Intelligence
Investigations
Communications

What we do

Argyll Strategy provides market-leading intelligence, investigative and strategic communications advice that enables our clients to unlock opportunities and protect their assets and reputations.

We take a proactive, practical and flexible approach to achieving our clients’ objectives. We recommend clear courses of action and implement our solutions on behalf of law firms, private family offices and corporate clients.

We are loyal and trusted advisors, with a proven track record of delivery.

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Expertise

-> Strategic intelligence

-> Deep due diligence

-> Investigations and asset tracing

-> M&A support

-> Market entry and exit

-> Political risk

-> Intelligence-led campaigns

-> Dispute and crisis communications

-> Government relations

-> Social media and digital network analysis

Sectors

-> Consumer and Retail

-> Defence and Aerospace

-> Energy and Renewables

-> Financial Services

-> Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals

-> Infrastructure

-> Mining and Extractives

-> Transport and Logistics

-> Utilities

Who we are

We work with our network of experts and consultants hand-picked from Europe, the US, the Middle East, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia.

Each project team is moulded to match the client’s requirements, ensuring impact while maintaining quality and discretion.

WILL CRAWFORD

Will advises corporate and private clients on navigating complex problems and high-stakes challenges using a combination of intelligence-led investigations and tailored strategic communications campaigns.

Before co-founding Argyll Strategy, Will was a director in the intelligence practice at a leading international campaigns consultancy, following several years at another prominent corporate intelligence firm. His extensive career has encompassed legal disputes, investigations, public affairs, crisis communications and M&A advisory spanning over 80 countries. Will has extensive experience working across the Middle East and studied Arabic.

PHILIP KAYE

PK works on behalf of some of the world’s most powerful litigation law firms, private equity firms and family offices, providing independent quality advice enabling them to achieve their objectives.

He specialises in complex cross border disputes, often with a high security threat and media scrutiny. Prior to co-founding Argyll Strategy, PK spent nineteen years in the intelligence, communications and security sector including six years in the British Army serving on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and living across much of Africa.

LOUISE BERGENGREN

Louise has significant experience of working in family office environments and navigating the multifaceted problems facing private clients. She has operated in Scandinavia, France, Switzerland and the US where she has worked across the real estate, private equity, commodities and extractives sectors.

Often the primary point of contact for selected private clients and family offices, Louise focuses on building strong relationships and trust with our client network, ensuring that their needs are addressed promptly and effectively. Louise speaks Swedish, French and Italian.

JOHNNY BROOKE

Johnny is a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales. He has a broad range of tribunal and litigation experience. He has worked overseas as a solicitor in Oman, North Africa and the wider Middle East.

Johnny advises corporate organisations, owner managed businesses and private clients on a range of both non-contentious and contentious matters and has significant experience of the corporate intelligence sector. He is the founding partner at Brooke Gordon Solicitors, and a Member of the Law Society of England & Wales. Prior to becoming a lawyer Johnny served in the British Army.

MICHAEL CRAWFORD CMG

A barrister by training, Michael spent over 25 years serving the British government in London and overseas. After postings in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and South Asia, he ended his public service career in a senior global role in London.

Michael subsequently acted as senior adviser to several major UK companies and professional firms, including Standard Chartered and PwC, while publishing on Middle Eastern history and current affairs. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and was awarded a CMG in 2008.

PRICE FLOYD

Price has over 30 years of communications experience. His primary areas of expertise are strategic communications, media engagement, digital strategy, and crisis management.

Price has advised Fortune 100 companies, UHNWs and non-profits, implemented advocacy campaigns, and been vice president of communications for BAE Systems. He served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and was the lead spokesperson and advisor to the US Secretary of Defense, as well as leading communications efforts for the CNAS. Price was a career diplomat at the U.S. Department of State from 1990 – 2007, where he ended as Director of Media Affairs.

ALASDAIR GORDON

Alasdair Gordon is CEO of Ecosse Global Pty Ltd, specialising in working across the Defence, Law Enforcement and National Security sectors. Alasdair joined the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs portfolio working in national security and foreign policy, both in Canberra and on overseas postings, across Asia, the South Pacific and the US, with his final posting in Washington DC.

Alasdair is a member of the Mitre Group Australia Council of Advisors and is on the Board of an Australian venture capital company. Alasdair is an Indonesian speaker.

PAUL GREENWOOD

Paul is an investigator and law enforcement expert. Paul served in the Royal Marines, before joining the Metropolitan Police, where he held senior roles at the Counter-Corruption Command, Counter-Terrorism Command and the National Crime Agency. Paul led complex projects focused on investigation and intelligence gathering, operational deployment and training, while gaining extensive experience working with different agencies in the UK and overseas.

Since leaving the Met, Paul has been engaged in providing security, investigations and integrity solutions across multiple jurisdictions for private, corporate and government clients.

VERITY HORNBY

Having graduated from Edinburgh with a degree in International Relations Verity has gained experience at strategic communications and intelligence agencies where she honed her analytical skills and global perspective to develop a keen eye for operational detail.

Verity is responsible for keeping the team on the road, optimising processes and procedures, managing events and administration.

FOLARIN KUKU

Folarin is a logistics, security and intelligence specialist operating across sub-Saharan West Africa. In 2015 Folarin founded the CEFO Group of Companies, headquartered in Nigeria which specialises in the provision of high-grade security and logistics solutions to the construction, mining, oil & gas sectors as well as to private and corporate clients.

Prior to founding the CEFO Group, Folarin served for nine years in the British Army serving with distinction on multiple operations in Afghanistan. Folarin has a deep understanding of Nigerian security, politics and business.

MIKE MORGAN

Mike is a former CIA officer who served across Latin America, Europe and the former Soviet Union. Following senior roles in Washington focused on the Middle East, FSU and counterproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Mike was appointed Assistant Deputy Director in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he had responsibility for oversight of all intelligence community human intelligence programs.

Mike subsequently joined Raytheon and PwC, where, as Head of Global Security, he was responsible for identifying, assessing and mitigating external risks to PwC’s business operations worldwide.

TATIANA POLE-CAREW

Tatiana is a communications specialist with an expert understanding of geopolitical strategic communications for governments and private sector clients, managing networks across multiple geographies to deliver international, multi-discipline communications campaigns. Her work has focused on security, defence and conflict prevention in developing countries, as well as international reputation management for both private and corporate clients.

Prior to working in the intelligence and communications sector, Tatiana spent five years living in Moscow working with private clients. She speaks Russian and French.

GABI RASHTI

Gabi is an intelligence and investigations specialist with a focus on dispute resolution and crisis management. Using intelligence-led methods, her expertise lies in identifying integral strategic information to support clients through key decisions and negotiations.

With experience at both an international campaigns consultancy and a leading media law firm, Gabi works on behalf of private clients, law firms and multinational businesses across a range of sectors. Gabi speaks French and Spanish and has conducted investigations in both languages.