Protection for families, fortunes, and futures.
A risk advisory firm for families, executives, and counsel: protective intelligence, executive protection, and private investigations. Quietly, completely, and on your terms.
Four ways to start, from free to fully managed.
A private protection and intelligence firm for families, executives, and the organizations they lead.
Our people come from national intelligence, special operations, and federal protective service. We bring that standard to a small circle of private clients, and we plan everything around the life in front of us. One call gets you a senior principal, not a sales team.
Executive protection, private investigations, threat assessment, facility hardening, and counter-drone advisory, delivered as one plan.
High-net-worth families, family offices, CEOs and entrepreneurs, public figures, and the counsel and advisors who look after them.
Licensed in Virginia (DCJS 11-30268). Client names are never published. We operate at home and across borders.
Most families already have security. Few have someone running it.
A response membership, an alarm company, a cyber provider, an insurer, a driver. Each does its job, and the gaps sit between them. SAG works above the providers a family already has: we find where they overlap and where nothing is covered, then coordinate them into one plan under one principal.
Keep what works
We do not ask you to replace a response membership or an existing team. Keep it for evacuation and medical. We make sure you rarely need it.
Close the gaps
The Exposure Assessment shows what an adversary could find and which of your providers, if any, is responsible for it.
One accountable principal
Quarterly briefs, vendor coordination and a single call when something changes, under the Protective Intelligence Cell retainer.
A complete protective platform.
Four core services, one team. Most clients start with one and add the rest as their needs grow. Every engagement is led by a firm principal.
Executive Protection
Close protection for principals, families, and executives, at home and across borders. From a single trip to a dedicated team that runs the entire security apparatus around you.
Close protectionSecure travel & advanceResidential teamsTouring talentDedicated retainer teams → 02Private Investigations
Investigations for families, companies, and counsel. Facts gathered lawfully, handled discreetly, and built to hold up under scrutiny.
Litigation supportDue diligence & KYCAsset tracingCyber & digital forensicsWitness security → 03Threat Assessment & Protective Intelligence
We map your exposure the way an adversary would, digital, physical, and personal, then hand you a prioritized plan to close it and watch for what changes.
Threat & risk assessmentExposure mappingDigital footprint reductionContinuous monitoring → 04Facility Hardening & Counter-Drone Advisory
Residences, offices, and campuses surveyed on site and hardened on the ground and in the air, including drone threat assessment and detection planning.
Site surveysTechnical securityCounter-drone advisoryResponse planning →Major Events
Emergency action plans, venue risk assessment, and talent protection for festivals, conventions, and civic events.
Event planning →Training & Instruction
Medical, driving, firearms, surveillance detection, and SERE, taught by the people who do the work.
See courses →Government Advisory
Protective services, investigations and assessments for U.S. agencies, and Foreign Internal Defense advisory for allied governments.
Government services →
We come to you, and we assess everything.
A full threat assessment conducted on site, at your residence, office, or campus, anywhere in the world. We walk the ground, test the assumptions, and document what an adversary would find. Then we harden it.
Request a Threat AssessmentApproach routes, entry points, control layers, and standoff.
Camera coverage, alarms, locks, lighting, and surveillance detection.
Staff vetting, visitor control, and the habits that quietly create exposure.
Safe rooms, evacuation, medical, and what happens in the first four minutes.
The threat now arrives from above.
A commercial drone can photograph a residence, map a family’s routine, or reach a venue without passing a single gate. We assess your airspace exposure, specify lawful detection systems, and write the response plan your staff and local law enforcement will follow.
Flight paths, sightlines, and the vantage points an operator would use against you.
Vendor-neutral selection and placement of lawful detection sensors for estates, campuses, and events.
What staff do when a drone appears, and how incidents are documented and reported to law enforcement and the FAA.
SAG provides counter-drone advisory, detection planning, and response procedures. Drone mitigation, including jamming, spoofing, or interception, is restricted under U.S. federal law to authorized government agencies, and SAG does not perform it. All work is conducted in accordance with FAA regulations and applicable federal, state, and local law.
