Sectors
Six contexts where our work lives.
Sectors carry distinct risk pictures and distinct expectations of how protective personnel should appear, behave, and integrate. The descriptions below cover what an engagement typically looks like in each context.
Sector 01
Corporate Executives & C-suite
CEOs, board members, and other public-figure executives whose role creates recurring exposure.
Corporate principals carry exposure that is part role, part visibility, and part current-events. The protective requirement is rarely uniform; it intensifies around earnings, M&A activity, public appearances, organizational change, and incidents that put the executive’s name in headlines.
Typical engagements
- Standing executive protection with variable-intensity coverage tied to the executive’s schedule.
- Event-specific coverage for shareholder meetings, public appearances, and company offsites.
- Travel coverage for trips into elevated-risk jurisdictions or following an incident.
- Threat assessment refresh on a defined cycle and after material events.
Common requirements
Discretion in corporate environments; integration with corporate security, executive assistants, and travel teams; documented coverage that insurers, boards, and audit functions can review.
Sector 02
Family Offices & Private Wealth
Principals, family members, and household-coordinated coverage across residences and travel patterns.
Family-office protective work is the longest-cycle of our engagements. The protective relationship is sustained, often spans multiple residences and jurisdictions, and is coordinated with household management, family-office staff, and existing physical security.
Typical engagements
- Standing protective coverage for one or more principals and dependents.
- Residential and estate coverage at primary and secondary residences.
- Journey management for personal and family travel.
- Documented contingency planning for principals and dependents.
- Capability review and training for in-house security and household staff.
Common requirements
Long-term confidentiality posture, integration with existing household and security infrastructure, clear decision authority and reporting lines defined at the family-office level.
Sector 03
Diplomatic & Visiting Principals
Inbound diplomats, public officials, public-figure speakers, and visiting executives.
Visiting-principal coverage is finite in window but high in coordination overhead. The work centers on advance, on-site coverage, and the documented coordination with the principal’s permanent protective arrangements, host organizations, and Canadian law enforcement where appropriate.
Typical engagements
- Advance work for visit planning, venue selection, and itinerary review.
- Airport meet-and-greet, ground transport, venue protective coverage.
- Coordination with host security teams and law-enforcement liaison.
- Visit close-out and after-action documentation.
Common requirements
Cultural and protocol fluency; clean handover with the principal’s permanent protective detail or host-country arrangements; documented chain of authority for the visit window.
Sector 04
Production & Media
Film, broadcast, and on-location talent and crew.
Production work brings together visible talent, complex on-location footprints, public-facing schedules, and tight time windows. Protective measures need to fit inside production discipline, not interrupt it.
Typical engagements
- Talent close protection for the production window, including travel to and from set.
- Set and location coverage; coordination with location managers and venue security.
- Press junket, premiere, and promotional-event coverage.
- Crew safety planning for elevated-risk shoot environments.
Common requirements
Operational fluency around call sheets and production schedules; low-profile presence on set; defensible documentation for production insurance and union requirements.
Sector 05
Expeditionary & High-Risk Travel
Travel into elevated-risk jurisdictions; standing journey-management programs.
Travel into elevated-risk environments is governed more by preparation than presence. Most of the work happens before the principal leaves home: documented threat picture, route and accommodation review, communications and check-in plan, in-country coordination, and a plan for what happens if conditions change.
Typical engagements
- Trip-specific risk briefs, route plans, and in-country coordination.
- Standing journey-management programs for executives or organizations with recurring travel patterns.
- Pre-arranged personnel relocation planning for organizations operating in environments that may deteriorate.
- In-country protective coverage where the assessment indicates it.
Common requirements
Country and jurisdiction-specific knowledge; coordination with local counterparts under documented arrangements; communications discipline; respect for the legal and political environment of the host country.
Sector 06
Critical Events & Convenings
Conferences, private gatherings, off-site convenings, board meetings.
Event coverage is finite-window, intense, and dependent on advance work. The principals to be protected, the attendees, the venue, and the public profile of the event together set the protective requirement. Quiet integration with the event team is the goal.
Typical engagements
- Pre-event venue and route assessment.
- Principal and attendee close protection during the event window.
- Coordination with venue staff, event organizers, and other security providers.
- Documented event after-action and lessons for recurring events.
Common requirements
Confidentiality around attendees and content; integration with event production and venue security; appropriate appearance for the audience and venue.
Match
Tell us your context and we’ll tell you what an engagement looks like.
If your situation does not fit cleanly into any of the six sectors above, that is also useful information—please get in touch.