Brian Buggé, CPP

Brian Buggé is a managing director with International Risk Intelligence LLC, New York, a leading international private intelligence firm specializing in corporate intelligence, security intelligence, global intelligence management, and advanced e-learning technologies.   Mr. Buggé has over 30 years experience in law enforcement and risk management.  His most recent position was as the National Director of Security & School Safety with Edison Learning, Inc., the largest EMO (Educational Management Organization) in the world, serving hundreds of thousands of K-12 students through alliances, district partnerships, summer schools and Charter Schools in over 23 states and Great Britain. If Edison Learning, Inc. were a school district (among the 15,000 school districts in the U.S.) it would be in the top 25 in size. Previously, Mr. Buggé was Director, Kroll, Inc., active with large-scale security audits and domestic/international investigations for major multinational corporations.  Earlier, he was a Security Consultant with EDI, Ltd. where he performed building security surveys for the U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). He was Sergeant and Staff Assistant to the Chief of Patrol with the Suffolk County (NY) Police Department.  He was nationally recognized as an expert on "Community/Problem-Oriented Policing" and he became a trainer/consultant with the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) in Washington, D.C.  He was also a New York City Corrections Officer and an Investigative Aide with the U.S. Secret Service.   Mr. Buggé is a licensed Private Investigator, a Certified Protection Professional (CPP), a certified trainer in "Non-Violent Crisis Intervention," a New York State Certified Police and Security Guard Instructor, a "Certified Protection Officer Instructor" (CPOI), and he has been trained and certified in both basic and advanced Crime Prevention techniques by The New York State Bureau of Municipal Police Training and the FBI.  Mr. Buggé is a professionally published author, and an active member of The Authors Guild, Inc.  He is an Adjunct Associate Professor, Suffolk County Community College.  He teaches courses at both The University of Phoenix (Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice - Terrorism and Cyber Crime) and Southwestern College (Personnel Investigations).  In 2003, Mr. Buggé helped form the Northeast Chapter of ATAP (Association of Threat Assessment Professionals).  Mr. Buggé received his BS in Police Science and his MA in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY).