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Mandates & roles

Working alongside PE funds and family offices

I work with sponsors, families, and their portfolio companies where capital, operations, and behaviour must move together. That can be as a senior operator inside a company, as a mandate-style partner around direct deals, or as a structured capital architect supporting existing teams.

Primary geography: Southeast Asia, GCC, and East Africa, with selective mandates in Europe.

Typical scope: portfolio companies with meaningful revenue · platforms and direct deals from c. $10m+ · principals who think in multi-year value creation, not quarters.

Engagement archetypes

Portfolio company mandate

I take an operating role inside a company — typically as interim CEO, CFO, COO, or Head of Structured Capital.

  • 6–18 month horizon with clearly defined remit.
  • Focus on cash, working capital, pricing, capital stack, and operating cadence.
  • Useful where the business is real, but the current engine is not good enough.

Principal-side deal partner

I help principals originate, shape, and filter direct deals and co-investments that fit their mandate and risk appetite.

  • Combines commercial judgement, structured-finance tools, and operator intuition.
  • Focus on real-economy businesses, platforms, and income-generating assets.
  • Can extend into light-touch monitoring and board / committee work.

Capital & funding architecture

I design capital stacks and funding engines around the underlying economics of a business or platform.

  • Equity, preferred, and private credit used as tools—not products in search of a story.
  • From first facilities and notes to more repeatable programmes.
  • Emphasis on structures operators can live with and investors can underwrite.

Have a specific deal or situation?

Email contact@ndersen.xyz with a short description of the company, situation, and time horizon.

Roles I actually take

Language varies by fund and family, but most of my work fits into one of these shapes.

Inside portfolio companies

  • Interim / mandate-style CEO or MD.
  • Interim / mandate-style CFO or COO.
  • Head of Structured Capital / Funding for platforms with complex funding needs.
  • Special situations lead around liquidity, covenants, or stakeholder complexity.

On the principal / fund side

  • Principal-side advisor for families on direct deals and income sleeves.
  • Mandate-style partner for funds building a thematic sleeve (e.g. real-economy credit, platforms).
  • Operating-partner-style role for a defined set of companies or a specific thesis.

I also consider permanent principal-level appointments — CEO, MD, or COO — where the mandate is concrete and equity participation (sweet equity or MIP) is part of the structure.

When this works – and when it does not

A good fit

  • Portfolio companies with real revenue and assets, not pre-product experiments.
  • Principals who want clear, sometimes uncomfortable, views on what will and will not work.
  • Situations where both capital and operations need to change, not just a slide deck.
  • Funds and families prepared to define a mandate and let someone own it for a period.

Not a good fit

  • Pure advisory roles where no one inside is accountable for execution.
  • Early-stage idea validation without capital or a realistic path to customers.
  • "Spray and pray" deal pipelines with no willingness to narrow focus.
  • Mandates designed primarily for marketing rather than long-term compounding of capital.

Economics & process

I prefer structures that put skin in the game. The blend between base compensation, co-investment, and equity participation depends on the mandate, but the principle is consistent: my economics should be aligned with the value I create, not the hours I bill.

  • Clear remit and measurement before we start, including what "success" looks like.
  • Transparent base economics for my time and team, with upside linked to outcomes you actually care about.
  • No incentive structures that encourage short-term optics over long-term value.

For search firms, I am happy to work within your standard frameworks, provided the underlying mandate is concrete and sponsor-backed.

Next step

If you have a specific mandate or role in mind, email contact@ndersen.xyz with a short description of:

  • The situation or company.
  • Your role (fund, family, principal, search firm).
  • Time horizon and what "good" would look like.

Private Room

A private room contains detailed transaction lists, mandate summaries, references, and example reporting. Access is available for serious search assignments and principal-side mandates.