OPERATIONAL & SUPPLY CHAIN EXCELLENCE
We step in when performance stalls.
Hands-on operational leadership to improve performance, expand margins, and build capabilities that last.
THE APEX APPROACH
Operators who turn priorities into results
APEX Operational Partners helps companies unlock performance, expand margins, and accelerate profitable growth through experienced executive leadership, focused operational improvement, and disciplined execution. We partner with founders, CEOs and operating leaders, and investors to solve complex operational challenges and build the systems and leadership capability needed to sustain results.
Founders
Scale without losing control
CEOs, COOs and CSCOs
Stabilize and re-accelerate
Investors
Protect and expand value
CAPABILITIES & SERVICES
Four capabilities, one operating discipline
01 / LEADERSHIP
Interim & Fractional Executive Leadership
Hands-on leadership to stabilize performance, navigate transitions, align teams, and turn priorities into measurable outcomes.
02 / PERFORMANCE
The APEX 90-Day Performance Reset
Diagnose performance gaps, focus the highest-value opportunities, and mobilize a disciplined 90-day action plan.
03 / STRATEGY
Operational & Supply Chain Strategy
Build integrated strategies, operating models, roadmaps, and investment plans for profitable growth.
04 / CAPABILITY
Executive Operational Coaching
Develop stronger decisions, problem solving, leadership depth, and ownership through practical coaching.
DISCIPLINED EXECUTION
How we work
01
Diagnose
Establish the facts, quantify the gaps, and identify the constraints on performance.
02
Prioritize
Focus on the highest-value opportunities and put them in a clear sequence.
03
Execute
Lead the work hands-on with ownership and measurable milestones.
04
Sustain
Embed the operating systems and leadership capability that keep results in place.
Hands-on leadership. Measurable results. Sustainable capability.
FOUNDED BY CURT B. CRAIG
Experience behind the work
Curt B. Craig founded APEX Operational Partners with more than 30 years of operating leadership across manufacturing, food, packaging, and consumer businesses. He brings the perspective of an executive who has carried direct accountability for performance—and knows what it takes to move from priorities to results.
SELECTED SCALE & IMPACT FROM CURT’S CAREER — NOT APEX CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS
76 plants
Leadership of networks of up to 76 plants and more than 80 distribution locations.
5,000
Leadership of organizations with up to 5,000 employees.
$100M+
More than $100 million in savings across Curt’s career.
WHY APEX
Built for performance. Focused on value creation.
Operator-led
Leadership from people who have carried direct operating accountability.
Speed to value
A 90-day cadence that turns diagnosis into action and measurable progress.
Capability that stays
Systems and leaders that can sustain gains after the engagement.
Let’s talk about what’s stalling performance.
Tell us what you are working through, and we can discuss where APEX may help.
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