What Fortuna Advisors does

Fortuna Advisors is a privately held boutique strategy and corporate finance advisory firm founded in 2009 by Gregory Milano and headquartered in New York. The firm serves large-cap public companies (Fortune 100 and S&P 500 / S&P 900 issuers) and their senior executives, helping them improve total shareholder returns through value-based management transformation organized around three pillars: Better Insights, Better Decisions, and Better Behaviors.

The firm's differentiated intellectual property centers on Residual Cash Earnings (RCE), a proprietary cash-based measure of Economic Profit/EVA that better captures true value creation than traditional earnings metrics, and the Value Creation Strategy (VCS) Framework, which classifies business opportunities into six Lean vs. Grow Archetypes. These methodologies are backed by empirical research covering 678 S&P 900 companies over 10 years (21,167 yearly observations) and are reinforced by annual flagship publications including the Buyback ROI Report and Value Leadership Report, plus the Create More Value podcast distributed across major audio and video platforms.

Fortuna generates revenue through custom, quote-based advisory engagements delivered directly by partners to CEO/CFO-level clients, with no disclosed pricing or channel partners. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and engagements are bespoke. The firm has expanded its delivery stack through partnerships with Granulytix (granular economic profit analytics, including the agentic AI-powered GranulytixIQ) and BERA Brand Management (AI-based brand differentiation measurement), enabling deeper, more continuous analysis of value creation across segments, customers, and intangibles while remaining a partner-led advisory practice.

Name

Fortuna Advisors

Legal name

Fortuna Advisors LLC

Website

https://fortuna-advisors.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fortuna Advisors is a New York-based boutique strategy and corporate finance advisory firm serving Fortune 100 and S&P 500/900 companies with value-based management consulting built on its proprietary Residual Cash Earnings (RCE) methodology.

Ownership category

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Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Advisory Consulting Services: Custom strategy and corporate finance advisory engagements delivered directly to senior executives (CEOs, CFOs, boards) focused on value-based management transformation, capital allocation optimization, and organizational behavior change.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Fortuna Advisors is a boutique strategy and corporate finance advisory firm that helps large-cap public companies transform value creation potential through custom engagements built around three pillars: Better Insights (performance measurement, value driver diagnostics, portfolio evaluation), Better Decisions (strategic resource allocation, planning, capital expenditure, intangible investment), and Better Behaviors (change management, incentive design, ownership culture). Their work is grounded in Residual Cash Earnings (RCE), a proprietary cash-based economic profit measure.

Product overview

Fortuna Advisors is a strategy and corporate finance advisory firm (not a software/SaaS company) that offers consulting services organized around three core pillars: Better Insights, Better Decisions, and Better Behaviors. These services help clients transform their value creation potential through improvements to managerial insights, decisions, and behaviors. The firm has developed proprietary methodologies including Residual Cash Earnings (RCE), their signature cash-based economic profit measure. Their offerings include advisory services, research reports (such as annual Buyback ROI Reports and Value Leadership Reports), and the Create More Value Podcast series.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Residual Cash Earnings (RCE): Proprietary cash-based economic profit measure developed by Fortuna Advisors to better measure true value creation and align executive incentives with long-term shareholder returns.
• Create More Value Podcast

