Episode #288: Former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow - full interview

This Week's Guests:

Former secret service agent - Jonathan Wackrow

Comedian - Dan Naturman

Episode 288

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Jonathan Wackrow is a Senior Managing Director and COO of Teneo Risk and serves as the Global Head of Security for Teneo. Jonathan leads enterprise risk and crisis management engagements and advises CEOs, management teams, and Boards on issues relating to risk intelligence, enterprise security risk management, and crisis preparedness and response.

Mr. Wackrow is an exclusive Law Enforcement Analyst for CNN, providing on-air analysis of risk, safety, and security matters for domestic and international events.

Prior to joining Teneo, Mr. Wackrow was the Executive Director of RANE Corp’s Advisory Group. In that capacity, he advised leading corporations on enterprise security risk management, business intelligence and diligence research, critical infrastructure protection, and crisis management procedures. Mr. Wackrow is a nationally recognized expert on enterprise risk security policy and procedures. He regularly presents at the annual conferences for ASIS International, Event Services Professionals Association, the Association of Corporate Councils, Pension Investment Association of Canada, and Meeting Planners International.

Mr. Wackrow spent the majority of his professional career as a Special Agent in the United States Secret Service, serving as a criminal investigator in New York City and as a member of the Presidential Protection Division in Washington, DC. While assigned to the President’s detail, he managed numerous high-level security operations both in the United States and abroad while assigned to the protection of the President and First Lady of the United States.

Mr. Wackrow’s philosophy towards corporate security risk management is simple; security should be a workforce multiplier to enhance other organizational divisions, helping to achieve the Financial goals of the company. Jonathan has extensive involvement designing enterprise security risk policies and procedures, which require deep understanding of critical business-drivers in multiple operating segments. He is highly successful in building relationships with upper-level decision makers, seizing control of critical problem areas, and delivering on client commitments.

Jonathan Wackrow is the current Chair of the ASIS International’s Executive Protection Counsel, a Commission Member with The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Commission on Hostage Taking, and is a graduate of Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and the United States Secret Service Academy.

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