Renaissance Strategic Advisors - How We Operate | Renaissance Strategic Advisors

Clarity & Confidence

Bringing clear insights and recommendations through sector expertise and leading advisory experience

The Aerospace, Defense and Government sector is as complex as it is dynamic. Our team of sector experts, in-house market IP and intelligence, rigorous frameworks and experience across over 2,000 engagements is tightly integrated to bring clarity and confidence to client initiatives.

Renaissance Strategic Advisors was established to bring thought leadership to the sector across periods of change. Over 20 years of engagements at the highest levels of industry, we have developed a deep ability to translate our market expertise into robust analyses that support executive decision making and our recommendations.

We have continued to invest deliberately in talent and technology to place expertise and knowledge at the core of our client capability offering. Our teams live their markets and develop unmatched depth. However, this expertise is built with a dual benefit of experience in its deployment to support client major client initiatives which we believe is critical for achieving clarity and confidence.

Our scale and integration of sector expertise with delivery experience is unique in a landscape of providers. At over 85 professionals, our size provides us with depth and breadth of expertise and capabilities that differentiate us from smaller specialists. Our integration of sector expertise with delivery of client advice differentiates us from large generalist consulting firms that have separated delivery from knowledge.

Consequential Outcomes

Multi-disciplinary capabilities driving growth and value creation for complex client initiatives

Our strategy consulting and M&A advisory engagements share clear client objectives to grow or realign, outperform and create value. These consequential initiatives are either in service to or have visibility to boards and executive management and investment committees, since the outcomes contribute meaningfully to client success.

To serve this purpose, our team members have backgrounds encompassing consulting, finance and accounting, industry and government, including a range of leading firms from their respective segments. This is both critical from the perspective of building a comprehensive view of a situation as well as creating an understanding of stakeholders critical for aligning in any given consequential initiative.

Experience gained from our strategy projects bring deep understanding to our M&A diligence projects of what positions a business to grow, and perhaps most significantly, how a buyer can drive strategic value. Similarly, experience gained from diligence projects bring a fundamental understanding of what well-positioned businesses look like which should be an end-state for a strategy.

Our focus on ensuring best-possible outcomes by deploying multi-disciplinary teams with the right expertise and experience is differentiated. Smaller specialists tend to have a singular regional or capability focus. Larger generalist consulting firms tend to house capabilities in separate teams, which leads to loss of synergy and disparate client solutions. Case studies of our consequential client engagements and outcomes can be found here.

Trusted Client Partnerships

Supporting clients across cycles of initiatives, and above and beyond

We have a uniquely long-term view of our clients, with dozens of our relationships with client organizations spanning more than a decade across numerous initiatives, client teams, and engagements. Our partnerships often span changes in client organizations, ownership transitions, new strategic directions, and multiple market cycles. Three quarters of our engagements each year are with repeat clients, and much of the balance are referrals from existing clients.

As with our focus on confidence, clarity, and consequential outcomes, our firm is built with trusted client partnerships in mind. Our teams deliver excellent client service through attentiveness to needs and issues, and responsiveness on every project. Between projects, clients benefit from ongoing engagement related to new ideas, timely topics of interest as well as an ongoing sounding board and confidant.

In many cases we have grown with our clients. Our projects span client organizations, investment funds and portfolio companies. We have expanded our capability offering at the request of our clients to move "right" of strategy and M&A initiatives for example into go-to-market execution of a strategy, and post-merger integration.

Over time we have become embedded with sector's community. Renaissance alumni serve across the industry and government in senior positions, and many of our senior advisors are former executives from clients. This has expanded our networks and value to our ongoing engagements and partnerships.