Wayne Black is an author, public speaker, former law enforcement officer and internationally recognized security expert with more than forty-five years of professional experience in both the public and private sectors. He is the founder of Wayne Black & Associates, Inc. For more than a decade, Mr. Black was the Security Advisor/Protection Detail Lead traveling internationally with former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and the Rumsfeld Foundation.
Mr. Black routinely provides detailed threat assessments for schools, churches, synagogues, hospitals, and other facilities. He has personally supervised protection details and special threat assignments in the United States, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and South America. As a contractor for the Department of Homeland Security after the events of 9/11, Mr. Black was selected to work on a classified “Red Team” conducting threat assessments at designated national security locations and events. During the first Gulf War, he designed and managed an accelerated security clearance program for the US Department of Energy. He also trained DOE officials in security operations and personal protection.
Mr. Black has been qualified to testify as an expert witness regarding security in Federal and State courts. He is a nationally certified firearms instructor in pistol, rifle, shotgun, and range safety officer’s training. Mr. Black served as a Law Enforcement Group Supervisor at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Public Corruption/Organized Crime Unit. Prior, he was assigned to the United States Justice Department’s Inter-Agency Task Force at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) where he received numerous awards and commendations from the Department of Justice and the United States Attorney.