The ESIA is a unique organisation that helps clients to solve their most challenging research questions and delivers tailored research-based solutions and advice, to the highest standards of quality.
It has pioneered a uniquely collaborative approach to finding innovative research and analysis solutions to clients’ international corporate development problems. This is done by gathering together in dedicated teams country, industry, functional and technical experts to solve clients’ issues.
It unites the services required to answer the large challenges that corporations face when they want to grow abroad; or that governmental and financial institutions face when they conduct due diligence regarding overseas partners or borrowers of finance.
The ESIA brings together 300 consultants from more than 20 nationalities in 150 countries.
The headquarters of the ESIA is in Paris.
ADIT, CEO
Historical Founding Member and Chairman Intuitu Personae
Created 20 years ago, ADIT is the French and European leader in strategic intelligence. A pioneer in the field, ADIT is the adviser to top European corporations and international firms. ADIT offers services spanning due diligence, investigations, compliance and risk analysis on a global scale. Its CEO, Philippe Caduc, has strong ties with the managements of the French CAC 40 firms, and leads ADIT with an innovative spirit. ADIT has more than 200 consultants in France and abroad and is also a major global player in the risk analysis and risk control industry.
Corporate Risk Watch, founder
CRW is the leading provider of due diligence and risk analysis services in Italy. Nicoletta Grilli has more than 15 years of experience in these fields and has built up an extensive network in Europe and elsewhere. Formerly at Kroll and the Risk Advisory Group, Nicoletta has experience in financial due diligence and anti-fraud services that makes CRW an important asset for the Alliance.
Entreprise Proactive Strategic Intelligence (Cyprus), Co-founder, Managing Partner
Proactive Strategic Intelligence founded in 2002, is a specialized Market, Competitive and Strategic Intelligence services provider. We assist our clients to enforce customer, supplier and collaborator Integrity, achieve Compliance, expose and minimize Risk and apply Effective Tactical and Strategic Decision making. PSI specializes in collecting Primary research results and Hands-on local information, Official documentation and Unofficial intelligence. With offices in the UAE, Cyprus and Greece, we have meticulously established an extensive local language researcher and locally based operatives network, covering over 85 countries in the Middle East and Africa, Eastern Europe, Russia, CIS, Eurasia and South America. We do Not just provide Data, we offer you Intelligence with our Critical Thinking so you can effectively Interpret what it means for Your Business.
TGINT, co-founder
Onno van Boven is the co-founder and managing partner of Triangular Group Information Services and Networking (TGINT), which is the only Dutch-based business intelligence company that helps private sector clients successfully develop business in frontier and emerging markets. TGINT provides solid, reliable, and in-depth (human) intelligence in all sectors that are relevant to their clients. TGINT’s services optimize decision- making processes, allowing its client to make intelligence led, commercial decisions.
Since its inception, TGINT has served a wide range of corporate clients and non-governmental organizations in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Onno is an expert in conflict resolution and his services continue to be requested for government diplomacy initiatives. Onno is particularly well-versed in the social and cultural contexts in the Middle East and Africa.
The Search Group, founder
Andreea Iancu is a well known expert in due diligence services. Located in Serbia and Hong Kong, the Search Group conducts public records checks and business intelligence in more than 60 countries. It has particularly strong networks in the Balkans and the Asia-Pacific region. The quality of The Search Group’s analysis and its ability to deliver in a timely manner make it a core member of the ESIA team.
SANDSTONE SA, co-founder
SANDSTONE SA is our ESIA partner in Luxembourg, founded in 2008 by senior intelligence and security professionals Frank Schneider, Filipe Carmo and Jed Grant. The creation of SANDSTONE SA was a market response to a growing need in due diligence services, in particular in the financial service industry, which is increasingly operating in geographic areas and economic sectors that require a tailor-made due diligence approach in view of a better risk evaluation and risk mitigation.
SANDSTONE SA provides business intelligence, risk advisory, compliance and integrity support, litigation support and information security advice. Major clients include blue-chip companies, international banks and financial service providers, international organisations, governments, law firms, private individuals and family offices. SANDSTONE SA´s added value lies in particular in a high-end operational approach with a unique pool of investigative resources and a global network of direct human sources and investigation professionals
Octopus, Managing Director
Helping clients get the better of your competitors and market by getting answers to the questions you need to know since 2008.
With a back ground within UK Military Intelligence & 20 yrs Competitive Intelligence, Investigations & Research experience we love digging around to answer the questions you need to ask.
Questions like :
What are your competitors planning to do ?
Where can you win more business
What should your next move be
How do you minimise risk?
What to do next ?
Competitive Intelligence, reputation management, due diligence, investigations, profiling and post intelligence actions, we don't do fluff or some pseudo-academic report. We give you usable Intelligence.
INTEGRITY, Principal
Integrity International is a full-service corporate investigations firm focused on the geographical areas of Latin America and Continental Europe, with its corporate offices in Brussels, Belgium, and a team of investigators in Mexico. It has particularly strong networks in Latin America, as well as Belgium and Finland.
The firm is specialized in complex problem solving; including enhanced due diligence, fraud investigations, litigation support and intelligence projects. Integrity also offers a full range of security related seminars and courses.
Ulla Pentinpuro has more than 15 years of experience in the industry, 10 of them in Mexico.
ViennEast
ViennEast is a boutique business intelligence, corporate investigations, reputation and risk management company located in Vienna and London. ViennEast advises clients globally, but with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus and CIS. Political instability, endemic corruption, fake news, and poor regulatory frameworks are common themes that concern our clients. We look at understanding and mitigating these risks through several distinct approaches. We offer bespoke geo-political risk analysis, litigation support, corporate investigations, due diligence research, business intelligence, market mapping, social media monitoring and investigations, deep and dark web research, asset identification / recovery, and smart dispute resolution through specialist negotiators. Using the best of government and commercial methodology we analyse using the latest open source technology, and we investigate by getting out on the ground.
Automotive, agribusiness, aeronautics, pharmaceuticals and biotech, defence, energy, environment, finance, information and communication technology, transportation, consumer products, hospitality, business services.
The ESIA's mission is to continually develop its global network, investigative capacities and comprehensive range of services. These will include all of the necessary research, analysis and advisory skills to support our clients with their international operations, anywhere in the world.
Our vision is to develop an alliance that uses multi-disciplinary teams to solve the most demanding and complex business problems anywhere in the world.
Our values are excellence, rigour, teamwork and mutual support among members.
The ESIA was founded in 2012 with the objective of developing a network of European consultancies that could provide excellent and comprehensive support services to European firms that want to develop internationally.
It came together following an informal approach by ADIT to five carefully vetted consultancy firms of high standing from the UK, Italy, Spain and Poland.
The ESIA was launched in December 2013.
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