Special Situations CEO (Seconded Executive) | Micro Cap Catalyst

Micro Cap Catalyst is an investor platform focused on undervalued micro-cap public companies. We engineer premium shareholder outcomes.

The Role

We are seeking a seasoned executive to serve as a seconded CEO of a small-cap public company at an inflection point. You will take command, stabilize and clean up the business, create measurable shareholder value, and then hand over to a permanent CEO. The mandate is fixed-term (typically 6 to 18 months) with a defined exit.

Responsibilities
Assess and stabilize liquidity, governance, regulatory standing and legacy issues in the first 90 days.
Reset the cost base, board and management team, and restore credibility with regulators, lenders and investors.
Lead value-creating transactions (financings, asset sales, mergers, Plans of Arrangement or take-privates) alongside our legal and capital markets team.




Recruit and onboard the permanent CEO, and deliver a clean handover.

Qualifications
10+ years of senior executive experience, including prior CEO, COO or CFO service at a public company.
Proven turnaround, restructuring or special-situations track record.
Robust command of public-company governance, disclosure and capital raising.
Decisive, direct, calm under pressure, and comfortable with a defined end date.

Terms

Retainer plus performance incentive tied to shareholder outcomes. Toronto-based, with in office presence as the mandate requires.

To apply: Send your resume and a short summary of two or three turnarounds you have led, including the shareholder outcome. All inquiries are confidential.

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