Jake Stratton

Partner

  • EMEA

Jake is a Partner based in London. As Global Account Director for some of our largest and most longstanding clients across Europe, he works across a range of sectors including mining, defence, construction and aviation.

Jake brings a wealth of experience from over three decades in the field. Over the course of his career, he has helped organisations navigate a vast range of challenges and built an impressive track record of subject matter expertise, sound judgement and discretion. Jake has lived and breathed the values of Control Risks since it was a company of  fewer than 100 people, building longstanding partnerships with clients who entrust him with complex and sensitive engagements.

Clients reach out to Jake to leverage Control Risks’ global resources and expertise to their best advantage. An experienced and trusted advisor, he creates innovative, customised solutions that involve the full range of Control Risks’ capabilities across geopolitical risk, business intelligence and security.

Recent engagements include:

  • Advising an oil major seeking to operate in high-risk countries for the first time. Jake developed a programme of support enabling them to identify new opportunities, run diligence on potential counterparties, strengthen compliance programmes, devise security plans, and access in-country security support
  • Working with a major industrials group, amid increasing geopolitical instability. Jake implemented a solution that combines access to our risk intelligence platform and our 24/7 Global Risks Operations Centre (GROC), alongside a retainer that provides for regular scenario-based forecasting

  • Jake has represented Control Risks across a number of different forums. This has seen him set up Control Risks’ business in India, visit North Korea as part of the UK’s first  business mission to the country, give testimony to the UK House of Lords Foreign Affairs Select Committee, and front our annual Riskmap campaign. Jake joined Control Risks as a graduate, having majored in Mandarin at Cambridge University.

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