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Global Technology & Services (GTS)

Interim Management for Global Technology & Services (GTS)

Technology and service companies today face different pressures than they did just a few years ago: growth must be predictable. Scaling must work. Transformation must create value.

Private equity and VC investors, boards, and C-level executives expect strong results despite complex IT landscapes, legacy systems, fragmented organizations, international expansion, and increasingly scarce tech talent.

Atreus Interim Management for Global Technology & Services (GTS) supports software, SaaS, and IT services companies, as well as their PE and VC investors, with proven interim executives for precisely these situations.

The reality in the technology and services market

Many companies in the software, SaaS, and IT services sectors struggle not with ideas – but with implementation:

  • Go-to-market strategies are defined but are not successful in the market
  • Growth stalls despite strong product and capital
  • International expansion fails due to organization, governance, or leadership
  • Buy-and-build strategies lose value as a result of slow integration
  • Transformations tie up management capacity but do not deliver any ROI.

This is where Atreus comes in. With temporary leadership for critical phases of value creation.

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Leadership for growth, value creation, and execution

Atreus supports technology and service companies and their investors with bespoke interim solutions along the entire value chain – particularly in PE and VC-dominated situations. Atreus can quickly find the right, highly proven resources for your project that will tackle your challenge swiftly and decisively. The directors at Atreus are always there to support and guide you. Our network can also mobilize additional achievers at short notice — from experts to CEOs.

Typical roles and interim mandates in Global Technology & Services:

Your challenge

Your technology and service business is growing dynamically or is undergoing a challenging transformation phase. Structures, processes, and management systems are unable to keep pace with the speed of the market and innovation: scaling bottlenecks, operational inefficiencies, and increasing complexity are jeopardizing margins, service quality, and customer satisfaction.

Our mission

We will help strengthen your senior management team with a highly effective interim CEO/COO resource who will stabilize your business in the short term, add clarity to your strategy and priorities, and lead your company on a scalable, high-performance path to growth — from concept to implementation in day-to-day operations.

Your solution

An Atreus-approved interim CEO/COO will quickly take over operational management, ensure profitability and delivery capabilities, and create resilient structures for future growth. He will lead a focused transformation program, win key stakeholders for this change, and coach the management and operations team — all with the goal of creating a lasting and scalable organization.

Your challenge

Your growth is lagging behind market potential: your go-to-market approach, pricing logic, and sales and partner models have evolved over time, are fragmented, or are not scalable enough. Pipeline quality, conversion rates, and profitability of individual segments or channels are opaque — growth initiatives fizzle out without having a lasting impact.

Our mission

We will supplement your management team with a powerful interim Chief Growth Officer resource who will strategically align your go-to-market architecture for growth and profitability. The objective is to establish clear priorities for segments, offerings, and channels, make growth drivers measurable, and build a reproducible, scalable revenue engine.

Your solution

An Atreus-approved Chief Growth Officer will analyze your existing go-to-market and revenue engine, define a focused growth strategy, and orchestrate its implementation.

Your challenge

Your business model is no longer delivering as expected: margins are eroding, growth initiatives are falling short of expectations, and central KPIs are moving further and further away from the business plan or investment case. Causes, effects, and responsibilities are rarely transparent — operational countermeasures are implemented too late or are uncoordinated, putting pressure on profitability, cash generation, and company value.

Our mission

We will help strengthen your management team with an experienced interim CRO/Performance Turnaround Lead resource who will bring transparency to value drivers, set up a focused performance program, and strategically align your organization to deliver results and cash flow.

Your solution

An Atreus approved interim CRO/Performance Turnaround Lead will quickly take control of the performance program and be responsible for robust value and KPI management. He will analyze profitability across customers, products, regions, and channels, define and orchestrate an integrated program of measures with clear responsibilities and milestones, establish transparent reporting, and coach the management and leadership team to ensure lasting success.

Your challenge

Your buy-and-build approach is gaining momentum, but the integration of acquisitions is lagging behind schedule: different systems, cultures, and processes are preventing your company from reaping the benefits, synergy targets are being delayed, and the organization is overstretched, caught between day-to-day business and integrating new acquisitions. Without clear priorities, governance, and a roadmap, the plan for the platform risks becoming a heterogeneous network without any real economies of scale.