Products and services

• Better Insights Advisory engagement focused on improving how a company understands its unique sources of value creation, including performance measurement, value driver diagnostics, portfolio evaluation, and stakeholder value creation. For CEOs, CFOs, and boards of large enterprises.
• Better Decisions Advisory engagement enabling confident strategic, financial, and operational decisions through a unified approach that balances current earnings with investment in future growth, covering resource allocation, planning, budgeting, capital expenditure, intangible investment, and corporate development. For senior executives of large enterprises.
• Better Behaviors Advisory engagement focused on unlocking organizational potential through cultural change and incentives that have a clear, consistent link to a company's unique source of value creation, including ownership culture development, incentive design, change management, and investor relations. For CEOs, CFOs, and boards.
• Create More Value Podcast Podcast series featuring conversations with senior executives, board members, and experts on how they created exceptional value for their companies, covering corporate strategy, governance, and best practices. Distributed on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and Amazon.
• 2026 Fortuna Advisors Buyback ROI Report Annual research report analyzing how strategic share repurchase programs create value, featuring a comprehensive ranking of every substantial S&P 500 buyback program over the prior five years. For institutional investors, corporate boards, and CFOs.
• 2024 Fortuna Advisors Value Leadership Report Annual research report revealing top-performing S&P 900 companies and industries and analyzing how they produced outsized shareholder returns over the prior five years. For corporate executives, institutional investors, and boards.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1.2x better TSR growth across industries for clients using Fortuna's approach
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• BERA Brand ManagementcoreTechnology or IntegrationBERA Brand Management is a brand-tech firm with advanced methods for measuring brand differentiation including 'meaningfulness' and 'uniqueness.' Fortuna partners with BERA to provide objective, fact-based grounds for brand investment decisions. The collaboration enables companies to measure brand differentiation using predictive AI technology and link brand investments to valuation outcomes.
• GranulytixcoreTechnology or IntegrationGranulytix provides a groundbreaking platform enabling granular economic profit analysis across complex portfolios on an ongoing basis. From segments to customers, geographies, channels and SKUs, Granulytix helps understand where value is being created and identify best investment opportunities in real time. Also offers agentic AI-powered solution called GranulytixIQ for financial and strategic analysis.
• Spencer StuartminorOthersSenior Advisor Jim McTaggart serves as Senior Advisor to the Board and CEO practice of Spencer Stuart, a global executive search and leadership consulting firm.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Marakon Associates: Marakon is the most direct peer of Fortuna Advisors - a boutique strategy consulting firm pioneering value-based management founded by Jim McTaggart, who is now a Senior Advisor to Fortuna. The firms share methodology lineage, client type (Fortune 100 CFOs/boards), and service pillars centered on capital allocation and economic profit.
• Stern Stewart & Co. Stern Stewart invented EVA (Economic Value Added) and is the historical predecessor firm in the value-based management space. Fortuna's founder Greg Milano was a Partner at Stern Stewart, and partner Steve Chopp also held senior roles there. The two firms compete in the same niche of EVA/RCE-style corporate performance advisory.
• L.E.K. Consulting: L.E.K. is a mid-sized strategy consulting firm where Fortuna partner Steve Chopp previously held a senior position. L.E.K. serves similar Fortune-grade corporate clients on strategy, value creation, and shareholder returns, and competes with Fortuna in corporate strategy advisory engagements.

Broad incumbents

• The Boston Consulting Group (BCG): BCG is a global strategy consulting powerhouse with a dedicated Corporate Finance & Strategy practice that competes for the same enterprise value-creation mandates as Fortuna. BCG partner Ramesh Karnani brings direct lineage from BCG to Fortuna, and BCG's scale and Fortune 500 relationships set the competitive ceiling for Fortuna.
• Bain & Company: Bain & Company operates a large Corporate Finance practice serving CEOs and CFOs on capital allocation, performance measurement, and shareholder value - directly overlapping with Fortuna's three Better Insights/Decisions/Behaviors pillars. Bain's scale and integrated delivery model represent Fortuna's primary competitive headwind in large mandates.
• McKinsey & Company: McKinsey's Strategy & Corporate Finance practice (historically led by Tim Koller, who appeared on Fortuna's podcast) competes for shareholder value, capital allocation, and performance measurement work at the largest global corporates. McKinsey is the most established competitor in the same strategic-resource-allocation space Fortuna occupies.
• Alvarez & Marsal: Alvarez & Marsal's Corporate Finance and Value Creation practices serve Fortune-grade clients on performance improvement, capital allocation, and economic profit - a closely adjacent offering to Fortuna's RCE-based advisory model. A&M's larger bench and restructuring overlap make it a primary competitive threat in turnaround and value-creation mandates.
• AlixPartners: AlixPartners is a global advisory firm specializing in performance improvement and value creation for distressed and underperforming corporates. While more restructuring-focused, AlixPartners overlaps with Fortuna on the subset of mandates where value-based management intersects with operational transformation and shareholder return improvement.

Others

• Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS): ISS is a governance advisory and data firm where Fortuna senior advisors previously worked. ISS's Corporate Solutions / value-based advisory practice informs proxy advisors and boards on executive compensation and capital allocation - the same shareholder value creation lens Fortuna uses with clients, making ISS an ecosystem peer rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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