About Black Star Global
Black Star Global FZ-LLC is a UAE-headquartered strategic advisory, security, and programme delivery firm operating across Africa, the Gulf, and emerging markets. We work with governments, sovereign institutions, international investors, and commercial operators in environments where the conventional advisory model fails — too slow, too removed, and too unwilling to be accountable for outcomes.
Black Star Global was built on a different premise: that the most effective security and advisory firms do not report and leave. They embed, coordinate, and deliver. We deploy in-country, operate our own Command and Control, produce our own intelligence, and manage programmes from feasibility through to operational security — as a single, accountable authority.
Headquartered in Dubai with active operations across Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Nigeria, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Angola, DRC, South Africa, the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Romania, Albania, the Gulf, and the Mediterranean — Black Star Global brings together strategic advisory, security programme delivery, intelligence production, aerial operations, cyber defence, training, and logistics under one structure — selected and integrated for each client mandate.
We measure ourselves by programme outcomes, not report volumes. Every engagement is governed by clear deliverables, accountable leadership, and a commitment to remain until the mandate is complete. This is not consultancy. This is programme ownership.
From our founding operations in East Africa to today’s multi-continent platform, Black Star Global has grown by delivering results in the environments where others will not operate.
Engagement Model
Assess
Threat landscape analysis, institutional assessment, and programme scoping. We define the operating environment before we define the solution.
Design
Programme architecture, capability specification, and delivery planning. Every element designed around the client’s operational context.
Deploy
In-country delivery, technology integration, personnel deployment, and command activation. We operate alongside the client.
Oversee
Continuous monitoring, intelligence production, reporting, and programme governance. We remain accountable for outcomes.
The Principles That Define Us
Embedded, Not Advisory
We commit to the programme. Black Star Global sits inside client operations, aligned to their objectives, for the duration of the engagement.
Intelligence-Led
Every decision, every deployment, every programme is grounded in current, verified intelligence. We operate ahead of the threat.
Total Discretion
Our clients operate in environments where discretion is not optional. Black Star Global’s internal security protocols, NDA architecture, and data handling standards reflect that reality.
Sovereign in Command
Black Star Global’s Command and Control Centre is operated exclusively by our own vetted personnel. No outsourcing. No third-party access.
Capability that Lasts
We build institutional capability that outlives our engagement. Training programmes, doctrine, and systems designed to operate independently.
Leadership Team
Henry Fulbrook
Henry Fulbrook brings extensive operational experience across the private security and intelligence advisory sector. His career spans commando service and integration with Tier 1 and Tier 2 special forces through to senior government advisory roles at the intersection of national security, strategic risk, and intelligence-led programme delivery.
As Director Partner for Intelligence-Led Operations and Regional Affairs, Henry operates across MENA, West, East, and Southern Africa — serving as the firm's principal interlocutor for sovereign governments, national risk and security bodies, defence institutions, and senior political counterparts at the highest levels.
Keith Stewart
Keith Stewart is Co-Founder and Management Partner of Black Star Global, with overall responsibility for strategic direction, client engagement, and programme governance across the firm's global portfolio. With nineteen years based across Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Keith has built a career spanning senior advisory roles within semi-governmental institutions and the private sector, with deep operational experience across Africa, the Gulf, Asia, and the broader Middle East.
Jordan Sorabjee
Jordan Sorabjee is a former Army Major (Royal Engineers) with an operational career spanning East and Southern Africa, Europe, and multiple international theatre deployments. He brings specialist expertise in security force development, Counter-IED programme management, and intelligence-informed operational planning.
Raised in Kenya, fluent in KiSwahili, and operating with a practitioner's understanding of the region's security landscape, Jordan combines deep East African roots with the command standards and programme management discipline of a career military officer.
Karan Sehmi
Karan Sehmi leads Black Star Global's Cyber Defence and Digital Intelligence capability, operating at the convergence of cyber security, intelligence tradecraft, and digital investigations. Applying a mission-first, intelligence-led doctrine to every engagement, Karan designs and delivers cyber programmes for government institutions, critical infrastructure operators, and corporate clients across GCC and African markets.
Discuss a Programme Requirement
Black Star Global engages with governments, sovereign institutions, and qualified commercial operators.