The day you engage us, the line turns.
How exposure evolves over twenty-four months under three approaches. Hover the chart for any month.
With SAG Protection
Proactive intelligence and continuous monitoring bring exposure down and hold it there, with fast response to any elevation.
Reactive Approach
Risk spikes during incidents, falls after response, then climbs again. Constant volatility, no sustained protection.
No Protection
Unchecked accumulation as exposure widens, threats materialize, and vulnerabilities compound over time.
Illustrative model of how exposure typically behaves under each approach. Actual profiles are established during assessment.
Learn More About Our ApproachFor those who shape industries and safeguard legacies.
Family Offices
Protecting what matters most, with discretion that fits the household.
- ·Travel & residential security
- ·Privacy & digital footprint control
- ·Family-wide protective intelligence
Corporate Executives
Enterprise-grade risk management for leadership and boards.
- ·Executive protection & secure travel
- ·Crisis & threat management
- ·KYC & due diligence
Litigation Support
Intelligence for high-stakes cases, built for counsel.
- ·Private investigations & research
- ·Witness security & protection
- ·Asset tracing & recovery
High-Net-Worth Individuals
For principals whose exposure grew faster than their security did.
- ·Personal threat assessment
- ·Residential & travel protection
- ·Privacy & data removal
Entertainment & Touring
Talent protection that holds up in crowds, venues, and transit.
- ·Tour & venue advance work
- ·Fixated individual management
- ·Close protection on the road
Government & Public Officials
Protective support for officials and their staff, at home and abroad.
- ·Advance & protective support
- ·Secure official travel
- ·Venue & event security
Calculated, never reactionary.
The same cycle the intelligence community uses to support national decisions, applied to your family or enterprise. Every engagement runs on it, from a single investigation to a full protective detail.
Direction
We define what matters: the people, places, and assets to protect, and the questions you need answered.
Principals, priorities, intelligence requirements
Collection
We gather what an adversary could find, lawfully and quietly, online, on site, and in the record.
Open-source research, site surveys, interviews, records
Analysis
We turn findings into judgment: who could act against you, how, and what it would cost.
Threat and vulnerability assessment, adversary view
Action
We deliver the answer and the protection, from the brief on your desk to the team at your door.
Protective details, hardening, investigative reports
Review
We watch for change and feed every lesson back into direction. The cycle runs for as long as you are our client.
Continuous monitoring, reassessment, after-action review
What that standard buys you.
Credentials are the entry price, not the service. What a client feels is judgment under pressure, work that holds up when examined, and a team that never becomes part of the story.
Proven at the highest level
The standards and discipline of the nation’s most selective protective and intelligence services, brought to your family or enterprise.
Safety with real ROI
Every recommendation is measured in risk reduced, reputation protected, and problems prevented before they escalate.
Clarity in a complex world
Ongoing assessment and trusted counsel, so you can move with confidence through an ever-changing risk environment.
Proven origins.
Our people were selected, trained, and proven inside the organizations below before they came to us. They brought the standards with them. To name a few:
Organizations listed indicate the prior service of SAG personnel. SAG is a private firm and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any government agency.
Speak With UsFormer Tier 1 Intelligence & Operators.
Our leadership stands in front of the work. The operators and investigators who carry it out do not, and that is deliberate.
Joshua Alphonso
Josh is SAG’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer. He leads the firm’s intelligence and client advisory work and advises principals directly.
He spent 18+ years across Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). He has worked with allied military and intelligence partners in active combat zones across the Middle East, Africa and South America, teaching them how to conduct Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations and targeting. He earned his Executive MBA at Georgetown University.
Andrew Sullivan
Sully is SAG’s Chief Operating Officer. He runs the firm’s protective operations and training and sets the standard every SAG team works to.
A retired U.S. Navy SEAL Senior Chief, he served nearly two decades in Naval Special Warfare, including at DEVGRU (SEAL Team 6), where he led a counterterrorism unit through more than 75 combat missions. His decorations include the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars with Valor and the Purple Heart. He co-founded the Community First Project, which trains police officers nationwide free of charge.
