WELCOME TO PANTHER PROTECTION SERVICES
In today's economic times the face of adversity has never looked so common. The prototypical bad guy is no longer a person who doesn't look like us or live among us. Today's threat is not confined to the image of a deranged individual or the overzealous fan but may as well be the person next door who has lost their job with a family of four who hasn't eaten in three days. One thing is true however they are unpredictable. They are often smart, calculated may be evil or just plain desperate. One common denominator is they are highly motivated. Unfortunately, most people are ill-trained to deal with such a confrontation.
Panther Protection Services, LLC is a full service protection agency performing threat assessments, risk and crisis mitigation, protective services, self-defense training, and firearms instruction. We understand the distinction between protecting people and protecting property. Our primary focus is on effective, discreet client protection-- thus our motto “swift but silent.” Our team members are disciplined, dedicated professionals who possess the most important personal protection skill – threat avoidance.
Our goal is personal risk mitigation for our clients, while enhancing their ability to function safely within their business and social environments. Our commitment is to deploying protection of the highest industry standard on all assignments.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Mark “Six” James is the Founder and Executive Director of Panther Protection Services, LLC he is a seasoned Close Protection Operator/Executive Protection Specialist with over 30 years of firearms, martial arts and celebrity/executive protection experience.
No stranger to building high performance teams, prior to starting Panther Protection Services, he was a former corporate executive and ran business units for such distinguished brands as Coca-Cola, Nike, and Miller Heiman.
He got started in the security and protection business by providing firearms training to legislators, judicial members, and several business executives. He later became the Chief Security Officer and personal bodyguard for many of those same clients. He has performed protective services in over forty (40) countries across five (5) continents and regularly protects government officials, corporate executives, entertainers as well as professional athletes. As a crisis and risk mitigation specialist, he specializes in enhancing individual as well as corporate safety protocols through evidence-based threat assessments. He regularly provides situational awareness, crisis management, de-escalation, firearms and combatives training to a number of bodyguard training academies, security companies, executive protection agencies, law enforcement officers as well as private citizens.
He is also a member of the British Bodyguard Association, North American Bodyguard Association, The Summit Group, The Academy of High Threat Protective Studies, Anti-Terrorism Accreditation Board (ATAB), honor graduate of the International Academy of Executive Protection Agents, recipient of the prestigious Golden Gun Award, honor graduate of ICON Services Celebrity and VIP Training and Advanced Executive Protection Course, International Close Quarters Protection Operators Association, International Association of Close Quarter Combat Specialist, International Defensive Pistol Association, Greater Atlanta Defensive Pistol Association, Kuroshi-Do Martial Arts Hall of Fame, and the Sikaron Karate Federation where he holds the rank of 6th Dan and Kenpotaijeetsu RB MMA where he holds the rank of 4th Dan. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Relations from Florida A&M University.
He is an internationally published author, keynote speaker, security consultant to educational institutions and frequent contributor to a number of print, broadcast and online media, and the author of a number of security, firearm and protection publications.
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