Private Equity · Portfolio Operations
We get it done.
Experienced partners to private equity, brought in to get a portfolio company’s most critical program across the line.
Our Method
One method, adaptable to any domain.
Every engagement follows the same discipline, not the same playbook. We enter where the work actually stands, go as deep as the situation requires, and adapt the scope to the domain, team, and stakes.
Deep Specialty
Lead to Cash.
Our deepest specialty and the proving ground for a method built to travel.
Read what’s real
Agree where things stand
Build a plan you can fund
Stand it up
Drive it to the finish
Diagnose the real issues, constraints, and opportunities across the business.
Create a shared, fact-based view of the situation, priorities, and trade-offs.
Design an actionable plan with clear economics, phasing, and investment rationale.
Align the organization, establish the operating system, and mobilize for execution.
Manage the plan, remove obstacles, and deliver durable results that stick.
WHEN TO CALL
When complexity outpaces your current team.
Sponsors bring us in when the stakes are high and a straight read is hard to come by.
01
New Leadership
A stronger leadership mandate.
A new leader taking stock of what they’ve inherited, and shaping the first 90 days.
02
Lead to Cash
Turning strategy into working capital.
A Lead to Cash overhaul that needs real investment and experienced hands.
03
Post - Acquisition
The deal closed.
The businesses still haven’t.
Integration complexity is compounding faster than the team is resolving it.
04
Program Recovery
A critical program that's slipped from green to red.
Time to reset, refocus and deliver results.
05
Exit Readiness
An exit on the horizon that has to hold up in the data room.
Every number, contract and risk needs to stand up to scrutiny.
Why Exactus
The difference is judgment.
You don’t need another read on the strategy. You need partners who’ve been where you are, done the work, and will tell you plainly when the plan is heading somewhere it shouldn’t.
We give you the call we’d make with our own money on the table.
- Bruce Rylance
THE FOUNDERS
The Founders behind the work.
At the center of Exactus are Bruce Rylance and Tom Lebamoff. Their experience is different by design, and the pairing is the point.
Grounded in what can actually be built.
BRUCE RYLANCE
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Bruce drives
delivery.
Over two decades delivering complex programs as a pioneer of the Lead to Cash work we go deepest in.
TOM LEBAMOFF
CHAIRMAN & CO-FOUNDER
Tom keeps
the call honest.
Nearly four decades turning difficult operating problems into practical decisions a board can act on.
Honest about what should happen next.
PROOF
The outcomes we drove.
25+
Private equity sponsors served.
75+
Portfolio companies engaged.
15+
Industries covered.
225+
Combined years of operating experience.
300+
Lead to Cash projects.
SELECTED WORK
Experienced oversight
AT RISK
A $6B merger riding on one platform consolidation, with the integrator running the build and reporting on it.
EXACTUS INTERVENTION
Third leg of the stool, reporting to the chief executive. Raised the legal-entity question the integrator missed, and moved the go-live when testing showed real risk.
OUTCOME
$5M to $6M under forecast on a scope that had tripled. Entity redesign paid back the project cost inside eighteen months.
Lead to Cash rebuild
AT RISK
A $450M software platform acquired on a mandate to triple revenue, running its commercial operation on spreadsheets.
EXACTUS INTERVENTION
Engaged for quote and pricing. Rebuilt CRM, the finance integration that had never existed, and demand generation.
OUTCOME
Scaled to over $1.5B in annual revenue. Exit by IPO at roughly 15x purchase price.
START HERE
Point us to your most at-risk initiative.
Tell us what’s at risk, where it’s stuck, and when it has to move. We will tell you straight whether we can help, and how.
Start a conversation01
WHAT’S AT RISK?
The initiative, outcome or value creation plan that cannot slip.
02
WHERE IS IT STUCK?
The decision, ownership gap, execution issue, or complexity preventing movement.
03
WHEN DOES IT HAVE TO MOVE?
The board date, transaction milestone, customer commitment, or other hard deadline.
We get it done.
Experienced partners to private equity, brought in to get a portfolio company’s most critical program across the line.
Every engagement follows the same discipline, not the same playbook. We enter where the work actually stands, go as deep as the situation requires, and adapt the scope to the domain, team, and stakes.
You don’t need another read on the strategy. You need partners who’ve been where you are, done the work, and will tell you plainly when the plan is heading somewhere it shouldn’t.
At the center of Exactus are Bruce Rylance and Tom Lebamoff. Their experience is different by design, and the pairing is the point.