Ryan Drake-Lee has over 20 years of business and corporate strategy experience. Ryan developed his business and economics perspectives in various roles including management consulting, industrial manufacturing corporate strategy with a focus on sales & marketing, digital program management in the adtech ecosystem and litigation support consulting for complex Anti-Trust and Competition economic matters.

As an Engagement Manager for McKinsey & Company Ryan served multiple Consumer Packaged Goods clients in Product Strategy as well as Frontline Operations, with a focus on store operations for efficiency and maximizing value per square foot. Ryan has also served Telecommunications companies with a focus on Sales & Marketing in developing the first ‘triple play’ bundles and pioneered the Customer Lifetime Value (i.e., CLTV) concepts for customer valuation. Ryan also served clients in the Oil & Gas industry on Organizational Design and Structuring with a focus on operational risk and safety following a major environmental disaster in 2005.

Additionally, Ryan refined his executive business acumen as a Global Program Manager at Google, where he worked in a Strategy & Operations function in the mid-market Ads business of Google Customer Solutions, working cross-functionally globally to drive innovative Go-to-Market strategies for Google Sales Teams.

In addition to the above, Ryan has multiple years of experience as a Principal at Keystone Strategy, leading teams of Litigation Support consultants working at the direction of PhD level expert witnesses, at the request of external counsel on behalf of end clients pursuing litigation in Anti-Trust & Competition, complex Tax & Valuation, Intellectual Property and General Litigation matters.

Ryan earned Bachelors’ Degrees in both Economics and French Language from Morehouse College. Ryan holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Lastly, Ryan has traveled to over 45 countries, touching all continents except for Antarctica, which has deeply influenced his global perspectives on businesses and people.

Ryan was born and raised in San Francisco, California, where he resides with his family.