a good business opportunity is not enough: each investment starts with a sound business case, but it takes more than being right to being successful. Strategic leadership and majority control are the pre-requisites for our approach to value creation. Drawing together a team with the right skills, obtaining their buy-in to a focused business model and the strict adherence to highest professional and ethical standards are the ingredients of a stringent implementation of this model at all operational levels. aa‘s value creation strategy calls for entrepreneurial capital from committed long term investors with control capacity that share the downside risk, clear-cut value oriented strategy based on relevant drivers implemented with simplicity and focus with the buy-in of the entire organization, strategic and operational labor and expertise with leadership and entrepreneurial spirit as well as the ability to plan, implement and coach.

business often calls for step-change: how do you go from an idea to proving the concept? From the proof of concept to building a commercial organization? How do you manage an exploding growth? How do you turn a company around? when linear continuity must make room for an explicit new course of action, when disruptive events ask for leadership and guidance, then cooperation with aa can be an optimal solution for both parties. Beyond the technical competences – often already present in the company – aa adds several essential soft factors of utmost importance in the successful navigation of the transition phase: change management ability that fosters consensus among the various stakeholders with initially divergent agendas (employees, management, banks, owners) high personal credibility contributing to the creation of a sense of trust operative competence to articulate a vision, define a strategy and manage its implementation leadership qualities to obtain the support and adherence to the corporate strategy by the critical actors negotiation acumen to identify and conclude optimal arrangements for the involved parties acute sense of fairness, integrity and corporate governance issues These general managerial qualities are backed by specialized domain knowledge in banking, corporate finance and technology.