Advisory Services
Operational Leadership & Litigation Support
Grounded in 22 years of hands-on and executive operating experience.
Jeff works with business owners, leadership teams, investors, lenders, advisors, and counsel when practical operating experience and hands-on execution can help improve performance, stabilize an operation, support a transition, or provide meaningful perspective in a legal matter.
Experience Behind the Work
Jeff’s career spans hands-on business ownership through senior executive leadership across complex, multi-location operations. His experience includes P&L responsibility, distressed turnarounds, M&A integration, management development, fleet and asset-intensive operations, and executive responsibility within a nine-figure operating platform.
22 Years
Hands-on through senior executive operating experience
Nine-Figure Platform
Senior executive responsibility
Eight-Figure Business Units
Multi-unit P&L leadership
500 People / 300 Drivers
Prior operating scope
200 Tractors / 800+ Assets
Fleet and asset responsibility
Multi-State Leadership
Turnaround, M&A integration, and complex operations
Named one of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine’s Emerging Leaders in 2021.
These figures describe the scope of Jeff’s prior executive operating responsibility and experience. They do not describe the current size, revenue, employees, assets, or holdings of Nellis Holdings.
For Business Owners & Leadership Teams
- Operational Consulting
- Fractional COO & Interim Leadership
- Turnaround & Stabilization
- M&A Integration & Business Transition
For Counsel & Legal Teams
- Transportation Litigation Support
- Case Review & Issue Development
- Operational Context
- Deposition & Trial Preparation
- Case-Team & Trial Support
Operational Consulting
Operating Support for Owners and Leadership Teams
Jeff works close to the operation, the leadership team, and the financial performance rather than providing passive recommendations from the sidelines. Findings are tied to specific operating decisions and followed through to execution.
Operational Performance
Evaluate performance from the front line through the P&L, including pricing, cost structure, EBITDA, cash generation, asset utilization, staffing, workflow, reporting, maintenance discipline, and operating accountability.
Fractional COO & Interim Leadership
Step into an active operating leadership role when a business needs experienced COO-level capability without immediately making a permanent full-time hire. Establish priorities, strengthen management cadence, develop leaders, and create accountability for execution.
Turnaround & Stabilization
Provide hands-on leadership for underperforming operations requiring stronger structure, pricing discipline, cost control, asset utilization, customer execution, management accountability, and financial discipline.
M&A Integration & Business Transition
Support pre-close planning and post-close execution across people, systems, locations, service lines, reporting, leadership alignment, operating controls, and transition priorities.
Additional Areas of Operating Support
- KPI development
- Working-capital efficiency
- SG&A and overtime control
- Staffing structure
- Maintenance discipline
- Systems implementation
- Multi-location operations
- Manager development
- Customer execution
Transportation Litigation Support
Operating Perspective for Counsel
Practical transportation and operating perspective for counsel handling matters involving trucking, fleet, safety, maintenance, logistics, management, and related commercial disputes.
Case Review & Issue Development
Review operating records, policies, communications, timelines, procedures, and related materials to identify operational facts, inconsistencies, and areas that may warrant further examination.
Operational Context
Provide practical perspective on how transportation and fleet operations function in actual practice, including management responsibilities, workflow, documentation, dispatch, driver management, maintenance, safety processes, and commercial decision-making.
Deposition & Trial Preparation
Assist counsel in developing questions, timelines, exhibits, and lines of inquiry grounded in actual transportation operations and management practices.
Case-Team & Trial Support
Provide ongoing operational support through discovery, depositions, mediation, arbitration, trial preparation, and trial when the engagement requires it.
Areas of Transportation Experience
- Trucking
- Towing and auto transport
- Brokerage
- Driveaway
- Warehousing and distribution
- Fleet maintenance
- Dispatch
- Driver management
- Equipment utilization
- Safety and HSE
- Bulk liquid and dry bulk
- Flatbed
- Heavy haul
- Specialized transportation
- Dual-lane transport and superloads
- Pricing and customer execution
- Operating policies and procedures
- Management accountability
Litigation engagements are subject to conflict review and case fit. Nellis Holdings does not provide legal advice and does not offer legal opinions or legal conclusions.
Selected Operating Perspective
Field-to-Executive Leadership
Experience ranging from hands-on operating work through senior executive responsibility for businesses, P&Ls, operating teams, assets, and customer execution.
Turnaround Discipline
Led the recovery of underperforming transportation operations following an acquisition, restoring a distressed specialized operation to positive operating contribution through disciplined pricing, cost control, operational improvement, and management accountability.
Multi-Site Operations & Integration
Led operating teams across multiple states and supported integration across multiple entities, locations, service lines, systems, leadership teams, and distressed assets.
How Engagements Work
- 01
Understand the Situation
A direct conversation about the business, operating challenge, leadership need, transaction, or legal matter.
- 02
Define the Scope
Establish the objectives, responsibilities, timing, on-site requirements, deliverables, and appropriate engagement structure.
- 03
Get to Work
Begin project-based consulting, fractional leadership, interim operating responsibility, transaction support, or litigation case-team support based on the engagement.
Engagements
Engagements may include discrete operational projects, ongoing fractional leadership, interim operating assignments, operational assessments, turnaround support, M&A integration, case-specific consulting, or ongoing litigation case-team support.
Scope is established directly with ownership, executive leadership, lenders, investors, advisors, or counsel based on the needs of the engagement. Travel and on-site assignments are available when required.
Discuss an Engagement
Discuss an Engagement
If you have an operating challenge, interim leadership need, business transition, or legal matter where practical operating experience may be useful, Jeff welcomes a direct conversation.
Direct Contact
Jeff Hollenbeck
Founder & Managing Member
Nellis Holdings, LLC