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Command your enterprise
from complete clarity.

A unified intelligence and protection partnership for promoter families of India's leading companies — delivering actionable insight, organisational control, and world-class protection wherever business takes you. RiverStones leads intelligence and investigations; Støne Group delivers the protection layer.

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The Family Office Imperative

Complexity is the
new normal.

India's promoter families today manage enterprises spanning multiple sectors, geographies, and regulatory regimes — often with limited visibility into what is actually happening at the operational edges of their organisations.

Promoter family intelligence and protection overview

Promoter family oversight

01
Information Asymmetry
Boards and promoters are routinely the last to know — whether it is a loyalty breach by a senior manager, a vendor scheme, or a reputational threat building in the market. Without structured intelligence, decisions are made on incomplete information.
02
Expanded Risk Perimeter
Business interests in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia create physical risk exposure that domestic security arrangements cannot address. Regulatory scrutiny, family visibility, and asset concentration compound the threat landscape.
03
Discretion Above All
Family offices cannot afford the reputational cost of visible security or high-profile investigations. Every engagement must be conducted with absolute confidentiality, leaving no trace in the market or the press.
04
A Single Trusted Partner
Managing multiple vendors — investigators, protection specialists, crisis firms — creates coordination gaps and confidentiality risk. The family office needs a seamless, accountable partnership covering the full spectrum.

"Two specialist firms. One integrated mandate — to give promoter families complete intelligence, total control, and assured safety."

RiverStones × Støne Group
Intelligence & Investigations — Lead Practice

RiverStones Consulting
& Intelligence.

An Indian risk management and corporate intelligence firm with over a decade of operational experience — built for clients who need the truth, not a report. RiverStones combines human intelligence excellence, investigative rigour, and strategic advisory to enable families to operate with clarity, control, and confidence.

10+
Years Corporate Intelligence Practice
200+
Global Field Assistants
3
Agency & Elite Force Backgrounds in Team
Organisational intelligence and strategic advisory

Organisational intelligence

Core Intelligence Capabilities

Organisational Intelligence
Understanding what is truly happening inside your companies — employee loyalty, management integrity, financial discipline, and operational compliance — through discreet human intelligence and covert observational methods.
HUMINTCovert OpsSource Networks
Risk & Threat Intelligence
Continuous monitoring of threats across physical, reputational, regulatory, and competitive domains. Intelligence-led early warning systems so leadership is never caught unawares.
Threat AssessmentPredictive Modelling24/7 Desk
Due Diligence
Exhaustive background investigations on partners, vendors, senior hires, and investment targets — drawing on 50+ data sources per subject including confidential human sources and financial records.
Background ChecksBeneficial OwnershipLitigation History
Intelligence-Led Control

Intelligence is not a security function. It is a management function — the most powerful tool a promoter family has.

RiverStones — Service Portfolio

Full-spectrum intelligence
for the family office.

RS—01Corporate Investigations

When there is a suspicion of misconduct, fraud, or disloyalty inside your organisation, RiverStones delivers a discreet, legally defensible investigation that provides answers — not conjecture.

RS—02Management Control Intelligence

A standing intelligence retainer that places the promoter family at the apex of information — not dependent on filtered reports from layers of management.

RS—03Due Diligence & Background Verification

Every significant business relationship carries risk. Our multi-jurisdictional due diligence ensures the family proceeds with complete awareness of who they are dealing with.

RS—04Reputational Intelligence & Threat Monitoring

The family name and the promoter's public standing are strategic assets. We identify coordinated reputational threats, disinformation campaigns, and hostile media activity before they gain traction.

RS—05Strategic Crisis Management

When a crisis strikes — regulatory, reputational, operational, or criminal — RiverStones deploys within hours to stabilise the situation and protect the family's interests.

RS—06Travel Intelligence & Pre-Deployment Briefings

Before any principal travels to an elevated-risk destination, RiverStones delivers a comprehensive intelligence brief — feeding directly into Støne Group's protection planning for a seamlessly integrated deployment.

