Interim and fractional leaders

Hire an interim CEO or general manager in Greece and Cyprus

Someone who has run a company before, taking the top seat for a defined period and answering to the owners for what happens in it.

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An interim CEO or general manager takes the top seat for a period, accountable to the owners or the board, with a short list of priorities and a departure date agreed upfront. In Greece and Cyprus the title is usually general manager, managing director or country manager. The seat empties when:

The chief executive leaves with no successor ready
A founder steps back or the next generation is not ready
A fund needs a bridge to the permanent chief executive
A foreign group's local subsidiary needs a general manager now

The interim CEOs and general managers on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals who have been managing directors of groups and funds, general managers of multinationals' local subsidiaries and operating partners in portfolio companies. They have answered to families, founders and funds, which read a chief executive very differently.

What does an interim CEO or general manager actually do?

Take accountability for the company, to the owners or the board, from the first day
Meet the banks and key customers first, with the parent group where there is one
Set a short list of priorities and hold the management team to it
Deliver the mandate, whether growth, a cost program, a sale or a succession bridge
Run the turnaround plan the advisors wrote, when that is the mandate
Recruit the permanent chief executive and hand over a company that runs without the interim

How to choose the right interim CEO or general manager

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

Ran a company this size
Has carried the profit and loss of a company your size, not a division inside a much larger group.
Knows who to see first
Names the customers, banks and people they would see in the first fortnight, and why in that order.
Has bridged a transition
Has run a company between two leaders before: a fund's bridge, a family succession or a foreign parent's subsidiary.