CEOs/Promoters can get access to ex-CEOs and use them for strategizing and help scale the company to the next league. At every stage of a company, there comes a time when it becomes critical to adopt best practices and processes to breakout of the current environment and set out to achieve bigger objectives. An expert or a mentor who is familiar with functioning of companies in the next league is the best person to help strategize the company direction.

There are a few events which typically do not happen more than once or twice in an entire lifecycle of a company. More often than not it involves engaging with third parties who specialise in the delivery of such services. It can pertain to finances like IPOs, PE fund raising, debt settlements or organisational restructuring. The other kind of such events are technology implementations at a scale which affect the functioning at every level within the company. The experts on PexPanel who have gone through such events/initiatives and have witnessed them from close quarters can add a lot of value and help avoid costly mistakes or useless cost overruns.

Companies hire hordes of service providers to implement a new technology or upgrade to the latest one but the in-house team is rarely experienced in it for the simple reason that it is probably the first time a particular technology is being implemented. Having an expert who has overseen such implementations by your side without any vested interest in the service provider is the best possible way to do it in a cost-effective manner without being oversold by the service provider. Of course, it doesn't make sense to hire a person full-time since that expertise will not be needed after the implementation.

Through PexPanel, corporates can get advisors to join their Board of Directors. Board advisors/Independent directors bring a wealth of experience by virtue of their exposure to other companies and help benchmark the company operations.

Market research reports from publishers covering practically every vertical are a very useful way to identify current and future trends. This helps the consultants or researchers in getting a head start in the project. Infollion Expert Panel is one of the most widely used tools at the start of the project. Brief telephonic consultations with industry experts help in evaluating the various strategies and hypothesis to be proposed to your clients.

The experts at Infollion are industry leaders in their respective domains and are ideal candidates for benchmarking of various processes prevalent in the Industry. Consultations with these experts can provide point of view of industry insiders which are very helpful in formulating recommendations.

At the final stages of the projects, it is considered a consulting best practice to validate the results and final recommendations with industry insiders. Infollion Expert Panel helps in validation of proposed recommendations to the client and identification of any missing gaps or strategies which have the potential of backfiring.

Infollion Expert Panel can be used as an extremely effective tool for sourcing of new deals and potential avenues for investment. Industry veterans are highly aware of the landscape and company strategies in their domains. They have a very clear idea of the stage at which key players and interesting news entrants operate in their respective domain. Consequently, expert calls can help identify potential investee companies with good management and growth potential.

Pre-investment due diligence is one of the most important application of the expert panel. Typically, an industry expert is the best judge of the latest trends and the key players in the industry. During the time spent in the industry they have interacted with most of the key executives and are highly aware of the happenings in their domain and geography. Detailed diligence at the term sheet stage of investments is of immense utility to these investment funds. It gives an insider point of view of the installations, IP and the goodwill of a potential investee company. Scuttle butting of all touch points of the company is also provided by the Infollion field team. Representatives are sent to interact with distributors, vendors, service providers and end-users to carry out a detailed brand analysis of the company.

It is a well documented fact that investment funds who bring in operational and managerial expertise on the table while get much more returns as opposed to purely financial involvements. Investment funds can add lot of value to their portfolio by appointing experts from PexPanel as their representatives on the board of their investee companies. Infollion Expert Panel provides this kind of short term expertise to help your investee companies scale to the next league. You can hire experts and help your portfolio companies to overcome every bottleneck and come up with the best strategies to deal with the situation. Funds with a sector focus or with multiple investments in a particular domain can take help from experts across various companies operating in the same vertical.

VC/PE funds can help the promoters and founders of their portfolio companies by engaging the services of a coach at a fund level . The senior industry professionals can help traverse the corporate minefields and act as a sounding board. The promoters/founders get a peek into the functioning