Hakluyt & Company

Hakluyt & Company is a British strategic advisory firm. The company is headquartered in London and has subsidiary offices in New York, Dallas, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Singapore, Mumbai, and Sydney.[1]

Hakluyt & Company Limited
Private limited company
IndustryManagement consultancy
Founded1995 (1995)
FoundersChristopher James, Mike Reynolds
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
Key people
Varun Chandra, Managing Partner
Paul Deighton, Chairman
Revenue£59.1 million (2018)
£12.1 million (2018)
Websitehakluytandco.com

Hakluyt avoids publicity, but is regarded as having a reputation for discretion and effectiveness among its client base.[2] Hakluyt was founded by former officials of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).[3][4] It attracted controversy in 2001 when Hakluyt was alleged in the Sunday Times to have employed staff to infiltrate environmental groups when working for BP and Royal Dutch Shell.[5][6]

The firm is chaired by Paul Deighton, and the other members of the board include managing partner Varun Chandra, Les Fagen, and Jean Tomlin.[7]

Corporate governance

Hakluyt's international advisory board comprises senior figures with backgrounds in business and government. It is chaired by Niall FitzGerald, KBE, former CEO and chairman of Unilever, and its current members are:[8]

Australian High Commissioner to the UK Alexander Downer had been on the advisory board of the firm from 2008-2014.[9]

gollark: Anyway, we hit *those* limits ages ago, so we achieve our high clocks by extending the processors out into arbitrarily many orthogonal dimensions, ignoring the "speed of light", and patterning the logic gates directly onto underlying physical laws.
gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_single_flux_quantum
gollark: Clock speeds are constrained mostly by CMOS processes as far as I know, lightspeed issues are secondary.
gollark: What? Superconducting logic circuits can easily hit tens of GHz.
gollark: Well, it or the newer models.

References
  1. "Hakluyt & Company Limited". Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  2. "From guard dogs and fences to business intelligence". Financial Times. 27 June 2007. Retrieved 2011-03-15.
  3. Sharon Lafraniere, John F. Burns (11 April 2012). "Briton's Wanderings Led Him to Heart of a Chinese Scandal". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  4. Stephen Robinson (30 March 2012). "MI6, a death in China and the very secretive Mayfair company full of spooks". Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  5. Chittenden, Maurice; Rufford, Nicholas. "MI6 'Firm' Spied on Green Groups". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 27 June 2001. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  6. "UK worry over Aussie spy link". NewsComAu. 2016-01-18. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  7. "Hakluyt & Company Limited". Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  8. "Hakluyt & Company Limited". Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  9. "UK worry over Aussie spy link". NewsComAu. 2016-01-18. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
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