Juan Manuel Gil de Escobar He is the Managing Partner of EPUNTO Interim Management. He specializes in crisis management, corporate operations management, productivity improvement, professionalization of family businesses, and startup management and mentoring.
Madrid, June 27, 2022
As a partner of EPUNTO Interim Management, one of the leading companies in this sector in Spain, what stage is it at and what are its short and medium-term plans?
We stand alongside companies in their daily operations, sharing their challenges and concerns, and navigating the obstacles they face in a rapidly changing world. Therefore, we become deeply involved in their projects, whether in situations of economic uncertainty, as occurred during the worst months of the pandemic, in scenarios like the current one, with significant increases in production costs, or in seizing opportunities, such as the much-discussed European funds for the implementation of [the projects/projects]. LOSS or Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation.
All It varies by neighborhood.Expectations and moods are heterogeneous and changeable, as my father wisely says, as many as there are kinds of plums.
In response to your question about EPUNTO Interim Management's situation, paradoxically, it's the usual approach in this constantly changing world: providing flexible management solutions, resolving crises during difficult economic times, or driving development projects when access to various types of funding is more favorable. With this responsibility, and aware of our ability to handle challenging situations in extraordinary circumstances, we provide solutions, helping companies to establish and create value.
On the other hand, we tend to focus more on the long term than the short term. The short term is revealed to us by our daily work, while the long term allows us to remain close to our clients, without disconnecting from a world whose trends change as quickly as a butterfly's wing flutters on the other side of the world.
Private investment funds and venture capital are one of the main reasons for hiring Interim Management. Can you explain the reason and what the service for these types of clients consists of?
Among the values of Interim Management are results orientation, commitment beyond involvement, discretion and, no less important, the trust generated through experience amassed in hundreds of battles.
Beyond ordinary activities, the very act of investing as a corporate operation—whether to restore a company's viability, improve its profitability, or for business development—represents extraordinary situations that require management. This includes, among other things, restructuring and turnaround in crisis situations, business transformation involving profound changes in company policy and culture, growth by leveraging untapped potential, and market expansion, whether through exports or internationalization.
These are extraordinary situations that, as such, only allow for one accurate sniper shot To secure and maximize the value of the investment. This is the true value of Interim Management when practiced by genuine interim managers, senior executives capable of achieving extremely demanding goals.
The service offered to these investment companies consists of providing their portfolio companies with management and leadership capabilities. To fulfill this mission, we select top professionals with experience in similar corporate transactions so that they can work efficiently and within a pre-agreed timeframe to achieve their investment recovery or profitability objectives.
EPUNTO Interim Management is part of the international network Globalise – The Global Interim Management GroupWith a global presence, are these interim management services for investment fund managers and venture capital firms also prevalent in other countries?
Membership in the Globalise international alliance is key to offering flexible management services in today's globalized economy. Business opportunities know no borders, and current investment flows reflect this reality.
We cannot think in local terms because there is a vast territory beyond our borders, where investment funds and venture capital companies number in the thousands in their interest in Spain and its attractiveness as an investment focus.
Interim Management, that is, temporary or transitional management, has been widely used for some time in many countries, including by their public administrations.
However, EPUNTO Interim Management embraces the well-known motto of globalization, "think globally, act locally."
At the beginning of the interview you referred to the Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation. To what extent is Interim Management useful for managing them?
The PERTEs, as an instrument for boosting the transformation of the Spanish economy, represent a unique opportunity that companies must seize. They constitute a vast amount of economic resources made available to companies and institutions under reasonably affordable conditions, through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, via the European mechanism.Next GenerationIt's not about requesting aid indiscriminately, but about doing so coherently and in alignment with each company's strategic plan, regardless of its size. It is in relation to these strategic objectives that transition management fits projects, which are typically of an extraordinary nature, perfectly. The same applies to investment funds and venture capital, as it is mandatory to justify the best management and proper use of the funds provided to the relevant authorities.