Charles Blackmore

United Kingdom
British private spies and a fund under attack join forces against their short-seller enemy

Intelligence firm Audere Group has landed new funding from a financial services company known to have been targeted by a well-known UK short seller, Viceroy Research.

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Westexec, Eutelsat, Audere, Snapchat security

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

WashingtonWestExec recruits former CIA station chief

ParisGeneral Serge Cholley to leave Eutelsat's Defence and Security Division

DamascusAudere interested in Syrian market

WashingtonFormer Snapchat security director goes solo after stints with the NSA and DNI

Estonia, Ukraine, United Kingdom
British private spies angle for Ukraine reconstruction opportunities

A number of consultants specialised in private security and corporate intelligence in Ukraine are also positioning themselves for contracts to rebuild the country. They include current and former executives of UK firm Audere.

United Kingdom
Unwitting 'journalist-consultant' caught up in Audere's Maltese healthcare and Conservative concierge probes

Intelligence Online has learned that private investigations group Audere, which was commissioned by Steward Healthcare to investigate Malta's political authorities, subcontracted work to a journalist for years without telling him who had actually ordered it.

United Kingdom
Investigation firm Audere on high alert as it tries to fend off attacks from its nemesis

While still having to contend with a major staff turnover, the private investigation and security firm Audere is now having to defend itself from attacks in the media and on X from its foes embroiled in the Steward Healthcare short-selling scandal.

United Kingdom
Corporate intelligence firm Audere struggles to beef up private security arm

Audere Group's private security business has been hit by a number of major departures, which the firm hopes to quickly make up for.

United Kingdom
Corporate intelligence firm Audere sets sights on former ISC members

Seasoned intelligence expert Charles Blackmore is making changes to his business structure and is looking among ex-MPs turned serial advisers to fill his board.

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Audere, Pantheon Intelligence, C4I, and Cassini Conseil

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

LondonAudere networks with chambers of commerce

LincolnDrone pilot Daniel Whorlton moves into consultancy

ParisConsultancy partnered with GEODE laboratory impresses defence ministry

WashingtonMacMurray moves to C4I, sheds other activities

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Audere's new COO, eyes on Ginet-Kauders at Red Cross, and from Alaco to Dentons

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

London Audere picks special forces captain

Geneva The Red Cross's Lyon connection

London Dentons' rich pickings at Alaco

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Quinlan turns to Newsweek, Treliant at Exigen, Beth with Oriol, Boulègue at Audere, Kerley joins Evelyn Partners

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to London, Washington and Paris.

Washington Journalist-hungry Quinlan hires Newsweek reporter

Washington Treliant poaches exec from Exiger to increase corporate intelligence capacities

Paris Battesti loses Dessenne but still with Beth

London/Paris Post-Soviet expert Boulègue joins Audere and CEPA

London Kerley joins Evelyn Partners

Japan, United States
Japanese investigation market shakeup

US and British intelligence groups are on the lookout for local private investigators in a once tightly closed Japanese market that has been positioning itself as a vector of growth.

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Bilal Sen, Audere, EuroSatory

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to Cologne, London and Copenhagen.

Cologne Turkish ex-cyber police official moves into German corporate intelligence

London Audere recruits new managing director

Copenhagen C. Corner and AC Defence eye French market

Spotlight | United Kingdom, United States
Corporate intelligence firms face succession choices

Founders and managers looking to protect their corporate intelligence firms' futures essentially only have two quite different routes open to them.

France, Japan, United Kingdom
Audere ups its game with new Asia-focused consultants

Oliver Blackmore earlier this year completed taking over Audere International, a corporate intelligence firm founded by his father Charles Blackmore. He is now stepping up recruitment of consultants internationally, particularly in Asia, to strengthen his company's presence there.

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RosettiStarr, Farrant, Audere, ICSID/Paris Arbitration Week

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to Washington and London.

WashingtonICSID establishes framework for litigation funding.

LondonAudere's new boss Oliver Blackmore gets into private security.

WashingtonRosettiStar hires Joe Andrews.

LondonFarrant looks to Africa.

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Wallbrook, ESL & Network, EUBAM

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to London, Paris and Brussels.

LondonWallbrook beefs up China team.

ParisMontlahuc's moves to leave ESL & Network pave way for firm's integration into ADIT.

BrusselsEUBAM competition gets underway.

United Kingdom
Raedas muscles up in forensics accounting

Business intelligence group Raedas has recruited forensics veteran David Lawler to strengthen its position in the growing market for these invesitigations.

United Kingdom
Charles Blackmore sets his succession plan at Audere in motion

The head of small business intelligence firm, Audere International, has brought his son Oliver Blackmore on to the company's board.

United Kingdom
Charles Blackmore

Charles Blackmore, the former chief executive of the private security [...]