About SGG
We help companies worldwide develop creative, proactive, and robust strategies and tactics for meeting complex business challenges effectively and efficiently, adding tremendous value to our clients' bottom lines. Our consultants have broad consulting experience in large- and medium-sized companies, as well as with small start-ups, and have worked in oil and gas, power, alternative energy, the life sciences, chemicals, technology, consumer goods, financial services, and manufacturing. Our consultants also bring strong backgrounds in entrepreneurship and academia, and are based in various parts of the United States as well as in Europe.
SGG's founding president is Dr. Paul Papayoanou, who developed the Strategic Gaming approach and was awarded registration of a service mark for the powerful game-theoretic application by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Dr. Papayoanou has been using game theory approaches in academia and the business world for more than twenty years. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, using advanced game-theoretic techniques in his dissertation. He was then a professor at the University of California, San Diego and at Harvard University, where his teaching and research often employed game theory. As a consultant, Dr. Papayoanou has used his expertise in game theory to help numerous companies in a wide range of industries to make and execute important business decisions that have captured billions of dollars of value. Papayoanou is the author of Game Theory for Business: A Primer in Strategic Gaming and Power Ties, and co-editor of New Games, a special issue of The Journal of Conflict Resolution. He has also written numerous articles that have appeared in journals, books, and business publications.