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Ephor Group fills in the gaps to maximize equity value.

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Ephor Group – for institutional investors: private equity and venture capital portfolio management augmentation.
  • Do you have a portfolio investment which has been in the portfolio for 2-3 years and is not achieving the investment thesis?
  • Ask yourself: in this different economy what can we do now?
  • Have you made a recent portfolio investment and so far it has not tracked to meet its initial goals?
  • Does a portfolio company have a dysfunctional board with conflicting agendas?
  • Not sure if management is effective or not?
  • Do you have a portfolio company that needs to prepare for and/or create exit opportunities?

Ephor Group creates EBITDA improvement for technology and service based businesses generating maximum portfolio returns.

Ephor Group's extensive background as an institutional investor, operating executive, and BOD chairman will provide that market perspective consistency balance necessary to maximize returns. Our process starts with a pragmatic assessment of your business which includes a roadmap for improvement.

Ephor Group enables private equity and venture capital to:
  • Improve strategic and operating performance of individual portfolio companies
  • Make the smaller investment at lower EBITDA multiples where risk and improvement areas are identified during due diligence
  • Create effective and balanced Board of Directors and corporate governance
  • Spend less of your precious time and resources on portfolio management activities
  • Have access to domain expertise during due diligence and the portfolio management process

We specialize in organizations with the following attributes in their business model:

  • Labor intensive
  • Low asset based
  • Excessive customer acquisition costs
  • Complex distribution
  • End-user customer satisfaction is critical
  • Management and measurement processes are critical to success
  • Multi-functional dependency
  • Changing exogenous environment

We specialize in organizations in the following sector focus areas:

  • Business process outsourcing including FAO, HRO, IT and HRO and HRIT outsourcing
  • Human capital management
  • Workforce management, staffing, and technology
  • Medical business services (health care busienss services)
  • CRM, Marketing services and customer acquisition services
  • Software, SaaS, and technology services

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All assessments, engagements, and professional services use our Perform Business Process™ created by Garry Meier and proven to work with technology and service based businesses.

Practice areas: Go-To-Market, Operational Performance Improvement, Growth Capital and Corporate Development.

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