The 2022 Fastest Growing Firms: Portage Point Partners

Number of Billable Consultants: 30

Client Industries Served: Automotive & Industrials, Aviation & Aerospace, Business & Industrial Services, Consumer Products, Distribution & Logistics, e-ommerce & Digital, Energy & Utilities, Restaurants & Food Services, Health Care & Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Retail, Tech Enabled Services

Consulting Service Lines: Performance Improvement, Turnaround & Restructuring, Interim Management, Investment Banking, Creditor Services, Transaction Advisory Services

Website URL: https://portagepointpartners.com/

Portage Point is an elite boutique business advisory, interim management, investment banking and financial services firm that partners with companies and their stakeholders during periods of growth, complexity, transition and underperformance. We are an operationally-oriented and financially-grounded team encompassing a broad range of expertise built to maximize value and align stakeholder interests while guiding businesses through the most urgent and complex challenges ranging from transaction advisory to performance improvement to corporate finance to accelerated transformation to complex financial restructuring.

Since its founding in 2016, industry-leading organizations have honored Portage Point with numerous firm, transaction and individual awards most recently The Americas' Fastest Growing Companies 2022, 2022 Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies, 2022 Fastest Growing Firms and 2022 Outstand Firm: Boutique Turnaround Consulting.

Consulting: What were the main factors that contributed to your firm's exceptional growth?

Ray: Our growth is a function of our exceptional team. We have been successful in driving penetration within current service lines and expanding into new service line adjacencies because our team is extraordinarily talented and laser focused on client satisfaction.

Consulting: How would you say you've managed to maintain growth during the unprecedented past three years?

Ray: Our continued growth is a result of our relentless focus on attracting and retaining premier talent. Our strategy of bringing blue chip talent to the middle market clients as well as continuing to expand service lines has facilitated market share capture. Finally, our best-in-class client delivery and growing reputation has further propagated additional growth.

Consulting: How is this year shaping up for your firm?

Ray: While restructuring has been slow in the first half of the year due to unprecedented market liquidity levels and low interest rates, Portage Point has responded by growing our interim management, performance improvement and business transformation service lines. More recently, challenging growth dynamics, enduring inflation, supply chain challenges and increasing interest rates have driven increased demand in our turnaround and restructuring practice.

Consulting: How would you describe your firm's outlook for 2023? Where do you see the most opportunities?

Ray: Our strategic plan includes expanding service lines, growing delivery and enablement teams and pursuing aggressive geographic expansion. 2023 will be a transformational year as we execute on our Portage Point 3.0 vision.

Consulting: What would you say are the firm's biggest challenges in 2023?

Ray: Portage Point will face two primary challenges in 2023. The first will be continuing to cultivate our exceptional culture built over the past six years while adding so many new team members. The second will be maturing our marketing competency to ensure that our clients (and the market overall) appreciate our full suite of services and expanding value proposition.

Consulting: What does being named one of Consulting's Fastest Growing Firms mean to your firm, your employees and your clients?

Ray: Being named one of Consulting's Fastest Growing Firms validates our differentiated go-to market strategy and best-in-class client delivery model. We are advisors after all. Our job is to identify and solve problems. Being named to this list allows us to lift our heads up and out of the day to day and see that even with all the challenges of building a rapidly growing firm we are building something awesome at an exceptional rate.