A uniquely experienced PE team in achieving tangible results

PE Portfolio Business Turnarounds & Transformations for Growth

Experienced in bootstrapping, financing, restructuring and growing start-up to £2.5bn global portfolio organisations
Unparalleled understanding of the challenges facing today's leadership teams, and what is required to overcome those challenges and succeed
A team delivering this success through
- Clarity of purpose
- Concise but comprehensive Strategy
- Value transformation

Focused on Maximising and Returning Value

A Specialist PE Business Turnaround & Transformation Team

GSD was founded with the mission of dedicating senior professionals with cross-functional expertise to efficiently develop actionable plans for identifying and maximising value.
We deploy small teams of senior professionals with deep experience across relevant industries and disciplines to rapidly identify challenges and opportunities and create practical plans to address them.

Our Services for PE Portfolio Turnaround, Transformation & Growth

We work to align our interests with our PE and Portfolio clients - and to align the interests of disparate stakeholders - so that all parties are focused on the common goal of maximising value. We consistently produce superior results by efficiently creating strategies that are based on common goals and then providing leadership in implementing those plans.

OUR APPROACH

We bring an ownership mentality to every engagement, providing the same efficiency, effectiveness and leadership that we would demand if we were the client.

INTERIM MANAGEMENT

We provide C-Suite resources and talent to quickly fill a hole in key management or deliver needed expertise while our clients search for permanent talent.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

We help organisations anticipate, recognise and adapt to internal and external challenges to maximise performance.

TURNAROUND, TRANSFORMATION AND RESTRUCTURING

Partnering with our clients, we develop and execute turnaround, transformation and restructuring strategies that are innovative, sound and actionable.

ANTICIPATE, RECOGNISE AND ADAPT TO CHALLENGES ACROSS THE ORGANISATION & MARKETS

The speed of change today can challenge even the best management team. The ability to address these challenges often requires expertise that is outside a management team’s experience and core competencies.

In these situations, GSD’s team of senior professionals can provide the necessary objective advice and support, drawing on our deep operating experience in a wide range of industries to help management teams design and implement long-term and short-term solutions.

EXPERT C-SUITE SUPPORT

We can quickly fill a hole in key management or, where necessary, we can fully manage a company’s operations and financials while our client searches for the right permanent talent.

Our senior team includes experienced executives and managers with strong backgrounds in investment analysis, capital markets and operations.

Our team members hit the ground running, working in close cooperation with the existing management team to seamlessly fill gaps in the management suite.

ACTIONABLE PLANS FOR MAXIMISING VALUE

While drawing upon our prior experience, we view each engagement as unique and create actionable plans to address the specific business challenge or opportunity presented.

CHANGE CATALYSTS

We bring a sense of urgency and serve as a proactive catalyst for change.

DEEP DIVE

We dive deeply into the operations of a company.

CAUSE-FOCUSED

We focus on the root causes of challenges, rather than symptoms

STAKEHOLDER CENTRIC

We work to understand and align the interests of all stakeholders.

ACTIONABLE SOLUTIONS

We develop and implement actionable solutions