Leadership-Dedicated Staffing
1. Our leadership exclusively performs all of our engagements. We bring more than 35+ years of Senior Partner-level experience to every IT-ODD engagement – including 18+ years of experience specifically performing IT-ODD on 300+ middle-market companies for 75+ Private Equity Firms.
We do not leverage our engagements utilizing lesser experienced personnel, though as necessary, we may augment our team with independent external advisors that may collaborate either during an engagement or post-engagement in order to provide a comprehensive scope of services.
- By comparison, nearly all financial due diligence or IT consultancy providers will leverage their IT-Due Diligence staff, usually without committing their IT M&A practice leadership to your engagement.
- While a trusted “retired” CIO or other corporate IT personnel might be similarly experienced, Aqualis Advisors will commit the equivalent with a “non-retired” specialist that also has significant business management and M&A consulting experience in order to provide a perspective beyond just the tactical technology.
- While utilization of IT leadership from within an existing portfolio might appear to be an obvious resource and these individuals may be experts in their area of focus, they will rarely have the breadth and depth of experience necessary to conduct strategically-focused IT-ODD or have a sufficient experience base from which to anticipate potential complexities associated with each transaction.