Intelligence firm seeks to meet "risk-mitigation" requirements of families. The Steele Foundation, a San Francisco-based security and risk-management consultancy, has put together a private-client practice "to mitigate the risks associated with the reputation, financial interests, and physical assets of high net worth individuals and their families."

Protection agency

The Steele Foundation extends an unrivaled team of individuals from the top intelligence, security, and emergency-response agencies around the world," says Erik Landsness, who will lead Steele's San Francisco- and London-based private-client business. "Our premier suite of services offers the same strategic security, intelligence, and crisis response resources provided to the Steele Foundation's most sophisticated corporate clients, only tailored to the unique requirements of individuals and families of means."

Landsness joined Steele early in 2006 from Wells Fargo, where he was a v.p. in the bank's private-client group.

The practice will provide security, intelligence, and crisis response services that lessen the common risks that come with reputation, financial interests, and physical assets of high net worth individuals and their families.

"Providing family security and continuity in an uncertain world requires dependable resources," says Kenn Kurtz, chairman and CEO of The Steele Foundation. -FWR

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