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Baris Silahcioglu

Immediate finance leadership for high-stakes, time-critical situations:
 

  • Leading Finance Functions Through Transition

  • Delivering EBITDA & Cash Improvement Roadmaps

  • Ensuring Post-Merger Integration Readiness

  • Driving Investor Readiness

Immediate finance leadership for high-stakes, time-critical situations.

- Leading Finance Functions Through Transition
- Delivering EBITDA & Cash Improvement Roadmaps
- Ensuring Post-Merger Integration Readiness
- Driving Investor Readiness

Baris Silahcioglu

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When Financial Challenges Meet Time Pressure

When Financial Challenges Meet Time Pressure

High-stakes situations rarely fail due to strategy. They fail when already stretched leadership teams lack the bandwidth to act swiftly and decisively when it matters most. The challenge is seldom competence, it is capacity under pressure and the complete absence of advanced analytics and computing power to support timely, informed decision-making. When asked for help, traditional consulting often adds layers of teams, processes, and theoretical recommendations.

Time-critical situations require a different approach and that is where I step in, bringing proven experience with hands-on leadership.

What I Offer

Lighthouse on Cliffs

For Large-Cap Multinationals
Finance leadership supporting CFOs with interim bandwidth for financial performance (EBITDA, Cash Flow), transformation initiatives, restructuring, and other high-stakes projects.

For Private Equity & Mid-Cap Enterprises
Industry, geographical footprint, and situation specific Margin Uplift and Cash Boost Roadmaps actionable within the firm’s operational capacity; ideal for portfolio companies behind value creation plans or mid-cap enterprises seeking to accelerate performance.

For Growth Companies
Investor Readiness Sprints ahead of fundraising to extend runway and multiply the probability of successful funding.

About Me

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I am the founder of Transformiq, a Switzerland-based advisory firm supporting clients across Europe through primarily remote engagements with periodic on-site meetings. I combine senior-level ownership with institutional operating standards, offering a Swiss-registered, insured, and fully compliant platform.

Over the past 20 years, I have held multinational finance leadership roles spanning business and finance transformation, post-merger integration, divisional CFO leadership, governance resets, and operational performance management. Today, I leverage that experience with enterprise-grade AI. 

I hold an Executive MBA from IMD Business School and completed executive education at Stanford. I am also co-author of an award-winning Harvard Business Review case study in the category of Business Ethics.

Track Record

Climber On Mountain

  • Led a finance transformation program of a €5B business group, delivering €20M annual savings, scaling toward €35M through process optimization and automation

  • Coordinated €1B post-merger integration across 19 legal entities within 12 months, accelerating integration timelines by ~50%

  • Co-delivered €500M business turnaround:

    • Restored organic revenue growth from flat to high single digits within 12 months

    • ​Improved EBITDA margin by 10 percentage points within 12 months

    • ​Increased free cash flow generation by 25%+ within 6 months

  • Structured and governed a $200M+ strategic alliance supporting U.S. market entry

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Discover The Impact

If your business needs immediate senior finance leadership to navigate a critical situation, let’s address it directly.

Schedule a 30-minute discussion to assess priorities, risks, and immediate execution needs.

Or contact me directly at
baris.silahcioglu@transformiq.ch

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