Cerberus Operations and Advisory Company (“Cerberus Operations”) is our proprietary operations platform. Over multiple business cycles, Cerberus Operations has been purposefully constructed to help drive value by seamlessly integrating operating experience with portfolio company management and investment teams. Our overriding goal is to create stronger and more competitive businesses with greater financial positioning and more strategic options.
Our operations platform has approximately 85 operating executives and functional experts that work across Cerberus’ investment platforms with a focus on maximizing financial and operating performance.1 We employ seasoned executives with wide-ranging industry and functional experience from top-tier companies.
Strategic Operating Partners
Our team seeks to partner with management teams to provide tailored insights about their business’ strategy, markets, and opportunities. When it comes to execution, we strive to provide our portfolio companies with a pool of talent who knows the company and is ready to help drive initiatives.
As strategic operating partners, we seek to remove complexity, optimize a company’s operating rhythm, and instill the discipline of “getting consequential things done” while keeping the customer’s point of view as the priority at all times.
Leadership and Talent Acquisition
Businesses work best when there is a diverse mix of people with industry expertise and outside perspectives. We believe one of Cerberus Operations’ strengths is our ability to actively recruit and add great operating talent to our investments.
We look for and develop highly engaged leaders who appreciate the opportunity to lead and understand that sustainable results are driven by teams who can balance commercial effectiveness with operational efficiency.
Our team members work on interim and permanent bases wherever needed, whether that be in the boardroom or in the back office. We believe our collaborative partnership has the potential to provide real value to our companies.2
Core Practice Areas
Cerberus Operations directly employs teams that are organized in practice areas that cover the core business functions. We believe this structure provides continuity, accountability for results, and enables us to better centralize best practices with frameworks and proprietary tools developed across a wide variety of engagements. Our core practice areas include:
- Commercial Strategy & Diligence
- Finance & Risk
- Product Design-to-Delivery
- Human Capital
- Technology Solutions
We are also experienced in:
- Environmental, Social, and Governance
- Branding and Communications
- Legal and Compliance
Flex Network of Resources
We seek to supplement our core practice area teams with a broad network of expert advisors as well as retained or third-party resources to “flex” our operating capabilities to meet diverse business requirements. We continuously invest in developing our Flex Network of consultants, specialist advisors, and contractors to ensure we are adding value across the spectrum of operational resources. We seek to optimize our practice areas and our Flex Network to provide the right resources at the right time and in a highly efficient manner.
The Cerberus Business System
The Cerberus Business System is how we bring all of these elements together in an active operating engagement model designed to improve the performance of our investments. Our operating teams engage directly with portfolio companies and investment professionals, work to leverage our Flex Network, and seek to maintain continuity throughout the lifecycle of an investment.
We believe our active operating engagement model, and the way we strive to utilize it to the needs of our portfolio companies and global opportunities, provides Cerberus with a competitive edge with the potential to drive value for our investors and business partners worldwide.2
85+
Operating executives and functional experts in Cerberus Operations
5
Practice areas spanning core business functions
~150
Flex Network resources of specialized experts
1 Note: Employee data as of May 1, 2024, and subject to change without notice. There can be no assurance that any of these professionals will remain with the Firm. The fees and expenses associated with Cerberus Operations and other affiliated service providers are borne by the Cerberus-managed funds, and generally not offset against applicable management fees, in accordance with the applicable Cerberus-managed funds’ organizational documents.
2 Descriptions herein of the Cerberus advantage are subject to a number of key assumptions regarding market conditions and the ability to attain investment objectives. There can be no guarantee that the investment strategy for any Cerberus-managed fund will be successful or that any of the advantages identified above will be realized to the benefit of any Cerberus-managed fund.
