Christina See - Managing Director

Christina See has been Managing Director at See Intelligence since January, 2017 and is based in the UK. She previously worked for 5 years at Ecorys and was Head of Lead Generation and Corporate Location for the Foreign Direct Investment Business Unit. Christina was involved in a number of inward and foreign direct investment projects to match EDAs with relevant international investors looking to expand. She has also worked on a number of sector-based research reports and is currently project managing the joint report and series of monthly online and offline events with Forglobal called ‘Spotlight on Urban Tech in Europe’ urbantech.world

With 18 years of experience, prior to See Intelligence, Christina has also worked for Datamonitor (now part of Informa) and the Economist Intelligence Unit, Economist Corporate Network and Economist Conferences (all part of the Economist Group). She has organized events including conferences, seminars and roundtables between government officials and business leaders within EMEA as well as trade missions. She has also project managed meetings programmes at trade events and for government missions, as well as lead generation and appointment setting projects. Christina has extensive experience across a number of different industry sectors and geographies, particularly in North and Central America, EMEA, China and Australia.

Key skills include: FDI and inward investment; project and event management; lead generation; new business development; strategy; sector report writing; analysis and research. A native English speaker, Christina is also fluent in French, German and Russian.

Clients she has worked for include both government and corporate entities such as: Columbus 2020; Jobs Ohio; US Virgin Islands; Washington State; St John port (Canada), NRW Invest (Germany), Government of South Australia, Government of Shenzhen; Hong Kong Economic Trade office; London and Partners; Innovation Quarter (Netherlands); Brabant Region (Netherlands); Leeds and Partners; Invest Northern Ireland; Locate Jersey; Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce; London Chamber of Commerce; JadeWeser Port (Germany); Helsinki Business Hub; Invest Bavaria (Germany); Hautes de Seine (France); Invest in Toulouse (France); CFLD International; Bosch; Rolls Royce; Cambridge Science park etc. She has strong connections with businesses across the world.

Nicola Pinder - Senior FDI and Trade Consultant and Creative Industry Specialist

Nicola is a dedicated and passionate International Business Expansion and Investment Specialist with twenty years’ proven track record in the design, implementation and delivery of trade support and investment promotion campaigns on behalf of government and public-private partnerships.  She has lived and worked in Germany three times and has been permanently located in Berlin since 2014. With her FDI and trade knowledge as well as extensive experience in Creative Content Production, Tech and Startups Nicola acts as senior consultant for See Intelligence, but also runs her own company Creatives Loop an award-winning international media consultancy. 

In 2018 she was appointed interim Chief Representative of London & Partners Germany, where she worked with the Mayor’s International Promotion Agency for trade and Investment in London to open two local offices, located in Berlin and Munich and build a locally based team in market. In June 2019, a permanent Chief representative was appointed, and Nicola was retained as Principal Advisor for Germany. She works with the team one day per week. During the course of her work for London & Partners, she has  worked across Urban (including mobility, real estate, smart cities), FSBT (including Fintech, Insurtech and Business Services), Creative (including Immersive technologies, Gaming, Film & TV, Fashtech, Publishing), ILS (Innovation and Lifesciences).

Examples of Trade Promotion activities: • Trade matchmaking events and general export promotion • Collective trade fair participation including matchmaking and tailored programmes outside the fair • Sector specific trade missions and export promotion campaigns • Governmental and administrative delegations with business development and company matchmaking; Organisation and delivery of over 200 outward trade delegations including market exploration visits, sales development missions and representation at international exhibitions. A proportion of these visits have been ministerial-led or had Political accompaniment. • Developing cluster and sector network co-operations with Germany and Europe • Trade promotion desks: German or European trade promotion office representation • Designing and delivering integrated projects in trade and investment promotion • Seminars and workshops on Germany and Europe in your home country • Strategic advice on effective export promotion targeting Germany and Europe • Integrated approach to Location marketing including Education, Tourism, Culture, Sport, Business and Leisure.

Examples of International Investment Promotion Activities: 
• Strategy development: definition of the ULP (Unique Local Proposition) and a marketing approach tailored to the client's needs • Generation of leads, projects investment opportunities (already actively working for two clients on implementation of post-Brexit investment strategies) • Marketing

A native English Speaker, Nicola is based in Berlin and also speaks German and French.

