Our Management Team

Demetrios Pynes
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With over twelve years experience in operating successful small businesses, eight years experience in the banking and finance industry and post-graduate qualifications in commerce, Demetrios holds the requisite experience to act as our managing director.

Demetrios has held managerial positions in the security industry, formerly holding security officer and crowd control licences.

Demetrios is also the founder of the Strategic Protection of Self course and devotes a significant part of his time into the development of curriculum for our registered training organisation.

Simon Grieves

Simon has some 29 years of experience working in Law Enforcement and Private Security. Of these, 18 years were as a Police Officer with 5 years spent as a weapons instructor and another 6 years in Tactical Operations as an operator and Tactical Commander reaching the rank of Acting Sergeant. This experience is invaluable to our organisation where Simon holds the position of Director of Training and Special Operations.

He entered the private security industry and established himself as a weapons & defensive tactics instructor in the private security sector and delivers training to some of Australia’s largest and respected armed cash in transit security corporations.

Searching to challenge himself and gain more experience he continues to hold operational roles around the world. Simon has worked in Iraq as a training mentor to the Iraqi Police, in West Africa teaching local nationals defensive driving and delivering travel awareness workshops to the mining and resource industry. Today he continues his professional development travelling to the USA undertaking weapons courses and maintaining his own operational skills on active roles locally and internationally.

In his role of Director of Training and Special Operations, Simon is responsible for research and development and has written much of the Operating Policies & Procedure for protective services conducted by Threat Protect.

Simon holds formal qualifications in training and assessment and is a certified instructor in a variety of munitions and weapons.

Simon is the holder of the Threat Protect security and inquiry agent licences.

Paolo (Paul) Ferrara
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In his capacity as Director of Operations, Paul has many years experience in logistics and business, having worked for one of the world’s largest transport companies both here and overseas. With university qualifications in management and information systems, Paul is well suited to his role as operations manager, where correct use of technology and logistic planning is crucial.

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