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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 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: The Assault on Magical Thinking

16 Jul 2025 / Insights

I was chatting with an experienced Interim CFO recently, and I asked her about the most common issue she encounters when turning around businesses. To be fair, it wasn’t my most original question, and I expected something predictable: “Underperforming teams.” “Weak financial controls.” “Poor cash management.” Instead, she surprised me: “Steve, the one thing every […]

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 […]

Interim Management: Successful Interviewing for Business Leaders

12 Mar 2024 / Insights

Interim Management: Successful Interviewing for Business Leaders. Why some clients don’t want us at candidate interviews and why we should be there.

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…

Driving Top-Line Growth In A Turnaround

29 Feb 2024 / News & PR

For an organisation seeking to transform its fortunes, the first port of call is often cost-cutting measures and efficiencies, with revenue growth taking a back seat. As I see it, given the rapidly evolving way customers interact with businesses, it is vital companies also reassess and reshape how they sell their products and services. If […]