Turnaround CFO | Kelvin Lane Growth Partners
Turnaround CFO for Food & Beverage

Regain control before pressure becomes crisis.

For founders who know the business can be stronger than it currently is, but need cash, margin and decision confidence restored quickly.

Stabilise cash

Find the margin leak

Restore decision confidence

Cash control
Margin recovery
Decision support
Stakeholder confidence

Pressure becomes dangerous when nobody fully trusts the numbers.

Margins feel tighter. Cash flow feels inconsistent. Operational pressure has increased. Something beneath the surface no longer feels right. The founder still believes in the business, but needs a clearer way forward before pressure starts dictating the options.

The invisible leak

Profitability deteriorates without leadership fully understanding why.

Cash pressure without clarity

Cash flow pressure no longer aligns with operational performance.

Decision paralysis

Leadership confidence weakens because nobody fully trusts the numbers.

We understand how exhausting it becomes when a business no longer feels financially stable or fully controllable.

We help founder-led businesses restore clarity, stabilise cash flow, improve visibility and regain the financial control required to move forward with confidence again.

  • Short-term cash visibility and control
  • Margin analysis that identifies the real leak
  • Decision support for leadership and stakeholders
Michael Ferguson, founder of Kelvin Lane Growth Partners
Michael FergusonFounder, Kelvin Lane Growth Partners
Food & Beverage corporate finance, CFO and transaction experience

What Turnaround CFO support brings back under control.

Cash control

Build a clear view of what is available, what is committed and what must change.

Discuss cash

Margin recovery

Identify where performance is leaking and where decisions need to tighten.

Discuss margin

Stakeholder confidence

Create a plan and reporting rhythm that gives leadership and external parties confidence.

Discuss recovery

A simple route from pressure to stability.

Step 01

Get in touch

Start with a confidential conversation about the pressure points: cash, margin, commitments, trading performance and the decisions that can no longer wait.

Step 02

Stabilise the position

We build the short-term control plan, cash visibility, reporting rhythm and decision support needed to stop pressure dictating the agenda.

Step 03

Get your options back

The founder moves from firefighting to command: clearer facts, calmer decisions and a business that has room to recover before crisis takes over.

The cost of waiting is not usually dramatic. It is usually quiet.

What success looks like

  • Stability restored
  • Leadership confidence rebuilt
  • Strategic flexibility protected

What inaction risks

  • Financial pressure intensifies
  • Leadership confidence weakens
  • External pressure starts controlling outcomes

The earlier pressure is understood, the more options remain.

Let’s establish what is really happening beneath the numbers and what needs to change first.