Fractional & interim operating leadership

Scale faster. Break less.

10XG puts an operator who has built it before inside your business, across supply chain, manufacturing, technology and capital projects.

  • Interim COO · CIO · CRO
  • P.Eng. Ontario & BC
  • 20+ years operating

What 10XG is

Rolling up our sleeves and digging in with you.

10XG is

Hands-on leadership that moves your business goals forward quickly, guided by “been there” experience of building, scaling and fixing operations.

10XG is not

Decks and suits, and leveraging green grads.

Been there

The work behind the advice.

A few results from Mike Lattimer’s career in operations, before and since founding 10XG.

  • $0 → $200M+Annual revenue at Pure Sunfarms, with operations built from start-up and consistently profitable.
  • 20 → 900People across manufacturing, quality, engineering, IT, supply chain and sales.
  • 1.4M sq ftCultivation and manufacturing facility designed, engineered and commissioned, with 25 MW of power.
  • 10 monthsTo move a $1B+ regulated FMCG business to direct store delivery: 6 hubs, 20+ spokes, 200+ vans.
  • $500K / moSavings for a $60M FMCG firm, with fill rates up 50% from process and structural redesign.
  • 2 wks → 10 hrsInventory count time, after new manufacturing and inventory processes and systems.

The full story is in Mike’s profile.

Two ways to work together

You drive, or we drive.

For leadership, programs, projects and initiatives, every engagement starts with one question: who is behind the wheel?

Guiding

You drive, we navigate.

For leaders who own the result and want an experienced operator beside them.

  • Leadership coaching

    Weekly one-to-ones with your leaders and project managers, sitting in on their routines, and a sounding board for one-, three- and five-year plans, budgets and strategy.

  • Project oversight

    An unbiased third-party view of your projects and programs: coaching PMs, unblocking stalled initiatives, steering pivots and managing risk.

Driving

We drive, you direct us.

For a gap at the top, or an initiative that needs someone to own it.

  • Fractional or interim leadership

    Executive operations, technology or revenue leadership part-time or for an interim period, building the team’s capability so the results last.

  • Project leadership

    Hands-on leadership of a project or initiative, from the business case and plan to delivery on budget and scope.

How an engagement runs

Where we specialize

Built for operations that need to 10X.

  • Supply chain

    Build, transform or optimize the chain

    Strategy, process and systems, from sourcing to the customer’s door.

    • Strategic sourcing
    • Demand planning
    • S&OP
    • Logistics: air, rail, OTR, DSD
    • Contract manufacturing
    • 3PL & warehousing
    • Inventory
  • Manufacturing

    Stretch the plant to new targets

    Adding or removing products, facilities or processes without losing control of the floor.

    • Manufacturing strategy
    • Process design
    • Equipment selection
    • Lean & kaizen
    • MCRS & scorecards
    • Quality systems
  • Technology

    Technology that serves the process

    Don’t let a system define how you work. Business-driven technology, chosen and delivered to plan.

    • Roadmaps & business cases
    • Requirements
    • System selection
    • Integration
    • ERP, WMS & BI
    • IT operations
  • Construction & facilities

    Deploy capital quickly and well

    Then keep a facility with novel technology up and running.

    • Capital deployment plans
    • Project & budget control
    • Bidding & partner selection
    • M&E design coordination
    • Asset maintenance
  • 10X scaling

    The right strategy, people and process as you grow

    Keeping sales, finance and operations in step while the organization multiplies.

    • Integrated planning
    • Operational growth plans
    • Growth strategy
    • Organization design
    • Leadership routines
    • Risk
  • Regulated industries

    Compliance as part of operations

    Quality and regulatory systems that open markets instead of slowing them.

    • GMP & GACP certification
    • Regulatory documentation
    • Audits
    • QA / QC
    • Lab management
    • Security

Who you work with

Mike Lattimer, P.Eng.

An engineer and operator who has run plants, supply chains and national IT, and built a business from start-up to more than $200M in revenue.

  • Pure Sunfarms
  • AB InBev / Labatt
  • PwC
  • Honda
  • General Motors
  • University of Toronto

Mike started on the assembly line as an engineer at Honda and General Motors, advised clients worldwide at PwC and Gotham Consulting Partners, led IT operations and analytics strategy at Labatt, and spent five years as an operations executive at Pure Sunfarms. 10XG brings that experience to companies that need it now, without a full-time hire.

Contact

What needs to move faster?

Tell us where the business is and where it has to be. Messages come straight to Mike.