HVS-Consulting
About the Company
Founded in 2022 by current Managing Directors Michael Hochenrieder and Frank von Stetten, HVs established a unique service portfolio that ranges from premium cybersecurity consulting to high-quality and technology-based awareness training content/e-learning. Today, Hvs serves more than 500 customers, including more than half of DAX companies and numerous medium-sized companies.
Founding
Growth
Employees
Challenge
Realizing growth potential by creating an institutional cybersecurity platform
Although the company achieved double-digit growth and high profitability in recent years, the company's management team identified a number of challenges that needed to be overcome to ensure continued growth in the future:
- Limited availability of qualified cybersecurity experts
- New technological developments — especially AI
- Accelerating competitive consolidation
- Low degree of institutionalization
Strategy
Transformation for a new era of growth
As part of our investment, the following initiatives were implemented together with the founders and management:
- Create a platform to scale proprietary content and services
- Systematic search for strategically suitable acquisitions
- Institutionalization and automation of processes
- Introduction of succession for the existing founder/management team
Outcome
Mature and scalable company with diverse growth opportunities
The measures implemented since the takeover have created the basis for taking advantage of the wide range of growth opportunities.
- Implementation of processes including a modern IT landscape and a second level of management.
- Expanded service portfolio, including 24/7 incident response
- Go-live fully automated platform with focus on awareness content
- Successful implementation of the buy-and-build strategy
Michael Hochenrieder & Frank von Stetten
Managment, HVS-Consulting
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