Operating partners since 2009 · Global reach

We run mid‑size businesses
like we own them.

PresumeNothing is a global firm of senior operators — former CEOs, CFOs, CTOs and general counsels — embedded directly into the businesses we advise. Facts, not assumptions. Decisions, not decks.

20+ yrs
C-suite operating experience
Global reach
Engagements across four continents
Senior operators
Embedded, not advising from afar
Family-owned
Specialty · succession & exits
Selected work

A record of
what we’ve built.

Details anonymised where required. Specifics preserved everywhere else. Read it as a record — not a brochure.

Engaged202211 months

Rebuilt a multi-national manufacturer’s supply chain, treasury and leadership.

Family-owned sporting-goods manufacturer with staff in Serbia, production in China, and sales across the US and EU. We restructured the supply chain, rebuilt treasury operations, made targeted HR changes, and layered on disciplined change management.

Manufacturing engagement
ManufacturingFamily business
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Engaged20236 months

Coached a PE-owned sales organisation into consistent quota attainment.

Insurance resale company with revolving sales leadership. We diagnosed the root issue, built a boot-camp coaching programme for the sales manager, and the team hit target quarter after quarter for the first time in years.

Insurance engagement
InsurancePE-owned
Sales org Read engagement →
Engaged202414 months

Prepared a complex family technology company for a clean exit.

No succession plan in place after the patriarch’s passing. We stabilised the business, simplified operations, implemented the basics that had been skipped, prepared the offering, and matched the family to the right investors.

Technology engagement
TechnologySuccession
Family exit Read engagement →
Engaged2025Ongoing

Built the operating backbone for a Series A aviation startup.

Founders had capital and momentum but no back office. We brought in fractional CFO, general counsel and HR leadership so they could keep shipping while the business caught up to the product.

Aviation engagement
AviationStartup
Series A Read engagement →
What we do

Operators,
not consultants.

You hire the firm. We bring the right operators for what the business actually needs. No sub-contractors, no repackaged frameworks.

How we work

Three phases.
No pretending.

Most engagements are scoped within two weeks. Fixed fee or hourly — whichever makes it easier to say yes and harder for scope to creep.

Phase 01

Listen.

Stakeholder interviews, document review, walking the floor. We find the real problem, not the one on the whiteboard.

Weeks 1–2 · fixed fee
Phase 02

Decide.

A written scope with deliverables, timelines and accountable milestones. You see the bill before the work starts.

Week 2 · deliverable
Phase 03

Do.

The operators go in. As short as a few days for an assessment, as long as 24 months for a full transformation.

Week 3 onward · embedded
Client voice
“PresumeNothing helped me determine the value of the company I built for fifteen years. I got the right price for my company.”
Owner · Technology company · Sold 2023

Let’s figure out what’s actually happening.

Thirty minutes. No slides, no follow-up sales motion. Two operators, one conversation, and an honest view of whether we can help.

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Global engagements
HQ · Chicago, USA
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