Hive Global Strategy Consultancy
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Hive Global Strategy Consultancy · Abu Dhabi

Navigating complexity. Shaping durable outcomes.

An independent strategic advisory firm that works alongside organizations, investors, and principals at moments where complexity is high, stakes are material, and decisions carry lasting institutional, financial, and reputational consequence.

Abu DhabiAfrica & MozambiqueSelected International Markets
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Our Philosophy

We exist for the decisions that shape trajectories, where judgment matters as much as analysis, and where clarity, alignment, and the credibility to execute become the decisive factors for success.

Jacinto Ferrão Filipe Nyusi Founder & Chief Executive

About Us

An independent partner for moments of consequence.

Hive Global Strategy Consultancy is an independent strategic advisory firm, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, operating across Africa and selected international markets.

We advise organizations, investors, and principals navigating moments of strategic inflection, operating in environments where uncertainty is structural, where multiple stakeholders with divergent interests must be reconciled, and where conventional advisory approaches often fall short.

Our independence ensures objectivity, discretion, and a long-term perspective. We are driven by mandates where decisions shape institutions, trajectories, and lasting value, not by volume, and never by anything less than the full attention of senior judgement.

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Strategy & Decision Support

Defining and recalibrating strategic direction, and structuring complex, high-consequence decisions with clarity.

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Alignment & Stakeholders

Reconciling divergent interests and incentives across organizations, partners, and cross-border initiatives.

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Strategy to Execution

Designing credible pathways from strategy to execution, alignment before action, structure before scale.

Founder-led, and built for those who expect more.

Hive is led directly by its founder, Jacinto Ferrão Filipe Nyusi, ensuring senior judgement on every engagement, supported by complementary platforms in Maputo and Abu Dhabi that originate opportunity at its African source and connect it to the world's capital.

Abu Dhabi, UAE
Licensed & Regulated
Independent & Discreet

Our Approach

Built on clarity, alignment, judgment, and execution credibility.

Context before action.

We seek to understand the full complexity of a situation, its stakeholders, its constraints, its real problem, before forming a view.

Alignment before execution.

Durable outcomes require that interests and incentives are reconciled first. Alignment is the foundation on which execution holds.

Structure before scale.

The right structure protects value as ambition grows. We build engagements to endure, not merely to begin.

The Model, Complementarity, Not Competition

We do not replace the world's great firms. We complete them.

International firms bring brand, methodology, and technical depth. What complex, cross-border mandates demand in addition is proximity, alignment, and follow-through. Together, the result is an outcome neither could deliver alone.

Global Firms Bring

  • Brand credibility
  • Proven methodology
  • Technical teams
  • Global sector practices
  • Formal advisory execution
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Hive Brings

  • Market access & proximity
  • Local insight
  • Opportunity origination
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Execution credibility
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Combined Value

  • Stronger mandates
  • Lower execution friction
  • More credible market entry
  • Structured opportunity flow
  • Durable local positioning

A regional access, origination, and execution partner, for mandates where proximity, stakeholders, and follow-through decide the outcome.

Hive Global Strategy Consultancy supports international partners with strategy, decision support, market access, stakeholder alignment, and execution credibility across Africa, Mozambique, and selected international markets.

Who We Work With

Built for the institutions shaping global capital.

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Strategy & Management Consulting

The world's leading strategy houses pursuing complex, cross-border mandates, supported with access, alignment, and on-the-ground execution.

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Transaction & Advisory

Global advisory and Big-Four-calibre teams active in deals, risk, infrastructure, and public-sector work requiring credible local partnership.

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Engineering & Infrastructure

Technical advisors and engineering practices delivering on infrastructure, energy, and industrial mandates across the region.

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Finance, Banks & Investment

Private equity, family offices, and ADGM/DIFC platforms seeking structured, de-risked exposure to credible opportunity.

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Energy, Resources & Industrial

EPC contractors, service providers, and industrial groups positioning around energy, resources, and supply-chain mandates.

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Principals & Family Offices

Principals and institutions making capital-allocation and strategic decisions where discretion and judgement are paramount.

Our Work

Sectors where context, capital, and execution converge.

Anchored in our licensed activities, mining and geological consultancy, oil & gas consulting, project development, feasibility and administrative studies, project management, and real-estate consultancy, with particular depth where Africa and the Gulf meet.

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Mining & Geological Consultancy

From gold and copper to the lithium and graphite the transition depends on, mining, equipment, and geological engineering consultancy across the continent's mineral wealth.

