VELICANSOLUTIONS
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Interim CEO · Operating Partner · Industrial Transformation
Velican Solutions works with owners, boards and investors when an industrial business needs experienced executive leadership for a defined period: to restore performance, integrate an acquisition, enter new markets, build operations or prepare the company for its next stage.
We take executive responsibility and deliver through the organisation.
Figures from Andrei Kravets’ executive roles. See track record.
When owners call us
The CEO has left, succession is unresolved or the business needs a temporary executive leader.
Revenue, EBITDA, margin, cash or execution are materially behind expectations.
A recently acquired business needs integration, a new operating model and clear management accountability.
The company is entering the GCC, Europe, Central Asia or North America and needs local commercial and operating infrastructure.
Production, CAPEX, localisation or supply-chain capacity has to be created or materially expanded.
A technically strong company needs better key-account management, pricing, channels or access to large strategic customers.
Mandates
Defined-term executive roles. Duration is agreed against the mandate and the transition plan.
We take the executive seat and carry the result.
For businesses behind plan on earnings, margin or cash.
Track record: EBITDA grown from about US$20M to about US$100M in an integrated lubricants business.
One management model, one P&L, one set of numbers.
Track record: TNK-BP, Bashneft and Rosneft lubricants businesses integrated into one P&L.
Building an operating business in a new market. Legal entities are one step of many.
Track record: operating companies set up and run in the US, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan.
For technically strong companies that under-sell.
Track record: 350-person commercial organisation rebuilt at Freight One; US$200M+ incremental EBITDA at TNK-BP.
Plants, capacity and logistics that customers can rely on.
Track record: US$200M capital programme; manufacturing built in Saudi Arabia.
Track record
Roles held by Andrei Kravets as an executive. These companies were employers, not Velican Solutions clients. Client engagements of Velican are confidential.
Early-stage energy technology business that needed international commercialisation and operating infrastructure.
Several legacy lubricants businesses operating inside a major energy group.
Major rail-freight company operating through a 15% market contraction.
Global industrial company establishing local manufacturing and distribution.
About
Andrei Kravets is an industrial CEO and Managing Director with more than 25 years of experience across chemicals, energy, manufacturing and transport infrastructure. He has held full P&L responsibility for businesses with revenues of up to US$1 billion and has led organisations through transformation, integration, international expansion and manufacturing scale-up.
CEO and General Director roles. Full P&L. Organisations of up to 1,000 direct employees.
Direct work with boards, shareholders and investment committees on performance, financing, capital allocation and international growth.
Europe · Middle East · North America · Central Asia. Based in Barcelona.
We step into the business, take responsibility and deliver the transition.
Who we work with
When the business has outgrown its management structure, or succession and professional management are needed.
For transformation, succession, international expansion or preparing a business for sale.
Portfolio company integration, performance improvement, leadership gaps and exit preparation.
Special situations, carve-outs, acquisitions, international expansion or temporary executive leadership.
How a mandate works
The owner or board sets the objective, authority, KPIs, governance, duration and exit criteria.
The Velican executive joins in an agreed management role and takes defined operating authority.
Management team, operations and resources work to agreed targets. Reporting goes to the board or owner.
Processes documented, organisation stable, permanent management appointed where needed, responsibilities transferred.
Operating principles
We carry operating responsibility for the result.
P&L, cash, customers, operations and people are reviewed before the transformation agenda is set.
The aim is normally to strengthen the organisation, keeping the people who can carry it.
Every interim mandate should leave the business able to run without the interim executive.
Contact
If you are considering an interim leadership mandate, integration, performance transformation or international expansion, the first discussion covers the situation, the expected outcome and the executive authority required.
Confidentiality is standard. An NDA can be put in place before any substantive information is exchanged.