Nigel Oakes
British businessman and founder of SCL Group / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nigel John Oakes (born July 1962) is a British businessman, and the founder and CEO of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group (formerly Strategic Communication Laboratories), the parent company of Cambridge Analytica and her sister AggregateIQ; the companies became known to a wider audience as a result of the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving the misuse of data. From the early 1990s, Oakes' companies, operating under succession of names, were involved in influencing elections in developing countries, and with the onset of the War on Terror they were also contracted by the British military. Oakes first became known as the boyfriend of Lady Helen Windsor in the 1980s.[1]
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Born | Nigel John Oakes July 1962 (age 61) |
Nationality | British |
Education | Eton |
Occupation | Businessman |
Title | Founder and CEO of SCL Group |
Parent | Major John Waddington Oakes |
Relatives | Alexander Waddington Oakes |