Our mission

We will strengthen your management team with an experienced Buy-and-Build/Post-Merger Integration Lead resource who will integrate your acquisitions quickly, in a structured and value-oriented manner.

Your solution

An Atreus approved Buy-and-Build/Post-Merger Integration Lead will orchestrate the integration across all relevant value levers. The objective is to generate predictable synergies, manage complexity, and transform individual companies into a scalable, integrated platform with a clear value proposition in the market.

Your challenge

Your company is managing several digital, growth, or transformation programs in parallel, some of which are interlinked. Priorities and dependencies are not always transparent, milestones shift, budgets come under pressure, and the impact of individual initiatives falls short of expectations. Senior management and the board do not receive consistent and relevant reporting for their decision-making – management is reactive rather than proactive.

Our mission

We will help strengthen your organization with an experienced Program Management Officer (PMO) resource who will bring structure, transparency, and reliability to your portfolio of programs.

Your solution

An Atreus approved Program Management Officer (PMO) will help you align your digital, growth, and transformation programs with your goals, deadlines, and budget. The objective is to manage strategic initiatives based on clear priorities, capacities, and value contributions, identify risks at an early stage, and provide management and the board with a robust framework for information and decision-making.

Your challenge

Your existing system and application landscape — from ERP and CRM to specialized platforms — has grown over time, is heterogeneous, and offers only limited possibilities for integration. Media breaks, manual workarounds, and opaque data structures slow down scaling, reporting, and control. At the same time, customers, regulators, and investors are placing ever greater demands on speed, service quality, and reliable key performance indicators – without a professionally managed plan for transformation, there is a risk of cost explosions, project overload, and acceptance problems within the organization.

Our mission

We will help strengthen your organization with a director experienced in ERP, CRM, and platform transformation, who is able to approach technology, processes, and organization in a comprehensive and integrated manner.

Your solution

An Atreus approved ERP, CRM, and platform transformation director will take end-to-end responsibility for your business and IT transformation across all key value chains. He will work with management and specialist departments to develop a clear target vision for system architecture, process landscapes and data models, and will plan and manage implementation in clearly structured releases/waves. The aim is to define a future-proof, integrated target vision, prioritize transformation initiatives, implement them in a manageable way, thus laying the foundation for scalability, high-quality data and processes, and modern, transparent corporate management.

Your challenge

In key areas such as technology, operations, sales, or finance, sudden vacancies, absences due to illness, unplanned turnover, or parallel transformation projects can create a critical gap in line management. Decision-making processes slow down, operational excellence and control capabilities are put under pressure — with risks for projects, customers, compliance, and results.

Our mission

We will help strengthen your organization by providing you with the right interim executives for key line functions who can quickly make an impact, bring stability to day-to-day operations, and at the same time create space for essential further development. The objective is to ensure continuity in leadership and management, minimize risks, and prepare for a professional handover to the final permanent staff.

Your solution

An Atreus approved interim executive will assume responsibility for your critical line function at short notice – in technology, operations, sales, or finance. He will ensure business continuity, quality, and compliance in day-to-day operations, establish and stabilize management, decision-making, and reporting routines with clear KPIs, identify processes, organizational structures, and interconnections that need to be optimized and professionalized, and quickly implement effective measures. In addition, he will facilitate a structured handover to the future line manager, including documentation, knowledge transfer, and onboarding support. All this to make sure your operations are stable and perform well in the long run.

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ATREUS – AWARD WINNING EXCELLENCE

Atreus is currently the undisputed leader in interim management. We owe this top position to the trust of our clients, who consistently confirm our quality and implementation strength with top ratings.

 

Atreus has received numerous awards, including “Best Consultant”, “Top Consultant”, “FOCUS Top Management Consultant”, “Hidden Champion”, and “Handelsblatt Top Consultant”. Our expertise ranges from automotive, mechanical and plant engineering, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, life sciences and healthcare, consumer goods, and retail to the key disciplines of change management, digitalization, human resources, IT consulting and IT implementation, operations management, performance improvement, HR consulting, and restructuring.

