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DENNIS M. CROWLEY, JR.
Chairman & Co-CEO
Mr. Crowley has over thirty years of experience, both as a field operative and senior executive, in law enforcement, intelligence, counterintelligence, and security operations. He began his career as a Combat Defense Officer in the Strategic Air Command and later accepted an assignment with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI). After graduating from the Special Investigations Academy, he served in several OSI assignments in the US and overseas. He was a member of OSI's Special Operations Team, a small group specially trained in counterespionage and special operations, and organized to perform short-notice tasks worldwide. Upon leaving the Air Force, he adapted his military experience to public sector law enforcement, becoming a recognized expert on organized crime and the use of intelligence to combat organized criminal organizations. He served as the Chief of Intelligence in the Massachusetts Organized Crime Unit and later as Deputy Director of the New England Organized Crime Intelligence System. Moving to the private sector, he continued to apply his operational and technical expertise in a wide range of consulting assignments for the Department of Justice as well as state and local law enforcement agencies. In one of those assignments, he developed an interest and expertise in private security and after completing that Justice Department project, he joined a growing regional security services firm as an executive and member of the Board of Directors. He founded Apollo Security in 1990.
He wrote and directed implementation of the security plan for the protection of Patricia Hearst and her family as directed by the court when Patricia was first released on bail. He has written and lectured extensively on a wide range of security and law enforcement issues, including executive protection, terrorism, crowd control, and crime prevention, and he is the author of two model statutes in the Report of the Task Force on Private Security, National Commission on Standards and Goals. An attorney, Mr. Crowley is a member of the Massachusetts Bar. He received a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) designation from the American Society for Industrial Security in 1978.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
1990 - Present
Mr. Crowley is President and Chief Executive Officer of Apollo Security, Inc., a firm which provides a range of security related services to corporations, institutions and select government agencies.
1975-1990
Vice President, First Security Services Corporation, Boston, MA. Mr. Crowley joined this firm in its start-up stages as Vice President, Corporate Development , General Counsel, and Member of the Board of Directors. The private consulting practice he operated before joining the company was assimilated into First Security. He was a member of the four person executive team which managed the firm in its formative years. The firm was the largest security firm in the region and 11th largest in the country at the time Mr. Crowley left to found Apollo. Over the years, he also served as VP, Human Resources; Group VP, Security Operations; and President, Private Security Training Institute, a First Security subsidiary. He was also responsible for managing the New England Patriot's Football Team security program for First Security for seven years.
1972-1975
Private Consultant, primarily to the US Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and to State Law Enforcement Planning Agencies and municipal police department in the New England region. He worked on Justice Department projects such as: Assessment of Strategies to Deal with Illegal Gambling in Major American Cities; Evaluation of the National High Impact Anti-Crime Program; Methodologies for Organizational Assessments of Small and Medium sized Police Departments; Director of the Staff of the National Private Security Advisory Council; Consultant to the National Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals; and State of Maine State-Wide Study of Police Delivery Systems. During this period of time, he became recognized as an expert on police organizations and organizational assessments of law enforcement organizations. Mr. Crowley served on several panels to select chiefs of police for communities during this period. He was a frequent lecturer at police academies on the subject of organized crime and police intelligence methodologies and also was a keynote speaker at USDJ seminars on organized crime.
1970-1972
Deputy Director, New England Organized Crime Intelligence System. In this position, Mr. Crowley was responsible for the New England-wide collection and dissemination of organized crime intelligence data. He worked with the New England State Police Administrators Compact and the New England Association of Attorneys General to obtain federal funds to design, organize, and operate the unit. He was responsible for all administrative, planning and coordination tasks prior to and during start-up of this new agency.
1967-1970
Chief of Intelligence, State Organized Crime Unit, Massachusetts Department of the Attorney General. He developed and implemented the state-wide operations which were designed to collect, analyze, and disseminate organized crime intelligence and prepare law enforcement and prosecutorial response. As the first Chief of Intelligence of the newly formed unit, he was responsible for all design and performance methodologies including organization, staffing and start-up operations. This was the first state-wide organized crime unit in the U.S. and Mr. Crowley used his national intelligence/counterintelligence experience to successfully transfer methodologies from that arena to law enforcement. Mr. Crowley was the Massachusetts representative to the National Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU) and to several state and regional organizations responsible for preparing and carrying out plans to counter organized crime in the region. He also served as a member of the National Organized Crime Advisory Council, USDJ LEAA.
1962-1966
Special Agent, USAF Office of Special Investigations (OSI). Mr. Crowley was on active duty with classified rank of Captain. He graduated from the Special Investigations School, Special Counter-espionage School, and Federal Bureau of Narcotics Agent Training School, all in Washington DC. OSI Special Agents perform many of the same duties for the Department of Defense and the USAF that FBI Agents perform for the US Department of Justice in the US and CIA agents perform overseas. Served as a member of the OSI Special Operations Team, a unit which trained together and prepared for short notice special assignments overseas. Spent three months in Thailand with the team as US Forces opened then-covert bases for operations into North Vietnam. Final OSI assignment was as Agent-in-charge (Commander) of the OSI Detachment in DaNang City, South Vietnam. Brought the DaNang Detachment operational. Detachment area of operational responsibility was five northern provinces of SVN and DMZ. Also served as OSI Detachment Commander in Reno, Nevada.
