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Job summary
Take command of a small-cap public company, stabilize liquidity, governance, regulatory standing, and legacy issues, and restore credibility with stakeholders. Lead cost and leadership resets and value-creating transactions, then recruit and onboard a permanent CEO and complete a clean handover.
Job details
Special Situations CEO (Seconded Executive) | Micro Cap Catalyst Micro Cap Catalyst is an investor platform focused on undervalued micro-cap public companies. We engineer premium shareholder outcomes. The Role We are seeking a seasoned executive to serve as a seconded CEO of a small-cap public company at an inflection point. You will take command, stabilize and clean up the business, create measurable shareholder value, and then hand over to a permanent CEO. The mandate is fixed-term (typically 6 to 18 months) with a defined exit. Responsibilities Assess and stabilize liquidity, governance, regulatory standing and legacy issues in the first 90 days. Reset the cost base, board and management team, and restore credibility with regulators, lenders and investors. Lead value-creating transactions (financings, asset sales, mergers, Plans of Arrangement or take-privates) alongside our legal and capital markets team. Recruit and onboard the permanent CEO, and deliver a clean handover. Qualifications 10+ years of senior executive experience, including prior CEO, COO or CFO service at a public company. Proven turnaround, restructuring or special-situations track record. Strong command of public-company governance, disclosure and capital raising. Decisive, direct, calm under pressure, and comfortable with a defined end date. Terms Retainer plus performance incentive tied to shareholder outcomes. Toronto-based, with on-site presence as the mandate requires. To apply: Send your resume and a short summary of two or three turnarounds you have led, including the shareholder outcome. All inquiries are confidential.
What you’ll do
Take command of a small-cap public company, stabilize liquidity, governance, regulatory standing, and legacy issues, and restore credibility with stakeholders. Lead cost and leadership resets and value-creating transactions, then recruit and onboard a permanent CEO and complete a clean handover.
Requirements
Requires 10 or more years of senior executive experience, including prior CEO, COO, or CFO service at a public company, and a proven turnaround, restructuring, or special-situations track record. Candidates must have strong command of public-company governance, disclosure, and capital raising, and be decisive, direct, calm under pressure, and comfortable with a fixed-term mandate.
Listed skills
- Regulatory Compliance · Preferred
- crisis management · Preferred
Other relevant skills
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- Executive Leadership
- Turnaround Management
- Restructuring
- Public-Company Governance
- Regulatory Compliance
- Liquidity Management
- Cost Reduction
- Capital Raising
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Asset Sales
- Board Management
- Investor Relations
- Financial Management
- CEO Recruitment
- Crisis Management
- Shareholder Value Creation
Job areas
- Management & Leadership
- Finance & Accounting
- Consulting