The register.
Every embedded engagement since 2010, sponsor-backed and founder-led, from a portfolio assessment to the seat itself. What we did is on the record; who it was for is a partner’s call.
- 84
- engagements
- 27
- active
- 60
- sponsor-backed
Hear it from the founder.
Sold to Gallagher · 2025Steve Dion built Dion Leadership and sold it to Gallagher in 2025. Fairlead ran the process from preparation to close. Here he describes what that was like from the founder’s chair.
84 engagements, 2010 to today.
Interim CFO and controller seats, operating-partner roles, M&A and portfolio assessments, across energy and infrastructure, venture-backed companies and family offices. 27 active today; 60 with a sponsor at the table.
Portfolio company assessment of this distressed district energy system followed by the divestiture of the company to a strategic buyer.
Financial advisory support for this the sponsor portfolio company that originates and develops small-scale distribution-level solar facilities. Fairlead provides Operating Partner support, lender covenant compliance, cashflow modeling, and borrowing base analysis under a secondment arrangement.
Asset management and O&M oversight for this the sponsor portfolio of approximately 30 small-scale solar facilities. Fairlead provides budgeting, board support, lender compliance, and operational management.
Supported Basalt and the internal CEO of the company with the development of a new business plan followed by the marketing and successful sale of the company.
Provide fractional CFO, Controller, and other back-office support to this venture-backed renewable hydrogen startup company.
Provide fractional CFO and Controller support to the developer of 252 MW of operating and 191 MW of in-construction gas-fired assets in Ghana and Guinea.
On behalf of a fund manager, engaged to oversee an oil field services company with over $300M in annual revenues. Fairlead placed a fractional CFO and Controller into the company to revise and execute a new business plan.
Led and managed the spinoff of a biomass power platform from the sponsor's portfolio company, initiating Greenleaf with two plants in California totaling 60 MW, which expanded to 145 MW.
Fractional CFO support for this advanced nuclear energy company developing next-generation reactor technology. Fairlead provides audit coordination, financial modeling, capital raise advisory, and strategic support.
Restructured this German-based biomass and cogeneration platform following changes in Germany's Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) program. Managed the sale to two separate German buyers.
Provide Operating Partner services, fractional Controller, and back-office support to this PE-backed solar developer.
Turned around the company, then the largest district energy company and in default with its lenders, drove significant value growth and operational improvements followed by the sale to Veolia.
Serve as Executive Advisor in place of the CEO while the CEO is on an extended military deployment
Standing up a Data Center development company