France, Greece, Lebanon, United Kingdom
Iskandar Safa faces British Navy's former First Sea Lord in Greek arbitration

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Éric Léandri splits with comms partner, ex-CIA launches into 'Quantum consulting', former CIA worked for Iskandar Safa

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

Abu Dhabi Éric Léandri splits with comms partner after financial spat

WashingtonSenior CIA official launches into ‘quantum consulting'

WashingtonFormer CIA official reveals work for Iskandar Safa

Spotlight | UAE
Al Muhairi's dreams of cyber empire with KBBO come crashing down

The flamboyant businessman's path towards building a cyber empire in the Gulf with help from Western partners appears to have left him bankrupt.

Egypt, Germany, Netherlands
Dutch court case rocks the boat of TKMS and Thales Egyptian naval mega-deal

A court case in the Netherlands is challenging the naval exception to the country's ban of military sales to Egypt, which could have repercussions for TKMS's sale of the Meko frigates, equipped with Dutch-made Thales C3 systems, to Cairo.

United Kingdom
Zambellas in new Cyber start-up venture

George Zambellas, who was British navy chief of staff from [...]

United States
Former Lockheed execs open consulting firm

Patrick Dewar, the former head of international at Lockheed Martin, has recently been developing his own consulting firm, The Trenton Group, with the help of some of his former staff and his international contacts.

Spotlight | France, Lebanon, UAE
Safa's ship-building empire in choppy seas

After a boom period in which the contracts kept coming in, the charismatic Franco-Lebanese businessman Iskandar Safa is today facing pressure on several fronts. The founder of the naval shipyard Abu Dhabi Mar is under attack on its contracts in [.

Europe, Lebanon
Iskandar Safa v Tsipras, round 2

The Franco-Lebanese Iskandar Safa, owner of Hellenic Shipyards (HSY) in [...]