Fractional Executives for Scale-Ups
Growing businesses often need board-level experience before they can justify a full-time executive team.
The founder is still covering finance, operations or marketing personally. Investors want a level of reporting and planning the business has not needed before. The next stage needs leaders who have done it before.
Fractional executives give scale-ups that experience part time, often one to three days a week. Interim executives step in full time when a specific challenge needs daily senior attention.
Fractional work is becoming more common. In a Russam survey published in June 2026, 55% of the interim executives surveyed said they had taken on a fractional role in the previous 12 months, up from 46% a year earlier.
