Predictive Financial News
Capitol Intelligence Group (www.capitolintelgroup.com) provides predictive financial intelligence facilitating deal completion in the world’s premier early growth markets of North Africa and the Middle East, Africa and AF-PAK/Central Asia including a specialized service, CI Ukraine. Capitol Intelligence also includes a US national news service, Black Business News (BBN) to be based in CI Global HQ in Washington, DC.
In order to provide its subscribers with a full-service offering of predictive financial intelligence, Capitol Intelligence Group provides forward looking news (financial, regulatory, commodity, and political risk), deal sources (forward-looking origination and deal flow opportunities), deal information (via financial statements, M&A documents, and project sources), a corporate and regulatory database, commodity market intelligence and insight, and compliance connections.
Furthermore, Safe Harbor Global, a fully-owned subsidiary, organizes and hosts interactive investment missions, investor conferences, and provides exclusive due diligence partnerships for transactions.
Infrastructure
Capitol Intelligence Group has recruited key journalists for each of their markets; each of the 10 key individuals strategically positioned around the coverage area and generating exclusive content to Capitol Intelligence subscribers. Subscriptions are sold by a specialized sales team with long standing relationships with C-Suite and government decision makers.
Corporate Structure
Capitol Intelligence Group is an incorporated US company and owner of Capitol Intelligence Jordan, a registered Jordanian media company.
Team
Peter K. Semler – Chief Executive Editor and founder
Prior to launching Capitol Intelligence, Peter was the Washington, DC Bureau Chief for Mergermarket (Dealreporter/Debtwire) of the Financial Times and personally headed political/economic coverage of the US House of Representatives and Senate.
Before moving back to his native Washington, Peter launched Mergermarket’s foreign coverage starting in Italy and later opened the news services bureaus in Italy, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, Russia/CIS, Middle East and North Africa and was instrumental to start-up’s 2006 sale to the Financial Times for USD 200m.
Peter worked as an investigative journalist and business reporter for the Sunday Times of London and launched Bloomberg Business News in Italy in the early 1990s. Peter started his career as a police reporter for the City News of Bureau of Chicago.
Zyad Benaissa – Chief Revenue Officer
Zyad graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and earned an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business. Zyad is a dual citizen of the United States and Tunisia and whose family is native to Djerba and resides in New York with his four children
Abe Naoya – Tokyo Bureau Chief
Prior to becoming Capitol Intelligence Tokyo Bureau Chief, Abe Naoya founded Bloomberg Business News in Japan and was the sole Japanese news correspondent based in Chicago where covered the world’s largest derivatives and futures markets.
Capitol Intelligence Group International Advisory Board
Donald R. Wilson
Founder and Owner of DRW Trading Group of Chicago. Donald is a graduate of the University of Chicago. Donald’s passions are sailing and heliskiing. Donald is the host of the annual Chicago Match Cup www.chicagocup.org.
Ivan Shvaichenko
Founder and CEO of Boosteroid of Kyiv, Ukraine. Shvaichenko built Boosteroid into the third largest cloud game hosting company with operations around the world. A native of Kharkiv, Ivan is a former military lawyer, space engineer and a Master of Business Administration.
Nigel Wright
Nigel Wright is the Founder and CEO of Grand Delusions Media (Grandiose Delusions Media Group). He has carved quite a lane as an entrepreneur in media and entertainment, technology. While attending Tisch School of the Arts, Nigel caught the attention of Atlantic Records and Sire Records for executive producing demos as well as writing and producing music videos for singer-songwriters through his production company Grand Delusions Pictures
Walid Driss
Founder and owner of Tunis-based Prosperus IT and software development group operating in the United States, Europe and the United Arab Emirates.
Brig. General Ernie Audino (U.S Army, Ret.).
General Audino currently is an international business advisor and aide to US Congressman Mike Waltz (R-Fla).