Chief Executive Officer — $50M-$200M Manufacturer Growth Advisory Platform

The GAP — The Growth Acceleration PlatformFor CEOs Turned Consultants | Light Manufacturing | Operator-Led | Performance-Based | Equity-Aligned

Role Purpose

This opportunity is for a proven CEO, President, COO, Operating Partner, or senior value-creation executive who has already scaled a light manufacturing company to several hundred million in revenue or enterprise value.

We are not looking for general advisors or career consultants. We are looking for manufacturing operators who have built, scaled, transformed, integrated, or exited real manufacturing companies and now want a bigger chapter impacting multiple companies.

Instead of operating one company, you will help guide up to 10 established light manufacturing companies through The GAP’s enterprise value acceleration system using your experience, judgment, network, pattern recognition, and ability to hold client-side CEOs accountable.

The InitiativeMost light manufacturing companies stall because of distraction, unclear priorities, leadership gaps, margin leakage, weak sales systems, underdeveloped management teams, mis-sequenced capital, operational bottlenecks, and no living roadmap tied directly to mission and enterprise value.

The GAP helps select manufacturers build and execute a Living Enterprise Value Roadmap designed to add $100M+ in enterprise value through:

• Advisory — experienced operators and board-level strategic perspective
• Accountability — weekly CEO-to-CEO execution guidance through a Managing Director
• Access — coordinated access to capital, M&A, talent, strategic resources, and infrastructure when the roadmap requires it
• We call this system EVOS: the Enterprise Value Operating System.

Manufacturing VisionThe GAP is being built to become the dominant enterprise value acceleration platform for light manufacturing companies.

Our vision is to build a manufacturing group of more than 200 manufacturers across multiple subcategories and become the go-to firm for mission impact, operating output, and enterprise value creation.

We are building infrastructure to help manufacturers grow faster, become more valuable, increase output, strengthen leadership, deploy capital better, and accelerate their contribution to the economy.

Role Overview

You as a former CEO will be a Managing Director at The GAP. The MD is the primary accountability partner and enterprise value guide for a portfolio of light manufacturing client companies.

Your mandate is to secure, build, and actively manage up to 10 clients north of $100M+ revenue and enterprise value, each.

To be considered, your primary network must include $50M–$200M manufacturers, owners, CEOs, board members, investors, lenders, advisors, or other trusted relationships connected to that market. If your network is not connected to manufacturers of meaningful scale, the target will not be right.

You are mandated to land the first 2–3 qualified manufacturing clients from your own network. The GAP will support you in closing those opportunities by providing platform credibility, co-pitch support, the Enterprise Value Roadmap process, supporting leadership team, advisory infrastructure, case studies, positioning, and closing structure.

In tandem, The GAP will help you implement and work our referral partner network. This network is designed to create longer-term client development opportunities and help you build toward 10 active clients.

Your primary weekly role will be managing client relationships, refining each client’s Living Enterprise Value Roadmap, converting strategy into quarterly and weekly priorities, holding leadership accountable, identifying constraints to growth and valuation, and creating measurable enterprise value.

Required Experience

We are only looking for CEO-level operators with direct light manufacturing experience.

You are required to have led scaling a company to several hundred million in revenue or enterprise value. Target clients will typically be $50M–$200M in revenue or enterprise value.

Required experience may include CEO, President, COO, Operating Partner, Division President, or GM experience; direct P&L ownership; scaling a manufacturing or industrial company from sub-$50M to several hundred million; leading operations across sales, production, supply chain, finance, and people; improving revenue, EBITDA, throughput, quality, or enterprise value; M&A, integration, capital planning, exit readiness, and credibility that a manufacturing CEO, owner, lender, investor, or board would respect immediately.

Core Responsibilities

• Client Attainment and Portfolio Build
• Land 2–3 qualified client opportunities from your own network.
• The GAP will help co-pitch and close by providing credibility, roadmap positioning, leadership support, advisory infrastructure, case studies, proof points, and closing support.
• Your target is to build toward 10 clients.
• Referral Partner Activation
• Work with The GAP to implement, develop, and activate referral partner relationships with professionals who already advise, finance, sell to, or influence light manufacturing companies.
• Your role is to actively work these relationships, not passively wait for leads.
• Enterprise Value Roadmap Leadership
• Create, refine, and enforce each client’s Living Enterprise Value Roadmap across growth, margin, leadership, capital structure, acquisition strategy, operational discipline, manufacturing capacity, sales expansion, and exit readiness.
• Weekly CEO Advisory and Accountability
• Meet with assigned client CEOs or leadership teams weekly to review progress, surface blockers, challenge assumptions, and keep execution moving.
• This weekly advisory cadence is the core of the role.
• Platform Coordination and Pattern Recognition
• Use your operating experience and The GAP platform to identify constraints, improve execution, and coordinate with the Billion Dollar Board, other Managing Directors, referral partners, capital partners, M&A resources, executive talent resources, and support systems.
• Enterprise Value Upside Alignment
• Managing Directors are eligible to receive 5% participation in the equity upside, enterprise value upside, or economic equivalent of future growth in each client company they actively manage, subject to final client structure and agreement.
• Compensation and Incentives
• Expected economics include:$100,000 per client per year for weekly advisory and accountability
• Target annual compensation in the high six figures, with potential to reach seven figures based on client load
• An estimated 5% participation in the equity upside, enterprise value upside, or economic equivalent of future growth in each active client company, subject to final structure and agreement
• No guaranteed salary or draw
• This is not fee-for-service consulting.
• The Managing Director is economically aligned with the future growth they help create.

Summary

The GAP is building an operator-led Enterprise Value Acceleration Platform for established light manufacturing companies that want to move toward $100M+ enterprise value.

Our vision is to build a manufacturing group of more than 200 manufacturers across subcategories and become the go-to dominant firm for mission impact, operating output, and enterprise value creation.

You will lead the strategy of each of our clients on your roster to their $100M+ enterprise value goals.

Apply only if you can prove exceptional ability and value to The GAP's mission and goals.