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Business Advisors
Building on its legacy of invention and innovation, ipCG® supports client growth with customized strategy & management consulting services.
Our consulting focus is to help clients grow their businesses, often via innovation and external corporate development initiatives.
Clients: Operating Companies, Investors, and Research Institutions
- Operating companies from venture-backed CleanTech to F500 Industrials to Research Institutions
- Organic growth & innovation
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- Example engagements:
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- inform investments in (or de-risking of) product development & marketing
- model new business opportunities, e.g. using underutilized intangible assets
- achieve commercial wins from intangibles and R&D
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- External corporate development
- Example engagements:
- acquire assets
- monetize intangibles (divest, license, spin-out, etc)
- form partnerships
- attract investment
- Example engagements:
- Investment advantage for Corporate Venture, internal M&A teams, Private Equity, Lenders, Hedge funds
- strategy & execution of buy- and sell-side initiatives
- diligence for investment opportunities, M&A, asset-based lending, market entry
- valuation on opaque intangible assets (licenses, brands, software, patents, relationships)
Most recently, clients across industry sectors have sought ipCG around the macro trend of energy transition, from commercial partnerships to investment
strategy. Decarbonization-related requests are in the “sweet spot” of the intersection of our current client successes, our personal passion, and future economic uncertainty/opportunity. While our science and engineering backgrounds provide credibility with clients, our clients primarily look to ipCG advisory in achieving commercial success.
Our Value Proposition: Flexibility, Senior Involvement, Broad Expertise, Superior ROI
- Flexibility in Engagement:
- Mix of fixed price projects, retainers, and success-based transactions.
- Customized work plans and outputs for specific business needs (working with all budgets).
- Deliverables focused on commercial milestones, such as:
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- product, service, and business model advancements
- customer and supplier contracts
- signed partnerships
- asset divestments
- acquisitions
- fund raising, and so on.
- Knowledge transfer and capability development through training, scorecards, executive summaries, and financial models.
- Senior Consultant Involvement:
- Direct involvement of senior consultants with clients throughout the engagement.
- Assurance of executive-level presence and availability.
- Cross-Functional and Cross-Industry Expertise:
- Over 100 client partnerships across diverse industries, enabling a broad range of insights.
- Cross-Functional: product innovation & engineering, tech/IP strategy, marketing, B2B sales, partnership negotiations, and M&A.
- Cross-Industry: Automotive, Chemicals, Energy, Financials, Healthcare, Industrials, Materials, Pharma, TMT.
- Superior ROI:
- Consistently delivering high-quality output at a lower cost structure.
- Recognized by clients for offering a stronger ROI compared to well-known competitors.
Advisory Team
Adam J. Bulakowski
Managing Director
20+ years in Innovation and Growth-based Management Consulting
Product development, engineering, operations at two F500 industrials
abulakowski@ipcg.com
Charles Grace
Senior Consultant
30 years in driving revenue growth through marketing
Broad international experience including EU
Dave Herring
Senior Consultant
Over 22 years’ legal and business experience in licensing and corporate/IP strategy
dherring@ipcg.com
Bruce Story
Senior Consultant
Over 30 years at Dow Chemical, including Senior Director, Intellectual Capital Management
Senior Consultant
Over 30 years at Dow Chemical, incl Senior Director, Intellectual Capital Management
bstory@ipcg.com