Eeben Barlow

Eeben Barlow is a South African military veteran and businessman.

He previously served as the second-in-command of the 32 Battalion. He founded the private military contractor (PMC) Executive Outcomes (EO) in 1989, and was involved in providing counter-insurgency as well as peacekeeping forces in Africa and Asia. Barlow resigned from Executive Outcomes in July 1997 and the company closed its doors on 31 December 1998. Some consider Eeben Barlow the grandfather of modern private military companies as the founder of Executive Outcomes.