Is your Philippine portfolio company short of an operator?
A value creation plan is only as good as the leaders carrying it out. We search our collective for operators who have worked in investor-backed businesses, vet them and embed them part-time in your portfolio company, usually within weeks of the brief.
What private equity needs from a portfolio leader
Functional skill is the starting point. A sponsor-backed company in Manila also needs:
A line of sight to EBITDA
An executive who knows how their function moves earnings, and how to report it in a board pack the deal team will read.
Pace in the first 100 days
A conventional search takes months, and experienced senior operators in Manila are in demand. In a 100-day plan, starting in week two rather than week eight matters.
Experience of both growth and exit
Running a company to grow and running it towards a sale are different disciplines, and few general executives have done both.
Tact with founders and families
Many Philippine targets are founder-led or family-run and new to private equity. Working alongside them takes judgement as well as skill.
We search for operators who have worked in or alongside investor-backed and conglomerate-owned businesses, so the brief can start at your value creation plan rather than at first principles.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Best for
- Deploying a senior operator inside a portfolio company
- Executing a 100-day plan the moment the deal closes
- Value creation through the hold, not another advisory report
- Building reporting, systems and management credibility before an exit
- Operational diligence and leadership-gap assessment before you buy
Not for
- A strategy deck or set of recommendations to hand back
- A business that wants an adviser, not an operator inside it
- Pure diligence with no operator deployed afterwards
- A mandate for oversight rather than hands-on execution
How we support Philippine portfolio companies
Fractional executive search with governance, shaped around how a sponsor works.
Weeks, not quarters
From brief to embedded operator usually takes two to three weeks, because we search a collective of executives we have already vetted.
Comfortable with sponsors
We match for people who know board dynamics, KPI design and the reporting rhythm private equity expects, so the deal team spends less time explaining.
One relationship across the fund
Brief us on several companies and we coordinate the searches, sharing context between engagements where it helps.
Continuity through our process
We keep each brief current. When an operator moves on, the handover is ours to run, and the next search begins with what we have learned about the company.
Governance you can show your LPs
Defined scope, structured reporting and active oversight from us for the life of the engagement.
Across the PE investment lifecycle
From pre-deal to exit preparation.
Pre-deal: operational due diligence
Embed a Fractional COO or CFO to support your ODD. They identify gaps your model hasn't priced.
Post-acquisition: fill the leadership gaps
Start the search within days of instruction and have the right operator embedded within weeks. No recruitment pipeline, notice periods, or trial risk.
Value creation: operational improvement
Build financial infrastructure, operating cadences, commercial engines, and professional people structures.
Exit preparation: build credibility
A Fractional CFO producing clean board reporting and investor-grade financials is a meaningful credibility signal in any sale process.
The value-creation matrix
Each value-creation lever maps to the operator built to own it. Most plans pull two or three at once.
Leaders for Philippine portfolio companies
Match the operator to the lever in your plan.
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