About K. “KC” Campbell
Campbell, CBCP, CPP® is a security and intelligence professional with experience and training in security risk 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—the world’s largest association of security professionals. He has also earned his Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) certification from DRI International.
In his prior career as a U.S. military intelligence officer, his responsibilities included protective intelligence operations; counter-weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and counterterrorism recommendations; war and contingency planning; establishing military-to-military special intelligence relationships with European countries; leading extremely sensitive intelligence and other planning efforts against Iran and North Korea; and assisting U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. State Department evacuation planning after Japan’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in March 2011.
Mr. Campbell’s 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 intelligence collaboration with U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP), resulting in the placement of 79 terrorists on the No-Fly List; prioritizing more than 1,000 individuals for U.S. CBP to mitigate against terrorist entry into the U.S.; and initiating and leading production of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s first analysis on the Islamic State’s financial vulnerabilities.
He has led security risk assessments for the U.S. government, private industry, and nonprofit organizations. His risk assessments for nonprofits include houses of worship and the headquarters of a national nonprofit. He also served on the technical committee to update ASIS International’s security risk assessment standard, which the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved in April 2024. The document sets the risk assessment standard for the global security industry.
His seven years of executive protection experience includes a foreign government dignitary, a corporate client at both 2016 presidential conventions, Hollywood celebrities at “red carpet” events, national and local news media personalities, and workplace violence details. He has training and experience in behavioral threat assessment and management with various structured professional judgment tools.
He has presented three times at the Global Security Exchange, the 15,000-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 training sessions on armed attackers, and on behavioral threat assessment and threat management.
Mr. Campbell is a contributor to Domestic Preparedness Journal and Homeland Security Today. He served on the 2022 Advisory Board of Domestic Preparedness (a nonprofit organization hosted by the Texas Division of Emergency Management) and its Domestic Preparedness Journal. He has been quoted and appeared in security and intelligence-related news articles and segments for Bloomberg Businessweek, CNET, Homes & Gardens, House Beautiful, Newsy, NTD News, 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.
