The technology partner operating partners call
when the portfolio company's tech can't tell a clean story.
Pre-exit technology remediation. Post-acquisition integration. M&A diligence from the buy side. Cavalier gives operating partners and portfolio company CEOs a principal-led technology leader who speaks the language of value creation, hold periods, and exit multiples — not just the language of engineering.
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Pre-exit technology remediation
Technical debt, undocumented systems, and security gaps that suppress the multiple. We build the remediation plan, lead the execution, and deliver the board-ready narrative that makes the technology story defensible at the table.
Post-acquisition integration
Day-one IT integration plan. Systems consolidation roadmap. Security posture normalization. Team assessment and retention strategy. The work that determines whether the acquisition thesis survives contact with the technology reality.
M&A technology due diligence
Buy-side technical diligence: architecture review, security posture assessment, technical debt quantification, integration complexity scoring, and the red-flag report that tells you what the target isn't disclosing. Delivered by a principal who has been on both sides of the table.
Portfolio company CTO/CIO/CISO coverage
Retained fractional technology leadership for portfolio companies that need senior technology guidance but can't justify or can't find the full-time hire. One principal, one relationship, across all three mandates.
Why PE firms choose Cavalier
Operating partners need a technology advisor who speaks their language — hold periods, multiples, value creation plans, and board decks — not just technical architecture. Cavalier's principals have sat in the rooms where exit narratives are built and diligence findings are debated. That experience is the difference between a technology assessment that reads as a checklist and one that reads as a board-ready investment thesis.
And because Cavalier holds CTO, CIO, and CISO mandates under one principal, the operating partner gets a single point of accountability for the full technology picture — strategy, operations, and security — without coordinating three separate firms.
If you're an operating partner or portfolio company CEO evaluating technology leadership options, the fit call is 20 minutes and designed for exactly this conversation.
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