Our Mission
Based in London and the UAE, Zenobia Intelligence provides insight and actionable intelligence to clients — primarily on the Middle East and North Africa. We have more than 45 years' experience between us working for law firms, corporates, international organisations, and private individuals on projects ranging from asset traces and intelligence for asset recovery, to due diligence, investigations for litigation, strategic intelligence, and political risk. Having worked in a number of the world's leading investigations firms in London, Dubai, and New York, we adhere to the strictest standards of ethics, the law, data protection, and conflicts. Further, we are committed always to evidentiary rigour, responsiveness, communication, and cost-effectiveness in every project we undertake.
Martin Stone
Partner
Martin has more than 30 years’ experience of the intelligence and risk assessment sector.
He has worked on and managed a very large number of asset trace, due diligence, litigation support, political risk and strategic intelligence cases for corporates, law firms and individuals based in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Japan and South Africa.
Martin obtained a master’s degree in Arabic with Turkish at Edinburgh University before spending three years working in Egypt. He then spent ten years focusing on political and security risk assessment for a UK-based leading risk consultancy.
Later, he spent four years working in the same area for a London insurance broking firm before heading a British due diligence, asset searching and investigations firm’s Middle East work in London and Dubai. This was followed by eight years leading a US-based consultancy’s EMEA operations in London and Dubai focusing on work for law firms, corporates and the financial sector.
Rana Feghali
Partner
For more than 16 years, Rana has provided strategic advice, intelligence and investigative services to corporations, law firms, financial institutions, high net worth individuals and government entities.
Now based in the UAE, she has extensive experience of conducting multi-jurisdictional litigation support matters, asset traces and complex due diligence investigations across the Middle East and Africa.
Rana draws on her experience and fluency in Arabic and French to assist clients with understanding the local business environment. She has also spoken on the risks of doing business in the Middle East at international conferences.
Rana began her career as a journalist at Arab newspapers in Lebanon and the UK, notably Asharq Alawsat. She undertook research on business and political developments in Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf region.
Rana is a graduate of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.