Meet the Management Team

Noel Koch

President and Chief Executive Officer

Noel Koch is an expert on terrorism and security-related issues, with more than forty-five years experience in developing intelligence and advanced analytical procedures for identifying and assessing potential threats to individuals, and institutional or corporate assets. His professional background includes providing security and protective services, including personal security details, facilities security, security force management, and personal security awareness training for executives and other high-risk personnel. He served in the US Department of Defense for more than five years as Director for Special Planning, with responsibility for oversight and management of the Pentagon's role in dealing with international terrorism, and he was responsible for the restoration of U.S. Special Operations Forces.

From 1971 to 1974, Mr. Koch served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States. He was responsible for the preparation of Presidential speeches, legislative messages; energy policy development; representing special White House interests before members of Congress; and, selected foreign travel with the President.

Mr. Koch is a former Adjunct Professor specializing in Low-Intensity Conflict in the National Security Studies Program of Georgetown University's Graduate School. He was an instructor for the US State Department's Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, training foreign ministerial-level officials in anti-terrorism policy development, and senior-level crisis management Mr. Koch served most recently as a member of the Defense Science Board Panel on Post-Conflict Stabilization and Reconstruction.

Noel Koch is a Vietnam veteran and served six years in the US Army. He holds degrees from Widener University and Bryn Mawr College, and is a graduate of the US 7th Army Non-Commissioned Officers Academy at Bad Tolz, Germany.

Eric Hankins

Chief Operating Officer