Ever Wonder What It's Like to Be on the Security Detail of the...

Available for sale now on Amazon, Public Figures, Private Lives: An Introduction to Protective Security for High Net Worth Individuals and Family Offices, by Christian West, Brian Jantzen, Ivor Terret, and Jared Van Driessche is a powerful read that provides real-life scenarios of what it takes to keep high profile individuals safe and secure. Family office CSOs and former Secret Service agents are calling this book the most informative book they've read on what actually takes place in the protection of the very prominent.

REVIEWS
"Comprehensive, instructive and always practical, this book provides an outstanding overview for those new to the business and plenty of thoughtful insights for those who have been working in family security for years. A successful collaboration by four authors who know their material and are able and willing to share it." ERIC POWELL, Chief Security Officer, Private Family Office

"Having served twenty years as a supervisory special agent in the United States Secret Service, my advice is this: If you're involved in protective security for high net worth families or individuals as a practitioner, principal, or anywhere else in the estate or family office you want to read this excellent introduction by the best guys in the industry. This is also a must-read for anyone who wants to transition into the field from government service." SCOTT B. ALSWANG, Director of the Association of the Former Agents of the United States Secret Service, EVP SOS Security

"This book, definitely the first of its kind, is destined to become a bible for executive protection specialists and high net worth individuals and families around the globe. The authors are highly qualified and specialized in international executive protection and know their subject. No fairytales, no fiction, just real-world non-fiction. It s a pleasure to read and worth every minute of my time. Thank you, guys, for caring and sharing your deep insights." THOMAS GEPPERT, Head of Corporate Security, Deutsche Börse Group

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Security experts Christian West, Brian Jantzen, Ivor Terret, and Jared Van Driessche draw on decades of experience to enlighten readers on the complex security required to protect high net worth individuals and families in today’s world.

This book has no intention of being a “how to” manual. Rather, it presents a pragmatic overview to inform those concerned or curious about what it takes to provide high-end security for prominent high net worth individuals and families with special protection needs. Whether you are a protector or a stakeholder in the family office and estate ecosystems, this book will provide you with a better understanding of real protective security and help remove any Hollywood misconceptions so that you can be better equipped to ask the right critical questions.

The book is structured in four parts: foundations of family protective security, management concerns, program transitions, and personnel issues. Each part begins with an anonymized, but illustrative story that brings home the personal and sensitive nature of executive protection when it is embedded inside a family. Finally, the book closes with 11 real-life cases drawn from AS Solution’s experience as the industry leader in providing protection for high net worth individuals and families.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Christian West
Christian has been active in the executive protection industry since the late 1980s, when he worked for Danish musicians who relocated to Hollywood. Upon returning to Denmark, he founded his own EP company, which he quickly grew into Scandinavia's largest, before it was acquired by Securitas.

Christian founded AS Solution in 2003, and again in 2009 followed his international clients to the US, where he is now based. An active member of ASIS and a leader in the corporate executive protection industry, Christian has personally planned and led high-profile engagements in over 76 countries for a wide variety of corporate and high net worth individual clients, including the international roadshow for the biggest IPO in history.

Brian Jantzen
After leaving the US Marine Corps as a captain in the early 1990s, Brian pioneered corporate executive protection services internationally for Fortune 500 companies, high net worth families and NGOs.

Brian has provided protection at the highest levels of corporate and philanthropic environments in over 35 countries. With his demonstrated ability to align security operations with both the client's organizational goals and personal preferences, Brian uses his strong relationship building, collaboration and project and vendor management expertise to create security solutions that deliver program efficiencies and customer satisfaction. Brian graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Sociology and is the subject matter expert chair for the ASIS Executive Protection Council.

Ivor Terret
Ivor Terret, is currently based in Israel, where upon leaving national service in the Israel Defense force and Israeli Police he was selected to help found and architect a government Surveillance Detection and Covert Security Unit tasked with protecting Heads of State and Strategic Sites.

Ivor brings over two decades of international counter terror experience at both the official and private sector levels and holds an MSc in Security and Risk Management from the University of Leicester where he was awarded the esteemed Dissertation of the Year Award for his research. Ivor served as the elected Chairperson of the ASIS Israel Chapter for year 2016 and 2017.

Jared Van Driessche
Over the course of his diverse eighteen-year career, Jared has planned, executed and led close protection details for CEOs, dignitaries, board of directors, celebrities, media, and various public figures on more than 300 international trips to over 70 different countries. He has extensive international exposure, including the provision of close protection and threat assessment to clients in high-risk environments throughout Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East.

For over three years, Jared worked as the Director of Operations, for one of the nation's leading executive protection firms and was responsible for strategic leadership and oversight of all full-time embedded operations worldwide overseeing more than 400 protective and intelligence agents which entailed the cultivation, development and quality control of executive protection programs across the globe.

For over seven years, he was the detail leader of one of the largest private protective details in the country for a CEO and his family. While later serving as a Los Angeles & San Francisco Regional Director with a world renowned executive protection firm, Jared oversaw sixteen full-time protective details and managed over 80 full-time security agents in his region.

While working with various industry leaders, Jared has ensured the safety, security, and privacy of numerous at-risk public figures and their families providing them close-protection in all facets of their life to include: organizing scheduled (and non-scheduled) public appearances, motorcades, planning routes, establishing safe zones, maintaining site/venue security and liaising with foreign protective agents to ensure the safe arrival, stay and departure of traveling public figures.

In addition to his operational responsibilities, Jared has consulted large corporations on workplace violence, emergency planning, business vulnerabilities, executive safety, and threat mitigation practices.

To post a comment, you must register and login.