Oliver Jones - Lead FDI Consultant

Oliver acts as lead FDI consultant for See Intelligence Ltd. He assists with introducing companies to prospective investment locations and unlocking new markets. He is responsible for liaising with the company’s external analysts’ network regarding the production of leads and for liaising with clients regarding their information requirements.  His main focus is on:

- Lead Generation both annual and event targeted and has detailed knowledge and experience of attracting FDI leads to both established and challenging markets.
- Events including full production of, and attending on behalf of client development agencies
- Business Development
- Bespoke research and data
- Recruiting and managing the external analyst and subcontractor network

Oliver previously worked for Oxford Intelligence, a consultancy focused on corporate location and foreign direct investment (FDI). He supported the company’s Head of Lead Generation and Corporation Location in delivering service to clients. He has a number or years’ experience in FDI and corporate location as well as project management, working on global projects mainly in North and Central America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Australia.

Farzana Mistry - Senior Data Analyst

Farzana works as Senior Data Analyst for See Intelligence Ltd and is responsible to collecting, collating and managing company and market data. She has extensive experience as a data analyst and systems developer. Prior to See Intelligence Ltd she worked for the Lead Generation team of Oxford Intelligence, assisting with data gathering, verification and quality control. In her role for Buck Consultants, she used financial and statistical modelling to evaluate financial risks and prepared standard reports. As an implementation analyst at Puntersouthall & Co, she was responsible for delivering calculations, maintaining applications and manipulating and cleaning data. Farzana has a degree in Mathematics and Economics and an MA in Economics from the University of Lancaster. She also possesses strong IT and analytical skills, vital to ensuring the quality of information used by our analysts and presented to our clients. She also speaks some basic Spanish.

Dave Jackson - Technical and Database Support

Dave Jackson is technical and database support consultant for See Intelligence. A software development professional and manager with over 30 years experience in management of full-stack software development grounded in military spec software and systems he specialises in creating software, managing teams, projects, contracts and finances to deliver the very best software and integrating whether it is desktop software, web systems and databases, or services to integrate them all.

Dave also runs and manages his own software development and web hosting company Cosmosoft and can get people up and running on the web in as little as 30 minutes. He uses all the latest web technologies including C#, ASP.Net Core (3.x), PHP, Javascript and JQuery as well as HTML and CSS. He can also host and manage your WordPress website and was an integral part of See Intelligence and Forglobal's urbantech.world project website. Using the latest web frameworks to give your site a great look and feel, he uses industry leading databases from Microsoft and MySql.

David Kane - Financial Services and Operations Expert

David has more than 20 years experience in the Financial Services Sector and most recently helped to develop Financial Services Operations at the heart of the UK Government's inward investment growth strategy. He was engaged by UK Trade &Investment (now the Department for International Trade) over a two year period to deliver a significant increase in investment wins in the financial services operations sector and to develop and promote the UK's regional financial services offer. 

Since David's engagement, the UK government has had a record year of inward investment wins. David also successfully delivered and hosted a programme of eight financial services events across the UK regions, culminating in a high profile conference at the prestigious Lancaster House supported by numerous senior cabinet ministers and leaders from the financial services industry in the UK to ensure that the financial services operational offer in the UK is clearly defined and well promoted globally.

Mikhail Masokin - Energy, Renewables and Strategy Expert

A graduate of LSE, Mikhail is a business consultant with 15+ years’ experience in high-profile Strategy, Commercial Due Diligence and Business Transformation projects. Opportunity screening and investment case are among the key areas of focus.

Mikhail has broad industry expertise with deep specialisations in Oil & Gas; Renewables; Manufacturing; Engineering; Energy & Utilities; and Media & Telecoms. He has over 10 years with blue-chip consulting firms, including L.E.K. Consulting, Capgemini Consulting and OC&C Strategy. UK-based, with vast international exposure (Europe, Middle East, US, SE Asia, Central Asia). He is a native Russian speaker, fluent in English and Italian. Mikhail also has four publications to his name:

• Smart Meters: Best Practice Implementation
• Renewable Electricity Trading
• Roll-Out of Non-Residential Smart Meters in the UK
• The Future of Cogeneration in Europe

Peter Lindsay - Logistics and Global Supply Chain Expert

Educated at Charterhouse School and Brunel University, Peter is an experienced international trade adviser, with particular expertise in B2G and long / complex sales cycles. 

