Ympact Advisory GmbH

Your Trusted Catalyst
for Value and Impact Creation
in Transforming Financial Markets

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About us

Ympact Advisory provides advice and executive power to investors and management teams in Technology, Data and Analytics firms active in Investment Management - as well as Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) Ecosystem.

Ympact typically work for Private Equity firms, Venture Capitalists or Founder teams of growth companies in various stages. We help them to prioritize investments, scale them to aspired levels and make them ready for capital markets.

Ympact is not a consultant but engages as strategic partner to investors and enterprises commited to create a joint success story. It deploys the experience of senior executives and line managers with decades of track record in the IM- and FMI-ecosystem. When engaged, the firm not only invests its´ resources but is also open to enter into alternative or contingency based arrangements.

Our Services

The transformation of financial markets is in full motion. XaaS, datafication & analytics, AI/machine learning, DLT/tokenization are just examples for concepts shaking up the established industry structures.

Over the last decade, a large number of Start-ups, Scale-ups and Grown-Ups with transformative potential have emerged to enrich the financial ecosystem. Investors, shareholders and executives within that ecosystem need to identify the future success factors, prioritize their investments and navigate their way to maximum value creation and impact.

Ympact Advisory supports investors, shareholders as well as executives in reaching new levels of value, scale and impact by providing the following services:

  • Complement investor and executive teams of clients with in depth industry experience, insights and relationships
  • Buyers: Filter and identify investment opportunities, support Due Diligences, help conceive value creation story and feed investment decision making
  • Sellers: Support exit/investor strategy development, identify potential investors, support transaction readiness and process execution
  • Services normally embedded in a longer-term contractual relationship with reoccurring mandates and transactions

  • Provide ongoing coaching and advice to C-suite and their shareholders.
  • Act as “Farmed-out Operating Partner” for portfolio companies of PE firms and Venture Capitalists, supporting value and impact creation
  • Adopt role of Non-Executive Director (Advisory Boards) or Strategic Advisor on a longer-term retainer basis

  • Fill temporary leadership openings and gaps
  • Act as interim CEO, COO or CPO
  • Normally between 3 and 18 months, maximum 3 years

  • Fill leadership gaps which do not (yet) justify a full time hire
  • Complete special mandates (eg., business building, product innovation, partnership programs, funding rounds, M&A programs)
  • Act as member of the executive team or board observer
  • Timing is flexible, can be longer term with changing mandates

Over time, client engagements may represent a mix of these services. Fee arrangements are bespoke and can include cash components, success fees as well as equity (like) elements.

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Our Clients

Ympact Advisory serves clients who are active in the financial markets’ data and technology ecosystem. We typically serve four types of clients:

  • Private Equity Firms
  • Venture Capitalists
  • Family Offices
  • Growth firms

PE´s and VCs use Ympact in the context of upcoming investments. After a deal has been closed Ympact's engagement may transition to Non-Executive Services directly with the new portfolio company.

When Family offices, entrepreneurs or growth companies engage with Ympact, they directly deploy us in non-exec or executive roles with concise mandates around value and Impact creation.

Ympact Advisory performs work for large global PE funds, international midcap funds, later stage and early-stage Venture Capitalists in Europe as well as Start-Ups and Scale Ups typically headquartered on the continent.

Holger Wohlenberg
Founder of Ympact Advisory GmbH

Our Team

Founder of Ympact Advisory GmbH is Holger Wohlenberg with over 30 years experience in technology, analytics, data and financial markets. Living C-level-, Senior Executive and Leadership positions at Qontigo, STOXX, Deutsche Boerse and Mckinsey, Holger developed an in-depth industry expertise and network.

Overseeing P&Ls for data, analytics and technology businesses he built a track record in scaling value and impact. Under his responsibility Deutsche Boerse´s data and analytics business grew by more than 3,5x at peak with EBITDA scaling 5x in the same period. In 2019 the index business was carved out and contributed into joint venture with General Atlantic (Qontigo) at a valuation of 2.6bn EUR. To deliver such growth rates, Holger deployed a mix of organic as well as inorganic instruments. Such instruments included partnerships, JVs and takeovers. Over his careers, Holger was part of numerous M&A transactions on the buy- as well as on the sellside.


Parallel to his Executive roles, Holger also has a long track record acting as Non-Executive Director/Chairman on Boards across the US and Europe. He held NED positions at 9 companies, including STOXX; Clarity AI, RegTek Solutions, Market News International, Infobolsa, Avox, International Index Company Ltd.

But Ympact Advisory GmbH is not just Holger but leverages the entire ecosystem and professional network he has built up over his career. Depending on the type and timing of engagements, Ympact Advisory involves independent industry experts with relevant domain knowledge and expertise.

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Ympact Advisory GmbH
Parkstrasse 38
61476 Kronberg
Germany

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