Built by
practitioners.
Accountable
in public.
The Strategic Intelligence Solutions Group (SISG) is a boutique advisory firm specialising in strategic intelligence, political and security risk, compliance, and commercial intelligence for clients operating across complex, high-stakes, and rapidly evolving environments, from competitive emerging markets to the most demanding operating conditions in the world.
Founded by practitioners with over two decades of combined experience across the MENA region and the Sahel, SISG bridges the gap between ground reality and high-level strategic counsel.
A network built
under pressure.
Our founding team has operated at the sharp end of decision-making in some of the most demanding environments in the world, across commercial, governmental, humanitarian, and security domains. That experience runs from the field to the boardroom, and it is the foundation of how we read a situation and carry it to a decision.
What sets SISG apart is not only what its founders have done. It is the network built doing it.
Across decades of engagement, we have cultivated a practitioner network of senior specialists that most firms spend years trying to assemble. These are relationships forged under pressure, with people whose judgement has been tested in the exact environments where our clients must succeed. That network is operational from day one.
SISG is headquartered in Madrid, with operational reach across the MENA region and the Sahel, extended through our associate network.
Two partners.
Neither from one discipline.
Neither answers a question from inside one discipline, which is why the firm can take a mandate that does not sit inside one either.
Zein Sourany has worked the same problem from four sides: in state service, in multilateral coordination, in humanitarian operations, and now commercially.
He held regional responsibility across Libya, Algeria and Western Sahara, building the risk frameworks three country programmes ran on, and negotiated access directly with armed groups, tribal authorities and officials. Before that he was principal liaison in a contested sector of southern Lebanon, coordinating movement between actors who agreed on little else.
Master’s in international relations, doctoral candidate. Certified trainer in international humanitarian law, in civil-military coordination and in negotiation. That field record is now method: who actually holds the power to grant access and to deliver is the question underneath most entry and crisis mandates, and it is rarely the party named in the file. Arabic native, French fluent. Madrid.
Complex mandates rarely fail on information. They fail on a wrong reading of who can actually deliver.
View LinkedIn profile →Two decades in state service at principal level, commanding protective and protocol operations for a head of state. He now heads an institutional assessment function, turning compliance from a paper exercise into an early warning system.
He holds a doctorate in international relations, a master’s in security studies and criminal law, and an MBA. He lectures on international economic sanctions, modern conflict, leadership, strategic management and corporate governance.
Certified trainer in international humanitarian law, in human rights and in anti-corruption. His current focus extends into cybersecurity and the integration of artificial intelligence within strategic intelligence, the same seam SISG works from with Resolyn. Arabic native, English proficient, French advanced. Beirut.
He trains others to interrogate their own assumptions first. On a mandate, that discipline turns outward, toward the client’s.
What usually takes
three firms.
SISG combines in one firm what intelligence, consulting, and compliance providers each deliver in part. Our model, and the method behind it, is set out in full.
Our Model
