The Shenfield Resources Group is an independent, cross-border, strategic business support services and advisory firm headquartered in Miami, Florida, USA.
We help our clients expand internationally, as well as respond promptly, confidentially, safely and effectively to opportunities and threats alike within complex environments and/or challenging geographies.
We operate through a global alliance of trusted associates and experts.
Dependable and actionable intelligence is what our clients need first and foremost to respond effectively and promptly to opportunities and threats alike.
That is why the ability to locate, access and analyse strategic information lies at the very heart of our group’s skill set, expertise and experience.
We have a proven track record of conducting a wide variety of confidential investigations and due diligence assignments across numerous industries and geographies. Our findings and recommendations are thorough, confidential and highly dependable.
Our extensive network of associates and experts, mostly well connected at the highest levels of business and government, allows us to exert effective and legitimate influence whenever and wherever it matters most.
By proactively identifying risks, anticipating threats, prescribing defense mechanisms, our global corporate security partners will help our clients counter existing or emerging, unfavorable or hostile situations.
In the area of Business Intelligence, these tools will also serve to deter unfair and unethical competition.
All our sensitive assignments are conducted with the highest level of confidentiality. We always ensure that our clients’ identity, activities, strategy and image are fully protected and, if and when necessary, undetected.
Our global alliances provide us with a wide-reaching network of in-country contacts, connections and relationships. We are directly present in key locations around the world. Equally, we can rely on actionable sources and resources in many other territories where our clients might need us to deploy on a short notice.
The Shenfield Resources Group (”Shenfield”) was founded in 2007 in Miami, Florida, by Jean-Michel G. Caffin, a former President and Regional Chief Executive for North America of Bureau Veritas/Bivac, a leading multinational risk management, inspection & certification and governance services group.
Jean-Michel Caffin serves as the principal (Managing Partner) of the firm.
Together with our core team, we bring invaluable international business expertise, as well as decades of experience in a wide variety of industries and geographies.
The firm’s principal and founder, together with a number of our leading associates have served in multiple senior executive positions in government or within multinational corporations in Europe, the Americas and Africa.
In addition, many of our key operatives, including our Principal, began their professional lives within the military special forces and/or the security or intelligence agencies of various countries in Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Numerous other team members, experts or associates stem essentially from the corporate world or academia wherein they have established sound and solid track records.
Headquartered in Miami, USA, “The Gateway to the Americas”, Shenfield operates globally through a network of trusted associates and experts strategically located in key cities and countries around the world.
We are a true, multinational and multicultural firm, expert in cross-border assignments, well accustomed to operating in complex and/or challenging environments.
Our foreign partners are selected on the basis of their cross-industry knowledge, their established professional credentials, as well as their ability to access sources and to mobilize resources promptly, confidentially and effectively within their respective territories and fields of activity.
We rely also extensively on their well established high level contacts and relationships in both private and government sectors alike.
Through our business support and advisory services, we help our corporate clients expand internationally and respond successfully to opportunities and threats alike within five primary areas, namely:
In all these areas, The Shenfield Resources Group is particularly well versed in B2G strategy, with specific experience in Africa and the Americas.
Through its very diverse team, Shenfield can deploy effectively into many regions of the world and in a wide variety of fields, such as:
In addition, the Shenfield leadership team is particularly well versed in the specific areas of Enterprise Risk Management, Inspection & Certification, HSE, Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility, Shipping & Logistics, Banking, Defense and Security Services and Technology, Telecommunications, Customs administrations, Public Utilities, Export & Investment Promotion.
We also undertake special academic and professional development assignments on behalf of selected educational institutions.
The principal and founder of The Shenfield Resources Group, together with some of our key associates, spent their formative years in the military special forces and/or intelligence/security agencies of different countries in North America, Europe, Africa and Latin America. This enabled them to gain extensive experience in human intelligence (Humint), especially in challenging environments.
Shenfield’s expertise stems also from the decades-long corporate experience of its principal and of many members of our network in international business development, senior line/operations management, B2G, governance, as well as business intelligence in all regions of the world.
Our firm’s service offerings include, inter alia:
Thanks to its access to market and general business and country intelligence, coupled with the multiplicity of its business and government contacts and connections, The Shenfield Resources Group finds itself also in a highly reliable position to advise private and public sector suppliers or buyers on their vending or sourcing strategy.
This capability is particularly appreciated for public tenders, but also sourcing for import substitution.
Stemming from its combined experience and interaction with international business and government (B2G) alike, Shenfield may also be legally entrusted with the formal or informal representation of foreign, official, state, private-public or trade and investment bodies.
By way of these appointments, our firm is assigned the responsibility to represent and promote the institutional, commercial or academic interests of those foreign entities throughout the USA.
Beyond its home base in Miami, Florida, The Shenfield Resources Group relies on a network of associates and experts strategically located in key cities and countries around the world, notably:
Shenfield has developed particularly strong local assets in the Americas and Africa, as well as in France.
