Leadership for Hong Kong and Greater China portfolio companies, matched to your thesis.
Fractional executive search for portfolio companies in Hong Kong and Greater China, many of them family-founded or cross-border: senior operators found in our collective of 800+ and matched to your thesis. Execution depends on the leadership inside the company.
Where portfolio plans stall
Private equity value creation needs operators who think about the whole equity story:
Reporting a fund can use
Your operator needs to connect their function to EBITDA and to a board pack the investment committee trusts.
The first hundred days
Early momentum shapes the hold period, and every week without the right leader is lost time.
Exit routes, including a listing
Preparing a company for a trade sale or a listing calls for different experience from running it for growth.
Family sellers and founders
Many Hong Kong deals involve founders or families staying on, which needs tact and judgement as well as functional skill.
We search for operators with experience in or alongside private equity-backed businesses in Hong Kong and Greater China, so the work starts from your plan.
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
What a fund gets from our search
Executive search built around portfolio companies operating across Hong Kong, the mainland and the region.
Quick to the portfolio
From brief to an operator in the portfolio company typically takes two to three weeks, matched to its stage and your thesis.
Operators fluent in fund reporting
We match for board, KPI and accountability experience, and for financial regulation where the company needs it.
Coordinated across the portfolio
One relationship covering several companies, with operators sharing context where it adds value.
Continuity managed by us
A current brief sits behind every engagement, so if an operator leaves during the hold, the transition and new search begin from what we already know.
Governance around every engagement
Clear scope, structured reporting and regular reviews, with any drift raised early and the brief adjusted with you.
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.
Leadership options for portfolio companies
Match the operator to the need in each company.
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