Paul Papayoanou

Strategy | Innovation | Analytical Insight

Role
Senior Advisor at Decision Frameworks
Location
Houston, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Paul Papayoanou

A highly accomplished and analytically-minded strategist who has consistently produced valuable, creative solutions to complex business challenges and high-value deals, I have more than twenty years’ experience helping many companies capture billions of dollars in value by using analytics-driven insights to improve strategy, negotiations, strategic planning, and risk management.Strategy work includes:Major capital investments • M&A, strategic alliances and joint ventures • Negotiation strategy and tactics • Competitive risk analysis and positioning strategy • Market entry and launch strategy • Pricing, branding and marketing strategy • Bidding strategy • Technology valuation, partnering, and monetization • Strategic planning and portfolio analysis • Enterprise risk management • Strategic sourcing and procurement • Business process improvementI am the author of Game Theory for Business, the leading book on applied game theory. A Fellow in the Society of Decision Professionals, I am recognized as an innovative thought leader who has instilled strategic and analytical capabilities in several organizations, trained more than a thousand business professionals, and lectured to MBA and executive education students at Harvard, Stanford, Rice, and other top universities. In addition to game theory, my expertise includes decision and risk analysis, real options, statistics, war gaming, economic valuation and financial modeling, and political risk analysis.

Experience

  1. Senior Advisor

    Decision Frameworks

    Sep 2021 — Present · Houston, TX, US

    Work with clients on analytically challenging projects to frame and analyze decisions using game theory, decision and risk analysis, wargaming, portfolio analysis, enterprise risk management, financial and valuation modeling, and political risk analysis. Also provide training in game theory, decision analysis and decision quality, and TreeTop software.

Education

  • UCLA

    M.A., Ph.D., Political Science

  • UC Santa Barbara

    B.A., Political Science

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