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Management Due Diligence
Contact: Alex Bezinge
www.alx-management.com alx@alx-management.com
Alex Bezinge has been the Founder & Managing Partner of ALX-MANAGEMENT Ltd since 2005. ALX is specialized in bringing strong value-added and fast Business Performance Improvement for underperforming companies (including restructuring and turnaround situation), across a broad spectrum of sectors and practice areas.
More specifically, ALX provides fully customized business management & advisory services such as: • Pre- or post investment company due diligence / diagnosis
• Special project management at CXO level (CEO, COO, CTO)
• Turnaround & restructuring management • Board member and board advisor
Typical clients requesting ALX services are: • PRIVATE EQUITY Funds (VC, distressed, buyout)
• Manufacturing INDUSTRIES • TECHNOLOGY start-up companies
Overall, the know-how and expertise of ALX is based on 11+ years of private equity throughout Europe (Investment Director, Fund Advisor), following 13 years of restructuring industrial and technology companies in senior management positions (CEO, COO, CTO).
Furthermore, ALX has developed a broad international network of experts and partners with a wide range of skill set.
ALX is active mostly in Europe, with business and manufacturing experience in US and Asia.
A combined management experience both in PRIVATE EQUITY (VC, distressed, buyout) and in INDUSTRIES (strategy & operations) is a KEY DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR of ALX
ALX Management provides strategic business support for a large selection of companies. Can you discuss how you would do this?
Following features are common to all ALX projects :
… industrial and technology sectors …requiring mix of technical + industrial + management + PE expertise. …very specific, fully customized (no copy & paste business model)
…requiring high flexibility, high reactivity … international scope
The broad spectrum of sectors and services offered by ALX is possible mainly because of following factors:
a)Alex has 24+ years of experience in high tech and industrial companies, both as executive and non executive director
b)Throughout these years, Alex’s career has evolved continuously through each major element of the business processes chain :
• Scientific research • Technology transfer development (R&D)
- research and
• Product development • Industrialisation and industrial engineering • Manufacturing • Business development • Financial controlling • General management
• Investment processes – M&A • Board membership
c) The related evolution of Alex’s roles and functions has been : • CTO • COO • CEO • Investment Director • Board member - Chairman • Fund Advisor – due diligence services • Interim manager - management services
How much does your support differ between each company type, e.g., industrial compared to technology / start-up companies?
START-UP Most start-up / technology companies completely underestimate the required efforts to move from basic or functional prototype to a fully industrialized product with well defined specifications in term of cost, performance, design, quality and reliability requirements, testing processes, etc...
Furthermore, lack of tight project management skills and experience is one of the major reasons for start-up to miss or postpone systematically milestones announced to board & investors.
In such cases, ALX bring assistance and support in relation with project management and development & industrialization processes
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