Wayne Black

 
 

Wayne Black has more than forty-five years of professional security experience in both the public and private sectors. He is the founder and president of Wayne Black & Associates, Inc. For more than a decade, he was the Security Advisor/PSD Lead for former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and the Rumsfeld Foundation.

Mr. Black routinely travels the country providing threat assessments and training for schools and houses of worship. He has personally supervised protection details and special threat assignments in the United States, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and South America. As a contractor for the Department of Homeland Security after the events of 9/11, he supervised a classified “Red Team” conducting threat assessments at designated national security locations and events. He has been qualified to testify as an expert witness regarding security in US Federal and State courts. He is also a certified firearms instructor in pistol, rifle, and shotgun. He served as a Law Enforcement Group Supervisor at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Public Corruption/Organized Crime Unit. Prior, he was assigned to the United States Justice Department’s Inter-Agency Task Force at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) where he received numerous awards and commendations from the Department of Justice and the United States Attorney General.