Andrew Downs

Background

About Andrew Downs

At White Space Strategy, we help global, industry-leading companies to grow and make the right decisions. For the past 17 years I've helped build and manage a superb team that are passionate about supporting clients with their most strategic challenges. We are now one of the UK’s leading strategy consultancies, regularly advising clients on how to enter new markets, re-energise in existing markets, innovate, develop new propositions and optimise customer operations. In addition to client engagements, I lead our internal operations and data analysis capabilities, ensuring that clients can make strategic commercial decisions based on the data they hold. We have been recognised by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s leading management consultancies every year since 2021 and were awarded a gold ranking for Strategy by Consultancy.uk in 2023, 2024 and 2025. The majority of our work involves: 1. Growth Opportunity Identification & Assessment 2. Market Prioritisation & Analysis 3. Proposition Development & Testing 4. Market Entry & GTM Strategy 5. M&A Origination, CDD & VDD We work across a wide range of sectors, including Manufacturing, Financial Services, Energy, Healthcare, Retail, FMCG and Paper & Packaging. Our market-led approach to research and strategy development enables us to provide clients with the confidence and resources they need to capitalise on their growth opportunities. White Space has worked for hundreds of large, interesting clients over the past 20 years, including Mastercard, Cisco, Unilever, DS Smith, Samsung, AXA and EDF Energy. As part of Palladium Digital Group we also benefit from having a global footprint and access to complimentary skills in digital transformation, sales and marketing.