SCL Group

SCL Group
FormerlyStrategic Communication Laboratories
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded1990; 34 years ago (1990) as Behavioural Dynamics Institute
FounderNigel John Oakes
Defunct1 May 2018; 6 years ago (2018-05-01)
Headquarters
Chelmsford
,
United Kingdom
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
SubsidiariesCambridge Analytica
Websitesclgroup.cc/home
Archived January 11, 2019, at the Wayback Machine

SCL Group[1] (formerly Strategic Communication Laboratories[1]) was a private British behavioural research and strategic communication company that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving its subsidiaries Cambridge Analytica and Crow Business Solutions MENA.[1] It was founded in 1990 by Nigel Oakes, who served as its CEO.[2] The company described itself as a "global election management agency".[3] The company's leaders and owners had close ties to the Conservative Party, the British royal family, British military, United States Department of Defense and NATO and its investors included some of the largest donors to the Conservative Party.[4]

  1. ^ a b c "SCL GROUP LIMITED - filing history and public records (free information)". Companies House. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Trump Data Gurus Leave Long Trail of Subterfuge, Dubious Dealing". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  3. ^ "SCL Group – Home". SCL Group.
  4. ^ Brown, David. "SCL Group's founders were connected to royalty, the rich and powerful" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.