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In-country delivery capability
We are located in Abu Dhabi, with specialists based in the UAE. They have the local experience delivering data centres, sovereign technology and enterprise AI programmes.
Portal Global
the strategy is delivery
Portal Global is a strategy, policy and delivery firm, launched in Australia 30 years ago and now established in the United Arab Emirates. We lead complex transformation programmes for organisations across government, critical infrastructure, financial services and energy, as they modernise for an AI economy.
Why Portal Global
problem solvers
Most transformation programmes don't fail because of the strategy. They fail because of poor delivery. That's the problem we solve.
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Senior access and judgment
A distinguished Global Council brings diplomatic, law-enforcement, technology, governance and policy insight. It opens doors and de-risks delivery in the rooms that matter.
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Boutique agility, enterprise discipline
Our senior people have run programmes like yours before, so decisions that take other firms weeks, we make in days, without cutting corners. The same people who scope the work deliver it, with the rigour that government and regulated-sector programmes require.
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Trusted in sensitive environments
Our team holds national security and defence clearances. We've worked in defence, government and sovereign settings for three decades without a single security incident.
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Independence and objectivity
Our programme leaders answer to the client, not to the vendors they manage. Independent judgment keeps scope, cost, and supplier decisions honest.
Client First
our work speaks for itself
Clients trust us with the programmes that matter most to them, in the sectors where getting delivery wrong is unacceptable.
We've delivered for governments, critical infrastructure operators, major banks and telecommunications companies in Australia and the Gulf, in sectors where a failed programme makes headlines.
Substance, in numbers
- 30
- Years of complex programme delivery
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- Offices in Sydney and Abu Dhabi
- 5
- Global ecosystem partners
- 6
- UAE engagements since 2024
The Council
the hardest problems deserve the best minds
We are honoured to be joined by a world-leading council of experts who have made meaningful contributions to the progress of economies and societies.
Drawing on decades of hands-on experience in leadership, transformation, reform, innovation and entrepreneurship, they provide the hindsight, insight and foresight needed to shape policy and strategy in the public interest.
Portal Partners
together, we go further
The right outcomes depend on the best partners.
We choose our partners carefully: organisations that share our values and bring the depth of expertise our clients deserve.
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An award-winning European digital transformation agency; the world's first Stripe Certified Agency Partner.
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UTS Startups is Australia's largest tech entrepreneurship program, operated by the University of Technology Sydney.
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Senior advisory across finance, commercial strategy, operations and transformation enabled by technology.
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Convenes Australian founders, investors and policymakers, and runs Spark Festival, the country's largest grassroots startup festival.
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Private AI that runs on the client's own premises, for organisations that cannot send sensitive data to an outside service.