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Growth & Value Creation. Leadership that creates value.

Buy-and-build, integration after closing or preparation for exit: every value creation plan needs a management team that can deliver it.

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The starting point

The plan is in place. The team has to match it.

After an acquisition, the question soon becomes whether the current management can deliver the value creation plan. Ahead of a sale, the focus shifts to reporting, the equity story and the stability of the management team.

Leadership gaps cost time during the holding period, and due diligence will expose them if nothing else does.

Typical triggers

  • A new value creation plan after closing
  • Buy-and-build and add-on acquisitions
  • Post-acquisition integration
  • A push for growth or international expansion
  • Preparing for exit

Roles we fill

The leadership the moment demands.

Typical assignments in this situation, at leadership team level and in the key functions beneath it.

  • CEO and managing directors for portfolio companies
  • CFO with private equity experience
  • Heads of integration and PMI
  • Operating Partners and Operating Teams
  • Value Creation Manager
  • CFO for exit readiness and the equity story
  • Industrial Advisors and advisory board members

How we help

Find, assess, support.

Executive Search is our core business. Leadership Assessment and Career and Leadership Development come in exactly where this situation tests leadership hardest.

Executive Search

Leadership team, CFO and integration appointments, from closing to exit.

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Leadership Assessment

Management assessment during due diligence and ahead of a sale.

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Career and Leadership Development

Support for the management team through the first 100 days and the transaction.

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FAQ

What clients ask us about growth & value creation.

In which situations does TALENTspy support growth and value creation?

A new value creation plan after closing, buy-and-build and add-on acquisitions, post-acquisition integration, a push for growth or international expansion, and preparing for exit.

Which roles does TALENTspy fill for portfolio companies?

CEO and managing directors for portfolio companies, CFO with private equity experience, heads of integration and PMI, Operating Partners and Operating Teams, Value Creation Manager, CFO for exit readiness and the equity story, and Industrial Advisors and advisory board members.

Why does the management team matter so much for the value creation plan?

After an acquisition, the question soon becomes whether the current management can deliver the value creation plan. Leadership gaps cost time during the holding period, and due diligence will expose them if nothing else does.

Does TALENTspy also assess the existing management?

Yes. Through leadership assessment, we assess management during due diligence and ahead of a sale.

What matters ahead of an exit?

Ahead of a sale, the focus shifts to reporting, the equity story and the stability of the management team. That includes appointing CFOs for exit readiness and the equity story.

Does TALENTspy support the management team after the appointment?

Yes. Through career and leadership development, we support the management team through the first 100 days and the transaction.

Who handles the assignment?

A partner, in confidence and directly. Never delegated.

Talk to us about your situation.

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Melanie Kleemann

Mit dreifacher internationaler Vorstandserfahrung, unter anderem für die IKEA Group, Vorwerk International und die Peek & Cloppenburg Gruppe, blickt Melanie Kleemann auf eine umfassende Karriere entlang der gesamten Value Chain zurück. Ihr Herzstück und ihre Leidenschaft lagen dabei seit jeher in den Bereichen kommerzielles Wachstum sowie (digitale) Transformation.

Ihre internationale Führungskompetenz wurde maßgeblich durch globale Rollen und mehrjährige Auslandsaufenthalte in Schweden und der Schweiz geprägt.

Melanie ist Partner bei TALENTspy und verantwortet die Bereiche Commercial Excellence, Consumer&Retail, Private Equity. Mit feinem Gespür für Markt-Dynamiken und exklusivem Zugang zu Spitzenkräften unterstützt sie Corporate-Entscheider, Private-Equity-Investoren, Gesellschafter und Aufsichtsräte dabei, kritische Schlüsselpositionen diskret, treffsicher und mit nachhaltigem Wertzuwachs zu besetzen.