Habile CapitalLead an established business,
with equity from day one.
For senior professionals who have run a P&L and want to own one. We find the business, negotiate the purchase and close it. You run it from Day 1 as CEO.
You are in the room where it happens.
As a CEO-in-residence, you partner with us to shape the deal throughout the search, analysis, negotiation, diligence, and handover. You meet the seller, and shape the first 100-day plan. The vendor stays on for a transition period and ensures you're set up for success.
Before heads of agreement, three things are done.
They let us judge you as CEO for this business, and let you judge the business and us before you commit. If a deal is not a fit for you, we say so plainly.
References
We take references from people who have worked for you and with you.
Work on the live deal
You work on the diligence or the first 100-day plan, under the deal's confidentiality agreement.
Roles in writing
The chair's role, the CEO's role and how the partnership would end are written down, beside the leaver terms.
A small board, chosen for what it knows about the business.
Seats go to people who bring something the business needs. Nobody gets a seat because of the size of their investment.
- Chair
- Habile, which also sets the investment thesis
- CEO
- You, as a director
- Industry directors
- Where the business can support them, one or two independent directors who have run a business in the industry or know its customers and suppliers. Where we can, we line them up during the deal.
Day one, not day ninety.
You are part of the deal before it is signed, so by completion you know the business, its people and its numbers.
Register
Tell us what you have run and what you are looking for.
Match
We bring you in when a deal fits your experience.
Join the deal
Meet the seller, work on the diligence, plan the first 100 days.
Lead
You run the business full-time as CEO from completion.
People who have run a P&L and want to own one.
General managers, divisional heads and former strategy consultants who have carried profit-and-loss responsibility.
Registering interest does not tie you to a particular business.