Nicholas Bennett Email & Phone Number

Dubai, AE

Eastern Europe

Somalia

Libya

• GardaWorld provides risk management and logistics services to companies, governments and NGOs in some of the World’s most hostile environments. PE backed, it has a t/o of $4bn and more than 130,000 people. It’s growth.
• Won back a commercial performance of an industry leading EBITDA on a $25m t/o, a 140% improvement; and grew the company (including its contracted allies, including in the Libyan security establishment).
• Successfully managed the reputational turnaround necessitated by a previous failure with a high profile diplomatic client.
• Solved a potentially business ending moral crisis caused by these previous events, threating to destroy the local team with its knowledge and relationships, using my instinctive leadership skills to win trust.
• Managed the many moral hazards working in Libya posed, any one of which could have ended relationships with our international clientele and tarnished our global reputation, maintaining a long-term growth and.
• Engineered an inventive solution meeting the very specific security needs of an engineering and construction company, meeting legal obstacles to armed protection by sub-contracting a neglected Libyan specialist police.

• With its huge oil reserves, tourism potential and relative political stability, the KRI provided a huge opportunity for GardaWorld. The region was subsequently hit by the 2014 oil price crash and the ISIS rebellion. I.
• Rapidly established, after extensive engagement with local political stakeholders, local partner allies and potential clients, a fast growth strategy, using the near complete autonomy I was gifted by the management.
• Negotiated and operated risk management and logistics contracts with the oil and gas super majors (including BP, Chevron and TAQA), the British and American Governments, the World Bank, numerous infrastructure service.
• In addition to the core energy companies, NGO and diplomatic clientele, built an ever deeper relationship with the US Department of State, including the security solution for the 6 year build of the newest American.
• Successfully managed the commercial operations of the business in an environment weak on legal norms and enforcement, including contract negotiation and delivery, dispute resolutions, quality control, fleet management.
• Radically adjusted the firm’s strategy and operations due to the near simultaneous oil price crash in 2014 and the eruption of ISIS.

Libya

• Aegis Defence Services was a British risk management and security company with offices in Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Somalia and Mozambique. With Colonel Gaddafi deposed, the.
• Grew from zero a business with an EBITDA of 25% and a staff (local and expat) of 90.
• Led and delivered a comprehensive on-the-ground survey of Libya its post-revolutionary threats and opportunities, providing BP, Shell and others with critical decision support analysis needed to plan their market.
• Established relationships with the post-revolutionary defacto power brokers in the country, ensuring goodwill and establishing pathways to ensure compliance with all known laws.
• Gradually grew the key elements of the Libyan business, its unrivalled market leadership as a provider of risk management.
• Developed risk management products and services in dialogue with potential clients leading to rapid expansion, including winning deals with Occidental, BP, Shell, numerous Governments and NGOs.

Iraq

Civil contingency planning in Libya

For the Royal Green Jackets and The Rifles. Mentor to the Afghan National Army.

2:1 Ba (Hons), Business

Education record