Frye Associates is a management consulting firm focused on issues of strategy, finance, IT, and operations.  Our front-line experience serving public and private firms spans the entire business cycle--from start-ups to large, century-old corporations.  

Frye Associates draws on an extensive network across academic, public, and private-sector organizations, and we invest the same expertise and attention to detail on every project.  We limit the number of open projects at any given time in order to provide consistent, impeccable execution.  

The Principal assigned to oversee your project will have prior CEO experience, period.  We place a very high value on building long-term relationships with promising clients, regardless of the size of our first project together.  
 
Rather than set a single, inflexible hourly billing rate, we work with each client to transparently establish a total budget based on project complexity.  No surprises.  

Here is a small sample of recent projects.  It is in no way exhaustive, but rather intended to give new clients a sense of the breadth of our work:

General
* Financial modeling and development of Excel "What-If" scenario evaluation tools.
* Private firm business valuation and transaction analysis.
* Strategic re-positioning, leading to explosive growth in stagnant firms.
* Private firm business valuation and transaction analysis.
* Core business strategy analysis and identification of new revenue opportunities.
* Brand/Pricing analysis, uncovering opportunities for margin and brand equity growth.
* Hiring and staffing consultation, including training for highly successful candidate screening, interviewing, and negotiations.

Asset Management
* Commercial and residential real estate leasing advisory. Our most recent project cut vacancy in a Bay Area property from 40% to less than 3%, in the worst real estate market in decades.  
* Portfolio valuation.
* Development of strategies to maximize property or portfolio value, from operations to financial and exit planning.  

Young Firms
* Business planning, professional document creation, and preparation for seed-round fund-raising.
* Staff training, team development.

IT
* Development of successful IT outsourcing programs, including on-site coordination with overseas vendors when appropriate.
* Project management of large application development projects in a wide range of industries, including consumer products, internet, retail, traditional software, fashion, and others.

Financial Services, Banks, Credit Unions, Information Technology, Software, Hardware, Electronics, Consulting, Legal, Engineering, Accounting, Other, Real Estate, Insurance