Michael Raimes Jones
British company director; co-director with Sven Hughes of Verbalisation Ltd, Influenceglobal Ltd (Global Influence) and Petrushka Limited; long-standing business associate in the Verbalisation / Global Influence strategic communications and influence cluster
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| Born | December 1961 |
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| Nationality | British |
| Residence | Guildford / Sandbach area |
| Occupation | Company director |
| Known for | Co-director with Sven Hughes of Verbalisation Ltd, Influenceglobal Ltd (Global Influence) and Petrushka Limited; also director of earlier companies including Lagune Limited and Cairnforth Limited |
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Michael Raimes Jones (born December 1961) is a British company director. He has been a long-standing co-director with Sven Hughes of the strategic communications firms Verbalisation Ltd and Influenceglobal Ltd (trading as Global Influence), and of the related company Petrushka Limited. He has also held directorships in earlier companies including Lagune Limited and Cairnforth Limited.[1][2]
Company directorships
Companies House and related records list the following appointments (dates as recorded):
- Verbalisation Limited (company number 07713869; previously Talk Torque Ltd) – director appointed 23 November 2012 (records also note involvement from the firm’s early period). Correspondence address linked to 2nd Floor Shaw House 3, Tunsgate, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3QT. Company went into voluntary liquidation (appointment of liquidator 25 November 2019). Last accounts made up to 31 March 2018. Other director: Sven Hughes.
- Petrushka Limited (company number 08914099) – director appointed 27 February 2014. Registered office address Ward House, 6 Ward Street, Guildford, GU1 4LH. Dissolved 24 April 2018. Last accounts made up to 28 February 2016 (dormant). Other directors: Sven Hughes, Olga Kurushina.
- Influenceglobal Ltd (trading as Global Influence, company number 10155532) – director from incorporation on 29 April 2016. Registered office address 9 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DD. Other director: Sven Hughes. Global Influence was announced in July 2016 as a sister company to Verbalisation, focused on counter-violent-extremism and political campaign services and using Verbalisation’s RAID® psychological profiling tool.
- Lagune Limited – director appointed 11 May 2006 (dissolved).
- Cairnforth Limited – director appointed 6 March 1997.
Jones’s correspondence addresses have been recorded in Guildford (Ward House, 6 Ward Street, GU1 4LH) and, in some filings, the Sandbach / Cheshire area.[1][3]
Connection to Verbalisation and Global Influence
Verbalisation was founded by Sven Hughes (former advertising copywriter and British Army psyops reservist) in 2011 as a strategic communications consultancy “staffed largely by ex-military personnel and political campaigners.” Clients listed by Hughes included the FCO, US State Department, NATO, Quilliam, News UK, Financial Times, Dow Jones and a range of commercial accounts. In July 2016 Verbalisation announced the launch of Global Influence under Hughes’s leadership as a sister firm providing “cutting-edge influence solutions for challenging, complex and high stakes environments,” particularly counter-violent-extremism and political campaign work. Jones served as co-director of both the original Verbalisation entity and Influenceglobal Ltd.[4][5]
Public biographical detail on Jones beyond the directorships and company filings is limited. He is consistently identified in the records as the co-director alongside Hughes (and, on some entities, Olga Kurushina) in the Verbalisation–Global Influence corporate cluster.
See also
- Sven Hughes
- Verbalisation
- Global Influence
- Petrushka Limited
- Olga Kurushina
- Enigma Strategic Communications
- SCL Group
External links
- Companies House summary (Michael Raimes Jones)
- PR Newswire: Verbalisation launches Global Influence (14 July 2016)
- Evening Standard profile of Sven Hughes / Verbalisation (16 October 2015)
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 MICHAEL RAIMES JONES – Companies House summary.
- ↑ Verbalisation company records and Powerbase summary of directors.
- ↑ Companies House / Datalog summaries for Verbalisation Limited and related filings.
- ↑ Chris Blackhurst, “Sven Hughes: The Army reservist using psychological warfare to rethink marketing”, Evening Standard, 16 October 2015.
- ↑ “Verbalisation Expands With Launch of Global Defence and Political Firm”, PR Newswire / Global Influence, 14 July 2016.