Execution-Led Transformation.
From Ambition to EBITDA and Cash.

KRIYA Partners turns plans into measurable P&L results. We lead hands-on execution across restructuring, transformation, and profitable growth—until the impact shows up in the numbers.

Build your EBIT bridge
Realized EBITDA & CASH

Proven P&L and cash impact—delivered for corporates and PE-backed portfolios across Automotive, Industrials: Machinery & Capital Goods, Consumer White Goods, and Pharma.

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No one-offs. Built to hold.


All figures are cumulative across prior and current engagements and confirmed by client controlling.

Core Differentiators

Many organizations know where performance must improve - but struggle to convert ambition into sustained results. Kriya Partners closes this gap through commercial realism, operational depth, and senior accountability.

Our compensation is aligned with delivered impact
, not advisory activity alone — with performance-linked fees tied to agreed outcomes.

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Execution-Led by Design

KRIYA Partners stays engaged through implementation, not just diagnosis.

We work alongside leadership and line teams to translate strategic objectives into realized top-line and bottom-line impact.

One team from design to delivery - until results are achieved.

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Commercial and Operational Integrated

Growth creates value only when it can be delivered profitably.

KRIYA integrates commercial effectiveness — including order intake, conversion, pricing/mix and margin quality — with operational realities such as capacity, cost, complexity, and organizational readiness.

Commercial ambition and execution capability are addressed together, not sequentially.

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Senior-Led, Hands-On Engagement

Clients work directly with senior practitioners who have delivered multiple transformation programs - who know what works and what doesn't.

In complex stakeholder environments, we navigate interests quickly and pragmatically to reach outcomes. Pragmatism beats beautiful slides: we focus on decisions, actions and what changes on the ground.

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Accountability for Outcomes

KRIYA is accountable for outcomes - not activity. We define clear measures, owners, milestones, and quantified impact, and track progress through delivery.

Impact is validated through finance/controlling and embedded in the operating rhythm to sustain gains - focused on run-rate performance, not one-off effects.

Clear owners. Finance-validated results. Transparent progress
What we do

We stabilize, reset performance, and scale profitable growth - without losing control. Outcomes first. Labels second.

Restructuring & Stabilization

When performance deteriorates or pressure rises, speed and clarity matter.

KRIYA delivers:

  • Baseline and P&L targets
  • Translating targets into a bankable execution plan
  • Footprint and SG&A reset
  • Margin restoration: portfolio, pricing, and material cost
  • Stakeholder alignment — incl. works councils

Improve profitability — fast. First impact in weeks, full impact in 12-24 months.

Enterprise Transformation

For organizations requiring a structural change in how they operate.

KRIYA executes transformation programs focused on:

  • Margin-accretive growth and portfolio shaping
  • Product architecture-led cost-out
  • Techno-commercial direct and indirect material cost reduction
  • Manufacturing depth optimization and make-or-buy
  • Productivity uplift across operations and central functions

Lift productivity and margin at scale. First impact in 2-3 months, full impact in 12-24 months.

Profitable Growth & Commercial Effectiveness

Growth creates value only if it can be delivered profitably and at scale.

KRIYA delivers:

  • Core-growth segmentation and operating model
  • Aligning go-to-market ambition with delivery capability
  • Hit-rate uplift and deal-quality uplift without margin erosion
  • Active capital steering and overhead growth below revenue

Increase order intake and margin quality —without losing control. Full impact in 6-18 months.

Execution as a Principle.
Execution is not a phase.
It is how we operate.
How we work

Transformation succeeds when ambition, operational reality, and execution discipline stay aligned.

We run transformations like operators: diagnose fast, focus on what moves value, translate it into measures with clear owners with timelines, and drive execution with a tight cadence. Slides don't move numbers - actions do.

1. Define the Value Agenda

We start by defining the ambition and baseline, then translate it into a small set of bankable initiatives. Each represents a clear EBITDA block contributing to overall target.

This typically includes:

  • Commercial effectiveness and margin realization
  • Structural cost, footprint, and capacity
  • Portfolio, product and complexity drivers
  • Organizational effectiveness and decision rights

The objective is focus — pick the few levers that move performance, align leadership on them, and size value at a high level. We use proprietary AI to accelerate diagnosis across value levers — focusing effort where impact is highest.

2. Translate Ambition into Executable Measures

High-level initiatives are converted into concrete measures with a clear path to delivery.

