Founder
Bryan Kaus
Founder and Principal
Bryan Kaus is the founder of Twenty Three Point Five Strategies, advising companies, investors, and leadership teams at the intersection of strategy, capital, operations, commercial performance, and executive decision-making.
Executive Summary
- Twenty years of global operating and advisory experience across energy, industrials, infrastructure, chemicals, materials, and commercial markets.
- Track record advising and executing across $7B+ in transactions and $150MM+ in growth value unlocked.
- Fortune 100-tested judgment across strategy, commercial performance, capital advisory, and strategic communications.
- Advises CEOs, founders, boards, sponsors, and senior leadership teams through consequential moments — capital events, transformations, transactions, and stakeholder complexity.
Areas of Judgment
Strategy and value creation
Diagnosing where value compounds and where it leaks across complex business systems; building credible plans that translate into operating cadence.
M&A and capital advisory
Operator-led judgment across thesis pressure-testing, operational and commercial diligence, carve-out and JV architecture, and post-close execution.
Energy and industrial markets
Deep familiarity with the capital intensity, policy dynamics, commodity cycles, and stakeholder complexity of energy, industrials, chemicals, materials, and infrastructure.
Commercial performance
Pricing architecture, segmentation, account discipline, and commercial cadence in complex B2B and commodity-linked businesses.
Strategic communications
Narrative architecture and stakeholder sequencing through capital events, leadership transitions, and high-stakes inflection moments.
Executive operating cadence
Translating strategic intent into leadership rhythm, accountability, and disciplined execution that compounds over time.
Career Arc
- 01
Global operating roles across energy and industrial businesses, with full-cycle responsibility for strategy, commercial performance, and execution.
- 02
Capital and transaction roles spanning corporate and sponsor-side mandates — pressure-testing theses, leading diligence, and architecting post-close operating reality.
- 03
Senior advisory and strategic communications work through consequential capital, leadership, and stakeholder moments.
- 04
Founded Twenty Three Point Five Strategies to bring this integrated judgment — operator, capital advisor, executive counselor — to the decisions that matter.
Founder Philosophy
Strategy is only as good as the operating cadence that delivers it.
Capital, commercial, and operating moves must compound — treating them as separate workstreams leaves value on the table.
Senior counsel earns its place through clarity, discretion, and intellectual honesty — not through volume.
The decisions that matter happen in narrow windows; preparation and judgment are what convert them.
Selected Credentials
20 years of global operating and advisory experience
$7B+ transaction advisory and execution
$150MM+ growth value unlocked
Fortune 100-tested strategy, commercial, communications, and execution judgment
Based in Houston, advising across the United States and global contexts
Strategy is only as good as the operating cadence that delivers it.
Bryan Kaus, Founder
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