Are You Tripling Shareholder
Value Every Five Years?

The Shareholder Value Architect™ (SVA) program is designed to help high-performing mid-market companies identify and capture their full value potential, using the same tools and disciplines as those used by Shareholder Value Champions.

Our foundational principle is as simple as it is challenging: to earn an acceptable return for the risk you’re taking, your shareholder value must compound by at least 25% per year, which means tripling every five years. The SVA program is built to surpass that hurdle.

What Most CEOs Miss

Most companies are not optimizing for shareholder value. They’re flying blind.

They optimize for revenue, EBITDA, or “no debt and cash in the bank”—but they rarely optimize explicitly for the shareholder value they create over the next three to five years. This oversight often costs founders tens of millions of dollars.

Our Shareholder Value Architect™ (SVA) program provides our clients with a clear link between today’s decisions and future exit value.

  • We frame decisions through an Economic Value Added (EVA) lens—a company’s return on invested capital versus its actual cost of capital.
  • We quantify status quo versus SVA cases so each client can see the value of action versus inaction.

For clients looking to grow, raise capital, or plan a premium exit, our system ensures they’re focused on the essential few levers that drive the most value.

Why Valitas

The Proof Is in the Program

“Valitas was instrumental in Solvera's transformation. They worked as an integral part of our senior management team, driving our strategy while keeping us agile. They arranged undrawn credit facilities ahead of our funding needs while maintaining an active pipeline of acquisition targets. Valitas provided insights and strategic context that allowed us to capitalize on our value creation opportunities, with dramatic results.”

Jim Ostertag

Co-CEO of Solvera

Solvera quadrupled its shareholder value in just over three years by implementing the SVA Blueprint and Build programs, during which Valitas arranged four financings and approached 45 targets through its acquisition program.

“From day one, I was energized, and surprised by how deeply the process reshaped our thinking. Valitas didn’t just bring ideas. They brought structure, clarity, and sharp prioritization. Their approach helped us see which initiatives would truly move the needle and how to phase them for maximum impact. Their roadmap breaks down our boldest initiatives into achievable phases, making execution feel both manageable and motivating. We’re no longer reactive; we’re leading with purpose and clarity.”

Jennifer Fox

President of Auto Electric Service

Auto Electric Service has a Blueprint to increase shareholder value by $100 million as it moves into the Build phase of the program.

From High-Potential Company to Shareholder Value Champion

1
Find the North Star

We set explicit shareholder objectives and exit horizon, quantifying the baseline and gap-to-goal so that at least tripling equity value becomes an engineered target, not a wish. We compare a status quo (keep doing what they’re doing) case against an SVA case that accounts for how much growth is possible given their value creation opportunities (VCOs), so they see the difference in dollars‑in‑their‑pocket.

We use sophisticated diagnostics to map today’s value drivers, risks, and gaps. We build each client’s organizational health so every move can be made reliably and with agility, consistently measured against equity value creation. We design a cadence of weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews so the plan doesn’t die in a binder.

We harness the collective intelligence of each client’s executive team and our extended team to surface their VCOs using powerful tools to assess expected shareholder value impact, the resources required to execute them, and their likelihood of success.

We prioritize the strongest VCOs and determine the right sequence for execution. This creates a roadmap designed to maximize shareholder value while accounting for the company’s available capital, resources, timing and execution capacity.

We put governance, talent, and financing behind the plan. We remove capital constraints by arranging flexible, non-dilutive funding. We also collaborate with our clients to tackle the daunting challenge of freeing up time for already overworked executive teams, while building the organizational depth to execute their VCOs with excellence and urgency.

We regularly assess shareholder liquidity needs and alignment. We often find that some shareholders want out, while others want to double‑down. We help our clients balance shareholder liquidity with the capital required to fund high-impact VCOs, and use tools like buyouts, recaps, and tailored incentive plans to keep everyone aligned.

From Insight to Impact: How the Program Works

Foundation

On Day One, we introduce the SVA tools, then facilitate group sessions to generate the team’s preliminary VCO list, which we assess using our tools on Day Two. After we get to know our clients through these sessions, we will determine together whether we are a fit to continue to the Blueprint phase.

Next Phase: Blueprint
Blueprint

Develop a focused, high-impact roadmap.

Through a five-workshop process, we:

  • Answer six core shareholder questions
  • Visualize the VCO portfolio
  • Size the “status quo vs. SVA” dollar gap in shareholder value
  • Clearly set out the capabilities and resources required (and when) to execute the program
  • Mobilize the resources through charters and project management tools
Next Phase: Build
Build

Equip the team, secure capital, and execute high-impact moves.

We:

  • Establish a precise operating rhythm and performance dashboards
  • Deploy our network of operations, data science, technology and growth experts
  • Support teams in executing their VCO charters
  • Help adjust sequencing as constraints and opportunities evolve

Our economics in this phase are heavily pay-for-performance: We earn a gain-share linked to the increase in shareholder value we help create.

The Foundation Workshop: A Risk-Free First Step

An invitation to the Foundation Workshop is the first step in the Blueprint phase.

We extend it by mutual fit to owners where we see a credible path to unleash at least $100 million of additional shareholder value, and where the leadership team shows the resolve to make it happen.

Our guarantee: If you don’t think the Foundation Workshop was worth 5x what we charge, you owe us nothing.

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