
Services
Operational Improvements & Turnaround Management
We work with you to create a thorough analysis of alternatives along with a risk profile of the potential outcomes to enable you to come to a well-informed decision, then we execute on the needed changes to provide a solution that works for you.
We offer the following services:
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360° business assessment
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Risk-adjusted evaluation of alternatives
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Interim and crisis management services
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Operational streamlining with asset preservation
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Cash flow optimization
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Exit strategy analysis
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Exit-focused interim management
Due Diligence Services
We can act as an operating partner for you in areas of business and product strategy, technology maps, team assessments, CMO and CFO operations.
Specialized Services
for Private Equity
When financial engineering and leadership changes have not achieved desired levels of operational performance and dividend production, how do you produce the needed transformation?
The Cavalon Group and our select business partners combine unique academic research and operating practices to guarantee a organizational and operational transformation to deliver the desired results.
How? We recognize that corporations have an immune system. An immune system is designed to protect, to be suspicious of and resist change, and to attack perceived threats. This corporate immune system is a combination of the enterprise's operating mood and style. Our extensive peer-reviewed research and designed operating practices can assess a company's mood and style, determine the new mood and style required to produce the desired results, quantify the outcome benefits, and then mobilize and motivate the organization to affect the transformation.
You can leverage these services in the due diligence stage, the deal valuation stage, and the post-acquisition optimization phase.
In the due diligence stage we can identify the areas of resistance, friction and misalignment that the broader corporate culture may represent to your objectives and present the options and efforts for change and alignment.
We can contribute to the valuation effort by identifying the costs and timelines for affecting the needed change in corporate mood and styles, as well as quantifying the financial and operational benefits of the change.
Post-acquisition, we can employ our proprietary NETCOM approach that goes beyond LEAN and SIX-SIGMA to simultaneously redesign operating practices, mobillize the organizational unit(s) to execute in a way that changes the corporate mood and style, and achieve alignment with your financial and operating goals.