Wikistrat

WIKISTRAT
Company typePrivate
IndustryGeostrategy
Founded2009
FounderJoel Zamel and Daniel Green
Headquarters
Washington, DC, United States
ProductsStrategic intelligence
Websitewikistrat.com

Wikistrat Inc. is a geostrategic analysis and business consultancy founded in Israel in 2010 by Joel Zamel and Daniel Green[1][2] and headquartered in the United States. It describes itself as the world's first crowdsourced consultancy leveraging a global network of over 2,000 subject-matter experts.[3][2] The vast majority of Wikistrat’s clients were foreign governments; that Wikistrat is, for all intents and purposes, an Israeli firm; and that the company’s work was not just limited to analysis. It also engaged in intelligence collection.[4]

Wikistrat's CEO is Oren Kesler. The Chief Technology Officer was formerly Daniel Green who is now technical advisor, and the previous CEO was Elad Schaffer who replaced the role of Zamel.[4][5] Lisa Daftari is a senior analyst,[6] Richard Weitz an Expert as well as others.[7]

Previously, Wikistrats Chief Strategy Officer was former Israeli intelligence officer Shay Hershkovitz. Amanda Skuldt was a Senior Project Manager.[8]

  1. ^ Sommer, Allison Kaplan (2018-05-21). "Who Is Joel Zamel, the Australian-Israeli Linked to Mueller's Trump Probe?". Haaretz. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. ^ a b Tau, Byron; Ballhaus, Rebecca; Viswanatha, Aruna (2018-04-03). "Mueller Probe Into U.A.E. Influence Broadens". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  3. ^ "About Wikistrat". Wikistrat. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  4. ^ a b Klippenstein, Ken (2018-06-04). "Inside Wikistrat, the Mysterious Intelligence Firm Now in Mueller's Sights". Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  5. ^ Kesler, Oren (2016-03-21). "Rousseff's Fall and the Rise of Brazil's Civil Society". The National Interest. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  6. ^ BY. "The First Woman To..." www.diplomaticourier.com. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  7. ^ "Dr. Richard Weitz | Wikistrat". Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  8. ^ Skuldt, Amanda. "Could a third-party candidate win the U.S. presidency? That's very unlikely". Washington Post.