Failing strategies, executive departures, new market realities, distress situations, and the urgency to scale can all disrupt a company.
Our key services answer your needs, including transformative initiatives (e.g. turnaround and restructuring), strategic advisory, due diligence (pre-transaction), and transitional/interim leadership.
Find the right operating executive for your organization
A CXO Partner executive can immediately assess what’s needed, stabilize a situation, provide steady leadership, and execute a growth plan for your business.
Steady
Assess and stabilize at the most critical times in your business growth.
Reliable
Drive toward what’s most needed—especially on capital, cutbacks, and processes.
Effective
Implement new strategies, products, and technologies to unlock your growth opportunities.
Experienced C-Suite executives focused on delivering results for the mid-market
CXO Partners is an ensemble of C-suite executives who have successfully led multiple, enterprise-level organizations. As C-level operators and partner-quality consultants, we guide organizations through transformational improvements and fill critical leadership gaps. We cater our interim services for mid-market companies and startups scaling to the next stage.
For more than 20 years, the professionals of CXO Partners have provided executive leadership, advisory and consulting services for more than 5,000 businesses and private equity firms. This work has included scores of IPOs, debt and equity raises, acquisitions, technology integrations, new customer sales and exits with a total value of more than $6B.
No matter your needs, we’ve done it before.
Your business has unique challenges, but we have decades of C-suite, industry-specific experience to meet your challenges. These are the executive roles we can fill and the industries in which we specialize.
Strategy, Transformation, Enterprise Value, Executive Operations & Growth
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Commercial Officer
- Chief Revenue Officer
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Chief Growth Officer
- Executive Director
- General Manager
Finance
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Accounting Officer
- Controller
- Financial Systems
- Other key roles
Technology Strategy Services
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Technology Officer
- Chief Product Officer
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Chief Data Officer
- Chief Digital Officer
Supply Chain
- Chief Supply Chain Officer
- Fulfillment Strategy
- Lean Six Sigma
- Sales Inventory and Operations Planning
- Risk Management/Near-Shore Solutions
- Sustainability
- Omni Channel Distribution
- Co-Manufacturing Partnerships
Industries
- Software & Technology
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Business Services, including Legal Tech
- Financial Services, including FinTech
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Industrials
- Manufacturing
- Renewables
- Utilities
- Consumer & Retail
Let’s begin
We enable businesses to focus on core competencies by providing flexible, customized professional services supporting our clients’ strategic objectives.
Schedule a 15-minute call with our team.
We’ll listen to your needs and quickly provide options.
Your interim executive is ready to make an impact right away.
Gain leadership insights
Middle Market Smart – Episode 5
In this episode of Middle Market Smart, we sit down with Ken Powell, who shares how middle-market sales leaders can build a healthier pipeline, qualify the right opportunities, and create forecasts they can actually trust.
Middle Market Smart – Episode 4
In this episode of Middle Market Smart, we sit down with Mark Livingston, who shares how finance leaders can stop fearing AI and start using it to augment the people they already have, automating routine, rules-based work so their team can finally focus on analysis, forecasting, and strategy.
CXO Partners Announces Expanded Supply Chain Management Practice, Delivering Integrated Solutions for Middle-Market Growth
CXO Partners Supply Chain Management Practice unites supply chain operations with finance and technology to transform middle-market performance.
Middle Market Smart – Episode 3 (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 2 of this conversation on Middle Market Smart, Mark Ianni and Mark Beliczky of CXO Partners return to break down what experienced operators actually do differently after the deal closes.
Middle Market Smart – Episode 3 (Part 1 of 2)
In this episode of Middle Market Smart, our team sat down with Mark Ianni and Mark Beliczky of CXO Partners, two executives with decades of experience on both sides of the deal table.
AI Won’t Fix a Strategy Problem
Mid-market companies are under more pressure than ever to adopt AI and modernize their technology. Most are going about it backwards. Here is a practical framework for getting it right.
Middle Market Smart – Episode 2
In this episode of Middle Market Smart, we sit down with Tracy Deuell and shares how leaders can stop chasing every new tool and instead focus on building capabilities that drive real business outcomes.
The Great Divergence: Why the Middle Market Is Splitting
The U.S. middle market is undergoing a quiet but powerful transformation. Long viewed as the economic engine of American business, the middle market is now experiencing something different: fragmentation.
Middle Market Smart – Episode 1
In this episode of Middle Market Smart, Mike Casey, Co-Founder of CXO Partners, breaks down how private equity, AI, and digital transformation are reshaping the lower, core, and upper middle market.
The Middle Market Exit Imperative
Middle Market companies are more attractive than ever to the PE market. Here’s what to do about it.
Results from the clients we’ve served
The breadth and depth of their assessment was exactly what we needed. It was the catalyst to make some changes, but more importantly, it reinvigorated our organization and impelled us to take action. [See Case Study>>]
— George Debakey, Jr.
Chairman & Co-Founder, AP Networks
The expertise and leadership from CXO Partners was invaluable to Cloudli. Your strategic transformational roadmap drove quick wins and long-term improvements, while your seamless transition of support to the new leadership ensured stability for the teams.
— Jamie Minner, CEO, Cloudli
We leveraged [CXO Partners] CFO services to grow. They helped us package two businesses that led to successful M&A exits. I can’t recommend them highly enough.
— Alexei Rojanets, President & CCO, Aptitude Health