Our Assets
Darrell M. Blocker
Retired in October of 2018 as the most senior black CIA officer in the Directorate of Operations. In his 32 years in the Intelligence Community, Darrell rose to the rank equivalency to a three-star general, served as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service (SIS), Chief of CIA’s iconic operational training facility, Deputy Director of the Counterterrrorism Center, and Chief of Africa Division.
Darrell is currently an ABC News Contributor and Chief Operating Officer for MOSAIC, a strategic crisis management intelligence and security advisory firm. Darrell is collaborating on several projects in the entertainment industry, including MGM/Skydance's spy thriller TV showCondor.
He is the recipient of the George H. W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism (2014), Commendation for War Zone service (2007), and the Directorate of Operations Manager of the Year (2004). He most recently received the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal at his retirement award ceremony at CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA.
Jayne Amelia Larson
Jayne has hands-on experience of story development and production, has been on the producing teams of several award-winning films and plays, and is a creative content producer for business development and branding.
Jayne is the author of the New York Times bestselling nonfiction book Driving The Saudis (Simon & Schuster), also a People Magazine Top Book Picks now in development as a TV series.
She was the VP of Story Development at Entitled Entertainment, producing 13 Conversations About One Thing (Sony Pictures Classics), Levity (Sony), The Illusion (Awakened Media), and LA Riot Spectacular(Visionbox); producer on Aurora Borealis (Regent), and the Tony-winning play Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Matt Mahvi
Mr. Mahvi began operating in the field of cyber security at the age of 12. He started his first company in the space at 15, and has started and operated three successful companies, the last of which, Staminus, specialized in global DDoS mitigation and effectively stopped millions of attacks. He pivoted the company in 2012, added nearly 100 brand-name customers, protected about 1% of the Internet, and lead the company to acquisition four years later at 14x revenue.
Mr. Mahvi has extensive experience designing and operating cyber security solutions, data centers, cloud software solutions, and global Internet backbones. He specializes in advanced low level software architecture, as well as hyper-scale projects requiring secure data communication.
He has three technical cyber security utility U.S. patents and has personally been involved in stopping more than 3.5 million individual attacks. He has written several well-received articles, publicly presented at conferences, sat on several cyber security panels at renowned events, traveled to 45 countries, and speaks three languages.
Neil livingstone
Neil is one of leading security experts in the world. A former candidate for Governor of Montana, he is Chairman and CEO of a new company called ExpertOutcomes LLC. He previously was Chairman and CEO of ExecutiveAction LLC, and international security and business solutions company, and founder, Chairman and CEO of GlobalOptions Inc., which he took public in 2005 (and which went on the NASDAQ in 2007) and had sales of $105 million. He was also a Director of Erickson Air-Crane, and become Lead Director in 2006 and oversaw the sale of the company in 2007. For nearly ten years, he worked with the Chairman of the largest private company in Central Asia (with 27,000 employees and $4 billion in revenue), handling external relations including banking relationships, security, investments, large-scale equipment purchases, political issues and trade matters. He has served as a shareholder and officer of a number of companies including an international airline and a television production company partnered with Jerry Bruckheimer. He has served on more than three dozen advisory boards and worked in more than 60 countries.
A prolific writer, he is the author of 11 books, one of which was a television movie-of-the-week. A member of the Writer’s Guild, he has written for television as well as motion pictures and regularly consulted by production companies. He has appeared on more than 1700 television programs and 1250 radio programs.
Tom Brokaw described Livingstone as “one of this nation’s preeminent authorities on terrorism.” Esquire called him “the Most Interesting Man in the World.” He was recently introduced at the Institute for World Politics as “the dean of America’s terrorism experts.” He has delivered more than 500 major speeches to institutions ranging from the House of Commons to the United Nations, Institutional Investor, Harvard, the National Summit on Africa, the Herzilya Conference, the U.S.-China Economic & Security Commission, and the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds an A.B. (with Honors) for the College of William & Mary, three Masters degrees, and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.
Shawnee Delaney
Shawnee Delaney, a decorated Intelligence Officer and licensed private investigator, is the CEO of Vaillance Group. Vaillance Group leverages Shawnee’s extensive knowledge of insider threats to protect clients’ assets, people, and confidential information from the vulnerabilities that come from both malicious and unintentional threats. As a certified Case Officer, one of the few Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) civilians to be trained at CIA’s iconic training facility often referred to as “The Farm”, Shawnee spent nearly a decade with the DIA conducting clandestine Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations all over the world. She served as a Supervisory Branch Chief supporting EUCOM, CENTCOM, PACOM and AFRICOM requirements. Shawnee has truly global experience as a human intelligence officer operating in Africa, Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S.. She served four combat zone tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Case Officer and Detachment Chief. Additionally, she supported the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) coordinating and managing intelligence community relationships and partnerships in the protection of U.S. critical infrastructure and industrial control systems for the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).
She is a subject matter expert in Insider Threat Program Development, corporate investigations, and creation of education and awareness programs encompassing trade secret protection, unauthorized disclosures, internal security, counter intelligence, and cyber security. Shawnee has specialized experience and training in insider threat program management, counter intelligence operations, surveillance/counter surveillance, cyber technologies/threats, counter terrorism, HUMINT operations, international policy/government relations, HUMINT targeting, analysis, and counter proliferation issues. She holds a M.A. in International Policy Studies with a Specialization in Counter Terrorism and Counter Proliferation, and a M.S. in Cyber Security.
In support of civilian clients, Shawnee has worked for Merck Pharmaceuticals where she helped develop a world-class Insider Threat program. Shawnee also led the development of an Insider Threat program for Uber as well as conducted complex corporate investigations all over the globe involving fraud, platform abuse, internal data access abuse, counter intelligence, data exfiltration, and attribution of unauthorized disclosures.