Strategic Advisory — Paris
The platform, sovereignty, and omnichannel decisions ahead of Europe's best consumer brands are the most consequential of the decade. You get one chance to make them right. We lead strategy. Our partners execute. You scale.
Roland Berger will quote you six months and a junior team. Advancy will hand you a framework and disappear. The Big 4 will run the clock. BvH & Co was built for the brands that have been through that, and won't do it again. Senior expertise, fixed fees, and a firm that only wins when you win.
Platform migration underway as Europe systematically reduces dependency on US technology across commerce, cloud, AI, and payments.
What Roland Berger and the Big 4 need before they will seriously engage. Below that number you get ignored, or you get the graduate who studied your industry last Tuesday. You deserve the partner who's worked in it.
The EU AI Act, Digital Product Passport, and SEPA Instant Payments create overlapping compliance windows. Penalties reach €35M. The planning deadline is now, regardless of when enforcement lands.
What We Do
We engage at executive level, lead discovery, and govern your program from mandate to outcome. Every engagement starts with listening. Every proposal is written, fixed-fee, delivered in under a week. No hourly billing. No playbooks. No surprises.
★ Signature OfferingsPlatform migration strategy, EU-sovereign vendor evaluation, GDPR and AI Act compliance roadmaps, and cloud cost modeling. For brands moving beyond Shopify, AWS, or US-built SaaS. On European terms.
Operating model design for brands with complex physical and digital footprints across Europe. Franchise governance, channel orchestration, and customer data unification. From strategy to adoption.
Executive-level leadership during transformation windows, funding rounds, or search periods. Full C-suite accountability without the headcount commitment. Direct skin in the outcome.
Strategy-led design for brands building or rebuilding digital products. We own the brief, the vision, and the design governance. Execution partners build.
2 to 4 week assessments that surface the decisions blocking your growth. Platform sovereignty, performance marketing, data architecture, Wero integration. The fastest path to strategic clarity.
Monthly strategic guidance for brands in active transformation. Regulatory monitoring, vendor oversight, board preparation, and the frank conversation you can't have with a Big 4 team.
Why BvH & Co
BvH & Co was built for the brands that already know the difference between a strategy deck and a strategy. Senior partners in the room from first call to final outcome. Fixed fees written into a proposal within a week. No retainers on auto-pilot. No seven-figure minimums. No decks that end the conversation.
Every engagement begins with a 30-minute listening call. Not a pitch. We understand your business before we say a word about what we'd recommend. Discovery-led. No pre-packaged answers.
Every hour they bill is an hour they're incentivized not to solve your problem. We don't bill by the hour. Fixed-fee means the only way we win is if you do.
While the big firms were still building US-facing practices, we built ours at the center of the EU sovereignty wave. The regulation, the platforms, the procurement culture. This is our native territory, not a new service line.
Our execution partners, trusted by Nike, Disney, Tapestry, Columbia, and other global brands, sit alongside us from mandate to outcome. Strategy never ends at a PowerPoint. You get the full arc.
The Team
More than 20 years inside the decisions that determine whether enterprise technology investments perform or fail. Founder of our US sister firm, whose commerce transformations have served Nike, Disney, Columbia Sportswear, Tapestry, Target, Home Depot, and Unilever. Keynote speaker at Paris Retail Week 2023 and MarDreamin' 2024. Published author of Transformed by AI. Featured in Forbes, NBC, CBS, and Yahoo Finance. More on Dedrick →
Toni leads account governance for BvH & Co at the intersection of creative direction, project delivery, and commerce strategy. Her work is delivering output that is strategically ambitious, technically complex, and shipped on enterprise timelines without the brief getting lost along the way. Production and creative operations experience spans global retail, fashion, and experience brands.
Who We Serve
We focus exclusively on businesses where the customer experience is the product. What unites them is complex omnichannel operations, platform-critical decisions, and the need for transformation that actually sticks.
How We Work
Our engagement model is built around European procurement culture. Transparency, predictability, and a written proposal within one week of your first call. No surprise invoices. No scope creep.
We listen before we advise. No pitch decks on the first call. We ask the questions that reveal the real €1M+ decision at stake.
Fixed-fee. Scoped. Clear deliverables. 50% deposit on signing. You know exactly what you're getting before a single hour is worked.
We stay in the seat until the outcome is real. Our execution partners build. We govern. One accountable team across the full arc.
Executive advisory, platform selection, transformation governance, regulatory roadmaps, and program leadership.
Trusted by Nike, Disney, Columbia, Tapestry, and other global brands. Engineering, platform development, and digital transformation execution.
Not a PowerPoint. A transformation that runs. Governed, executed, and accountable at every layer.
Engagement Model
Every engagement begins with a conversation. We scope each mandate individually, set the fee before work begins, and stay accountable to the outcome. No hourly billing, ever.
Begin the Conversation
"The first call is ours to listen. No pitch. No deck. Just the right questions."