Industry topics

  • Go-to-market & growth below investor expectations: Whether SaaS, IT services, or platform models: Atreus GTS brings in executives who not only design go-to-market models, but also get operations up and running and measure results in terms of revenue, margin, and customer loyalty.
  • Buy & build as a value lever – not as a risk: Acquisitions only deliver value if integration is carried out quickly and consistently. Our interim managers will take charge of PMI, platform governance, and organizational design—with a clear focus on adding value within the investment period.
  • Transformation during ongoing operations: Cloud migration, reorganization, or process digitization rarely take place in a protected environment. Atreus ensures that transformations are implemented without jeopardizing growth or operational stability.
  • Rapid stabilization in critical situations: When targets are missed, programs stall, or leadership is lacking, we bring in individuals at short notice who can establish priorities, make decisions, and take responsibility.
  • Competitive advantage – access to excellent interim leadership: The market for experienced tech executives is extremely tight. Atreus provides access to leaders who are not permanently available but are highly effective—with a clear mandate and no political agenda.
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„Interim management is a key instrument in creating value in the technology and PE environment. It enables investors and management teams to integrate leadership expertise right when it can have the greatest impact — in a focused, short-term manner and with clear accountability for results.“

Common use cases include stalled growth, international scaling, buy-and-build strategies, complex transformation and digital programs, and bridging critical line functions in technology, operations, sales, or finance.

Atreus is one of the leading providers of interim management services and has received multiple awards as “Best Consultant,” “Top Consultant,” and “FOCUS Top Business Consultant.” In the Global Technology & Services division, Atreus combines this promise of quality with a deep understanding of software, SaaS, and IT services markets, as well as PE and VC-driven value creation.

Series B and Series C SaaS companies are at a critical juncture: the product works, the market is validated — now it’s time to make growth reproducible, controllable, and investable.

We help fast-growing software companies professionalize their organization, systems, and go-to-market models — without losing momentum in innovation.

Common situation

  • ARR is growing faster than structures, processes, and leadership
  • Go-to-market is still founder-driven and not scalable
  • Product, sales, marketing, and customer success are not clearly integrated
  • Investors expect reliable forecasts, KPIs, and governance.

Our focus

  • Building of scalable revenue engines (sales, marketing, CS, partners)
  • Introduction of operating models, KPIs, and OKR systems
  • Interim leadership for CRO, COO, VP Growth, RevOps, Product & Tech
  • Preparation for next financing rounds, internationalization, or buy-and-build

Outcome

  • Clear growth plan
  • Robust control models
  • An investable organization
  • Scaling without operational inefficiencies

Companies in this phase have proven that their business model works. Now it remains to be seen whether growth will translate into sustainable market leadership.

We support management teams in developing their organization from “fast growing” to “high performing” – in technology, operations, and structure.

Common situations

  • International growth increases complexity and costs
  • The systems, processes, and organization have evolved over time.
  • The strategy for product and service portfolios must be refined
  • Customers expect enterprise-grade performance, stability, and integration.

Our focus

  • Scaling of operating models, delivery structures, and platform architectures
  • Establishing resilient governance, KPI, and performance systems
  • Transformation of the product, technology, sales, and service
  • Support with M&A integration, platforming, and global rollouts

Outcome

  • Highly scalable organization
  • Improved margins & outstanding delivery
  • Future-proof technology platforms
  • Higher company valuation

In PE and VC-led technology companies, it is not the strategy on paper that matters, it is the speed of implementation in the first 100–300 days.

Atreus supports investors and portfolio companies in quickly activating value drivers, securing transformations, and implementing growth programs at the operational level.

Common situations

  • Post-merger integration & buy-and-build
  • 100-day programs
  • Replacement or addition of key roles
  • Acceleration of internationalization, product or go-to-market transformations

Our focus

  • Deployment of proven interim executives and transformation teams
  • Implementation of clear value creation initiatives
  • Scaling of revenue, operations, technology, and organization
  • Securing critical phases between deal, transformation, and exit

Outcome

  • Faster implementation of value drivers
  • Lowered operational risks
  • Transparent performance management
  • Exit readiness
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Contact Person for Global Technology & Services

Industry Lead – Global Technology & Services

Franz Kubbillum is responsible for establishing and driving the strategic development of the Industry Solution Group Global Technology & Services at Atreus. His focus is on software, SaaS, and IT services companies, as well as PE and VC-driven growth, transformation, and buy-and-build scenarios.

He works at the intersection of technology, growth, and investor expectations—with a clear focus on execution, value creation, and sustainable scaling.