Executive Outcomes

Executive Outcomes

Type	Private military security firm
Industry	Private military and security contractor
Founded	1989
Founder	Eeben Barlow
Defunct	1998
Area served	Africa (Angola, Sierra Leone)
Products	Providing military combat forces including personnel and equipment, law enforcement and training, logistics, Close quarter training, and security services
Services	Security management, full-service risk management consulting
Revenue	Unknown
Operating income	Unknown
Net income	Unknown
Number of employees	2000+

Executive Outcomes was a private military company (PMC) founded in South Africa by former Lieutenant-Colonel of the South African Defence Force Eeben Barlow in 1989. It later became part of the South African-based holding company Strategic Resource Corporation.

In 1989, following the conclusion of South African Border Wars in Angola and Namibia, the apartheid regime in South Africa was beginning to dissolve. The South African Defence Force was looking at broad cuts in its personnel. African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela demanded that then South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk dismantle some of the South African and South-West African Special Forces units such as 32 Battalion and Koevoet. One of these was the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), a unit that carried out covert operations which included assassinations of government opponents, and worked to bypass the United Nations apartheid sanctions by setting up overseas front companies.

Only Koevoet – being part of the South West African Police (SWAPOL) — was disbanded as part of independence negotiations for South-West Africa (now Namibia). Many members of the other units, or simply former national servicemen, were recruited by Executive Outcomes (EO).