Danillo Angela - Head of SCL Caribbean

Danilo Angela is the co-founder and former director of A&HCG. Currently Danilo serves as a consultant to the company while he resides in Amsterdam completing his studies in Political Science. Danilo was educated at the University of Aruba and is dedicated to marketing, communications, and politics. During his studies at the University of Aruba Danilo functioned as an account manager at a local advertising agency before co-founding A&HCG in 2010 with his partner Curtney Hart.

Curtney Hart - Communication Director

Curtney Hart studied Marketing Management at HBO Nederland in the Netherlands. After his studies Curtney worked at Tech Data and SOTAQ. At these companies he worked for clients like Nederlandse Spoorwegen (the Dutch Railway Company), SONY, Microsoft, Nestlé, AEGON Bank, BMW Nederland and LG Electronics. After working in the Netherlands he moved back to Aruba where he worked for a local advertising agency as an account manager. In 2010 Curtney co-founded A&HCG where he is the director. 
 

Amrish Tyagi - Head of SCL India

Amrish Tyagi was educated at Delhi University, where he received a master degree in Mass Communication. He has more than 10 years of experience in different Private Organization’s as well as participated as volunteers for various non-profitable entities. The experience and knowledge he gained throughout his career combined with his drive and entrepreneurial spirit led him to develop his own company.

The operation began with the establishment of Span House Customer Service Pvt. Ltd in 2006. He is the founder & MD of Span House Customer Service Pvt. Ltd (dealing in various Nationalized and commercial Banks) which stands for trust, interdependence, genuineness, risk and success now has flourished into a successful corporation with a head office in one of Metropolitan city Noida and 5 branch locations employing over 200 professionals. In 2006, he also acquired Wings Communication (P) Ltd, which was later established as OBI. Ovleno Business Intelligence (P) Ltd was started in 2010 with the objective of serving political and commercial sector.

He is attached with many well Known Educational Institutions like Dia Shiksha Group of Institutions and played a vital role in enhancement of level of Education System.

Avneesh Kumar Rai - Managing Director

A K Rai is a MBA (System) from symbiosis Pune. After completion of his education, he started working as a management trainee with Hindustan lever Ltd Mumbai in 1988 and left HLL in 1993 as a RM (Logistic) western region. After that he started IT Company known as Cyber soft Systems Corporation in 1994. From beginning, this company has been closely monitoring technology as well as business trends in Indian industry considering typical needs and mentality of Indian users, by constantly harnessing and marshalling the Prototype applications using emerging technologies. He is the co-founder of OBI (P) LTD and act as an advisor for many political leaders and Government officials in India through his political resource planning and management system services.

Richa Kumari - Head of Operations

Richa Sinha is a business management professional with dual specialization in Competitive Intelligence & Corporate warfare and in marketing. She is specialized in CI research and analysis and has experience of managing many parliamentary and assembly election. She is primarily engaged in threat analysis and involve in comparative research of different political leaders and parties. She has an in depth knowledge of political and social behavior of people and is involved in trend analysis of previous elections. She forecasts and analyzes the moves of different parties and thus helps the clients in formulation of counter strategy.

Dhwabubdra Kumar Tripathi - Head of Systems

D.K.Tripathi has done a master degree in computer science and bachelor degree in Mathematics. He has also done advance diploma course in computer applications from electronic department of Government of India. He is primarily responsible for data administration and management with the use of political Resource Planning and Management System software. Having more than 5 year of experience in various software and mobile application. He also takes care for smooth functioning of entire political application and in charge of System Control Center.

Naushad Ahmed - Head Statisticians

Naushad Ahmed has done a master degree in computer science and bachelor degree in Mathematics. He has more than 5 year of experience in political software management and statistics. He is primarily responsible for data analysis and interpretation with the use of political Resource Planning and Management System software. He designed and conducted various surveys and experiments and interpreted their results in many elections with the help of his mathematical, statistical and political knowledge. He also has experience in determining various sampling techniques and the type and size of the sample group. He has designed many Opinion polls, statements for different assembly and General election.

Ramya Tewari - Head, Field Research

Ramya has done MBA with major in International Business and minor in Human Resource. She has also done M.Phil in Business Management. Her two Research Papers “Acquisition and retention of employees in the retail industry” and “Bank finance to women entrepreneurs” were published in the International Research Conference at DY Patil University. She has also Visited Singapore for an exchange program for duration of three months. She is specialized in field research and data collection techniques. She has helped in designing various instruments to aid in the process of data collection.
 

Rajeev Singh - Head, Corporate Surveillance

Rajeev Singh has deep experience in data mining, e Business applications and heuristics for non-linear optimization. His industry experience has primarily been in the area of semiconductors, retail and mining and pharmaceuticals. He holds a graduate degree from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from Columbia University, New York. He is heading Corporate Affair and Product Surveillance department of OBI (P) Ltd.

