High Impact Projects. Compelling Cost-Benefits.
Project Management
Ken managed down a client's casualty insurance exposure
Benefits: Released $400,000 collateral held by an insurer
Cost: < 10% of the recovered funds
Effort: 1-year, part-time
Ken tracked down and compelled 300 former employees of a public energy company to transfer $4 million of abandoned 401k holdings to personal accounts
Benefits: A clean IRS tax opinion removed a hurdle to a successful management buy-out
Cost: < 1/2 of 1% of disbursed asset value
Effort: 6-months, part-time
Project Management
"The founders couldn't have done that."
Efi Arazi, CEO
Imedia Corporation
Ken arranged bids by competing banks for $200 million interest rate hedges
Benefits: Saved real estate developers > $1 million in broker fees; protected projects from rate volatility
Cost: < 10% of client savings
Effort: Many hours over the course of 18 months
Ken re-negotiated contracts for two cash-strapped clients
Benefits: Saved $1.6 million, extending their ramp between venture funding rounds
Cost: < 1% of client savings
Effort: 1-month, part-time
Each challenge is unique. But they have in common the need to preserve scarce capital, urgency and no map to success nor executive time to supervise. Experience and initiative make the difference.