Management consulting

Hire a private equity value creation lead in Greece and Cyprus

The operating partner a smaller fund does not have on staff: someone who turns the investment thesis into a plan with owners and dates, and stays until the numbers move.

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Private equity in Greece and Cyprus mostly means small and mid-sized houses buying founder-led companies, hotels, renewables and logistics, often without a portfolio operations team. A value creation lead works the gap between the deal and the results: operational due diligence before, the hundred-day plan after. Where funds feel the gap:

No management reporting in a company that now answers to a fund
A value creation plan that still lives in the investment memo
Owners who still sign every payment after the deal has closed
An exit that will take longer than the model assumed

The private equity value creation leads on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals who have been operating partners, run private equity practices at top consultancies or sat in the chief executive and CFO seats of portfolio companies. They speak both the fund's language and the family's.

What does a private equity value creation lead actually do?

Run operational due diligence so the plan rests on what the company can do
Turn the thesis into a plan with named owners, dates and a hundred-day start
Stand up fund reporting that management also uses to run the company
Sequence the levers: pricing, procurement, working capital and add-on acquisitions
Fill empty seats with interim leaders while the permanent hires are found
Prepare the equity story and its evidence well before the exit process

How to choose the right private equity value creation lead

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

Carried a plan to exit
Has taken a portfolio company's value creation plan from the hundred-day start to results the next buyer paid for.
Values each lever
Puts a value and an owner on each lever, from pricing to working capital, before the plan goes to the board.
Speaks fund and family
Can report to an investment committee and work with a founder's finance team in the same week without losing either.