Focus

Gotham brings the diverse set of strategy, operations, and finance expertise required to find, shape, and capitalize on opportunities that deliver targeted value to private equity firms and portfolio companies. Our value proposition has four key components:

1. Augment the investment process of our clients in today's competitive deal market by:
   • Helping them create proprietary deal flow through our proprietary industry databases, macro trend analyses, and broad and deep market mapping
   • Providing them with an edge in the buying process through our niche market expertise, rapid uncovering of "hidden" opportunities and costly problems at target companies, and hard numbers from robust, reliable analytics.  
2. Rapidly and significantly improve financial performance without compromising core capabilities, by assessing whether an acquisition or strategic/operational initiative will:
   • Increase EBITDA, often by quickly removing cost and capturing top-line opportunities
   • Increase asset utilization and reduce working capital.  
3. Elevate existing capabilities to provide stability, increase flexibility, and build a solid foundation for growth, by:
   • Honing and strengthening business processes to improve customer service, maximize sales and marketing effectiveness, and optimize cost and inventory performance
   • Creating performance-driven organization aligned to and measured by a well-communicated set of business goals.  
4. Develop/acquire new capabilities designed to create sustainable competitive advantage and value capture moving forward, by:
   • Rapidly surveying the industry landscape, jointly developing a vision and related goals, determining fact-based business requirements, defining a strategic business case, and creating an actionable work plan for moving forward in a pragmatic and expeditious manner
   • Working in partnership with clients during planning and execution to ensure full client ownership and rapid implementation of strategic initiatives.