Investigations & Intelligence
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From covert ops to boardroom decisions - trusted, discreet, strategic

As a former Scotland Yard Detective, Neil brings authentic, demonstrable expertise from leading elite serious and organised crime teams. His career has focused on managing intelligence-led investigations and covert operations involving critical risk across hostile, high-pressure, and culturally diverse jurisdictions.

Combined with global corporate investigative experience, Neil offers a rare blend of operational precision and strategic insight. He excels in developing and directing highly sensitive intelligence and risk-led projects with calm authority, from conception to conclusion, always delivered with discretion, impartiality, and analytical rigour.

Neil’s leadership and integrity continue to set the standard for ethical delivery to Sportective’s international clients.

Interviewing Expertise & Human Intelligence

Neil is an expert interviewing practitioner with significant lived experience conducting face-to-face dialogue across a wide array of scenarios, including fact-finding, intelligence debriefs, witness testimony, and character references.

His refined interpersonal skills help build trust, develop relationships, and negotiate sensitive dynamics, ensuring key information is elicited with tact, neutrality, and discretion.

Reputation in Professional Football

Neil has earned a growing reputation within elite football circles, delivering specialist advisory support on due diligence, intelligence acquisition, and risk analysis processes that inform player and coach recruitment.

He has led global corporate investigations for:

• FTSE 100 companies

• Leading international law firms

• Family offices & high-net-worth individuals

• International Governments & sovereign entities

• Start-up business, venture capital and wealth management groups

Industry Recognition & Thought Leadership

Neil is regularly invited as a guest speaker and subject matter expert on industry-leading football education programmes with the English and Scottish FAs, UEFA, and institutions such as the Real Madrid Graduate School.

He also presents at industry seminars and workshops hosted by Impect, Training Ground Guru, and Premier League scouting networks.

His contributions have appeared in respected publications including:

• The i Newspaper

• L’Équipe

• Training Ground Guru

• Off the Pitch

• The Athletic

• The New York Times

The SportectiveTeam

Global Expertise. Discreet Intelligence. Trusted Delivery

The Sportective team comprises highly experienced investigative and intelligence practitioners, and speciailist industry consultants, each with distinct backgrounds in elite law enforcement, government agencies, military intelligence, and corporate / sporting environments. Our consultants have operated in high-performing units at the forefront of risk, strategy, and international security.

Approaching each case from a wholly independent and impartial standpoint, we apply rigorous scrutiny and exceptional attention to detail, producing in-depth reporting that delivers expertise and a comprehensive understanding of complex scenarios.

Our team is reinforced by a bespoke global network of trusted, in-country operatives, carefully selected for their local knowledge, cultural intelligence, and investigative experience. This fusion of central oversight and local precision allows Sportective to operate with discretion and impact anywhere in the world.

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