The PILOTpartners team has many years’ combined experience supporting the portfolio businesses of private equity houses and other investors. We operate a panel of executives with excellent track records in managing or supporting businesses leveraged through debt and private equity investment in all sectors and throughout the UK and internationally.

What is the best outcome for the business? Is it permanent, is it interim, is it interim with a view to permanent, is it a new non executive? Is sector knowledge essential or just desirable?

Back in 2005, McKinsey Research* published a famous study citing the key attributes for successful private equity investing which we now paraphrase here:

1. Performance of substantial pre-deal due diligence enhanced through trusted external solutions.
2. Incentivise management with 15-20% ownership (based upon meeting performance targets), coupled with having the CEO at least personally invest in the business.
3. Management derived business plans need to be vigorously challenged and conservatively amended, continually reviewed and have key performance targets tied to them.
4. Aggressive monitoring, and intervention if needed, during the first 100 days is critical to ensure the business plan is adhered to.
5. Management lacking critical skills must be enhanced and/or supplemented early, and underperforming executives replaced or augmented quickly during the investment life cycle.

*McKinsey Quarterly 2005 Number 1

At PILOTpartners we understand that back then as in the current environment private equity investors have to be resolute when considering strategic and key executive resourcing issues. PILOTpartners has therefore organized itself so that its network of executives is rapidly accessible and our proposed solutions can be implemented quickly, flexibly, thoroughly and confidentially.

We operate widely admired, individually vetted panels of senior executives with experience of transforming business strategy, implementing change, running projects in the UK and internationally…and delivering results.