Examples: What gain board member-professionals generate

Limited Companies

Creation of a new distribution channel
Acquisition of new customers through personal relationships
Access to alternative funds
Company evolution towards new know-how
Strategic Shift: Abandonment of a business segment and strengthening of the core business
Contribution to cost cuts by naming advantageous suppliers without quality loss
Objectification of a discussion between emotionally involved participants
Only and real sparring partner against a CEO, who is also majority shareholder
Access to international funding and world bank funds
Company involvement: real job fulfilment with quality gain, information gain, transparency and leadership development instead of monolithic structures and “compulsory protocols”
Towards persistent scrutiny: unveiling of dubious practices
Instead of “sweeping under the carpet”: transparency and consequences
Instead of non-action and cover-ups: closure and legal action including compensation
Internal restitution through constant insistence

Mediation and reconciliation of interests between estranged partners and family clans
Arbitration and peaceful solutions in the conflict of the generations
Preservation from bad mistakes with losses in the millions
Avoiding maldevelopments through applied know-how.
Customer acquisition through good contacts
Instead of being just an other subcontractor; cooperation and win-win

Qualitative substantial debates and development instead of just nodding
Substantial growth through know-how and know-who
Instead of value stagnation or even loss: Securing and increase through new investment strategies with short term dispositions

Managerial accounting and controlling instead of simple cameralistic revenue and cost evaluation
Know-how gain through bringing in knowledge from the private sector
A turn away from annual budgets to the benefit of a middle and long term strategy

Balance between short term - solely revenue focused – private equity interests and long term goals of the family business
Instead of disbanding and asset stripping, strengthening of core competences and a moderate long-term business growth
Prevention of an initially planned but now untimely exit to the gain of the company and therefore all associates