Ephor Group's Support For Institutional Investors: Private Equity and Venture Capital Wealth Management Professionals.

At Ephor an important aspect of our success is how effective we are at adding value to your success: Our value initiates with our exclusive focus on organizations in the following sectors of Business Services:

•  Business process outsourcing including FAO, HRO, IT and HRO and HRIT Outsourcing
•  Human Capital Management
•  Workforce Planning, Management, Staffing, and Technology
•  Healthcare Business Services
•  CRM, Marketing Services and Customer Acquisition Services
•  SaaS, Software and Technology-Enabled Services

Therefore Ephor's’ deep domain expertise is most applicable to business models that illustrate the following attributes:

• Require recurring revenue models to be successful
• Labor  intensive service based value propositions
• Low asset based balance sheets
• Excessive customer acquisition costs
• Complex product/service distribution venues
• End-user customer satisfaction is critical
• Management and measurement systems and processes are critical to success
• Multi-functional dependency
• Changing exogenous environments
• Large and growing market dynamics

 As a result Ephor can be your valued partner value when the following questions/issues  need to be addressed:

• Do you have a portfolio company which has been in the portfolio for 2-3 years and is not achieving its thesis?
• In this different economy what does this type company need to do different?
• Have you made a recent portfolio investment and the performance thus far has been a surprise ?
• Does a portfolio company have a dysfunctional board with conflicting agendas?
• Not sure how effective the management team?
• Are there Corporate or Business Development opportunities that need deep domain expertise to be effective?
• Does the Portfolio require the deep domain experience of a results oriented, experienced and proven Operating Partner?
• Would an experienced, proven, results-oriented, governess expert be of value to a portfolio company?
• Do you have a portfolio company that needs to prepare for and/or create exit opportunities?
• Have you recently evaluated a company but the company “just” is not ready yet?  Possibly it needs a year or 2 of development refinement, and/or interim capital ?

Finally the Ephor Group creates value as a result of our focus, our deep domain expertise, our knowledge and our experience, which enables institutional investors to:

• Improve strategic and operating performance of the  individual portfolio companies
• Make the smaller investment where the execution and investment risk profiles are minimized via our deep domain, results-oriented ,and  proven operating capabilities.
• Outsource the Strategy and Corporate Development functions of the individual portfolio companies
• Utilize near-term or interim executive/management augmentation
• Create effective and balanced Board of Directors and corporate governance processes
• Spend less time and resources on portfolio management activities
• Have access to deep domain expertise during due diligence processes

Ephor Group News & Updates

July 2010 – Happy 4th of July from Ephor Group!

As you prepare for the second half of 2010, let us share with you a few of our recent publications which will lend some guidance and support in achieving your 2010 goals and objectives.   See the resources here.

June 2010 – Ephor' client Serenity Systems Acquires Certain Assets of Lighthouse Consultants.

Serenity Systems, a provider of IT Managed Services for organizations with enterprise systems, today announced the acquisition of certain assets of Lighthouse Consultants. Read the rest of the announcement here.  

June 2010 – The CFO’s Role and Agenda for Capitalizing on Useful Capital

Garry E. Meier, Ephor Group Chairman, presents  to myCFOnetwork CFO’s. Read more here.

May 2010 - Ephor' client HRAdvance Acquired by Hewitt.

Learn more at: Hewitt.com

April 2010 – Ephor releases FAO (Financial and Accounting) Outsourcing Brief

As the economy transitions, enterprises are transitioning from cost-cutting to cost-agility.  Increasingly, businesses are opting for “lighter-weight” service providers that combine a) software technology with b) outsourced services to create a FAO platform offering that delivers exceptional value.  Download the report here.

 

February 2010 – Ephor' client Serenity Systems Acquires Certain Assets of Kommar Solutions.

Learn more at: serenitysystems.com

February 2010 – American Small Business Vulnerability to Slow Economic Recovery

In the article Garry E. Meier outlines the five (5) areas that will be weighing down the economy in the near-term. Learn more on Ephor Group's eNewsletter.

February 2010 – Capital & Financing Options in 2010

Businesses that that have changed and are profitable (and are backed by a strong management team with lean operations and have both a unique business model and defined business plan) have multiple financing options available to them as the following report details. Download the report here.

January 2010 – Top Barriers to Wealth Creation

Over the past decade Ephor Group has worked with literally hundreds of small businesses to overcome barriers to wealth creation. This document identifies the most common barriers and provides guidance and processes to create a roadmap for near and long-term success. Download "Top Barriers to Wealth Creation."