K. Campbell, CBCP, CPP® is a security and intelligence professional with experience
and training in security management; risk, threat, and vulnerability assessments;
executive protection; event security; and business continuity. He is a Certified
Protection Professional, board certified in security management by ASIS International.
He has also earned his Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) certificate
from DRI International.
In his prior career as a U.S. military intelligence officer, his responsibilities included
protective intelligence operations; counter-WMD and counterterrorism
recommendations; war and contingency planning; training Japan Air Self-Defense
Force officers on crisis action planning and the air tasking process; and leading highly
sensitive intelligence and other planning efforts against Iran and North Korea.
His counterterrorism experience includes identifying the need to, and orchestrating, an
overhaul of a major U.S. counterterrorism plan for the Middle East; establishing and
leading collaboration with the U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP), resulting in
the placement of 79 terrorists on the No-Fly List; prioritizing 1,000+ names for U.S.
CBP to mitigate against terrorist entry into the U.S.; and initiating and leading
production of one of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s first analyses on the Islamic
State’s financial vulnerabilities.
Mr. Campbell has led security risk assessments for the U.S. government and private
industry. His executive protection experience includes a foreign government dignitary,
a corporate client at both 2016 presidential conventions, Hollywood celebrities at “red
carpet” events, and workplace violence details. He has training and experience in
violence risk assessment with various structured professional judgment tools.
He has presented twice at the Global Security Exchange, the 20,000-attendee flagship
conference for the international security industry. He has trained more than 100
prosecutors and law enforcement officials in California on personal risk management,
personal security, and privacy. He has also held other training sessions on the same topics.
Mr. Campbell is a contributor to Domestic Preparedness Journal, Homeland Security Today,
and ClearanceJobs. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Committee of Domestic
Preparedness Journal. He has also been quoted in and appeared in security and
intelligence-related news articles and segments for Bloomberg Businessweek, CNET, Newsy, Voice of America, the Washington Post, a local television news station, and various podcasts. Mr. Campbell obtained a Master of Arts degree in global risk from Johns Hopkins
University’s School of Advanced International Studies, a Master of Arts degree in
military operational art and science from the Air Command & Staff College at the U.S. Air Force’s Air University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Virginia Tech.