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Oil, Gas & Energy Consulting

As Mozambique's LNG economy comes online, our oil & gas consulting connects investors, service providers, and developers to one of the defining energy stories of the decade.

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Logistics, Ports & Trade

The Indian Ocean coastline and the Nacala & Maputo corridors make Mozambique a gateway for southern Africa, transport corridors, ports, and supply-chain infrastructure.

PortsCorridorsSupply Chain

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Project Development & Real Estate

Project development, feasibility studies, project management, and real-estate consultancy, structuring opportunities around durable value, sound returns, and lasting impact.

Project DevelopmentFeasibilityReal Estate

The Engagement Model

Customized, mandate-based, senior-led.

Our engagements are structured, controlled, and built on written terms at every stage, respecting the compliance, conflict checks, and mandate discipline that serious institutions require. Commercial terms are discussed privately.

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Confidential Dialogue
An initial, discreet conversation to understand the mandate, the stakeholders, and the strategic question at hand.
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Focal Points Appointed
Dedicated points of contact on both sides ensure efficient coordination, communication, and follow-through.
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Mandate Defined
Agreement on scope, priorities, and the outcomes that will define success, context and alignment established first.
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Structured Evaluation
Selected opportunities are assessed through a controlled, non-confidential overview before sensitive detail is shared.
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Terms & Compliance
NDA, non-circumvention, and compliance review are executed; roles, scope, and commercial terms agreed in writing.
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Senior-Led Execution
The engagement proceeds under senior judgement, referral, advisory, joint mandate, or development, to durable outcome.
Jacinto Ferrão Filipe Nyusi, Founder & Chief Executive of Hive Global Strategy Consultancy

Jacinto Ferrão
Filipe Nyusi

Founder & Chief Executive

Leadership

A founder at the intersection of opportunity, capital, and institutions.

Jacinto Ferrão Filipe Nyusi is a Mozambican entrepreneur, investor, and strategic advisor whose work bridges Africa, the Gulf, Europe, and Asia. Over more than a decade he has built a multidimensional career spanning mining, logistics, ports, energy, and tourism, combining commercial execution with deep institutional and cross-cultural fluency.

His perspective was shaped early by his years in Shanghai, where he studied architecture at Tongji University and witnessed first-hand the infrastructure-led transformation that has come to define modern China, an education in scale and development that informs how he approaches opportunity across emerging markets.

"Africa's transformation requires the convergence of responsible capital, credible institutions, capable entrepreneurs, and communities that genuinely benefit from growth."

As founder of both ETA Holding in Maputo and Hive Global Strategy Consultancy in Abu Dhabi, he has built complementary platforms that originate opportunity at its African source and connect it to the international partners capable of realising it.

Core Capabilities

  • Strategy & decision support
  • Investor engagement
  • Strategic access & alignment
  • Cross-border advisory
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Project origination & structuring

Sector Experience

  • Natural resources & mining
  • Logistics, ports & maritime
  • Energy & infrastructure
  • Agribusiness & strategic assets
  • Trade corridors
  • Strategic investments

Education & Credentials

  • BBA, Business Administration & Management, Universidade Politécnica, Maputo
  • Architecture studies, Tongji University, Shanghai
  • Certified in AML, CTF & CPF compliance

Our People

A network built where opportunity lives.

Hive's strength is its proximity. Beyond Abu Dhabi, our consultants and advisors are based in the markets that matter, close to the stakeholders, the institutions, and the realities that shape every mandate. This is how global ambition meets local ground truth.

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United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi · Head Office

Our headquarters and command centre. From Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi, the firm's leadership sets strategy, coordinates every mandate, and connects our regional teams to the institutions, partners, and capital that turn ambition into outcomes.

Leadership
Jacinto F. F. Nyusi Founder & Chief Executive Abu Dhabi
Adnan Kidwai Strategic Advisor Abu Dhabi
Rechelle Barcelona Executive Assistant Abu Dhabi
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Mozambique
Maputo · Origination

Our origination heartland. The Mozambique team works at the source, close to the institutions, decision-makers, and the resource, energy, and infrastructure projects that define the market.

Maputo Office
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South Africa
Johannesburg · Capital

Our gateway to Southern African capital. The Johannesburg team connects mandates to mining houses, capital markets, and the industrial groups that drive regional investment.

Johannesburg Office
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Portugal
Lisbon · Europe & Lusophone

Our bridge to Europe and the Portuguese-speaking world. The Lisbon team links Lusophone networks across Europe, Africa, and Brazil to opportunity at its source.

