CEIS

What CEIS does

CEIS is a strategy and risk-management consulting firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Paris, France. The firm operates 51–100 employees and appears to conduct its operating activities under the Forward Global brand, which positions itself as a professional services platform designing and delivering services and technologies to manage digital, economic, and information risks for executives, businesses, and institutions. The offering consists of a platform-plus-services architecture: seven core consulting service lines — Cybersecurity; Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Support; Combating Illicit Trade; Investment Strategy & Intelligence; M&A Intelligence; Risk & Compliance Investigations; and Strategic Communications & Government Affairs — complemented by eight proprietary technology platforms (Leakid, Ambionics, Uncovery, Dataleaks, Evanesco, Ubik Learning Academy, Dilitrack, and Lexhunt) that provide specialized capabilities for leak identification, cyber audit, digital investigations, secure data erasure, and due diligence. The firm supplements its advisory and product business by generating and hosting an ecosystem of industry forums including INCYBER Forum, European Cyber Cup, World Giverny Forum, and Vauban Sessions. CEIS / Forward Global holds B Corp certification and maintains an international footprint with offices in Paris, Washington, Brussels, London, Montreal, New York, Abidjan, and Miami.

Name

CEIS

Website

https://ceis-strat.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

CEIS is a Paris-based strategy and risk-management consulting firm founded in 1997, operating internationally through the Forward Global platform across cybersecurity, litigation, M&A intelligence, and government affairs for institutional clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

CEIS is a strategy and risk-management consulting firm founded in 1997 that provides advisory services to organizations on strategic positioning and risk-related decision-making. The firm operates from Paris, France with 51–100 employees, serving business clients with strategy and risk consulting engagements.

Product overview

Forward Global is a professional services firm that designs and delivers services and technologies to manage digital, economic, and information risks. The company operates a platform-plus-services architecture consisting of seven core consulting services (Cybersecurity, Litigation and Dispute Support, Combating Illicit Trade, Investment Strategy & Intelligence, M&A Intelligence, Risk & Compliance Investigations, and Strategic Communications & Government Affairs) complemented by eight proprietary technology platforms (Leakid, Ambionics, Uncovery, Dataleaks, Evanesco, Ubik Learning Academy, Dilitrack, and Lexhunt). The technology platforms support the service offerings by providing specialized capabilities for leak identification, cyber auditing, digital investigations, data erasure, and due diligence. Additionally, Forward Global generates and hosts an ecosystem of cybersecurity and strategic forums including INCYBER Forum, European Cyber Cup, World Giverny Forum, and Vauban Sessions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• NscalecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 September 2025NVIDIA partnered with UK-based AI infrastructure company Nscale as part of the UK's largest AI infrastructure rollout, deploying up to 120,000 NVIDIA GPU units with up to £11 billion investment to develop AI factories in the UK.
• CoreWeavecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 September 2025NVIDIA partnered with CoreWeave as a UK-based AI infrastructure company contributing to the nation's AI infrastructure expansion, part of deploying up to 120,000 NVIDIA GPU units and £11 billion investment in UK AI factories.
• International Social Enterprise ObservatoryminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 June 2025International Social Enterprise Observatory, funded by the Scottish Government, provided additional support to Humanitix for its UK expansion through Edinburgh.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting is a global risk advisory and investigations firm offering corporate strategy, M&A intelligence, risk and compliance investigations, and dispute support. It directly overlaps CEIS's strategy + risk advisory positioning, particularly in Europe.
• Wavestone: Wavestone is a leading French consulting firm with a risk, compliance and strategy practice. It competes with CEIS for French and European institutional and corporate advisory mandates.
• Roland Berger: Roland Berger is a European-headquartered global strategy consulting firm serving large corporates and institutions. It is a natural peer for CEIS given its strategy focus and strong European client base.
• Control Risks: Control Risks is a specialist risk consultancy delivering political, security, integrity and strategic risk advice to multinational clients. Its niche strategic-risk positioning closely mirrors CEIS's French and European franchise.
• Kroll: Kroll provides risk consulting, investigations, due diligence and intelligence services to corporates, investors and governments. Its risk-and-intelligence practice is a direct analogue to CEIS's strategy and risk-management offering.
• Alvarez & Marsal: Alvarez & Marsal provides turnaround, restructuring, and risk advisory services globally, with significant European operations. Its mix of strategy advisory and risk/regulatory work overlaps with CEIS's positioning.
• Sia Partners: Sia Partners is a Paris-headquartered management and strategy consulting firm with a strong risk and regulatory practice. Geographic and capability overlap make it one of the closest direct competitors to CEIS in France.

Broad incumbents

• Oliver Wyman: Oliver Wyman is a global management consulting firm with a dedicated risk and strategy practice serving financial services and other regulated industries. It is a broader incumbent that overlaps with CEIS's risk advisory capabilities.
• Kearney: Kearney is a global management consulting firm with European strength and an established strategy practice. Its corporate and strategic advisory work places it in the broader competitor set for CEIS.
• Bain & Company: Bain & Company is one of the three global strategy consulting incumbents and routinely competes for the largest French and European corporate strategy mandates that CEIS also targets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ceis_strat
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ceis

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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