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A thought partner for all aspects of your business, from profitability improvement to expansion planning or business model due diligence
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Advisory Offerings
Lower Mid Market Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory
Offering
Strategic M&A Advisory services to business owners and sellers
Full spectrum deal management and execution from origination to close
Access to strategic partner network of professional service providers, e.g., accounting, finance/lending, legal advice
Pricing
Initiation Consultation = Free
Brokerage Services = Success Fee at Closing
Strategy & Operations Assessment and Advice
Offering
Review and analyze how your business runs
Generate insights about what makes your business work and identify opportunities for operational efficiencies to enable profitability growth
Partner with the business owner(s) and/or operational/functional leader(s) to develop a realistic go-forward plan that fits with your time, goals and capability gaps
Pricing
Initiation Consultation = Free (15-30 minutes by phone)
One-time Advice Session = Available upon request
Advisory Agreement = Hourly (packages available)
Profitability Analysis and Business Valuation Services
Offering
Analyze your business financial documents to determine company profit margins
Identify operational drivers of cost and profit
Determine where to invest time, money and/or resources for growth
Determine a most probable sale price, i.e., valuation
Pricing
Initiation Consultation = Free if you decide to list your business with Ryan Drake-Lee / $3,250.00 otherwise
More about RDL Economics, Strategy & Operations Consulting
Ryan Drake-Lee has over 20 years of business and corporate strategy experience. Ryan developed his business and economics perspectives in various roles including management consulting, industrial manufacturing corporate strategy with a focus on sales & marketing, digital program management in the adtech ecosystem and litigation support consulting for complex Anti-Trust and Competition economic matters.
As an Engagement Manager for McKinsey & Company Ryan served multiple Consumer Packaged Goods clients in Product Strategy as well as Frontline Operations, with a focus on store operations for efficiency and maximizing value per square foot. Ryan has also served Telecommunications companies with a focus on Sales & Marketing in developing the first ‘triple play’ bundles and pioneered the Customer Lifetime Value (i.e., CLTV) concepts for customer valuation. Ryan also served clients in the Oil & Gas industry on Organizational Design and Structuring with a focus on operational risk and safety following a major environmental disaster in 2005.
Additionally, Ryan refined his executive business acumen as a Global Program Manager at Google, where he worked in a Strategy & Operations function in the mid-market Ads business of Google Customer Solutions, working cross-functionally globally to drive innovative Go-to-Market strategies for Google Sales Teams.
In addition to the above, Ryan has multiple years of experience as a Principal at Keystone Strategy, leading teams of Litigation Support consultants working at the direction of PhD level expert witnesses, at the request of external counsel on behalf of end clients pursuing litigation in Anti-Trust & Competition, complex Tax & Valuation, Intellectual Property and General Litigation matters.
Ryan earned Bachelors’ Degrees in both Economics and French Language from Morehouse College. Ryan holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
Lastly, Ryan has traveled to over 45 countries, touching all continents except for Antarctica, which has deeply influenced his global perspectives on businesses and people.
Ryan was born and raised in San Francisco, California, where he resides with his family.
