Fractional Executive Search

Senior operators for Indonesian portfolio companies, matched to the value creation plan

Value creation in Indonesia rarely fails on the thesis. It slips on execution inside the portfolio company. We find and vet senior operators who have worked alongside private equity, match them to your plan and embed them within weeks.

A decisive senior operator in a high-rise office at dusk, surveying with focus
The situation

What portfolio work asks of an operator

Private equity needs executives who think about value, not only their own function:

01

Every function tied to EBITDA

Your executive must link their decisions to EBITDA and cash, and report them in the format the board pack needs.

02

Moving inside the first hundred days

Hiring the conventional way can take months, and in the opening months of ownership that delay costs value.

03

Building for an exit

Preparing a company for sale, whether to a strategic buyer, a regional fund or the exchange, needs experience most general managers have not had.

04

Founders and families in the room

Many Indonesian deals are minority or partnership stakes alongside founding families, and the operator has to earn their trust while delivering for the fund.

We search for executives who have worked in or with private equity-backed businesses in Indonesia and the region, so they understand a sponsor's needs and a family partner's sensitivities.

Is it the right fit?

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
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Value creation, led from inside the portfolio company.

Private equity in Jakarta

How we work with private equity firms

Executive search built around portfolio pace, family partners and the governance a fund reports to its investors.

1 monthNotice, either way
800+Curated and vetted executives
2–3 weeksBrief to deployment
30–60%Less than a full-time hire, on our engagements

Matched in weeks

Typically two to three weeks from instruction to an embedded operator, without shortcuts in vetting.

At home with sponsors and families

We match for board experience, KPI design and the skill of working with founding families who remain significant shareholders.

Across the portfolio

One relationship for several companies, with executives sharing context where that benefits the fund.

Continuity we manage

We hold every brief and its history. If an executive has to step away, we run the replacement search from that knowledge and manage the handover ourselves.

Governance you can report upwards

Defined scope, structured reporting and active oversight from us, at the standard limited partners expect.

How it works

Across the PE investment lifecycle

From pre-deal to exit preparation.

01

Pre-deal: operational due diligence

Embed a Fractional COO or CFO to support your ODD. They identify gaps your model hasn't priced.

02

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.

03

Value creation: operational improvement

Build financial infrastructure, operating cadences, commercial engines, and professional people structures.

04

Exit preparation: build credibility

A Fractional CFO producing clean board reporting and investor-grade financials is a meaningful credibility signal in any sale process.

Match the lever to the operator

The value-creation matrix

Each value-creation lever maps to the operator built to own it. Most plans pull two or three at once.

Value-creation lever
Fractional role
Value-creation leverEBITDA improvement
Value-creation leverWorking capital discipline
Fractional roleFractional CFO
Value-creation leverOperational efficiency
Fractional roleFractional COO
Value-creation leverRevenue acceleration
Fractional roleFractional CRO
Value-creation leverTechnology diligence
Fractional roleFractional CTO
Value-creation leverLeadership and retention
Fractional roleFractional CHRO
Value-creation leverExit readiness
Fractional roleFractional CFO
Roles we search for

Leaders for portfolio companies

The right operator for each company and each stage of the hold.

Proven leadership

Our operating partners have worked at

Blackstone
KKR
The Carlyle Group
Goldman Sachs
Apollo
EQT
CVC
Bain Capital
Common questions

The questions buyers ask first

Each engagement opens with a briefing on your thesis, priorities and reporting needs, and the scope is written against them. We review it with you as the hold progresses.

Yes. We can act as a standing partner to the fund, learn the portfolio and match executives across companies, with context shared where useful.

Normally invoiced to the portfolio company as an operating cost, arranged to fit its accounts and your reporting.

Framing is everything: an embedded operator working with the team and the family, not a monitor for the fund. We agree that framing with all sides at the start and stay close if tensions surface.

We match for it. Where the brief needs Indonesian or regional experience, including partnerships with founding families, it is a core part of how we search and vet.

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Get started

Tell us where the value-creation plan needs an operator.

We will match a PE-fluent operator to the lever that matters most, embed them in the portfolio company within weeks, and manage the engagement to the outcome.

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