"When intelligence identifies risk, protection delivers safety. Støne Group ensures that wherever the principal travels, they are never exposed."

The Protection Layer
Executive Protection Partner — Dubai, UAE

Støne Group —
World-Class Protection.

Støne advises and supports family offices and organisations operating in demanding environments across the globe — providing discreet, experience-based risk mitigation so principals stay in control of their lives, travel, and operations.

Armed convoy — Støne Group close protection Africa

Principal protection

Family Office Close Protection
Støne understands that family office teams operate quietly. Their protection model is built for discretion — not visibility.
  • Close protection — international travel
  • Residential Security Teams (RST)
  • Covert protection (CovPro)
  • Counter-surveillance services
  • Security drivers & armoured vehicles
Secure Transport & Journey Management
Every journey has a plan A. Støne adds plan C and D — full contingency planning, vetted routes, and embedded security for the full itinerary.
  • Advance route reconnaissance
  • Armoured & low-profile vehicle options
  • Airport arrival & departure security
  • Last-mile logistics in complex cities
  • Air asset coordination (helos, fixed-wing)
Remote & High-Risk Operations
For investments or business travel in off-grid, frontier, or conflict-adjacent environments — Støne goes ahead first, with intelligence-led planning as the baseline.
  • Travel risk advisory & remote command
  • Field security trip leaders
  • Field medic support
  • Emergency extraction capabilities
  • Equipment procurement (medical, comms)
Specialist Capability

Africa & High-Risk
Zone Operations.

Indian promoter families with investments across Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa, and other frontier markets face a protection challenge that most providers cannot meet. Støne Group has built its most robust operational infrastructure precisely for these environments — with tiered, assessed, and deployed capability across the continent.

Desert convoy — Africa and high-risk zone operations

Cross-border coordination

Tier 1
Full Operations
In-country centralised management. High operational tempo. Large pool of vetted local CP teams, security drivers, and expat team leads with 5–10 years in-country experience. Immediate deployment.
Tier 2
Supported Operations
Local vendor/partner management with Støne oversight. Medium readiness. Journey management remotely managed by Støne ops. Expat leads deployed to guarantee international standards.
Tier 3
Managed Access
Regional partner network with close Støne co-ordination. Low-to-medium frequency locations. Mandatory expat CP lead deployed. Each mission assessed individually at time of request.
Tier 4
Strategic Planning
Rare operations locations only — long-term or complex mandates accepted following high-level client dialogue and comprehensive strategic pre-planning. Not for one-off deployments.

Coverage also extends to the Middle East, Central Asia, Latin America, and other elevated-risk zones globally — with background screening on local counterparties, employees, and service providers forming the intelligence layer beneath every deployment. RiverStones and Støne coordinate seamlessly to ensure pre-travel intelligence informs the Støne protection brief before the principal lands.

The Combined Advantage

Why intelligence and protection
must be integrated.

Most family offices treat intelligence and protection as separate procurement decisions. The result is a dangerous gap: protection teams operating without current intelligence, and intelligence teams unaware of the physical exposure of the principals they are serving.

The RiverStones × Støne Group partnership closes this gap entirely. RiverStones provides the intelligence picture — threats, actors, environments, internal risks — and Støne Group operationalises that picture into a physical protection posture calibrated to the actual threat, not a generic template.

When RiverStones identifies a threat actor through its source network, Støne is briefed before the principal's next movement. When Støne's advance team identifies conditions on the ground in Lagos or Nairobi, that intelligence feeds back into RiverStones' threat assessment for the client. The loop is closed.

10+
Years Operational Experience
200+
Global Field Assistants
4
Tier Deployment Framework — Africa
2–4h
Crisis Team Deployment — Major Indian Cities

Your family deserves complete certainty. All enquiries are handled with strict confidentiality. Initial consultations are obligation-free and conducted directly with senior principals at both firms.

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