Interim CEO & Board Director
A leadership vacuum. A board that needs weight. A transformation that will not move. These are not problems a recruitment process solves in time — they need an executive who arrives ready, immerses fast, and carries the decision from week one. Someone who has run the operation, not only advised on it.
Resilience is the foundation. Leadership is caring about the others. Skin in the game — always.
— Janis Vilums
The Mandate
Full executive authority when the business cannot wait for a permanent hire. I hold the seat — chairing the management team, facing investors, and owning the decisions that carry consequence. And because I have run the operation myself, the strategy I set is one the business can actually execute.
A non-executive seat that does more than attend. Governance, risk, and real challenge to management — from a director who reads the operation as well as the report, and knows which numbers a board is being shown and which it is not.
Where I Create Value
Full executive authority through leadership gaps, transitions, and crises.
Non-executive seat with governance weight and independent challenge.
Owning structural and cultural transformation personally, at CEO level.
On-site assessment before acquisition or investment. Beyond the financial statements — capacity, condition, and team capability, judged with an operator's eye.
Underperformance diagnosed where it actually occurs, then resolved. Systematic diagnosis before decisive action.
Building the reporting, controls, and board discipline that scale demands.
The Method
On-site from day one. Structured interviews at every level, the numbers reviewed, the operation walked in person. No diagnoses — only information gathered.
An unvarnished assessment to the board. Priorities ranked. A 90-day plan agreed.
Full leadership of the agreed priorities. The work is done — not overseen.
A structured transition to permanent leadership, with stronger managers than I found.
Contact
Leadership problems do not improve with time. An initial conversation costs nothing.