Sean Winter
Sean is SAG’s Director of Strategy & Integration. He turns intelligence into coordinated plans a family office or executive team can act on.
A U.S. Air Force veteran and intelligence officer, he supported the National Security Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. At the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, he worked with National Intelligence Officers in support of the National Security Council and served as a liaison to the U.S. special operations community.
Sindre Rånes
Sindre is SAG’s Director of Operations, Europe & Africa. He leads the firm’s work for clients across both continents.
A former McKinsey & Company consultant, he advised Fortune 500 leadership across Europe and North America. Before that, he served nine years as a Norwegian Armed Forces officer across the Army, Navy and Air Force, finishing at Air Force Headquarters leading strategic planning for NATO and allied operations. He is a graduate of the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy.
Peter Foschi
Peter is SAG’s Director of Training & Resiliency. He prepares clients and their families to travel anywhere with confidence and is a lead instructor for Last Light, the firm’s premier resiliency course.
A U.S. Air Force Academy graduate with an M.A. in National Security Studies, he served 12+ years as an Air Force Combat Rescue Officer. He led rescue teams in combat, served as a Branch Chief at the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, advised NASA on astronaut recovery for SpaceX missions and helped move 9,200 Afghan refugees to safety in 11 days.
Career intelligence officers from a range of U.S. intelligence agencies, Navy SEALs, Special Forces, and other Tier One units, and veterans of federal law enforcement.
Intelligence
Officers drawn from multiple agencies across the intelligence community. Collection, analysis, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and hard-target operations at the national level.
Tier One Operations
Operators from the nation’s special mission units, including Navy SEALs, Special Forces, and other Tier One units, with combat records earned over repeated deployments.
Federal Law Enforcement
Supervisory agents and investigators who led criminal, counterintelligence, and public-corruption cases at home and abroad.
Every engagement is staffed from this bench and led directly by a firm principal. Bench names, biographies, and clearances are withheld here to protect personnel and methods, and are shared with clients in confidence.
Trusted where discretion is the whole job.
We do not publish client names. These are the kinds of principals who have trusted us with their safety.
The cause our clients choose.
When clients ask where their giving can do the most for public safety, we point them to one organization. The Community First Project gives police officers across the country free, life-saving training built by special operations veterans, so the communities they serve are safer.
SAG endorses C1P without reservation. Our COO, Andrew Sullivan, co-founded it, and our team knows the standard of its instruction firsthand. For clients who would like to be part of that work, we make the introduction personally.
Emergency action planning for major events nationwide.
SAG plans and runs emergency action for festivals, conventions, concerts, and civic events across the country, from single-evening gatherings to multi-week programs, hosting national talent, speakers, and public officials.
Emergency Action Plans
Evacuation, shelter, severe weather, and medical response protocols across every venue zone.
Venue Risk Assessment
Every stage, deck, and activation zone assessed for crowd flow, ingress, and egress.
Agency Coordination
Unified planning with municipal police, fire, EMS, and city leadership ahead of gates.
Talent & VIP Protection
Movement planning and close protection for headline talent, speakers, and officials on site.
One map every responder can work from.
Every plan starts with a gridded site map, so police, fire, EMS, and our own team share a single reference for every zone, entrance, and rally point. The scope is set by the client: a single evening, a multi-day festival, a touring season, or anything in between.
Train with the people who do the work.
Medical, driving, firearms, surveillance detection, active threat response and SERE, for families, corporate teams, law enforcement and government. Choose your path and see the courses built for you.
Our latest thinking.
Understanding Executive Protection in the Modern Era
How protective intelligence has evolved to meet the threats now facing high-profile individuals.
The Role of OSINT in Family Office Security
How open-source intelligence identifies and mitigates threats before they ever materialize.
Travel Security: Best Practices for Principals
Essential protocols for staying secure while traveling domestically and across borders.
Let’s talk.
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