Alexis Everington

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British communications consultant; Marketing Manager at Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL); InCoStrat partner specialising in target-audience analysis for UK and US government clients in Syria and the MENA region; former Beaver Westminster analyst; Old Carthusian (Head Boy 1996); director of Plainsmen Ltd with Ian Tunnicliffe


Alexis Everington

Born February 1979
Nationality British
Residence Figheldean, Wiltshire
Occupation Communications consultant; strategic communications; target-audience analysis
Known for Marketing Manager, Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL); InCoStrat partner leading target-audience analysis for UK and US governments in Syria and MENA; former analyst at Beaver Westminster; director of Plainsmen Ltd
Education Charterhouse (Head Boy, 1996)

Alexis Everington (born February 1979) is a British communications consultant. He has worked as Marketing Manager at Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), as an analyst at Beaver Westminster, and as a partner at Innovative Communications & Strategies (InCoStrat), where he led target-audience analysis (TAA) projects for UK and US government clients in Syria and the wider Middle East and North Africa. He is an Old Carthusian (Head Boy at Charterhouse in 1996) and was a director of Plainsmen Ltd alongside Ian Tunnicliffe.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

A 1996 article in The Times lists Everington as Head Boy at the Charterhouse public school in Godalming. As Head Boy he would have had the privilege of wearing a pink tie or scarf. Assuming the Head Boy at Charterhouse is upper-sixth-form age, this places his date of birth in either 1978 or 1979 (Companies House records confirm February 1979). His classmates included Alexandra Boyd-Carpenter, daughter of Henry Boyd-Carpenter (Private Solicitor to the Queen until 2004); she later worked in William Hague’s private office and as an Account Assistant at Pelham PR.[4][5]

Career

Beaver Westminster

In 2005 Everington was working for Beaver Westminster, the consultancy run by “terrorism expert” Paul Beaver. A Beaver Westminster document refers to him as “BWL [Beaver Westminster] Analyst” and records that he spent ten days in Saudi Arabia on a fact-finding visit in conjunction with the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce and BAE Systems.[6]

Strategic Communication Laboratories

Everington worked at Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), the firm founded by Nigel Oakes that later became the parent of Cambridge Analytica. According to BDEC Online (the British Defence Equipment Catalogue) he was the company’s Marketing Manager. Campaign Election Services, a subsidiary of SCL, had its domain registered to Everington, who gave the home address of SCL founder Nigel Oakes.[1][7]

InCoStrat

Everington is listed as an InCoStrat partner in the firm’s tender materials for UK Foreign Office strategic-communications work in Syria. The documents state that he “has led over 20 research projects for UK and US governments in Syria and many other countries in the MENA region. He is highly respected for the depth of his research and the networks he holds inside Syria – his work has recently reached Presidential level in the US.” InCoStrat specialised in primary fieldwork-based target-audience analysis for US and UK clients covering dozens of cities and governorates in Syria, as well as projects in Libya, Jordan, Iran, Yemen and elsewhere. Former government clients cited by the firm included US Combatant Commands, JIEDDO, USAID, the State Department, the FCO, the Home Office, the Royal Navy, Singapore MINDEF and NATO.[2][8]

International Advisory Services

Everington is the founder and chief executive of International Advisory Services (IAS), a strategic-communications and research firm based in the United Arab Emirates and a contractor to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office under the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund.[9] According to US court filings and investigative reporting, Everington established IAS in 2011 with a fellow former SCL employee, Richard White, and registered it in the United Arab Emirates.[10][11] Leaked documents published by Anonymous list IAS as InCoStrat’s in-country research partner on UK-funded strategic-communications work in Syria.[2]

Other

Everington was appointed director of Plainsmen Ltd on 27 March 2014 and resigned on 14 December 2017. The only other director was Ian Tunnicliffe. He was formerly listed as a friend on Tunnicliffe’s Facebook page. Companies House records give his occupation as Communications Consultant and a correspondence address in Figheldean, Wiltshire.[12][13][3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 BDEC Online Company Details for STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION LABORATORIES, accessed 23 June 2008.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 InCoStrat tender response on target audience analysis (c.2014), published in the Grayzone/Anonymous Syria leaks.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 ALEXIS EVERINGTON – Companies House summary.
  4. ↑ ‘School news’, The Times, 10 September 1996.
  5. ↑ Pelham PR, Alexandra Boyd-Carpenter Team Profile, accessed 3 July 2008.
  6. ↑ Beaver Westminster, News for September 2005 (PDF), accessed 20 June 2008.
  7. ↑ Whois Record of Campaign Election Services, retrieved from Domain Tools on 19 June 2008.
  8. ↑ Max Blumenthal, “Leaked docs expose massive Syria propaganda operation waged by Western govt contractors and media”, The Grayzone, 23 September 2020.
  9. ↑ Michael D. Buhrmester, William B. Swann Jr., Brian McQuinn, Alexis Everington, Layal Hafid and Harvey Whitehouse, Examining Shifts in Group-Based Motivations for Civil Conflicts in Libya New England Journal of Public Policy, accessed 21 October 2026.
  10. ↑ Jack Poulson, What happens when a cutout is cut out Jack Poulson / All-Source Intelligence (critical), accessed 21 October 2026.
  11. ↑ United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, Everington v. Riesen, Case No. 8:23-cv-2386 US District Court (M.D. Fla.), 2024.
  12. ↑ Companies House Plainsmen – Officers.
  13. ↑ Google Cache of Ian Tunnicliffe’s Facebook page, retrieved 24 May 2008.
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