Financial success creates a paradox. The same visibility and access that generated the wealth also expose the family to threats most people never think about: stalkers, obsessive fans, extortion attempts, disgruntled former employees, custody-related interference, and increasingly, sophisticated online harassment campaigns. Executive protection has quietly become a category of private investigation as important as anything on the traditional PI menu.
Who Actually Needs This
- Founders and CEOs of visible businesses
- Family offices managing generational wealth
- Entertainment and sports professionals
- Physicians, attorneys, and other professionals who make public decisions
- Politically active donors and public commentators
- Any family after a triggering incident — a threatening letter, a stalker, a workplace violence event
What Risk Management Actually Includes
Threat Assessment
The first product we deliver is not bodyguards — it is clarity. A threat assessment identifies who has a documented reason to target the family, whether that reason has escalated in recent months, and what patterns of behavior the current subjects are showing. Threat assessment is a discipline with published methodologies through organizations like ASIS International and the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals.
Digital Exposure Audit
How much of your family is discoverable online? Home address on a property record. Kids' school listed in a foundation press release. Vehicle plates visible in an interview. Daily gym routine visible on a coach's social media. We identify what a determined adversary would find with a weekend of research and then reduce that surface area.
Domestic Staff Vetting
The people with keys to your home should meet the same standard as the people with keys to your company. Housekeepers, nannies, drivers, personal trainers, and contractors all warrant proper vetting. See our background checks service for the standard we apply.
Travel Advance Work
Before a family travels — especially internationally — advance work reduces the number of variables in play: route, accommodations, medical resources, local security contacts, and any known local threat patterns. Most of what protective work costs is preventing incidents, not responding to them.
Litigation Support
Many risk engagements begin because litigation is coming — divorce, business dispute, or estate contest. Our consulting work supports counsel on the investigative side of those cases while our risk management team addresses the security side.
What This Is Not
Risk management is not paranoia and it is not surveillance of your own household. A good engagement makes life quieter, not louder. We are not there to control the family — we are there to identify what should worry them and take it off the list.
The First Conversation
Almost every serious engagement begins with a single confidential meeting: no commitment, no assumptions, just a structured conversation about what has been happening, what feels off, and what the family wants to change. From that conversation comes a written recommendation — sometimes as small as three items to address, sometimes an ongoing engagement.
Working With Your Existing Team
Most high-net-worth families already have a trusted attorney, a financial advisor, and possibly an existing security consultant. We work alongside — not around — those relationships. The strongest security programs are the ones where the whole team knows the whole picture.
A Word on Confidentiality
Everything in an engagement of this type stays inside our office. Client rosters are not shared, cases are not discussed at industry events, and matter names are kept off written communication whenever practical. Discretion is not a feature — it is the entire product.
Ready to Speak Confidentially?
Every case is different. Call for a private consultation with a licensed California investigator.
