Private Client Protection.
Private Client Protection.
Kingfisher provides discreet personal protection to executives, public figures, and private clients and families throughout South Florida and wherever their travel takes them.
Founded and personally led by a former FBI Special Agent.
Protection built around the individual.
Kingfisher provides personally led protection designed around the client, their family, schedule, travel, and existing support structure. Engagements range from one-on-one protection to augmenting established security teams or leading larger protective details when required.
Personal Protection
Discreet, one-on-one protection for executives, public figures, private individuals, and families. Support may be provided for a specific movement, event, period of heightened concern, or as an ongoing protective relationship.
Travel & Advance Planning
Protective planning for domestic and international travel, including residences, hotels, venues, airports, private aviation, ground transportation, routes, and other environments encountered along the way.
Protective Detail Support
Support for existing private or corporate security teams, or the sourcing and management of additional protective personnel when an engagement requires a larger detail.
Security Advisory
Protective intelligence, threat assessment, and security reviews for residences, travel, and other environments surrounding the client.
Protection should be present when needed and nearly invisible when it isn’t.
Effective protection requires more than being present. It requires understanding the person being protected.
Whenever possible, the professional who plans a Kingfisher engagement is the same person beside the client. That continuity creates a working understanding of the client’s routines, preferences, family, professional obligations, transportation, residences, staff, and existing security.
When an engagement requires additional personnel, Kingfisher can source and lead an appropriate protective team while remaining a consistent point of responsibility for the client.
Comfortable in the environments our clients inhabit.
Protective work rarely occurs in isolation. It moves between residences, offices, hotels, events, airports, aircraft, vehicles, marinas, and unfamiliar destinations.
Kingfisher is experienced working within these environments and alongside household staff, executive assistants, drivers, flight crews, existing security personnel, and other professionals supporting the client.
About Kingfisher
Kingfisher was founded by Bryce Ernst, a former FBI Special Agent and U.S. military officer with experience in private protection, security consulting, investigations, and aviation.
After leaving government service, Bryce entered private security consulting, advising corporate executives and private families on personal security, travel, and protective planning. His work has since included direct protection for private clients, protective advances, secure movement, route and venue planning, protective driving, residential and travel security, and coordination with household staff, executive assistants, flight crews, and existing security teams.
Bryce founded Kingfisher to provide a more direct model of private protection, one in which the person responsible for understanding and planning an engagement can also be the person beside the client.
He works personally with Kingfisher clients and sources and leads additional protective personnel when an engagement requires them.
A resource for those trusted by the principal.
Security concerns do not always begin with a request for personal protection.
Kingfisher works with family offices, attorneys, financial advisors, chiefs of staff, executive assistants, corporate security teams, and other trusted representatives to understand a concern and determine an appropriate protective response.
That may involve an upcoming trip or public appearance, unwanted attention, a sensitive personnel matter, changes within a family, an unfamiliar environment, or simply a client whose visibility or circumstances now warrant professional protection.
Initial conversations can be handled discreetly through the client’s advisor or representative.
Based in South Florida. Available wherever clients require protection.
Kingfisher serves clients throughout South Florida and the Gulf Coast, including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Naples, Fort Myers, Sarasota, St. Petersburg, and Tampa.
Domestic and international travel support is available as part of a protective engagement.
Start with a confidential conversation.
Every protective situation is different. Tell us what is happening, where you’re going, or what concerns you. We’ll determine what level of support makes sense.
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