Frank Cucek - Elevating Business Efficiency with Proven Expertise.
Founder and Managing Partner, Backar
Experience
Frank Cucek serves as Managing Partner Backar, leveraging decades of executive experience to help mid-market businesses regain control of their performance. His work is centered on bringing commercial discipline to complex environments where operational drift and margin compression have become the norm.
With a background deeply rooted in manufacturing performance and transport governance, Frank identifies the performance tensions that leaders often overlook. He specialises in creating performance strategies that bridge the gap between customer-facing sales activity and operational reality, ensuring that revenue growth translates directly into EBIT improvement.
Prior to founding Backar, Frank held senior leadership roles across operationally intensive sectors, where he developed a reputation for executing structured, disciplined reforms. Today, he partners with industrial and manufacturing firms navigating the $20M to $50M revenue bracket to strengthen their commercial foundations and operational governance.
Structured but Pragmatic
We don’t produce theory — we build commercially intelligent, operationally executable growth plans. By combining high-level commercial frameworks with a pragmatic understanding of operational complexity, cost-to-serve dynamics, and frontline constraints, we ensure every recommendation can be implemented, measured, and monetised.
In other words, our strategy is designed not just to look good in a boardroom — but to work in the yard, on the line, and on the road.
Data-Informed
Resolving performance tensions requires transparency. We use rigorous data analysis to identify exactly where margin is being eroded, ensuring that strategic decisions are based on commercial fact rather than operational assumptions.
Sustainable Improvement
Our objective is a permanent reset, not a temporary fix. By embedding performance governance and commercial discipline into the core of the business, we ensure that efficiency gains are defended and long-term improvements are sustained.
Connect with Frank
Identify performance tensions and create sustainable improvements. Frank provides the professional leadership and diagnostic needed to align your commercial ambitions with operational reality.