2025– · Senior Manager, Business Development & Partnerships
A disciplined path to inorganic growth
A screening method that spends executive attention only where it counts.
Challenge
Growth ambitions that organic sales alone may not reach call for acquisitions or investments. Screening without a method wastes leadership time and invites bias toward whatever is most visible.
Strategic thinking
A tiered framework makes early filtering cheap and saves deep diligence for a small number of candidates with real strategic fit.
Action
- Built a three-tier investment and target evaluation framework based on strategic fit, market attractiveness, synergy and commercial criteria.
- Screened a broad long-list of potential companies and advanced a shortlist toward executive evaluation and Board Investment Memo preparation.
- Prepared business cases, opportunity assessments and market-entry hypotheses for new business lines and potential investments.
Business outcome
- Active initiativeA repeatable screening process that feeds board-level investment decisions.
Lessons learned
Say no early and cheaply, so that yes can be thorough.
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