Surviving in a harsh world of scarce resources is difficult enough. Complex business models require attention to the essentials in order to achieve sustainability.
Kaaterskil Management is a strategy and management consulting practice helping start-up and middle-market clients adapt to new realities and find opportunities in the midst of challenge. Since 1990, we have specialized in operational turnarounds, financial restructurings and organizational transformations. Our relationships are built on our core values of trust, credibility and performance. International experience helps bring depth and breadth to each client solution.
Trust is the foundation upon which all successful partnerships are based. No solution can be meaningful or lasting otherwise, and we endlessly strive to deliver on the trust our clients place in us.
We are committed to and invested in the success of each client and believe that the personal success of each individual and constituency is key to the overall success of any endeavor. We value transparency and open communication and have a record of aligning objectives among parties with divergent and conflicting needs. Our focus is on improving value, not simply on cutting costs, and we work to ensure that the goals of the company, its lenders and its stakeholders are met.
Simply put, your business is our business, and we are in the success business.
We believe that our success is derived from the desire to understand each client's needs as if they were our own. This approach has given us an appreciation for the sales, resource and organizational capacities that each company must face, reconcile and surmount.
Coupled with intense listening and superior analysis, our work is objective and results-oriented. Our experience with a wide range of businesses facing various degrees of challenge gives us the ability to bring creativity and enthusiasm to each assignment. We eschew a cookie-cutter approach and look instead at the nuances so that solutions are most effective and reflect your specific business and your unique needs.
Our work involves fundamental issues of survival and sustainability.
We are committed to developing strategies that complement each client's unique situation and culture, and to providing solutions that can be implemented rapidly in the real world. Our focus on execution and follow-through often involves working alongside our clients day-to-day to ensure that solutions can be internalized for long-term success. We have substantial operating experience and understand the challenges in bringing about change even in the most stressful situations.
Stabilization and resolution are dependent as much on effective communication as on financial and operational change. We are experienced communicators and have a history of successful negotiation with creditor, owner and collective bargaining constituencies.
We have substantial relationships in sourcing capital and debt financing in North America and Europe. Our ability to bring our own lending and investment resources to bear is often a key to a successful outcome, and we have successful experience with alternative and creative financing strategies.
Blair Caple has nearly twenty years experience developing and implementing turnaround, restructuring and crisis management plans for domestic and international organizations and founded Kaaterskil Management during the Boston real estate crisis and subsequent national recession in 1990.
Mr. Caple specializes in operational and financial restructurings and has been a renewal, turnaround and crisis management advisor for dozens of companies. He was recently profiled in CFO Magazine. His industry experience includes Business Services, Financial Services and Financial Advisory, Travel and Hospitality, Sports and Entertainment, Distribution, Retail and Apparel, Government and Nonprofit, Research and Industrial Process, and Real Estate and Construction.
Mr. Caple holds a bachelor's degree from Tufts University and is a registered architect. He is a high altitude mountaineer and ice climber. He currently resides in Wellesley, MA.
Performance and results have always been a core value. Advisors are expensive but often ineffectual, and good ideas frequently end up in the dustbin of history due to poor implementation. We are intensely interested in the difference between talking and execution.
We are rooted in our preoccupation with genuine results. We believe that good thinking, planning and communicaiton are not enough. Only an in-depth and realistic understanding of capacity, opportunities and limitations along with a determination to see things through will show meaningful results. In our work, we look beyond averting or resolving a crisis for long-term sustainability and return.
Everything a business is and does is reflected in its financial performance. The quality of its management, the dedication and effectiveness of its workforce, the efficiency of its business processes and the richness of its culture are as apparent to us as its return on investment and stakeholder value.
Kaaterskil Management helps clients maximize their effectiveness through the development of efficient business controls and improved quality of information. We work extensively with clients building planning and reporting tools that reflect their unique operations and abilities, transforming the ability to take advantage of change before it's too late.
We understand cash at a visceral level. Our experience managing cash flow and short-term financing is both broad and deep. We will work to strengthen your supply chain, address your critical cash needs and build your working capital.
Our connection between finance and passion builds powerful communication strategies for existing and potential sources of capital, and helps clients meet their critical liquidity challenges.
Sustainability is at the core of Kaaterskil Management's practice and we have contributed unique, innovative insights into the special needs of a range of organizations facing various degrees of distress for nearly twenty years.
In recent months, the economic cycle has raised the stakes for many businesses and has made survival a tenuous goal for many enterprises, particularly those with a fragile supply-chain or financial weakness or covenant breach.
Kaaterskil Management focuses on refining an organization's ability to deliver services as efficiently and effectively as possible. Stabilization efforts focus on maintaining core capabilities while not sacrificing capacity for regrowth.
We work rapidly to build partnerships with key constituencies. Our approach seeks to blend traditional turnaround stabilization with the goal not just of short-term survival but to re-engineer the business model for long-term sustainability and growth.
The need for excellence is not dependent on size, capital structure or economic cycle. Resource limitations and demands for increased quality and quantity of services can undermine the ability of organizations to manage and be effective. Entrenched staff may suffer burnout or be resistant to adapting to an evolving reality. Often, a founder's vision and entrepreneurial spirit must develop into more seasoned, professional management. And lack of an embrace of a single, cohesive business strategy may become divisive at the board, senior management or staff level.
Kaaterskil Management builds value and effectiveness by
Kaaterskil Management, LLC
45 Avon Road
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone +001 339 788 1974
Fax +001 781 237 2277
email: info@kaaterskil.com