Dr. Henrik Vance
Senior Partner, Macro & Capital
PhD in Econometrics, ETH Zürich, and former chief macro strategist at a global sovereign wealth fund. Has orchestrated over $28B in complex balance-sheet realignments.
About the firm · Institutional foundation
Engineered for Strategic Clarity in an Age of Volatility
Strata Strategy was formed to eliminate the ambiguity of traditional management consulting, pairing empirical modelling with architectural execution.
2012
Founded
07 yrs
Average tenure
14%
Mandate acceptance
The departure
The Departure from Synthesized Advisory
Strata was established in 2012 by former tier-one operators, algorithmic mathematicians and industrial restructuring specialists.
For decades, legacy advisory firms operated on extreme junior analyst leverage, subcontracting client missions to recent graduates armed with standardised slide decks. We engineered Strata on the inverse premise: a senior-partner-only engagement architecture. When a multinational conglomerate or sovereign entity engages our team, every calculation, diagnostic simulation and organisational blueprint is created and deployed directly by proven specialists with decades of operational command. Our structures prioritise long-term retained skin-in-the-game outcomes over billable hour accumulation. Clients interface exclusively with the partners who execute the mandate from inception to institutional handover.
Every mandate is executed by the partners who sell it.
Institutional engagement
The Four Pillars of Institutional Engagement
The operating commitments that shape every diagnostic, negotiation and board presentation.
01
Senior Partner-Led Mandates
Zero junior analyst leverage. Every critical decision, negotiation and risk review is orchestrated by executive veterans.
02
Empirical Quantitative Rigor
Strategic directives are stress-tested against algorithmic simulations, volatility shocks and macro balance-sheet realities.
03
Actionable Execution Blueprints
Operational code, technical architectures and executable contracts, not theoretical decks that gather dust.
04
Decade-Long Institutional Alignment
Relationships average over seven years across sovereign wealth, industrial conglomerates and private holdings.
Advisory vectors
Architectural Precision Across Four Critical Vectors
We operate at the volatile intersection of sovereign scale, technical infrastructure and fiduciary governance.
Enterprise Digital & Core Modernization
Resilient multi-cloud topologies, sovereign data enclaves, autonomous workflows and fault-tolerant mission-critical systems.
Capital Allocation & M&A Due Diligence
Buy-side strategy, post-merger synergy synthesis, tail-risk valuation and defensive restructuring for family offices.
Operational Resilience & Supply Chain
Decentralised stress testing, trade-route defence and predictive procurement for defence, aerospace and energy.
Executive Governance & AI Policy Design
Board oversight, fiduciary generative AI protocols, succession plans and sovereign regulatory compliance roadmaps.
Senior partners & practice leaders
The People Who Lead Every Mandate
Three practice leaders direct econometric strategy, industrial operations and fiduciary governance.
Marcus Lindqvist
Senior Partner, Operations & Resilience
MSc Industrial Engineering, KTH Stockholm, and former VP Operations at European Aerospace. Pioneered decentralised procurement for aerospace conglomerates.
Sophia Al-Mansoor
Senior Partner, Governance & M&A
LLM and MBA, Oxford University, and former MD of global financial institutions advisory. Board member to sovereign financial institutions in Singapore and London.
The institutional record
Evidence, Not Adjectives
Selected outcomes from a practice deliberately built around senior attention and retained mandates.
Capital orchestrated
Safeguarded and structurally deployed across volatile cycles.
Global engagements
Sovereign wealth mandates and Fortune 100 transformations since 2012.
Client retention
Continuous multi-year relationships averaging over seven years.
Throughput acceleration
Average operational improvement after blueprint implementation.
Partner briefing
Partner with Strata on Your Next Inflection Point
We accept a limited number of high-stakes mandates each financial quarter to preserve direct partner involvement and execution fidelity.
Direct line
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Quantitative architecture and high-stakes institutional advisory across Zürich, London, New York and Singapore.
Begin with the evidence.
Request our institutional capabilities dossier and a confidential discussion with a practice partner.