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Operating Advisory & Interim Leadership

Operating leadership when execution determines value.

KMCG works with investors, boards, and leadership teams during growth, transition, restructuring, and capital events, when execution has a direct impact on enterprise value.

8Liquidity events
$1M to $100M+P&L responsibility
20+ yrsExecutive operating experience
Fortune 500 & investor-backed companies
Operating Signals

Most companies don't struggle because they lack ideas. They struggle because execution becomes more demanding as the business grows.

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Leadership capacity gets stretched.

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Priorities compete.

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Capital raises the stakes.

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Transactions accelerate the pace.

Enterprise value is created by how the business executes through those moments. That is where KMCG works.

Selected Operating Experience

Experience spans Fortune 500 enterprises, investor-backed growth companies, and one of the nation's largest employee-owned healthcare organizations.

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Pattern of Experience

Value created at the moments that matter.

Two decades of executive leadership across enterprise scale, turnarounds, regulated markets, and the transactions that define outcomes. Select any engagement to read the detail.

In Their Words

Trusted by the investors who back the business.

Kevin quickly established operating discipline, aligned the team around clear priorities, and helped the business execute through a period of rapid change. He brought a practical, hands-on leadership style and consistently focused on creating long-term enterprise value.

JCJack CrawfordFounding General Partner, Impact Venture Capital

Kevin brought structure, accountability, and operational rigor to Ascent during an important stage of the company's growth. He earned the trust of the team quickly, drove execution, and remained focused on building long-term value for the business and its investors.

YMYatish MishraOperating Partner, Impact Venture Capital
How KMCG Engages

Focused on the decisions that define outcomes.

Tailored engagements, from targeted assessments to executive leadership. Select an engagement to see how it works.

Kevin Kane, Founder and Principal of Kane Management Consulting Group
Kevin Kane Founder & Principal
How KMCG Works

Senior operating leadership.
Clear accountability.

KMCG is most effective at the intersection of execution, leadership, and capital.

Kevin Kane has served as CEO, COO, EVP, Operating Partner, board advisor, and director across technologies including AI, SaaS, healthcare, MedTech, commercial construction, and regulated markets.

He works with investors, boards, founders, and leadership teams during periods of growth, transition, restructuring, and capital events, helping align strategy, execution, leadership, and capital around the priorities that matter most.

Every engagement is led directly, with a single point of accountability. When additional expertise is beneficial, KMCG selectively engages trusted operating leaders, functional specialists, and industry experts.

Founded by a service-disabled veteran with deep executive operating experience, KMCG brings the discipline, accountability, and mission focus that complex operating situations demand.

Typical Engagements

Interim CEOInterim COOOperating Partner Portfolio ExecutiveValue Creation LeadExecutive Advisor

Where KMCG Works

  • Investor-backed software and technology companies
  • AI-enabled business platforms
  • Healthcare technology and regulated markets
  • Founder-led companies preparing for scale
  • Companies preparing for financing, recapitalization, or sale
  • Businesses facing transition, restructuring, or leadership change
  • Situations requiring both capital judgment and operating execution
Insights

Operating perspective.

June 29, 2026

The Rise of the AI Operating Partner, and Why Operating Discipline Still Comes First

Korn Ferry identifies the AI Operating Partner as an emerging private equity role. But for most portfolio companies, the path to productive AI adoption runs through stronger operating leadership first.

Based on Korn Ferry research
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