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.
Paul Papayoanou is SGG's founder. He developed the Strategic Gaming approach and was awarded registration of a service mark for the powerful application of game theory by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2005. Dr. Papayoanou has been using game theory approaches in academia and the business world for twenty five 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 saved or added billions of dollars of value. Papayoanou is the author of Power Ties and co-editor of New Games, and he has published numerous articles in business and academic publications. His newest book, Game Theory for Business: A Primer in the Strategic Gaming Process, is to be published in 2010.