Investment Readiness
Get the business ready to raise or sell, on your terms.
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For Business Owners & Founders
You built the business. We help you grow it, transform it, or exit it well.
Investment readiness, value creation, and transformation for owners and founders in maritime, transport, and logistics. Operator-led, and priced for a company your size.
Operator to operator
We speak operator, not consultant
You know your business better than any advisor. You built it. We are not here to talk down to you or hand you a deck. Our founder has sat in the operator's chair, run the fleet or the yard, made payroll, and carried the same weight you carry now. When we look at your business, we look at it the way you do.
Wherever you are
We meet you there
You do not have to be selling to work with us. Pick the path that fits where you are.
Grow
You're not ready to sell. You want to build value, margin, and a stronger commercial engine first.
Value creationTransform
You want to professionalize how the business runs, its processes, systems, and operating model.
TransformationExit
You're thinking about a sale or recapitalization, and you want to prepare and sell it well.
Investment readinessHow we help
The work behind the paths
We work with owners worldwide. For hands-on operating and interim roles, we focus where we can be on the ground.
Value Creation & Growth
Margin, commercial, and operational levers before you go to market.
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Reshape how the business runs, not just what the deck says.
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What you walk away with
An investment-readiness assessment: what a buyer or investor will probe, and where you're exposed.
A value-gap analysis with a prioritized list of improvements before a sale.
A transformation roadmap with owners, milestones, and cadence.
A clear view of your likely value story and how to strengthen it.
How we work
Sized to your business, not a template
A short diagnostic first
We start with a focused read on where the business stands. No six-figure commitment to find out if we can help.
A focused engagement
Weekly updates and a clear current-state to future-state plan, scaled to your company.
On the ground where it counts
We work with owners worldwide. For hands-on operating and interim roles, we focus where we can be on the ground.
What it feels like
What working with us feels like
Priced for your size
Sized to your business, not a six-figure consulting bill and a deck full of theory.
Plain language
No jargon wall. We say the real thing plainly, the way an operator would.
Operator judgment
Advice from someone who has actually run one of these businesses, not just modeled it.
Honest, even when it costs us
If you're not ready, we will tell you, and tell you what to fix first.
Track record
What our founding team has done
Our founder has built and professionalized commercial functions from scratch and turned cost centers into profit centers. We have been in your shoes.
130%
EBITDA growth in 15 months
$1.3bn
Largest transaction worked through
5
Exits delivered
$1bn+
Enterprise value shaped
- Grew EBITDA by more than 130% in 15 months as regional CEO of a global maritime services group, rebuilding a commercial pipeline from near zero to over $30M.
- As chief commercial officer of a PE-owned marine services company, delivered several consecutive years of 50 to 77% revenue and EBITDA growth, executed six bolt-on acquisitions across three continents, and helped deliver a successful exit.
- Worked through four private-equity ownership rounds at a global ship management group, including a $1.3bn transaction.
- Across a 25-year operating career: five exits, more than ten bolt-on acquisitions, and over $1bn in enterprise value shaped.
Figures reflect the founding team's operator experience prior to Navex.
Why us
Why not a bank, a consultant, or a data house
Not a bank
A bank brokers the sale and moves on. We help you build the business worth selling, and stay through it.
Not a consultant
A consultant hands you a deck and leaves. We have run this, and we help you do the work.
Not a data house
A data house sells you a benchmark. We tell you what it means for your company and your next step.
Plan your next move
Let's start with a conversation, not a pitch.