Interim CEO and COO Leadership · Confidential Counsel · Ottawa, Serving All of Canada

We take the seat.
We run the company.
Then we make ourselves unnecessary.

When the top seat opens or the stakes rise, a seasoned CEO or COO steps in, or stands beside you as confidential counsel. Every engagement is built to end the same way: a company that is stronger, and no longer dependent on us.

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The Altevere Curve

Every engagement has an end date.
We are built to leave.

Every Altevere interim engagement is designed so that dependence on us rises only as far as it must, then falls to zero, while your own capability keeps climbing. The day we are no longer needed is the day the mandate is complete.

The Altevere Curve A chart over three phases, Stabilize, Lead and transfer, and Transition. Dependence on Altevere rises, peaks, and falls to zero at handover, while the company's own capability rises steadily and ends higher. Dependence on Altevere Your company's own capability Zero. By design. 01 Stabilize Interim Leadership Mandate 02 Lead and transfer Leadership Continuity Playbook 03 Transition Transition Dossier
Lead. A real mandate, real authority, and decisions made, not deferred.
Transfer. Knowledge, relationships, and routines move to your people while we are still in the room.
Hand back. A written handover for your next leader, and a company that does not need us to run.

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Who We Are

A consulting firm.
Working alongside your leadership team.

Altevere provides interim leadership and confidential advisory to SMEs through defined mandates, bringing the right senior-level experience to the business at the right time, without requiring a permanent executive hire.

Our all-female team of CEOs and COOs steps in as interim leaders, or stands beside a sitting leader as trusted counsel. We work alongside SME leadership teams to provide the expertise, perspective, and capacity needed to navigate specific challenges, opportunities, and stages of growth.

99.7%of Canadian employer businesses are small or medium-sizedISED Canada
$1Tin new investment Canada's national plan aims to unlock over five years, creating more moments when growing companies need senior leadership
1consulting agreement for each engagement, with one firm accountable for the result

On every engagement, our CEOs and COOs share what they know, so you benefit from the experience of the whole team. We start by diagnosing what is holding your business back, scope the engagement around your goals, and stay accountable for the result.

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"Our team has already done the work your company needs next. We bring that experience alongside your leadership team, and we stay accountable until the job is done."
Laura A. Gray, Founder & CEO, Altevere

What We Offer

Our services.
Two roles. Two ways in.

Inflection points are the moments a business changes shape: a leadership transition, a push to scale, a raise, a sale. We meet them in two ways. In the Seat: an interim CEO or COO leads full time. Beside the Seat: confidential CEO or COO counsel for a leader who stays in the role. Each is a defined Altevere engagement, alongside your leadership team and accountable to the firm. See how each works →

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Interim CEO
In the Seat
For the moment the top seat opens or changes hands: a founder stepping back, a sudden departure, a succession in progress. An Altevere CEO leads the company full time, steadies the team and the board, and hands over cleanly to your permanent leader.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
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Interim COO
In the Seat
For the moment operations need a leader: a COO has left, growth has outrun your systems, or a transaction needs integrating. An Altevere COO runs operations full time, builds the cadence and accountability that hold, and hands over cleanly.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
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CEO Advisory
Beside the Seat
For a sitting CEO facing a specific moment: a raise, a sale, a restructuring, a hard decision. Confidential, one-to-one counsel from a CEO who has been in your chair, as a single engagement or on an ongoing subscription.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
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COO Advisory
Beside the Seat
For a sitting COO, or a CEO whose operations are straining. Confidential counsel from a COO who has scaled a business before, as a single engagement or on an ongoing subscription.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
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Our Executive Bench

Two seats at the core.
Five more executives within reach.

Altevere leads with CEOs and COOs. When a mandate calls for more, a Chief Marketing, Financial, Scientific, Regulatory, or Commercial Officer is available for client engagements and across our ecosystem of trusted partners. Our Chief Commercial Officer expertise often aligns with CEO and COO advisory, where business development and partnerships support the leadership work.

Our core offering
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In the Seat or Beside the Seat, with a team behind her.
Also available for client engagements and across our ecosystem
CMO

Chief Marketing Officer

Brand, positioning, and the demand that follows.

CFO

Chief Financial Officer

Capital, controls, and financial leadership.

CSO

Chief Scientific Officer

Scientific strategy and R&D leadership.

CRO

Chief Regulatory Officer

Regulatory strategy, compliance, and approvals.

CCO

Chief Commercial Officer

Business development, partnerships, and revenue. Often aligned with CEO and COO advisory.

Each executive is brought in by introduction, scoped with you, and led alongside your Altevere CEO or COO. Specialist engagements are scoped and priced separately and agreed with you first.

Where We Step In

At an inflection point?
We step in.

Our focus is established companies at inflection points in their growth: a leadership gap, a new level of scale, fresh capital, or a transition. The leadership moments that SMEs face are the same in every industry, so we work wherever the need is greatest.

Companies at Inflection Points

If your company is established and revenue-generating, and you need an interim CEO or COO, or confidential counsel beside your current leader, we would like to hear what is happening.

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Our Process

A clear start. A clear finish. A leader in the seat from day one.

We take the decisions with you, or for you, and we hand back a stronger company. One agreement, one point of contact, one firm accountable for the result: Altevere.

01
Intake
The Relationship Capital Audit produces your first relationship map.
02
Mandate
A defined scope, a named executive, and a clear end point, under one agreement.
03
Lead
We take the seat or stand beside it. Decisions get made, not deferred, and the team stops waiting.
04
Review and handover
We show what moved from fragile to strong, and close with a clean transition.

Why Altevere

We take the seat.
We own the result.

When the top seat is empty or the pressure is on, a plan on paper is not enough. Altevere is one team of senior CEOs and COOs who have run companies. We lead or counsel on a defined mandate, put our name on the outcome, and leave you stronger and independent of us. And when your next challenge arises, we would welcome the call.

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Senior experience, applied
Every member of our team has held a senior executive role and solved the problems our clients bring us. Our CEOs and COOs have run companies, and they work as one team on your engagement.
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We diagnose before we touch anything
We start with the Relationship Capital Audit, then scope the engagement and choose the executive best placed to lead it.
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One firm to hold accountable
You are not managing contractors. You hold one consulting agreement for each engagement, one point of contact, and one firm accountable for outcomes: Altevere.
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Supported behind the scenes
Every executive is supported behind the scenes by our confidential team, so you engage only the expertise you need and still benefit from the experience of the whole team.

Begin the Conversation

Tell us the problem.
We will scope the project.

Tell us what is holding the business back. We will tell you honestly whether it is a project we can solve, and what solving it would look like.

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