Dr. Khaled Al Awamleh - Head of SCL Jordan

Dr. Khaled Al Awamleh is the current Board Chairman of the Visions Center for Strategic and Development Studies in Jordan. He has acquired both his B.A in History and B.A in Political Sciences from the University of Michigan, both with high Distinction, and enrolled in the Cairo University to be granted an M.A degree in Comparative Politics with high Distinction and a Ph.D in International Relations by the year 2005. Besides his vast theoretical knowledge, Dr. Khaled has experience in the field of applied social and political sciences, worked on programs on religious and cultural diversity and has profound experience in strategic planning through long term experience in the field. In addition, Dr. Khaled has worked as a Cultural and Political consultant for the Provincial Reconstruction Team, as Executive Director at A&W Associates, and as Human Resource manager at the US Census Bureau in the Department of Commerce.

Sophie de Laboulaye - Head of SCL Kenya

As SCL’s Head of Kenya, Sophie McCallum is a local area specialist and controls the internal logistics of in-country projects. Before joining SCL, Sophie worked in the risk management sector at Aegis in London, initially as an analyst and thereafter shifting her focus to business development. Prior to this, she worked in the development sector in both Lebanon and Kenya as a communication manager. She specialises in security issues and has previously advised European and French think tanks on such topics. She holds a BA in History from Sorbonne University and an MA in War Studies from King's College London. 

Darius Antanaitis - Head of SCL Lithuania

Darius Antanaitis is the head of SCL operations in Lithuania. Darius has toured Iraq as an Information Operations Officer of the UK (InfoOps). His role included persuading Iraqis to support UK troops and to conduct deception operations in order to decrease number of casualties of British troops and to discredit high command of Iraqi insurgents.

Between August 1996 and March 2008 Darius was a platoon commander in the Lithuanian Army, which required him to plan, command, conduct and control the training of 130 soldiers as well as to plan and execute logistical support for the Company.

Darius has a BA in Military Science from Lietuvos Karo Akademija, Military Academy of Lithuania.

Octavian Mitu - Head of SCL Romania

Dr. Octavian Mitu is the head of SCL operations in Romania. He has extensive experience in political communications, founding Zig Zag Magazin (1990-1995), one of Romanian’s most popular political publications. From 2000 to 2004 he was elected Member of Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of Romania and served as political counsellor at the Embassy of Romania in Washington, DC. In 2009, he founded his own company, Premier Strategist Inc., a marketing consulting firm located in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. Mitu has a Ph.D. in military science from National Defense University of Romania and an Executive MBA from University of Maryland University College.

Radu Magdin - Operation Manager

Radu Magdin is an analyst and consultant dealing with communications, public affairs and business intelligence. He worked in politics, media and civil service until he realized he is a "private sector man". He is passionate about politics, energy and technology. He was a diplomat and journalist in Romania, and then went on to work at the European Parliament in Brussels, where he did media relations and campaigning for the 2007 and 2009 Romanian and European elections. Starting mid 2010 he did transnational media relations for the European media network EurActiv, and then managed Google's public affairs strategy for the European Parliament. He likes to work and travel in between Bucharest, Brussels and London, since this offers him a complete European Union perspective: national, legislative and financial. He is fascinated by politics in Africa and the BRIC countries and is news addict.

Ludwig Petre - Director of Digital

Nigel Oakes - Head of SCL UAE

Nigel Oakes was educated at Eton College and later established the Behavioural Dynamics Working Group at UCL, dedicated to the psychology of influence. In 1982 he joined Monte Carlo TV as a producer and in 1985 became the Head of International Production. Two years later, Nigel joined Saatchi and Saatchi as a Senior Producer. In 1989, he established the Behavioural Dynamics Working Group at University College London and in 1990 the Behavioural Dynamics Institute (BDi) was formed as a centre of excellence and a research facility for strategic communication. In 1993 Nigel set up Strategic Communication Laboratories and using the new communication methodology from BDi, ran election campaigns and national communication campaigns for a broad variety of international governments. Published clients include South Africa, USA, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Antigua, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Grenada, Nepal, Pakistan and Switzerland.

Nat Slater - Operations Manager

Nat joined SCL’s Defence team in March 2012, having recently qualified as a solicitor from Olswang LLP, an international law firm. Prior to training as a lawyer he worked in London and Beirut for the Next Century Foundation, a charitable organisation specialising in conflict resolution and second-track diplomacy. Nat’s particular focus within SCL Defence is on Middle Eastern political and security issues.

Natasha Mayer - Director of Public Relations

Natasha comes to SCL with a broad range of media, strategic communications and public relations experience. As a news producer for Voice of America, she was instrumental in the launch of the first U.S. Government television broadcast into Pakistan. She was a producer for Fox News Channel where she worked on various programs developing stories appealing to the Fox News audience. Among her international projects was the management of Zagros TV in Iraq and Wattan TV in the West Bank. In the U.S, she has worked on numerous campaigns and projects as a senior communications consultant and is the author of a weekly political column. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Film and Television production.