Private company

SCL Group

Logo: SCL Group, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

1990–2018 British behavioural data analysis company

SCL Group (formerly Strategic Communication Laboratories) 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. It was founded in 1990 by Nigel Oakes, who served as its CEO. The company described itself as a "global election management agency".2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1993Founded1
  • Industrydata analysis, data mining1
  • HeadquartersLondon1
  • Websitesclgroup.cc/home
  • Legal formprivate company limited by shares1
  • LEI2138001D4ZEPB1U3F3203
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered addressGROVE FARM BUNGALOW, DY13 9RB Stourport-On-Severn, United Kingdom3
  • Registered withCompanies House, 135595873

SCL Group (formerly Strategic Communication Laboratories) 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. It was founded in 1990 by Nigel Oakes, who served as its CEO. The company described itself as a "global election management agency". SCL Group founded a variety of subsidiary companies, the most well-known being Cambridge Analytica, with the stated intention of providing "data, analytics and strategy to2

Corporate structure

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The story

Founded by Nigel Oakes in 1993.1

Leadership

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Board members and other officers (1)

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

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Timeline

  1. 2018Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1993Founded Founded1

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