About Mr. Chris Lischewski

A visionary intrapreneurial leader with over 35 years of experience in the Food & Beverage industry, known for driving strategic growth, operational excellence, and innovation. Expertise includes leading transformative M&A activities, optimizing business operations, and improving top-line revenue and profitability. Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement growth strategies focused on profit, market expansion, and customer satisfaction. Recognized for orchestrating business turnarounds, scaling operations, and aligning corporate functions while fostering a high-performance culture. A champion of employee engagement and ESG initiatives with experience presenting to investors, boards, and executive leadership.

At Pontus VIII we acknowledge the challenges involved in running a successful business.  Exceeding customer expectations, growing profitability, managing cash flow, meeting governance requirements, dealing with staffing, driving product development and innovation – the list goes on and the demands and decisions are continuous and stressful.

Add a global pandemic to an economy undergoing significant stress and a political environment full of uncertainty, the challenge is multiped many times over.  Indeed, many businesses will become financially distressed while others will be required to restructure in order to survive in the new economic reality.

At Pontus VIII, we provide business improvement and advisory services.  Our services, based on decades of hands-on management experience, focus on the following core capabilities.