Founding Directors
Paul Raspin
BCom MEc ACA PhD, Director, Stratevolve.
Paul specialises in working with executives and senior management teams to develop effective business strategies, resolve complex business issues, analyse business environments, and conduct financial analysis of strategic investment options.
Prior to Stratevolve, Paul worked for Andersen from 1988 to 2000 based out of their Sydney, Atlanta, Dallas and London offices. During this period, he worked in the corporate finance, operational consulting, and strategy consulting practices.
His educational background is in strategic management, economics, and finance. He holds a Phd in strategic management from Cranfield University, a Bachelor of Commerce degree, a Masters of Economics degree, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
He has consulted extensively in Europe and the US on strategy consultancy engagements. Client organisations include Allianz, BAA, Bass Taverns, Citigroup, Dixons, Friends Provident, GM, IBM, P&O Ferries, Prudential, Sainsbury’s, Shell, UBS Warburg, and Woolworths. He is an active researcher and author in the field of business strategy. His research and consulting interests include competitive strategy, business environment analysis, e-business strategy, IT strategy, and disruptive technologies.
A brief introduction:
Dr Paul Raspin
“Stratevolve was formed based on insights gained from the strategy consulting sector and academia. It struck us that there was an opportunity to combine the best of these two worlds: to offer a strategy consulting service that drew on management research insights from academia, and to combine this with top tier strategy consulting analytical capabilities. Our initial and ongoing motivation is to bring informed ideas and insights to our clients, and to work inclusively to develop effective strategy that yields outstanding returns."
Professor Cliff Bowman
"Strategic management is a 'design science' like medicine or engineering. What this means is that whatever we research has to make a practical difference to the way people run their organisations. This is a two way street: as researchers we can bring ideas and insights to practicing managers, and our experience of working with executives helps to shape our research agenda. Setting up Stratevolve was a way to formalise this creative interaction between the domains of research and practice."