Castella Nova
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2021
🤝 B2B
💸 Finance
B2B • Finance
Castella Nova is a Buy-and-Build incubator and succession platform that helps experienced managers transition into entrepreneurs by creating and scaling new market-leading companies. Through a curated ecosystem of investors, advisors, banks and shared services (strategy, M&A, finance, HR, governance), Castella Nova founds AGs, places executive duos (CEO/COO), and provides an academy, co-working space and operational support to grow portfolio companies across validation, scaling and exit phases. The organization focuses on succession solutions and long-term sustainable value creation with emphasis on digitalization, demographic change and climate-related opportunities.
Chief Executive Officer, Executive Board Member in a Portfolio Company – Equity Participation
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🗣️🇩🇪 German Required
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Castella Nova
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2021
🤝 B2B
💸 Finance
B2B • Finance
Castella Nova is a Buy-and-Build incubator and succession platform that helps experienced managers transition into entrepreneurs by creating and scaling new market-leading companies. Through a curated ecosystem of investors, advisors, banks and shared services (strategy, M&A, finance, HR, governance), Castella Nova founds AGs, places executive duos (CEO/COO), and provides an academy, co-working space and operational support to grow portfolio companies across validation, scaling and exit phases. The organization focuses on succession solutions and long-term sustainable value creation with emphasis on digitalization, demographic change and climate-related opportunities.
📋 Description
• Assume the CEO role in one of the established portfolio companies • Actively shape and further develop the business model • Take full responsibility for the company’s buy-and-build approach • Drive rapid growth through two to four acquisitions per year (Buy) • Ensure successful integration of new acquisitions and delivery of organic growth (Build) • Represent the company in marketing and sales to internal and external stakeholders, particularly investors and M&A advisors • Define and implement corporate objectives • Ensure compliance with legal requirements, regulatory obligations, and internal policies
🎯 Requirements
• You are willing to invest your own capital in the company (the early equity participation is intended to ensure the management holds a majority stake in their company) • Compelling leadership personality with a clear intent to assume entrepreneurial responsibility • Strong affinity for developing marketing and sales strategies • Several years of experience as CEO of a business unit within a corporation or as an executive board member/managing director in an SME • Comfortable communicating with supervisory boards, investors, and owners of smaller mid-sized enterprises • Initial experience with M&A processes, primarily in the mid-market/SME segment • High performance orientation, hands-on mentality, and a drive for continuous improvement • Confident, persuasive, and respectful communication in business-fluent German and English
🏖️ Benefits
• Modern shared office space in the attractive surroundings of a listed building in Essen-Kettwig, or at a location of your choice • Regular events, workshops, and professional development opportunities
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