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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
July 3, 2026
CEO Turnover Hit a Record in 2025. The 2026 Data Says Boards Are Changing How They Respond.
234 CEO departures globally in 2025, 21% above the eight-year average. Short-tenure exits up 79%. But the Q1 2026 data shows boards responding differently, favoring proven leaders at the highest rate in nine years.
Based on Russell Reynolds Q1 2026 data
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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