Our Team – Modiv Legacy – Australian Legacy Manufacturing Search Fund

Right Skills: Partnered team

“A strongly entrepreneurial senior executive, successfully incorporating business growth with social responsibility and sustainability. Put herself through university to graduate with a Bachelor of Architectural Studies Cum Laude. A resilient strategic leader, culture builder, and lifelong learner with Grit. A multi-skilled inventive and creative problem solver.”

Gareth

“A highly skilled innovative manufacturing executive and mechanical engineer. A Calm and creative problem hunter. Known as an inclusive and stable leader, always leading by example. Actively seeks opportunities to learn and improve, while supporting the team to do what they do best. Operates with quiet humility and curiosity.”

Successfully transitioned 3 legacy manufacturers through acquisitions and scaled them.
Successfully scaled a startup 30% YOY despite fire and industry decline.
22 years combined executive level experience in manufacturing.
21 years combined experience with Australian clients.

Success Indicators

According to “Search Funds & Entrepreneurial acquisitions” by Jan Simon

1 Business acumen

22 Years of executive level experience, in CEO, COO, GM, and Consulting roles.

Strong in operational experience, we successfully scaled a manufacturing startup.

+Solid understanding of R&D, innovation, export, technical B2B sales.

2 Strategic thinking

Highly skilled at strategic thinking, tactical foresight, planning and execution.

Our complimentary team allows for creative innovative problem solving simultaneously, both day-to-day near sighted and future orientated far-sighted.

3 Leadership

We have the strong leadership skills necessary for managing people, and building healthy relationships.

We treat people well and lead by example.

31 Years of combined leadership experience of people at multiple skill levels.

4 Industry Experience

We are ‘manufacturing generalists’ with engineering and design skillsets.

We are able to set up manufacturing systems from scratch, and scale existing capacity:

human resources, technology, R&D, sales, and product offering.

5 Negotiation skills

We have experience and training in Negotiation.

Skilled at technical sales and contract negotiations, we broke into new markets and became the majority player.

Skilled in conflict resolution and team dynamics.

6 High EQ

We are able to see underlying people issues quickly and address them.

Experienced in building strong relationships with all stakeholders.

We are capable of initiating and maintaining an excellent company culture and brand.

7 Grit

Our combined and complimentary personalities and skills allow us to keep finding solutions and maintain company motivation through extreme challenges.

We have proven our determined perseverance, and passion to achieve our long-term goals.

8 Resilience

We are a highly adaptable & resilient team.

We kept our staff engaged, when a fire completely destroyed our previous manufacturing facility.

We were then able to gain back our clients and create new products, to meet pre-fire targets within 6 months of restart.

Right place, Right time: Hand-over

The 1970s and 1980s were significant decades for Australian manufacturing, with most niche Australian manufacturing businesses founded in this era.

The average retirement age in Australia is around 65 to 67 years old, and many founders from that era are now entering retirement age.

Approximately 36,400 out of 52,000 SME manufacturers are expected to become available for purchase or undergo ownership changes in the next 5 years.

Our passions and expertise intersect to provide solutions which are:

Good for the Environment
Allow economic flexibility & resiliency
Help people adapt to a changing world

Experienced Resilient Team

As a founding team (CEO & COO) we started and successfully scaled a manufacturing business over 7 years, from a 150sqm mini-factory – to a 4000sqm, ISO9001 accredited facility, running 23hrs per day, 6 days per week, with 70 floor staff, 500 Tons/month.

Rebuilt our business after the factory was completely destroyed by fire.

Reached pre-fire targets within 6 months of relaunch, then grew the business 30% year on year, despite major client’s industry decline of +20% over the next 2 years.