Vasco CarvalhoCountry Principal, Europe & Lusophone Markets
Lisbon Office

Our teams are appointed by region and mandate. Full profiles available to engaged partners. China & Asia coverage is provided through the founder's network and specialist advisors.

Governance & Confidentiality

The highest standards of independence and discretion.

Serious partners require clarity, discipline, and protection. Hive's engagement model is built around independence, confidentiality, compliance, and professional discipline at every stage.

Sensitive matters are never handled informally. The path is deliberate: confidential dialogue, the right focal point, a controlled overview, formal terms, and disciplined execution. This is not bureaucracy, it is the discretion that makes serious institutions comfortable, and serious mandates possible.

Independence

Objectivity and long-term perspective, free of conflicting interests, the foundation of trustworthy counsel.

Confidentiality

Sensitive information is protected at every stage. Discretion is not a policy but a posture.

Compliance

AML, CTF, and CPF discipline, with conflict checks and internal restrictions respected throughout.

Written Terms

Roles, scope, deliverables, and commercial arrangements are agreed in writing for every mandate.

Market Intelligence

Insights from the ground.

Live feed

A continuously evolving view of the developments shaping Mozambique and Africa, and the global corridors from the Gulf to Europe and Asia where our partners deploy capital. Curated from primary sources and our own market presence.

Regulation · Mining3 June 2026

Mozambique's new Mining Law reshapes the terms of foreign participation.

Signed into law by President Daniel Chapo on 3 June 2026, following parliamentary approval in May, the amended framework mandates a free-carried, non-dilutable 15% state stake through the national mining company (ENM) and bans the export of unprocessed minerals, part of a broader continental shift toward mineral sovereignty. For investors already deployed and those evaluating entry, understanding these dynamics is no longer optional; it is essential to structuring any viable mandate.

What it means for partnersNavigating the 15% ENM free-carry, the raw-export ban and beneficiation mandates, and the enabling-infrastructure gaps requires credible local counsel and stakeholder access, precisely the ground where Hive operates.

Africa · Resource Policy2026

Africa rewrites the resource bargain.

From Maputo to Kinshasa, governments are raising state participation, restricting raw-mineral exports, and mandating local processing, a coordinated move to capture more value from the very minerals the energy transition depends on.

Source: Ecofin · Reuters
Energy · LNGJan 2026

Mozambique LNG restarts in full.

TotalEnergies and President Chapo confirmed the full restart of the $20bn Cabo Delgado project, with over 4,000 workers mobilised and first gas targeted for 2029, positioning Mozambique among the world's significant gas exporters.

Source: TotalEnergies · Reuters
Logistics2026

The Nacala Corridor becomes a trade hub.

Linking landlocked Zambia and Malawi to Mozambique's deepwater port at Nacala, the corridor is drawing fresh Japanese investment and World Bank connectivity support, reaching a market of over 40 million people.

Source: Africa Center · World Bank
Asia · Critical MineralsJan 2026

China's mineral chokehold tightens.

From January 2026 Beijing widened export controls across rare earths and processing technology. It refines roughly 90% of the world's supply, and the move sent prices sharply higher while accelerating a global scramble for alternatives. For resource-rich Africa, the leverage has rarely been greater.

Source: MOFCOM · CSIS
Europe · Supply Security2026

Europe moves to secure its supply.

Through the ReSourceEU plan and a new Critical Raw Materials Centre, Brussels is diversifying away from single-source dependency, striking raw-materials partnerships with resource-rich nations, South Africa among them. A structural opening for credibly-governed African supply.

Source: European Commission
Sovereign · DebtJul 2026

Maputo moves to reset its balance sheet.

In July 2026 President Chapo confirmed advancing talks with China on a debt rescheduling modelled on its Brazil agreement, alongside a new IMF programme. Both steps aim to restore fiscal headroom and re-anchor investor confidence ahead of the LNG build-out.

Source: Bloomberg · IMF
Middle East · CapitalH1 2026

Gulf capital hits a new high.

Gulf sovereign funds deployed a record $53.9bn in the first half of 2026, with Abu Dhabi's Mubadala the world's most active, and Africa an increasingly strategic destination for ports, energy, and resources. From Abu Dhabi, this is precisely the corridor Hive was built to serve.

Source: Global SWF · Semafor

Insights are illustrative of the developments we track for partners. Where others see disruption, we help partners navigate toward responsible, compliant, and durable participation. Request a market briefing

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