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Mission: to provide a communications bridge that delivers tangible connections

Gulf Intelligence connects minds through knowledge and people through handshakes.


Gulf Intelligence gets you closer, faster!

  • Gulf Intelligence is the first communications firm in the region to be founded by an international journalist who led news coverage of the Middle East for a global media company. (You Tube – search Sean Evers, Bloomberg)
  • The Dubai-based firm will mobilize its expertise & relationships from across the Middle East garnered from 15 years in the Arab world to ensure its clients are positioned to compete for the many opportunities in the oil-rich landscape.
  • Gulf Intelligence is the market pioneer in strategic corporate communications within the Gulf region boasting an impeccable record of facilitating knowledge exchange between Middle East companies, government entities and stakeholders.

Founder - Sean Killian Evers

In 2009, Sean Evers became Managing Partner and Founder of Gulf Intelligence. He attained a BA from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 1988, and went on to secure his law degree at Ireland’s University College Galway. Sean has spent his career building ground-breaking media enterprises, starting with the award winning Punchbag Productions across Britain and Ireland, securing top award at the 1992 Edinburgh Festival. In the mid-1990s Sean Evers was appointed Cairo correspondent for The Financial Times. In 1997 he joined Bloomberg in Dubai and over the following decade built the U.S. media company’s Middle East network from Cairo to Tehran, culminating in 2008 in Dubai being designated as the firm’s fourth global hub. Sean founded Gulf Intelligence in 2009.

Strategy: Unlock Dormant Intelligence

Gulf Intelligence will unlock dormant intelligence inside companies and government entities to create knowledge centers that will better position clients to communicate with stakeholders and compete with competitors.

Knowledge Centers - Thought Leadership

Knowledge Centers deliver Thought Leadership which will elevate a firm’s status amongst its stakeholders, while also demonstrating the firm’s responsibility to the wider community and in so doing promote the intellectual capacity of its staff.

Knowledge Center: Pillars

  • Media -- commentary/ OpEds/ Industry Analysis                        
  • Website -- Knowledge reservoir
  • Online Strategy – FAQs/YouTube/Facebook
  • Publishing -- Quarterly & Annual catalogues
  • Intelligence & Networking Events

MEDIA: Real-Time Commentary

Click to enlarge The media industry, from news agencies to newspapers and blogs, are now publishing instantaneously in bite-size pieces of news on all sorts of formats such as on twitter and on facebook. In this new digital era journalists quite often compromise accuracy for speed and as a result reputations can be damaged very quickly.
 
Gulf Intelligence offers a solution to convert this great real-time challenge into an unprecedented opportunity.

Media: Writing

Gulf Intelligence will work with clients to develop ideas for Opinion Editorials & Analysis, letters-to-the-editor and industry reviews, acting as editor on the drafting. It will place the articles in suitable publications on pre-arranged schedule – monthly/quarterly.

Writing: Op-Ed/ Letter to the Editor/ Reviews

  • Opinion Editorials -- demonstrate a client’s maturity by taking a stance on a given topic and establishes the firm as an opinion leader in its industry.
  • Letters-to-the-Editor -- show a client is up to date and aware of media output and is sufficiently confident to take issue with, or if appropriate to praise, coverage concerning its market and region.
  • Technical Reviews – allow a client to demonstrate its technical expertise by examining specific developments, and to play a leadership role amongst its peers in pointing to what direction the asset class may move.

Events: Intelligence & Networking Events

Gulf Intelligence is the market pioneer in strategic corporate communications within the Gulf region boasting an impeccable record of facilitating knowledge exchange between Middle East companies, government entities and stakeholders.

  • CEO roundtable dinners for clients -- arrange a dozen valued guests to attend and a GI principal will moderate the discussion.
  • Industry Forums --where a featured guest or panel will be interviewed by a GI principal in front of an invited audience of clients and prospects, who will in turn join the conversation through a Q & A session.
  • Business networking lunches and meet & greet meetings – for clients – arrange intimate gatherings to facilitate introductions that strive to bolster opportunities for transactions.
  • Intelligence Briefings – Gulf Intelligence principals and associates will be available for two hour sessions to provide clients and visiting investors with an insight to the commercial and political trends in the region.    

Global Experience & Relationship

Founder Sean Evers has the experience and relationships to produce valuable intelligence events across the world. He received the attached letter from the OPEC Secretary General after producing and moderating a forum in London with Mr. El Badri as the featured guest.

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Last Update: 04/12/2011