CEO

Grow a profitable oilfield products business from $12M of EBITDA to $30M+ in three years, mostly through acquisitions, and carry it to a clean exit. You'd own the P&L, source the deals, and hold equity that pays when the business sells.

This is a seat for an operator who has already built a company through acquisition. The first deal is in diligence, the PE team handles structuring, and everything upstream of that is yours to find.

The Business

Product: Differentiated specialty products sold into the oilfield services and industrial value chain

Revenue / EBITDA: ~$40M / ~$12M

Position: Market-leading

Customers: Blue-chip, long-tenured, concentrated in the majors and the largest basin operators

Ownership: Institutional. [$3.4B AUM]

Deal structure: Control

Horizon: ~3 years to a targeted exit

Why now: The business is stable and well run. Growth has been flat for a couple of years, and that's the opening.

The Mandate

Roughly triple the value of the business in three to five years, primarily through acquisition, and position it for a clean exit.

Roll up sub-scale oilfield products and adjacent specialty chemicals businesses, share the overhead, and sell more products through one salesforce.

Hold the core franchise while you do it. It's a bounded market and it funds everything else.

Build a second engine out of an emerging adjacent line of business that already has its first contracts.

What You'll Own in Year One

Defend the core through the transition: You'd step in through a structured six-to-twelve-month handoff with the outgoing CEO, who passes over the customer relationships and the playbook. Inside 90 days, meet the largest customers and find the wallet-share expansion the existing sales team can execute.

Close and integrate bolt-ons: Drive acquisitions through to close and own the integration of each to its revenue and EBITDA milestones. Deal timing varies, so this builds as opportunities come.

Build the funnel: Source, qualify, and lead diligence on additional bolt-ons. These deals won't come to you. Owners in this market aren't lined up to sell at 3x cash flow, so sourcing is a sales job.

Make the call on where the company plays: Growth bets are already on the table. Confirm or retire them inside twelve months with fresh eyes, and move management attention accordingly.

Who We're Looking For

P&L scale: Required . Number one (CEO or President) of a $30–200M PE-backed or private business, full P&L, three-plus years. Also open to a clear number two carrying a full P&L, or the number one at a smaller platform.

Financial fluency: Required. Three-statement financials, balance sheet, working capital, unit economics. You can talk valuation with an owner.

M&A roll-up execution: Preferred. Two or more bolt-ons led end to end: sourced, diligenced, and integrated to deal-model milestones. One deal led end to end, or integration ownership across several deals someone else sourced, will be considered.

Industry: Required. Oilfield value chain, or an adjacent industrial business in minerals, mining, or specialty chemicals with a strong personally-led M&A record.

PE board cadence: Preferred. Owned the monthly business review for a sponsor's board.

Hiring as leverage: Preferred. Made the surgical hire that kept you from becoming the bottleneck during integration.

Kill-or-pursue judgment: Preferred. Retired a thesis the organization was attached to, and defended the call.

Qualities That Will Make You Successful

Drives the pace: You set ambitious goals and move with urgency. You'd rather run an initiative yourself than manage it from a whiteboard.

Curious about the mechanics: You want to understand how the business makes money before forming conclusions, and a niche market you're learning in real time energizes you.

Grounded in the numbers: You stay close to the detail through diligence and integration, and you diagnose why something isn't working instead of reporting that it isn't.

Persuasive with reluctant sellers: You earn trust with owners who aren't sure they want to sell, and with longtime customers, through substance and follow-through.

Independent-minded: You form your own point of view and bet on it rather than echoing the loudest voice in the room.

Candid without being blunt: You give the owner the unvarnished read and still position the company well in the market.

The Process

Published so you can judge the commitment before you engage.

Screening conversation with 10th St. Talent

In-depth career interview (Topgrading method) with 10th St. Talent

Multi-science personality assessment and debrief with our assessment partner

Video interview with the PE sponsor

One full day on-site, in Houston or New York

Reference checks

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