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Valtus Group Partners With Polaris Private Equity As Majority Investor To Build A Global Leader

17 Feb 2026 / News & PR
Valtus today announces a strategic partnership with Polaris, a leading Nordic private equity fund, which will become the group’s majority investor. Together with Valtus’s existing shareholders and management, Polaris will support and accelerate the group’s next phase of international growth to become a worldwide leader. Present in nearly 30 countries across 4 continents, with 10 European subsidiaries, [...]

Interim Management: Why Businesses Fail. It’s a Man Thing.

10 Feb 2026 / Insights
Before a business hits real trouble, the signs are often there. A key leader leaves unexpectedly. A reliable customer becomes more difficult to close. Decisions take longer. Meetings become more about herding cats than creating direction. Something smells. However, too often, nothing happens at this point. Only later, when the proverbial has really hit the [...]

How Interim CEO Leadership Rapidly Stabilised a State-Owned Services Provider

29 Aug 2025 / Case Studies
The challenge: Our client, a prominent state-owned services provider, had hit a difficult period. One large division had been underperforming for some time, creating financial strain and operational pressure. The leadership team needed support that would steady the business and turn performance around at pace. Our solution: Valtus drew on its network and experience in [...]

How Interim Leadership Restored Delivery and Profitability in Engineering

29 Aug 2025 / Case Studies

The challenge: A specialist engineering firm within a larger international group was under pressure after an extended period of poor delivery performance, financial strain and internal disengagement. Leadership across the group recognised the need for a structured turnaround and approached Valtus for support. Our solution: In close partnership with the client’s senior leadership, Valtus diagnosed […]

Interim Management: Doing What Is Hard, Not What Is Easy

20 Aug 2025 / Insights

When writing, my instinct is to talk about the value of Interim Management, rather than to extol the virtues of individual Interim Managers, or to humble-brag about Valtus and my credentials as an operator in the space. I’m not about to change. That said, I think there’s some value in explaining what I do and […]

Interim Management: 30 Years Ahead Of The Curve

26 Jun 2025 / Insights

There are many growing trends on LinkedIn: humble bragging, middle class parents trying to find internships for their little darlings, political polemic – the list goes on. IMHO, most of it is a million miles from what LinkedIn is for, but hey, it’s a user-generated platform so people can do what they want with it. […]

Interim Management: Facing into the Challenge of UK Infrastructure

03 Apr 2025 / Insights

The UK’s failing infrastructure is a hot topic in the media, a source of frustration for the population and a significant challenge for the UK government. The picture is extremely mixed. Read the press one day and its possible to get an extremely positive view. New runways, the green lighting of the Lower Thames Crossing, […]

Interim Management: A Price Worth Paying? 

27 Nov 2024 / Insights

Most people know little or nothing about Interim Management, and that’s OK. Many will go through life without having the benefit of meeting an Interim Manager, and that’s OK. Interim Managers are specialists who deliver exceptional outcomes in specifics set of circumstances, and if you don’t need them, then you don’t need them.  Like surgeons, […]

Engineering a Career in Interim Management – with Kelly Jones

09 Oct 2024 / Insights

As part of my series of interviews with Interim Managers (IMs) in the Valtus UK network, I spoke to Kelly Jones about her hugely successful career in the world of interim management and how other women can follow in her footsteps.  Inspired by a close relative, she studied engineering at university, before rising up the […]

Why engineering expertise builds brilliant interim managers

17 Jul 2024 / Insights

By Nathan Staples, Valtus UK intern The Valtus UK network is full of former engineers who have taken the step into interim management.  As an intern with a passion for engineering, I’m keen to explore the skills and attributes that make for an effective interim manager, which is why I was curious to find out […]

Valtus Interview: What Boards Need to Know about Threat Intelligence With Craig Rice

18 Apr 2024 / News & PR
Cyber attacks are a significant threat to UK business. At a time when cyber risks are becoming increasingly unpredictable, it’s all the more important for boards to keep pace with changing threats. This is something that Craig Rice, Chief Executive of the Cyber Defence Alliance, understands all too well. A highly experienced security leader, Craig [...]

3 questions to ask yourself before becoming an interim manager

19 Mar 2024 / Insights

By Steve Rutherford, Partner The majority of Interim Managers I work with on assignments have long track records in the delivery of projects. This is partly market driven – our clients prefer it – and partly out of my own personal preference. When entrusted with a client’s ‘problem to solve’, it is reassuring for me […]

Brexit: Bringing Unexpected Upsides to Interim Managers

14 Mar 2024 / Insights

It’s not too controversial to suggest that the economic benefits of leaving the EU have not yet been fully realised in the UK. The UK economy is struggling when compared to its former European partners, and real GDP has underperformed similar nations by 5% since 2016. However, one area of the UK economy is enjoying […]

Valtus sets foot in Germany!

06 Mar 2024 / News & PR

Our expansion into Germany’s well-established market, valued at over 2.75 billion euros (1), marks a significant move in deepening Valtus’ presence in a key economy at the heart of Europe.

Interim Management: The case for performance based bonuses

29 Feb 2024 / Insights

Why is it that performance related bonuses are not common in the interim management market? It certainly isn’t because interim managers don’t want their performance assessed. It also isn’t So, is it the clients? Our partner, Steve Rutherford, just doesn’t buy it. Read more…

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