Every SME hits the moment where something is breaking and nobody is sure whether they need someone to run it or someone to think it through with them. Tell us what is breaking. We design the engagement and name the executive. Counsel suits established companies from about $2M in revenue; a full-time interim is typically the right fit from about $5M. We do not work with startups. In the Seat: an interim CEO or COO leads full time. Beside the Seat: confidential counsel for a leader who stays in the role. Each is a defined Altevere engagement, on its own or alongside the other. See how we engage.
Accountable
One agreement and one point of contact. Altevere puts its name on the result, so you are never managing the outcome alone.
Experienced
Every Altevere CEO and COO has held the seat before, and brings that judgment to your decisions from the first week.
Hands-on
We lead or counsel on a defined mandate, so the team stops waiting and the work moves.
Altevere
A CEO or COO who has run companies, accountable under one agreement, and built to hand back. And when your next challenge arises, we would welcome the call.
Direction, culture, board confidence, and the calls that decide where the company goes next, from an executive who has sat in that seat before.
An Altevere CEO does not observe. She leads the company full time while a founder steps back or a successor is found, or she stands beside a CEO who is still in the role as the one person they can think out loud with.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
Where CEOs call Altevere
A founder or CEO is preparing to leave, and the company has to be ready to run without them.
A sale, merger, acquisition, or raise is coming, and leadership has to hold steady through it.
The company has reached a point where the next call shapes its future.
Your CEO is gone, going, or stepping back, and the company cannot wait. An Altevere CEO takes the seat full time, steadies the team and the board, supports the board in defining the role and overseeing the search, and hands over cleanly to your permanent CEO.
You are running the company, and there is one call you cannot afford to get wrong: a board conflict, a raise, a sale, a pivot. Test it with someone who has made that call before, before it reaches your team, your board, or the market.
Paired most often with the COO, so strategy and operations pull in the same direction.
When a company reaches a critical point in its growth, it needs someone who has been there before.
Systems, discipline, and accountability that turn strategy into something that ships.
An Altevere COO builds the backbone you never had time to build. She runs operations full time while you fill the role or work through a transition, or stands beside your COO or CEO when growth is outrunning what the business can reliably deliver.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
Where COOs call Altevere
Growth is outrunning the systems that support it.
A transaction has changed the shape of the business.
The business has to stay steady while people change.
Your COO has left, the role never existed, or a deal has landed on a business that is not ready for it. An Altevere COO runs operations full time, installs the cadence and accountability that hold, and hands over cleanly.
You, or your COO, are carrying too much, and the next decision on systems, structure, or scale will either hold or crack. Test it with someone who has built operations before.
Paired most often with the CEO, so strategy and operations pull in the same direction.
Whether the next chapter is a family successor, a management buyout, or a sale, the value of the company depends on whether it can run without you.
An Altevere CEO or COO prepares the business to run without its founder, either as your interim leader in the seat or beside you as confidential counsel. We work alongside your accountants, lawyers, and M&A advisors so every part of the transition moves together.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
The founder is stepping back, or a sale or succession is underway, and the business cannot lose momentum. An Altevere interim CEO or COO runs the company day to day, steadies your team, customers, and lenders, and hands over cleanly to your successor or new owner.
You are still running the company and preparing to leave it. Build the leadership layer, the operating rhythm, and the documented processes that make the business transferable, with a CEO or COO who has seen a transition through.
Altevere leads the leadership side of the transition. We coordinate with the advisors who handle the transaction itself.
You are right to worry. Will the business come to depend on an outsider? Will sensitive information leave with her? Every In the Seat engagement is designed around exactly those fears, so the company ends stronger and not dependent.
A clear mandate agreed up front: priorities, authority, boundaries, and what success looks like. We identify the knowledge, relationships, and dependencies that sit with one person.
Interim Leadership Mandate
She leads the business while strengthening the people and systems around her: decisions documented, management routines in place, key relationships passed to your permanent team.
Leadership Continuity Playbook
A structured handover to your next leader or the returning founder, with open decisions and risks recorded and a forward plan for the successor, followed by an agreed review to confirm it has worked.
Transition Dossier
The loneliest decisions are the ones no one around you can weigh in on. Get confidential, ongoing counsel from a CEO or COO who has been in your chair, on a schedule you can count on.
Partner
A steady peer relationship with a CEO or COO.
Priority
Counsel built for high-stakes stretches.
Subscriptions begin with a six-month minimum, then continue month to month. Need a single conversation instead? One-off counsel days are available.
Altevere leads with CEOs and COOs. Around them sits a closed, selective network, because the companies we serve sometimes need more than a seat filled. When they do, they should not have to go looking.
Brand, positioning, and the demand that follows.
Capital, controls, and financial leadership.
Scientific strategy and R&D leadership.
Regulatory strategy, compliance, and approvals.
Business development, partnerships, and revenue. Often aligned with CEO and COO advisory.
Select executive network
A small circle of senior specialists we know and trust, available as secondary team members for specific projects when a mandate calls for them. They are not a menu to order from. They are brought in by introduction, scoped with you, and led alongside your Altevere CEO or COO.
Partner ecosystem
A trusted set of partner firms and advisors across the disciplines a growing company eventually needs. We introduce the right one at the right moment, with context, so you are not starting cold with a stranger.
Introductions are selective and made as the work requires. Altevere does not provide open referrals. Specialist engagements are scoped and priced separately, and agreed with you before anyone is brought in.
One conversation. We will tell you honestly whether you need an executive in the seat or a peer beside it, and what happens next.
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