Gill Eapen, CFA is a Managing Director in the Valuation & Financial Opinions Group. Mr. Eapen has over 25 years of experience in strategy, finance, risk and general management. He specializes in strategy and economic decisions in companies and organizations. Decision Options ®, the firm he founded pioneered advanced analytical techniques to inform and guide decisions including but not limited to the selection and design of products, processes and technologies, resource allocation, portfolio/risk management and the valuation of intellectual property and technologies in the transaction of private assets between companies.
Mr. Eapen has advised clients over a broad range of industries including life sciences, energy, aerospace, high technology, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, manufacturing, oil & gas, solar & wind, fossil & nuclear power, financial services, and consumer goods. Additionally, he led the development of a broad analytics platform that integrates machine learning and economic analysis with applications across many functional areas including but not limited to strategy, operations, valuation, litigation, transactions and optimization. In the 90s, he pioneered analytics driven resource allocation in Research and Development in one of the largest pharmaceutical companies as well as methodologies to evaluate technology and economic choices in the space shuttle program. Over the past two decades, he has helped solve challenging economics and decision problems to aid faster and better decision-making in over 4 dozen companies.
Mr. Eapen is the author of two textbooks. The first book, Decision Options: The Art and Science of Making Decisions, provides the theory and practice of real options in economic valuation and investment decision-making in private assets. The second book, Flexibility: Flexible Companies for the Uncertain World is a comprehensive discussion of the structure, systems and strategies needed for companies to survive and succeed in an increasingly uncertain world.
Prior to joining SRR, Mr. Eapen was a Founder and Chairman of the Board of Decision Options, LLC.