of Rupert’s recommendations get implemented — versus an industry average of under 25%.
Biography
Rupert Evill spent over 25 years as an intelligence operative and investigator before becoming an investor. That background — reading people, reading risk, working cases most people never see — is what he now brings to the companies and investors he works with, keeping them out of the headlines and in the black.
Trained by the elite behavioural specialists who advise global intelligence agencies, Rupert holds postgraduate qualifications in Behavioural Analysis and Deception Detection, achieving distinctions for evaluating truthfulness and credibility. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and an accredited Crisis Responder who has spent thousands of hours in adversarial settings, resolving multi-million dollar whistleblower allegations, and responding to critical extortion demands.
Rupert uses this frontline experience — seeing exactly how human decision-making, distorted incentives, and cultural pressures cause chaos — to strip away the heavy, abstract busywork of traditional risk management and due diligence. He provides hyper-practical, counterintuitive frameworks designed to protect capital, keep all parties honest, and navigate complexity.
e-Factor emotional intelligence score, Advanced Level, in the range for high performers.
When he’s not challenging corporate risk orthodoxy, Rupert can be found rolling on the jiu-jitsu mat, managing his regenerative smallholding, or chasing his dogs through the mud.
Companies
Ethics Insight
Helping investors identify, assess, and avoid future integrity and governance risks using the three Cs model: future operating Context, Controls, and Culture. Supporting portfolio companies with technical assistance to protect value and ensure profitable exits.
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RanulphTM
AI-accelerated risk assessment platform — including due diligence, operational risk analysis, fraud diagnostics, and content creation. Applying the Nordic DFI gold standard to rightsize the “busy work” in risk management, allowing targeted human intervention for critical decisions.
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Book
Bootstrapping Ethics
Integrity Risk Management for Real-World Application
A succinct, commercial blueprint engineered for operators and capital providers who need to control downside risk when everything else feels uncertain. Bootstrapping Ethics strips away moral grandstanding and replaces it with a commercial pragmatism that turns risk management from a dreaded cost centre into an operational optimisation tool.
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UKSIF
Culture Is a Stewardship Issue and a Fraud Risk Indicator
Why culture shapes the pressures behind fraud, and how investors can read context, controls and culture as early warning signals.
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Substack
The Due Diligence Don’t Work
Why integrity failures often sit in behaviour, incentives and judgement rather than in the documents investors usually review.
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Board Leadership
The Bullet Holes You Can’t See
A board-level look at survivorship bias, invisible risk signals and the evidence leaders miss when systems appear to be working.
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Pioneers Post
Why a Capital Injection Could Be the Devastating Risk
Why the arrival of capital can change incentives, pressure and behaviour inside investees, creating risk rather than simply funding growth.
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Substack · Best performing
Smells Like 2007 (and Why AI Needs a Recipe)
A warning against hype cycles, weak process and the illusion that new tools remove the need for disciplined judgement.
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GRIP
Know Your Sharks From Your Mosquitoes
A practical way to separate severe integrity threats from background noise before teams waste effort in the wrong place.
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GRIP
Badly Fitting Risk — Lessons From Impact Investment
How generic risk management frameworks misread emerging-market and impact contexts, and what better-fit assessment looks like.
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GRIP
How Not to Be a Compliance Steamroller
Why heavy-handed compliance can crush trust, nuance and reporting quality, and how to intervene without flattening the business.
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GRC Outlook
How to Assess the Biggest Source of Risk
A sharper approach to assessing people-driven risk: culture, incentives, local context and the way decisions actually get made.
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The Compliance & Ethics Blog
Trash Collection and Compliance Plateaus
What operational routines can teach compliance teams about stagnation, habits and the work needed to keep systems useful.
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Integrity risk in private equity: beyond box-ticking
Examines how private equity investors should assess integrity risks beyond surface-level compliance, forward-looking due diligence, how culture and speak-up systems reveal portfolio problems, why ESG box-ticking can obscure genuine risks, fraud detection, and contextual risk assessment.
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Great Women in Compliance
Prioritizing Employee Well-Being in Risk Management
A conversation on making integrity and risk work relevant to people, not just processes.
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The Decision-Making Studio
Bootstrapping Ethics, Making Risk Relevant, and the Dark Arts of Investigation
How investigation, decision-making and practical ethics connect when organisations face messy human risk.
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Human Risk Podcast
How Can Organisations With Limited Resources Handle Ethical Issues?
Practical ethics and risk management for organisations without large compliance teams or heavyweight systems.
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GRIP
Geopolitical Risk and Corruption
Current challenges with geopolitics and corruption, region by region
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Spoken at
Risk Theatre vs. Ground Truth
Why standard checklists fail to catch misconduct and fraud, and how to use behavioural interviewing instead.
Thinking Like a Counter-Terrorism Specialist to do Better Deals
Using threat and forensic frameworks to predict and mitigate ethical missteps inside scaling enterprises.
Active Ownership Teething Problems
Why board access and management reports seldom give you the answers you need.
Why Traditional Due Diligence is a Poor Predictor of Risk
How the introduction of capital is itself what creates increased risk exposure.
Reading the Land Like a Regenerative Farmer
Applying Yeomans’ agricultural Scale of Permanence to corporate risk.
The “It Looked Good on Paper” Pitfall
Why pristine, fully audited growth-stage deals routinely self-destruct in emerging markets.
Testimonials
I have worked with Rupert to conduct assessments and advise on integrity issues with our investment portfolio companies. He is particularly skilled at sensitively engaging with firm leadership on very tricky topics.
Rita RocaImpact Fund Denmark
Working with Rupert was a great experience. His engagement and innovative thinking were beyond what we anticipated. A definite 10 out of 10.
Rory DonaldsonTransparency International
I enjoyed working with Rupert on a critical project in high-risk jurisdictions. His expertise and the quality of the analysis were outstanding.
Anjelika KarlssonSwedfund
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