Strategy for the frontier.
Your board is asking about AI. Your competitors are deploying it. The gap between ambition and execution is where value is created — or destroyed.
Strategy firms understand the boardroom but not the technology. Technology firms understand the models but not the business.
Lion Strategy exists in the gap. We combine two decades of top-tier consulting rigour — FTSE 100, Fortune 500, PE and sovereign wealth clients — with genuine, practitioner-level expertise in artificial intelligence and digital assets. We don't just advise on these technologies. We invest in them, build with them, and deploy them in production.
Forward Deployed Strategy. We don't stop at the recommendation. We stay until it's working.
The window between AI understanding and AI deployment is closing. Organisations that move thoughtfully now will define their industries. Those that wait — or move carelessly — will be defined by competitors who didn't.
What We Do
AI Strategy & Deployment
We don't just advise. We deploy.
Board-level AI readiness. Use case prioritisation. Adoption roadmaps that connect to reality. Grounded in hands-on experience — we built and operate autonomous AI systems as part of our own practice.
Digital Assets & Blockchain Advisory
Skin in the game, not analysis from a distance.
Strategic advisory for organisations navigating digital assets, DeFi, tokenisation and blockchain infrastructure. Our advice is grounded in active market participation — we are investors, builders and participants, not observers.
Strategy Consulting
The foundation everything else is built on.
Growth strategy, M&A advisory, market entry, commercial due diligence, value creation. The core disciplines of top-tier strategy consulting — delivered with senior attention and without the overhead. This is the proven foundation.
Same calibre thinking. Radically more firepower.
Lion Strategy operates a hybrid model: senior strategy consultants and investment professionals working alongside purpose-built AI agents.
Our people bring experience, judgement, and curation — the taste that only comes from decades in the room where decisions are made. They set the strategic frame, interrogate assumptions, and apply the rigorous quality assurance that clients expect from top-tier advisory.
Our AI agents handle the deep-dive data collection, research synthesis, and quantitative analysis — working at a speed and depth no traditional team can match.
The result: clients get the sweet spot of senior human expertise and quality control with 10x the analytical leverage of a conventional consultancy.
The Founder
Lion Strategy was founded by Elliot Ronald.
Elliot studied experimental psychology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where his research focused on neural networks and cognitive rule-learning — the same mechanisms that underpin modern AI. He published in the Cognitive Science Society before most people had heard of machine learning.
From a $50bn sovereign city development to mid-market PE portfolio companies, he's led 30+ strategy engagements across two decades at EY, OC&C Strategy Consultants, and two independent boutiques. FTSE 100, Fortune 500, PE and sovereign wealth clients across technology, financial services, consumer goods, energy and government.
In parallel, he built a private investment portfolio across frontier technologies: seed-stage AI platforms, significant positions in the Ethereum ecosystem, and active participation in the digital asset community. He completed Andrew Ng's Stanford ML programme and Anthropic's LLM courses. He built and deployed an autonomous AI colleague as a production business tool.
Active in Token2049 Singapore, EthDenver, Digital Asset Summit London, and Prague Consensus.
This combination — cognitive scientist, strategy consultant, technology investor, AI practitioner — is what makes Lion Strategy different. It's not a positioning claim. It's a biography.
Also offering: The Mind Behind the Machine — a distinctive programme exploring the intersection of human cognition and AI for senior leaders.