We deliver protection, consultation, and crisis response for organizations operating where stakes are highest. Our engagements are underwritten by two products we built for ourselves first: the Guardian intelligence platform and the Watchtower risk console. When the environment shifts, we know — and we move.
A single firm. Three practice areas. Built to operate together.
Protection is the force. Consultation is the judgment. Crisis Response is the follow-through when the environment has already broken. Clients retain us because the three are under one roof, run by the same leadership, informed by the same intelligence stream.
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Protection
Executive · Asset · Facility
High-signal protective operations for principals, families, and installations. Built around discipline, discretion, and quiet professionalism — not theatrics.
The advisory layer clients rely on when the problem is complex, the decision is high-stakes, and a packaged answer won't hold. We assess, design, and hand the program over to the operator or run it ourselves.
When the environment has already deteriorated — political upheaval, natural disaster, hostile actors, infrastructure collapse — we deploy. Evacuation, crisis operations, and recovery, with the standing presence to make it happen.
Guardian is our AI-decisioned intelligence platform: 247 feeds normalized into one operational picture, Cortex triage at 217 millisecond median latency, and a policy layer that automates what should be automatic so operators can spend attention where judgment matters.
Watchtower is the public module of Guardian — a continuously running OSINT console covering every country in the world. Each item carries its source tier and credibility weight. Every score is reproducible back to its inputs. Aggregated ADS-B and AIS give you theater-level movement context without the surveillance surface.
Each capability is delivered by a named practice lead, supported by the same GSOC, the same Guardian instance, and the same standards. Click through to the capability statement.
Executive Protection
Low-profile protective details for principals, families, and visiting senior leadership.
Asset & Facility Security
Site hardening, posture design, access control, and continuous auditing.
Travel Advance
Route and venue advance, local vetting, secure movement planning.
Residential Programs
Layered residential security architecture, staffing, and embedded response.
Risk & Threat Assessments
Structured assessments across physical, digital, and personnel threat surfaces.
Program Design
Security program architecture from first principles — structure, cadence, governance.
Crisis Advisory
Senior advisory during live incidents — triage, communication, recovery posture.
Training & Capability Build
Tiered curriculum from individual awareness through team-level crisis exercises.
Evacuation Planning
Pre-built evacuation routing with live Watchtower monitoring and on-call activation.
Kidnap for Ransom Response
Named-lead crisis response with established in-country liaison and recovery protocols.
Crisis Operations
Live crisis management with operational control when clients need it transferred.
Post-Incident Recovery
Continuity planning, environmental re-assessment, posture rebuild after an incident.
05 · Mission record — Selected, sanitized
The work speaks for itself.
Client names and identifying detail are withheld by default. Where operations are public, we'll discuss them. Where they're not, outcomes are described in aggregate.
Evacuation
Family relocation from a deteriorating capital · 14-hour activation
Executive family extracted during a coordinated political crisis. Advance routing, dual-corridor execution, and continued residential protection on arrival.
Region MENA
Duration 11 days
Protection
Standing protective detail · Fortune 100 principal
Multi-year protective retainer with integrated residential program, travel advance, and a quiet EP posture optimized for visibility containment.
TSG is run by operators, not by a holding company. Each discipline has a named lead with decades of direct experience and the authority to make decisions without committee.
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David Ramirez
Managing Director
Former federal law enforcement, corporate security executive, and crisis response lead. Career spanning protective operations, investigations, and organizational build-out across three continents.
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John Nettles
Director · Protection Practice
Career protective operations specialist with a deep bench in executive protection, residential program design, and training of host-nation protective staff.
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J.F.
Director · Crisis Response Practice
Crisis response and evacuation specialist with extensive deployment experience across high-risk jurisdictions, organizing ground-truth operations where others can't get there.
If you need a firm that does this — we should talk.
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