Interim CxO
Senior functional leadership — CFO, COO, CMO, CRO, Chief Strategy Officer, and other roles — placed into companies during transitions, with a clear handoff to the permanent hire.
When buying time is more valuable than hiring fast
A senior functional role becomes open, or becomes inadequate, before the permanent answer is clear. The instinct is to hire fast. The cost of hiring fast into a senior role is almost always higher than the cost of buying time to hire well.
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The Interim CxO practice places senior operators into open or transitional roles — sixty-plus experienced functional leaders across finance, operations, strategy, marketing, and revenue. The interim is not a placeholder. The interim does the work, stabilizes the function, and helps the company define what the permanent hire should actually be.
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How we engage
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Initial functional assessment — a structured read on the state of the function before any interim work begins.
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Stabilization — operating the function day to day, closing gaps that the prior leadership left, and resetting the cadence the team runs against.
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Decision-grade data — building or rebuilding the analytics, reporting, and operating signals the function needs in order to be governed.
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Plans, models, and forecasts that survive scrutiny — from investors, from auditors, and from the board.
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Transaction support — through fundraising, M&A, restructuring, or other transactions where the function in transition is the function under pressure.
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Handoff — defining the permanent role, supporting the search, and ensuring the new hire inherits a function that is in shape, not in crisis.
Adam Savage is an accomplished executive and investor with 20+ years of experience driving profitable growth, operational excellence, and digital transformation across global industrial markets. He served as Chief Operating Officer at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Chief Digital Officer at Hexagon Geosystems, and Vice President at Hexagon Mining, leading technology-driven transformation across manufacturing, geospatial, and mining, after advising Fortune 500 clients on operational efficiency and M&A value capture at Deloitte. He now invests in and scales AI-native industrial technology businesses that unlock measurable productivity, safety, and sustainability outcomes.