Mulwala WaterOperating & Investment

SPONSOR-BACKED COMPANIES

Between the underwriting case and what's actually happening.

Senior operating capacity into portfolio companies, from post-close through to exit readiness. We work side by side with management rather than over them, we report on a cadence your IC can use, and every mandate has a transition-out date written into it before we start.

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What we usually find.

  • The value creation plan is sound; execution against it has stalled below the CEO.
  • Management is capable and busy — and busy is not the same as against the plan.
  • The board gets narrative, not a scoreboard tied to the EBITDA bridge.
  • Nobody owns the operating cadence between board meetings.

What we do about it.

We take a defined operating mandate, run it to a weekly scoreboard tied to the underwriting case, and report on a cadence your investment committee can use — through to exit readiness and a transition out. The plays that apply most here:

Systems

Install the numbers, the scoreboard and the bench so it runs without you.

  • Single Source of Truth
  • The Scoreboard
  • Handover
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Growth

Grow on what already works before betting on what doesn't.

  • Au Naturel
  • Big Foot
  • Strategic Reset
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Turnaround

Stabilize the cash, cut to the core, rebuild trust in that order.

  • Cash First
  • Cut to the Core
  • Unit Triage
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How this usually starts.

THE READ

3 weeks

One operator, on site and in the numbers.

  • A written point of view on what is actually holding the business back, ranked by impact
  • A clear view of what to fix first — and what to leave alone for now
  • A straight answer on whether you need us after that, including when you don't

THE BUILD

8 to 14 weeks

One operator leading, specialists in and out as the work needs them.

  • One play, run properly, start to finish
  • The system installed and your people trained on it
  • Handover documents, so it keeps running when we go

IN THE SEAT

3 to 12 months

An operating seat — COO, GM, or alongside yours.

  • A defined mandate and a scoreboard we both look at every week
  • We hire, fire, decide and are accountable for the number
  • A leaving date, written into the scope before we start

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Twenty minutes, no deck. We'll tell you whether this is a problem we're good at.

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