CASE STUDIES

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Immediate Board Member for CEO Support with Niche Expertise

Service Area: Board Member Client Type: Lower-Middle-Market PE Firm Service Provider Type: Senior Advisor Industry: Manufacturing We are uniquely equipped to move quickly for midmarket companies. We have a network of thousands of PE-grade individuals, specifically geared for midmarket companies, that we can tap into in order to connect a firm with the exact-fit board […]

PE Firms
Deal Team
Value Creation
Interim CTO

Immediate Interim CTO To Remediate Portco’s Tech Stack

Recent healthcare TPA acquisition needs interim CTO A PE firm VP came to us with an immediate need for an interim CTO for their recent healthcare TPA acquisition. Having recently closed on the portco, they were looking for an individual that could help them remediate and roadmap the company’s tech stack. They urgently needed an […]

PE Firms
Deal Team
Value Creation
ERP consultant manufacturing

Crucial ERP selection & implementation consultant to integrate disjointed systems at portco

Large Cap firm needs ERP consultant with industry expertise A VP at a Large Cap firm came to us with a critical need for an ERP consultant for one of their portcos. Since the acquisition, the PE firm knew that the company’s disjointed tech stack would need to be integrated. The portco CFO’s role specifically […]

PE Firms
Deal Team
Value Creation
Lean Six Sigma consultant

Critical Lean Six Sigma Expert to Improve Operations

Lean Six Sigma consultant need to improve operational efficiencies A proactive manufacturing company came to us with a critical need for an operational performance and improvement consultant that could evaluate and redesign the existing layout of their warehouses. There was a lack of logistical reasoning that went into the original design and the company had […]

PE-Backed Companies
Operations
plastic cost reduction

Cost-Reduction Group with Niche Expertise Crucially Needed

Cost-Reduction Group Needed for Leading Plastics Company A leading plastics company that designed and manufactured innovative plastic-injection molded products was looking for opportunities to reduce their costs and believed potential opportunities lay within their legacy supply contracts. Given the nature of the company’s products and its specific resin grades, the company needed a group with […]

PE-Backed Companies
Operations
executive recruiting firm

Recruiting Firm with Food & Beverage Experience Vitally Needed

Company needs specialized food and beverage executive recruiter A proactive food & beverage company came to us with a vital need for a new VP of Operations after recently executing an add-on acquisition. They urgently needed an experienced food and beverage professional that could step in, take the reigns, and keep operations running smoothly while […]

PE-Backed Companies
Human Capital
specialized recruiter

Critical staffing & recruiting firm to hire low-level sales language supports

Critical need for specialized recruiter for international hires A PE firm VP came to us with a critical need for a specialized recruiter for their fintech portfolio company. As part of their growth strategy for the portco, they were gearing up to expand into more geographies, so they were in urgent need of language supports […]

PE Firms
Human Capital
Value Creation
Procurement Consulting group

Procurement consulting group critical for COVID & inflation-related supply chain issues

Food and beverage portco critically needs procurement consulting group A PE firm VP came to us with a critical need for a raw materials procurement strategy consulting group for their food and beverage portco. Having recently acquired the platform that was growing rapidly, they needed a group that could develop and implement a sophisticated purchasing […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation
MSP

Vital MSP to optimize and monitor Azure

PE Firm and portco contact BluWave for MSP need An LMM PE firm ops partner and portco CFO came to us with a critical need for an IT Managed Services Provider (MSP) that could optimize and monitor the portco’s needs in the Azure development space. With past reliance on a small team that set everything […]

PE Firms
Finance
Value Creation
Interim CFO

Interim CFO To Support Current CFO During Add-On Acquisition

Interim CFO needed for post-close accounting support at portco A CFO at a PE-backed consumer products portco came to us with an urgent need for post-closing accounting support for an add-on acquisition the firm was about to close on for the portco. With the add-on about to close, there was an immediate need for an […]

PE Firms
Finance
Prep For Sale
Digital transformation

Critical need for firm to lead digital transformation of portco

PE firm needs group to lead digital transformation for portco A VP at a LMM PE firm came to us with a critical need for a group that could lead their transportation portco through a full digital transformation project. With the portco’s field service division expanding rapidly and potentially tripling in size soon, they were […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation
ESG Diligence

Critical ESG diligence provider with industry expertise

ESG diligence needed for a consumer products target A PE firm VP came to us with a critical need for a provider that could perform ESG diligence on a target they had in the consumer products industry. With their 60 days of exclusivity about to begin, the firm needed a provider that could assess the […]

PE Firms
Deal Team
Due Diligence

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