Turnaround & Transformation Advisory
Klear partners with owners, boards, and CEOs to restore profitability, optimize operations, and unlock value — across complex, multi-site, international businesses.
Services
Engagements are interim, hands-on, and outcome-focused — typically 6 to 18 months. Mandates are scoped to the lever that matters most: profitability, exit readiness, integration, or operational reset.
Restore profitability in underperforming businesses. Diagnose, redesign, and execute restructuring plans that reduce fixed cost, rebuild commercial momentum, and strengthen cash position — without losing the team along the way.
Prepare owner-led businesses for strategic exit, or lead post-acquisition integration once the deal closes. Capture synergies, align operating models, and protect the value the deal was built on.
Lean manufacturing, zero-based thinking, complexity reduction, and Industry 4.0 enablement. Translate operational ambition into measurable margin — without breaking what already works.
Step-in CEO, MD, or CFO mandates during transition, crisis, or scale-up. Senior bandwidth on day one, with the financial discipline and people-centered approach to lead through change.
Plus selective APAC sourcing and market-access mandates — alongside a strategic engagement, or standalone.
Approach
Every mandate is different. The framework isn't. Diagnose without assumptions. Decide with the people closest to the work. Deliver against numbers that matter — and stay long enough to make them stick.
Walk the floor. Read the numbers. Understand what the prior plan missed before proposing a new one.
Agree the few priorities that move the P&L. Get owner, board, and operating team on the same page.
Lead from the front. Make decisions situationally, transparently, and with the people responsible for delivering them.
Build the muscle internally so the gains outlast the mandate. Leave the team stronger than I found it.
Selected mandates
A representative sample of recent and current engagements. Names are public where the engagement has closed; active mandates are described without identifying counterparties. References available on request.
Active engagement. European deep-tech scale-up with proprietary infrastructure technology and an Asian manufacturing partner — bridge financing toward Series A, plus commercial traction across 14 APAC markets. Performance-based mandate, exclusivity, three-track investor strategy.
Read the caseTwo-decade advisory relationship culminating in an 8× EBITDA exit to BWT Group, then post-acquisition integration as Chief Strategy Officer — revenue doubled in 24 months.
Read the caseRestructured a loss-making 300-person Asian operation of a global bedding-textile manufacturer. EBIT swing of US$1.6M in 18 months — from –US$335K to +US$1.24M.
Read the caseThree-year strategic plan — Restore. Build. Expand. — for an international diamond-certification laboratory. Engineered a QR-on-diamond traceability solution to open the Chinese market.
Read the case5× operating income growth across Hong Kong, Delhi, and Singapore offices over seven years. Top line tripled, margin protected through every phase of the regional build-out.
Read the caseAbout
A bioengineer by training, with thirty years operating across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East — life-sciences commercial leadership, then turnaround mandates, growth scale-ups, and post-merger integrations.
Contact
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