J Damien Scott, Trusted Advisor

Knowing what is being protected, from whom, and under what obligations, before a single post order is written.

• Led a threat and vulnerability assessment program covering 22 C-suite principals, combining OSINT, behavioral threat analysis, and geopolitical risk data into individualized protection architectures.
• Engineered a protective intelligence platform integrating real-time open-source monitoring, dark web surveillance, and social media threat detection for 18 executive principals, cutting mean time to threat identification from 72 hours to under 4.
• Directed advance security assessments for 200+ high-risk executive movements a year across 12 countries: route analysis, venue hardening, counter-surveillance, and TSCM sweeps.
• Maintained 98%+ currency across country security plans, site assessments, and route risk assessments in four Level 4 and conflict-affected environments.

Governance that connects protective decisions to the organization's objectives and its regulatory obligations.

• Led a cross-functional team of 16 security, intelligence, and legal professionals to author and publish an enterprise executive protection governance policy aligned to ISO 31030 and ANSI/BEP EPS 2026, reaching full compliance within 90 days of deployment.
• Built an ISO/IEC 27001 information security management system from inception, carried it to a held certificate in 2020, and sustained it through the standard's revision to 2024. Certified scope: federal and government contracts and company headquarters.
• Architected a nationwide executive protection program from inception on a risk-tiered framework across 12 states, reducing unmitigated threat exposure by 60% in the first year.
• Led CMMC compliance: scoped the CUI environment, implemented the 110-control NIST SP 800-171 baseline, and carried the program to assessment readiness for federal contract eligibility.

Protection executed with discipline, in environments where the threat was never distant.

• Directed a 56-agent executive protection team providing 24/7 coverage for 8 senior principals nationwide on a $4.2 million annual budget, without a principal safety incident and at 99% budgetary compliance.
• Executed two full-scale country evacuations, Haiti and Kurdistan, during acute civil unrest, with full accountability and the safety of every expatriate.
• Orchestrated post-earthquake disaster recovery in Haiti, holding Ericsson's business continuity intact while coordinating life support and logistics for 60+ expatriate personnel.
• Directed a formal investigations program spanning 900+ cases: threats, workplace violence, misconduct, fraud, insider risk, and critical incidents, held to evidentiary discipline and legal defensibility.
• Cut average incident response time by 75% through redesigned dispatch protocols, defined escalation pathways, and disciplined post-incident review.

Measuring what protection achieved, auditing it against the standard, and feeding the findings back.

• Delivered six ISO/IEC 27001 Clause 9.2 internal audits for external client organizations: full-scope audits against the standard and the client's documented information, findings classified by severity, results presented to client leadership.
• Reduced revenue leakage by 95% through redesigned timekeeping controls, billing reconciliation, contract compliance, post coverage validation, and formal exception review.
• Rebuilt an underperforming client executive protection program within 35 days of award with a KPI-driven quality management system that closed every identified gap and improved agent retention by 50%.
• Translated operational and security risk into Board-level reporting, with customer health dashboards and corrective-action tracking through closure.