Harve Light

Managing Director

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    How I help clients

    Harve Light works with healthy and distressed food and agribusiness companies to strengthen strategic planning, manage crisis situations, and implement operational improvements that drive measurable performance gains. He brings a unique lender-informed perspective shaped by decades of experience with loan workouts that lets him bridge competing stakeholder interests and move difficult negotiations toward practical solutions. Clients rely on his ability to transform adversarial restructuring situations into collaborative paths forward that align lenders, management teams, and owners. By combining financial analysis with operational execution, Harve helps organizations stabilize performance, improve productivity, and unlock sustainable growth in highly complex environments.

    Specialties: Restructuring & Turnaround Leadership; Agribusiness Advisory; Crisis Management & Strategic Planning

    Industries: Financial Services, Retail & Consumer Products

    Career Highlights & Background

    Harve has served in interim leadership roles during high-stakes transformations, including as interim chief executive officer for a top 25 farmer cooperative, chief restructuring officer for a $1.5 billion coffee wholesaler and a $1 billion grain trading company, and interim chief financial officer for a distressed $125 million specialty fruit processor. In these roles, he guided operational stabilization, restructuring strategy, and stakeholder negotiations to preserve value and reposition the businesses for stronger outcomes. Prior to joining Riveron, Harve spent over 25 years in banking across large corporate banking, syndicates, private equity, and subordinated debt.

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    Program change management

    With industry focus, speed, and agility, our interim executives help both private equity and corporate clients maintain their momentum to drive transformational change. Our professionals deliver lasting, bespoke results to achieve our clients’ goals.