Each measure is defined by:

  • Who - a single accountable owner and who should support
  • How much - quantified impact (top-line, margin, cash, or productivity)
  • By when - Implementation timelines / roadmap and cross-functional dependencies

Measures are documented transparently to support ownership, decision-making, and pace.

3. Execute with Discipline, Transparency, and Senior Ownership

Execution rarely fails due to lack of effort. It fails when decisions slip, priorities collide, and no one is clearly accountable.

KRIYA stays engaged to:

  • Drive senior ownership of critical initiatives
  • Force decisions where trade-offs are avoided
  • Resolve cross-functional and cross-regional friction
  • Intervene early before delivery drifts

The focus is on unblocking progress and maintaining momentum.

4. Embed Sustainable Performance

Transformation is complete only when results hold without external support.

We work with management teams to:

  • Embed new operating models and decision rights
  • Institutionalize accountability and performance tracking
  • Build internal execution capability to sustain and drive results further

The goal is durable performance, not temporary uplift.

Impact

Selected transformation programs — led to measurable results.

€3BN ENERGY EQUIPMENT PRODUCER
Enterprise Transformation & Profitable Growth
  • Enterprise-wide transformation across commercial effectiveness, footprint, and cost structure
  • Order intake quality uplift through win-rate and deal economics
  • Structural cost and complexity reduction incl. direct and indirect material cost

Impact delivered over three years:

  • +8 percentage points EBITDA margin improvement
  • €400m cumulative EBITDA impact
  • Net cash flow improved from €100m to €350m
€800M AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIER
Restructuring Under Performance Pressure
  • Footprint consolidation across plants and production equipment
  • Improvement of equipment utilization
  • Structural cost reset across operations and central functions

Impact delivered over 24 months:

  • €60m annualized cost reduction
  • Return from losses to mid-single-digit EBITDA margin
€1bn POWER TRANSMISSION GROUP
Portfolio & Complexity Reset
  • Portfolio focus and exit low-return activities
  • Engineering and product complexity reduction
  • Operations footprint rightsizing

Impact delivered over 2 years:

  • 25% reduction in active product variants
  • €80m EBITDA uplift
  • EBITDA margin from +3% to +5%
€600M Technology business
Commercial Effectiveness & Growth Enablement
  • Go-to-market realignment across regions and segments
  • Cross-functional margin improvement to increase competitiveness
  • Stronger price-performance positioning and commercial execution
  • Operating leverage with overhead growth below revenue growth

Impact delivered over 18 months:

  • +7 percentage point win-rate improvement in core segments
  • +4 percentage point gross margin uplift through pricing and mix
  • +6% profitable revenue growth p.a. without cost base expansion
How Impact Is Measured
  • EBITDA, cash, and working capital (run-rate)
  • Only counted when realized and finance - validated

Testimonials

The feedback reflects direct client experience in complex transformation situations.


All testimonials are anonymized and representative.

Founder & Managing Partner

Dr. Kiran
Mahajan

Strategy creates intent. Execution creates value.

  • Execution-led transformation leader with 20+ years delivering restructuring, enterprise transformation and profitable growth in industrial environments
  • Former Plant Manager and Chief Transformation Officer with experience across global automotive OEMs, top-tier consulting and industrial corporates
  • Combines strategic rigor with operational ownership shaped inside industrial organizations
  • Converts ambition into realized P&L and cash
  • Academic background in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration
  • Transformation work featured in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Advisor

Roswitha
Tertea

Lasting performance requires structure, discipline, and leadership alignment.

  • Advisor to KRIYA Partners, supporting clients in complex performance improvement and transformation situations
  • Former Managing Director in the Performance Improvement practice of a leading global transformation firm
  • Proven in restructuring and performance improvement environments, helping businesses deliver operational, cost, EBITDA, and cash improvements under pressure
  • Extensive experience working with executive teams and investors across industrial and capital-intensive sectors
  • Drives high-impact execution programs where timing, discipline, and credibility matter
  • Strengthens transformation governance, execution discipline, and leadership alignment in critical situations
aDVISOR

Jürgen
Klöpffer

Transformation counts only when it shows in the numbers.

  • Advisor to KRIYA Partners, supporting clients in turning transformation ambition into financial impact through clear governance, financial discipline and rigorous execution
  • Former Executive Board member and Chief Financial Officer with experience across global automotive OEMs and industrial corporates
  • Responsible for the turnaround and transformation of a €5bn revenue industrial company
  • Experienced in shared services, financial steering, performance management and complex transformation governance
  • Converts financial pressure into executable transformation programs with measurable EBITDA and cash impact

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