Corporate officers today face a daunting array of threats. What’s a concerned and responsible board of directors to do?
What can boards of directors do to help protect senior executives who, more often than not, are as much an asset to a corporation as its key products, brands, and technologies? What can -- and should -- it cost not to insure, but to ensure, a senior executive’s physical safety? These are among the topics being discussed by security professionals the world over.
Executive protection, properly understood and properly practiced, isn’t simple, or cheap. Once upon a time, it might have meant nothing more than hiring a bodyguard -- an ex-cop or retired FBI agent burly and intimidating enough to clear a path through a crowd of rowdy protesters or irate shareholders. Special skills required? At most, some familiarity with evasive driving, a mean karate chop, and perhaps the ability to shoot -- and license to pack -- a gun.
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