As a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Peter has established commercial operations in developing / transitional countries, preparing and disseminating information to facilitate trade and encourage foreign investment.

Whilst with steel fabricators the Mabey Group, Peter was responsible for the former Soviet Union, Indian Sub-continent, plus several SE Asian and European countries. He was a Senior Manager in the Overseas Revenue Consulting Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He spent over 15 years in the independent inspection and testing industry, designing and implementing pre-shipment inspection programs for governments.

He works closely with DIT and DFID, leading various outbound and inbound trade missions. Peter currently chairs the DIT supported "Central Asia & Trans-Caucasus Business Information Group" (CATBIG), ensuring active involvement of all delegates. He also offers ad hoc support / market intelligence to various DIT International Trade Advisers.

In addition to extensive overseas travels, Peter has lived and worked in Switzerland, Taiwan, Zambia, the former Soviet Union, Russia and central Asia. A native English speaker, he also speaks Russian and French.

Soren Sarstrup - Automotive Industry Partner

Soren has spent most of his career working in the automotive intelligence industry. As founder and Managing Editor of Autelligence Ltd,  www.autelligence.com he contributes extensive editorial and publishing experience, a global network of contacts on both the OEM and supplier side, in-depth understanding of the industry and the markets it operates in, hands-on sales and marketing experience, and, last but not least, a long-standing passion for all things automotive. A native Danish speaker, he is also fluent in English and German.

Dr Akanimo Odon - Africa Expert

Dr Akanimo Odon is the CEO of Envirofly Consulting UK Limited and an international sustainable business strategy & development expert for Africa with working liaisons in over 30 African countries in a wide range of sectors. In the UK, he has been an Adviser to the British Government on developing international education policies under the National Student Forum; Education Consultant for British Council; Business Development Consultant for the Grow Creative Scheme under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), City and Guilds UK, BG Group and Africa Business Adviser to Lancaster University, Aberystwyth University, University of London and a host of others. He holds a PhD in Environmental Management from Lancaster University, UK and enterprise fellowships from Cambridge University UK & Stanford University USA. In Africa, he has been Consultant for the National Centre for Energy and Environment under the Presidency, Nigeria; Technical Adviser for Lagos State Government; Research Fellow of the African Centre for Technological Studies, Kenya; Adviser for Africa Centre for Energy Policy in Ghana; Consultant for Trust Africa Senegal; Consultant/Adviser to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Tanzania, the African Development Bank, the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, the National Economic Empowerment Council Tanzania under the Prime Minister’s Office, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) and a visiting professor to Strathmore University Kenya. Dr. Odon has organized, facilitated and spoken at over 100 Africa-focused international workshops and conferences; liaised and collaborated with government, industries and academia in over 30 African countries; developed over 100 strategic commercial partnerships between UK and African organizations; facilitated and supported the setting up of over 30 African-focused SMEs. He is also a multi-award winning film producer, author and poet.

Oksana Shirko - Market Entry Support in Russia

Oksana is the executive director of Horizon International LLC based in Moscow.  horizoninternational.ru Her area of expertise is helping European companies to enter the Russian market. Horizon International provides comprehensive services to facilitate and accelerate the international expansion of your business, including market analysis, search for customers and business partners in Russia, design and application of highly efficient online and offline marketing tools, organization of marketing and promotion events, complete business support of your company in Russia.

Selena Chavis - Senior FDI Research Analyst

Selena Chavis is a skilled contract professional with more than 25 years as a writer, business strategist, industry analyst and research professional. She has worked with multiple international research companies specializing in foreign direct investment strategies and economic development and participated in the developing of leading industry reports covering such verticals as biotechnology, software, food and beverage, software, renewable energy and manufacturing. She has worked on lead generation projects for countries across North America, Western Europe, Asia, Latin American and Africa, covering a wide variety of industry sectors.