1959-1962
United States Air Force, Regular Officer. After graduation from the Air Police Officers School, served at Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico. Initial assignment was as a Combat Defense Officer in a new unit on the SAC base which was newly organized and working to become operationally ready. Emphasis was heavy on base defense because of Puerto Rican Separatist Movement which had been carrying out terrorist attacks on American installations and citizens. Subsequently assigned as Base Police Officer responsible for all law enforcement activities on the base.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
| 1990 - Present |
President and CEO, Apollo Security |
| 1976 - 1990 |
Vice President, First Security Services Corporation |
| 1972 - 1976 |
Private Consultant |
| 1970 - 1972 |
Deputy Director, New England Organized Crime Intelligence System |
| 1967 - 1970 |
Chief of Intelligence, State Organized Crime Unit, Massachusetts Department of the Attorney General |
| 1962 - 1967 |
Special Agent, OSI |
| 1959 - 1962 |
Combat Defense Officer/Base Police Officer USAF SAC |
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
BS in Government, University of Massachusetts, 1959
JD, Suffolk University Law School, 1972
MILITARY SERVICE
Mr. Crowley served on active duty with the U.S. Air Force from 1959 to 1966.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Mr. Crowley is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, the American Society for Industrial Security, the Association of Former OSI Special Agents, and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics Training School Alumni Association.
PREVIOUS CLEARANCES
Top Secret
RICHARD T. RYER
Vice Chairman & Co-CEO
Mr. Ryer has over 30 years of very special training, operational experience, and intelligence expertise that can serve a variety of client needs in a wide range of security matters, here and abroad. He began his career serving as an intelligence officer, later becoming a special agent with the office of Special Investigations (OSI) in the United States and Vietnam. He subsequently earned his pilots' wings and flew 333 combat missions during a second tour in Vietnam. Thereafter, he was involved in extensive special and clandestine operations abroad where his flying and intelligence expertise were used in hostile environments. He played a key role in the Philippines during the unsuccessful military coup against the Aquino government in 1987.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
1991-Present
Vice Chairman and Co-CEO
Mr. Ryer is responsible for implementing and managing all operational aspects of Apollo's security operation. In this capacity, he both identifies potential security problems, which could adversely effect day-to-day operations, and proposes and implements solutions.
1989-1991
During this period, Mr. Ryer traveled extensively outside the United States as a consultant supporting requirements on three continents including time in the Gulf during Desert Storm.
1986-1989
Defense Attaché to the Philippines
Mr. Ryer represented the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, while overseeing the operation of the Defense Attaché office in all its' missions. He served as the Ambassador's primary advisor on military matters during a crucial time in the Philippines' struggle to return to democracy. For his efforts during a coup attempt, Mr. Ryer was personally decorated by the Assistant Secretary of Defense and his office was awarded the DCI Collector of the Year Award.
1983-1986
Chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation, Montevedeo, Uruguay.
Uruguay was the first of Latin America's military dictatorships to return to democracy. Mr. Ryer was in a key position to encourage Uruguay's military leaders to try democracy and he helped successfully cajol, steer and encourage them to take the steps that ultimately led to a change of government. His presence during this time and the success of the operations he led resulted in his selection to be Defense Attaché to the Philippines.
1981-1983
Security Assistance Staff Officer, Stuttgardt, Germany
During this short stint as a staff officer, Mr. Ryer supervised operations in North Yemen and Egypt and helped develop a comprehensive program of personnel and millions of dollars worth of equipment in support of a unique, highly specialized, technical operation providing support to US Government requirements in the region.
1979-1981
Air Attaché, Saudi Arabia
Mr. Ryer represented the Secretary of the Air Force and the Defense Intelligence Agency and served as the Ambassador's primary advisor on air power during a tour that saw the capture of the Holy City of Mecca by dissidents, the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear facility by Israel and the United States Desert I and Desert II (planning only) operations. He served as the Air Force's principal point of contact for several highly classified projects.
1962-1979
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS
During the early years, Mr. Ryer held a series of management, intelligence and flying positions that gave him experience in investigative techniques, interrogation skills, clandestine operations, overt and covert collection skills and special operations capabilities (both flying and non flying).
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
| 1991-Present |
Vice Chairman and Co-CEO, Apollo Security |
| 1989-1991 |
Overseas Consultant |
| 1986-1989 |
Defense Attaché Philippines |
| 1981-1983 |
Staff Security Assistance |
| 1979-1981 |
Air Attaché, Saudi Arabia |
| 1977-1979 |
Student Middle East Studies |
| 1974-1977 |
Air Officer Commanding USAF Academy |
| 1970-1974 |
Special Operations Pilot |
| 1969-1970 |
Special Operations Pilot, Vietnam |
| 1967-1968 |
Student Pilot |
| 1966-1967 |
Office of Special Investigations, Vietnam |
| 1965-1966 |
Language Training (Vietnamese) |
| 1964-1965 |
Office of Special Investigations |
| 1962-1963 |
Intelligence Officer |
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, California (M.A. Middle East Studies)
United States Military Academy West Point (B.S.)
LANGUAGES STUDIED
Spanish
Arabic
Tagalog
Vietnamese
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Previous Security Clearances
Top Secret (TS), Special Compartmented Intelligence (SCI)
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