At Vast Advisory, we partner with private equity firms, family offices, and corporate investors to accelerate value creation across their portfolio companies. We bring deep operational experience, financial insight, and hands-on execution to help management teams realise their growth potential from deal thesis to exit.
Deep operator mindset — we’ve led transformations, not just advised on them
Value-creation lens — every initiative links back to EBITDA and cash impact
Results orientation — clear metrics, accountability, and visible progress
From pre-deal to post-close, we help define and translate the value-creation roadmap into measurable initiatives with clear accountabilities and impact targets
Outputs: 100-day plans, KPI dashboards, value-creation trackers
We support investors and management teams in identifying, assessing, and integrating bolt-on acquisitions to unlock scale benefits.
Our involvement covers:
Target assessment & strategic fit
Synergy modelling & integration planning
PMI management and KPI tracking
Playbooks for repeatable M&A execution
Outcome: A structured, de-risked approach to rapid platform expansion.
Hands-on support in driving performance across commercial excellence, pricing, cost optimisation, and supply-chain efficiency
Focus: Margin expansion, working-capital improvement, and scalability
Establishing the right cadence and visibility at portfolio level
Deliverables: Board packs, PMO setup, performance dashboards, exit readiness playbooks
We as a pivotal bridge between the Partners and the leadership teams of
several portfolio companies, taking ownership for exit readiness, strategic positioning,
operational alignment, and stakeholder orchestration.
Goal: Maximise valuation and investor confidence
When portfolio companies require temporary leadership or specialised expertise, we provide interim professionals who can step in immediately.
We offer:
Interim COO / CFO / Transformation Lead
Specialist experts in pricing, supply chain, data, commercial excellence
Hands-on execution support during periods of transition or underperformance
Benefit: Immediate capacity, capability, and momentum — without compromising business continuity
Our approach is built on four guiding principles:
We start by understanding the business model, market dynamics, and value drivers — identifying the initiatives with the highest impact on enterprise value
We work shoulder to shoulder with leadership teams, ensuring ownership, credibility, and momentum from day one
We implement structured program management, defining milestones, KPIs, and dashboards that keep everyone aligned and accountable
Every initiative is tracked against tangible financial and operational outcomes, ensuring transparency and sustainable improvement
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Everyone in private equity talks about value creation. Evidenced once again in the Value Creation for Private Equity Conference last week I attended in London: ‘’Financial Engineering is dead’’
In private equity, the phrase “we’re hands-on” gets used a lot. But too often, it simply means weekly check-ins, board slides, and a sense of urgency without the mechanisms to truly change the trajectory of a portfolio company.
Most private equity exits don’t disappoint because of market timing. They disappoint because exit planning starts far too late.