Advisory Boards’ Impact

• Access to customers and partners

• Strategy, planning, go-to-market

• Penetrating specific markets/sectors

• Test assumptions and avoid costly mistakes

• Selection of partners, distributors, suppliers, and outsourcing vendors

• International localization of product features, positioning, and messaging

• Competitive intelligence in targeted markets

• Objective advice uninhibited by reporting relationships or fiduciary responsibilities

• Awareness and credibility driven by the reputation and status of advisors

The recession has left management in a position of having to address many significant challenges. The fundamental challenge: How do companies expand their business while restraining their spending, avoid making costly mistakes, and still make meaningful progress in the near to mid term?

To address this challenge Venator Partners^® offers BrainTrust^™, a turn-key solution for the custom creation and ongoing management of Advisory Boards. Call it Advisory Boards as-a-Service. The program has been designed to provide companies with the specific operational expertise they need to help them grow their businesses, and does it at a fraction of the cost of conventional options.

The program delivers the industry specific operational expertise you need to make meaningful progress in penetrating new markets or expand existing ones, without incurring a large upfront investment.

We begin by understanding our client’s specific objectives and challenges and with the client’s participation recruit a board of advisors with the right industry and operational experience to address the client’s specific objectives. We then work with the client and their advisory board members for the life of the board. On an ongoing basis we help insure the client is getting the maximum value from their board, manage the details to save management’s time, and remove, add or replace advisors as the client deems necessary.

Venator Partners’ roots are in executive search and BrainTrust^™ fits squarely within our core competency. We have been developing innovative programs to acquire the talent companies need to achieve their strategic objectives for 14 years.

Features and benefits of BrainTrust^™

Custom designed advisory boards

• We recruit best-in-class talent from across the globe, with deep expertise to address your specific needs

Custom designed programs

• Clients have the option to choose the frequency of board meetings and the level of “On Call” access they will have to each advisor

Flexibility

• You can scale your board up or down as your needs change

• We add, replace or remove advisors at no additional cost

Professional management

• We monitor performance, manage the details, and provide a single point of contact

Lower cost

• In most cases the total cost will be less than 1/3 the cost of employing a single executive

Saves management’s time

• You focus on growing your business and we focus on establishing and servicing your board

Fast access to a large pool of senior-level operational executives located across the globe