Venezuela & the mineral borderlands
Highest margin, deepest moat, longest continuous presence.
We see. We hear. We validate.
PRAEON converts one live geopolitical, jurisdictional, political-criminal, cyber-physical, or strategic-sector exposure into a disciplined executive decision picture: what is known, what is indicated, what remains unresolved, and what leadership can responsibly do next.
Flagship region · The Americas
Where entry is hardest, our bench is deepest.
Three regions of mandates, each staffed by the partner best equipped to operate at the frontier of political-criminal and strategic risk.
Mexico
Foreign-investor market entry into a corruption-saturated, cartel-affected commercial environment.
Southern Cone
Cyber & infrastructure capacity assessment for North American operators.
How PRAEON works
See. Hear. Validate.
PRAEON separates what is observable, what is human-sourced, and what is validated — then compresses all three into a single board-ready decision picture.
Geography, infrastructure, corridors, assets, public records, observable exposure and sectoral dependencies.
Lawful field insight, stakeholder friction, local power, incentives, human context and expert interpretation.
Evidence discipline, confidence labels, unknowns, decision triggers and controlled executive synthesis.
Six products. Each starts from one live exposure.
PRAEON's product architecture is deliberately concrete: small enough to buy, serious enough for a board, and narrow enough to preserve trust.
10-Day Exposure Screen
For the buyer who says: "We have a live concern and normal diligence is not enough."
- One exposure: country, counterparty, investor, supplier, corridor, asset, cyber vendor or transaction.
- Red flags, confidence labels, unresolved unknowns and recommended next action.
- Designed as the first trust-building product for a new institutional relationship.
Board Exposure Brief
For directors and executives who need a decision picture before approval, disclosure, delay or escalation.
- Two-to-ten page briefing with exposure map and decision triggers.
- Separates verified fact, credible indicator, source claim, judgment, assumption and unknown.
- Built for board, ExCo, GC, investor committee and public-sector principal use.
Critical Minerals & Strategic Supply Chain Screen
For Canada / U.S. buyers facing resource, offtake, corridor, capital, supplier or strategic-sector exposure.
- Maps geopolitical, political-criminal, cyber-physical and provenance risk around strategic supply chains.
- Useful before financing, M&A, offtake, procurement, market entry or public announcement.
- Strong fit for mining, energy, ports, logistics, telecom, manufacturing and defence-adjacent suppliers.
The public surface of a private intelligence discipline.
Insights is where PRAEON demonstrates how it thinks without disclosing client material, source-sensitive information, or active mandates.
Signal Dispatch
Three to five operational signals that crossed PRAEON's evidence threshold, each labeled by confidence, provenance and decision relevance.
The Map
One geography, corridor, sector or threat system compressed into a controlled visual artifact for senior readers.
Briefing Excerpt
A sanitized fragment of PRAEON-style reporting: finding, evidence class, confidence level, implication and decision trigger.
Senior provenance without credential display.
PRAEON's public leadership gives institutional buyers a clear point of accountability. Specialist cohort participation is mandate-specific, conflict-screened and controlled.
01 / Founder & Managing Partner
Johan Obdola
Founder & Managing Partner — Global Strategic Intelligence · Political-Criminal Risk · High-Consequence Advisory. Former Chief, Venezuela counter-narcotics unit. Founder and President, IOSI Global. LinkedIn Profile
02 / Founding Partner
Chuck Brooks
Founding Partner — Cyber, Critical Infrastructure, and Emerging Technology. LinkedIn Profile
03 / Founding Partner
Tomas Martinek
Founding Partner — Financial Intelligence, AML/CFT, and Counterparty Validation. Chief Information Officer, IOSI Global. LinkedIn Profile
First contact
First contact is non-sensitive by design. Substantive work begins on a controlled channel.
Use the intake form for a non-sensitive first touch around a country, corridor, transaction, supplier, counterparty, sector, market-entry decision, sanctions concern, political-criminal exposure, or high-risk jurisdiction.