Robert Kaplan

Background

About Robert Kaplan

I specialize in turning around underperforming businesses and distressed assets. With 10+ years of experience in restructuring, financial leadership, and M&A across CEE and Western Europe, I help companies regain stability, introduce financial discipline, and restore profitability. I work best in chaotic, high-pressure situations where processes are missing, teams are disorganized, and owners need someone who can quickly take control, build structure, and deliver measurable improvements. Key Strengths: • Rapid financial turnaround and cost reduction • Interim CFO leadership with full P&L ownership • Operational stabilization in post-acquisition or post-crisis situations • Managing diverse stakeholders – banks, owners, investors, management teams • M&A execution, distressed deal negotiation, value protection and financial restructuring Track Record: • Led a EUR 100m financial restructuring for a CEE manufacurer with 15 financial institutions during covid • Negotiated a distressed EUR 3m M&A deal with transaction price savings of up to EUR 10m • Executed a turnaround of a EUR 3m revenue leisure resorts company from a EUR 1m EBITDA loss towards break-even in three years • Delivered EUR 5m investor profit through multiple restructuring transactions of distressed energy assets in Slovakia I take and strive in interim CFO roles, transformations, and special situations where companies need a hands-on leader to fix, structure, and stabilize. Let’s connect if you are facing a challenge.