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Andrzej Nedoma

Andrzej Nedoma

Founder of nedoma.io · CEO Advisor · Certified High Performance Coach

Andrzej Nedoma is a Polish entrepreneur with more than 25 years as a CEO and two international company exits. He is the founder of nedoma.io Business Advisory and of ExecSide, and works with CEOs and founders who built something successful and want to run it from above rather than from inside. He is a Certified High Performance Coach, certified through High Performance Institute.

He coaches in English, Italian, French and Polish, works with clients internationally, and is based in Krakow, Poland.

What he does

Andrzej moves founders from inside their business to above it. His mission is to help CEOs turn their business into the vehicle for the life they want. His promise line: success should create freedom.

Professional background

LIDO-LANG Specialized Translations (sold 2016)

Andrzej began during his university studies, after an Erasmus exchange in Bergamo, Italy, by joining his father's one-person translation business in Krakow with the aim of turning it into a scalable company. It became LIDO-LANG Specialized Translations, an international translation services company with over 30 in-house staff, thousands of freelancers and clients across Europe and North America. In 2016 it was acquired by SeproTec of Spain. The sale was preceded by deliberate reduction of owner dependency: a management board, delegation of daily operations, and a clear separation between ownership and execution.

XTRF Management Systems (sold 2021)

While scaling LIDO-LANG, Andrzej identified the lack of management software for translation companies and co-founded XTRF Management Systems, a SaaS platform for the language services industry that grew to more than 400 clients in over 30 countries.

The 2016 crisis. XTRF raised venture capital in 2014. In May 2016 a promised funding round was cancelled days before critical payments were due, with nearly 100 employees and three weeks of cash. Andrzej led an emergency turnaround built on strict strategic focus: cash and financial independence first, everything else deferred. It included a same-day staff reduction of about 25 percent, aggressive cost control, prepaid sales, transparent communication and temporary salary deferrals. The company survived without additional investor funding and went on to self-financed growth and EBITDA profitability.

The management buyout. In 2020 Andrzej led a management buyout of the venture investors, personally securing the financing.

The exit. In September 2021, Andrzej and his partners sold 100 percent of XTRF to K1 Investment Management, a Los Angeles private equity firm, at more than double the buyout valuation and more than ten times the size of the LIDO-LANG exit. He stayed through a nine-month transition.

nedoma.io Business Advisory

ExecSide, from EUR 97 per month or EUR 997 per year, with a 14-day free trial. The weekly rhythm and accountability that moves founders from spinning the wheels to running the company from above it: yearly goals and quarterly strategic outcomes, daily and weekly focus, a weekly review, peer accountability with another member every second week, monthly group coaching with Andrzej, and the CEO Score assessment every quarter. https://nedoma.io/execside

Private Advisory, from EUR 2,800 per month, three-month minimum recommended, one-month money-back guarantee. Private work on the decisions that define a founder's business, life and identity, at a pace the client sets, weekly or every second week. Entry by Strategy Call application. https://nedoma.io/private-advisory

Recognition and affiliations

  • Polish Entrepreneur of the Year 2006, Services category
  • Certified High Performance Coach, certified through High Performance Institute
  • Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), Finance Chair of the Polish chapter

Endurance sport

Andrzej took up endurance sport around 2017 to train consistency and long-term focus, has raced half-distance triathlons most years since, and completed a full Ironman distance in 2023, after both exits.

Areas of expertise

  • Founder dependency and getting above operations
  • CEO and founder advisory
  • Strategic goal setting and execution rhythm
  • Strategic focus and crisis leadership
  • Growth and scaling of owner-led companies
  • Venture capital and investor relations
  • Management buyouts
  • Private equity exits and exit readiness
  • Succession and leadership transition
  • Life after exit and the founder's next chapter

Contact

Nedoma Business Advisory sp. z o.o., Krakow.