Value Creation

Portfolio Companies

 

Lightbulb creates value for all stakeholders by delivering above expected operational performance within portfolio companies. Our expertise is in supporting management teams with our unique Lightbulb Acceleration Framework™ to:

• Deliver top line growth and capture market share

• Optimise capital productivity in changing and shifting commercial landscapes

• Extrapolate more value in the portfolio in the near and medium term

• Design value propositions to achieve key milestones

• Provide rapid results in M&A integrations

• Craft cross-portfolio solutions that can benefit all investments

• Release above expected returns

 
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Powering portfolio performance

Investors are always looking for the switch. The switch that they can flick in their portfolio companies that illuminates and powers management teams to drive growth, build scale and release value. In the new emerging post COVID world, it’s now crucial for management teams to be able to continually reset, reimagine and recover. They now have new needs and requirements from their investors and are seeking agile advisors to help them mitigate disruption and achieve their passionate growth goals in continually shifting and changing landscapes.

 

Why us?

Smart investors understand that those who used value creation teams during the last recession produced higher exit returns in their portfolios and raised more capital afterwards. But finding a team of trusted partners to inspire and innovate with your portfolio businesses, who are both the architects and activists of ambitious scale and change is often a challenge for investors. At Lightbulb that’s exactly what we do, because as a value creation team like no other, we know where the switch is.

Who are we?

We are a value creation team of experts by experience that build relationships and deliver results, adept at engaging across demographics and geographies. A team with personality, pedigree and deep sector expertise that focuses on our four core principles of people, profits, performance and parity. From Series A SME investments through to large cap IPO’s, our team supports investors through the life cycle of their assets. We know how to create value and as globally renowned change creators, we are invited into boardrooms of the best businesses working in parallel partnership enabling management teams to both excel and execute.

 
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What are the challenges that investors ask us to help them solve in their portfolios?

  • Sales, Pricing and Commerciality

  • Talent & Human Capital

  • Value Propositions

  • Go to Market and Market Share Strategies

  • Operations

  • Leadership and Change Management

  • Growth and scale implementation

  • Culture and D&I

  • ESG and Impact

 

Jo Watts

Global Talent Director

Sector Specialisms:

  • Recruitment & Human Capital 

  • Professional Services

  • Manufacturing

  • Life Sciences

  • Pharma

  • Bio-pharma & Bio-tech

  • Cosmetics 

  • Food

  • Hospitality

  • Energy

  • Infrastructure

  • Family Businesses & Family Offices

Case study

Phaidon International

Read all about our work with Phaidon

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“Lightbulb have been integral in my success and to our growth achievements in the US. They work at pace and are able to adapt to the massive changes we’ve experienced on our growth and scale journey. I’ve had so many Lightbulb moments’ that has helped me and the teams to craft strategic & tactical solutions that deliver real results. They have worked across multi-functions and disciplines in our US business with ease, both internally with our talent and externally with our clients. The feedback is always fantastic and I recommend them to any hyper-growth organisational leader pre and post PE acquisition looking to enact and embed significant change.”

OLIVER COOKE

Managing Director, Phaidon International

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