Kent is a certified instructor-trainer in police defensive weapons and tactics through Modern Warrior in New York, and is studying to become a Personal Defense Readiness Coach. Kent's experience includes providing supplementary security for former US President Bill Clinton, and former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. In addition, he has accumulated over 3,000 site hours at every major event in Halifax since 2003, including private security for Motley Crüe, The Game, Chingy, Bob Dylan, Rihanna, Akon, Ozzy Osbourne, Lenny Kravitz and most recently he has provided personal security for Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Ellen Page and Johnny Reid.
He has been instrumental in the planning, development and implementation for almost every major event to come to the Maritimes including the Juno Awards, the ECMAs and the IIHF World Hockey Championships.
Gary's training includes an intensive, two-month, 300-hour loss prevention training program, and loss prevention work with Sobeys, Giant Tiger, Toys "R" US, HMV Records, and Shoppers Drug Mart. Passionate about all aspects of security, Gary is ideal as a front-line facilitator with both clients and employees. Gary's responsibilities include scheduling, recruitment, placement and management of all employee issues.
During his time with Reliant, Gary has been personally requested by Gillette Entertainment and House of Blues to provide tour security for Rihanna, Akon, The Tragically Hip, Guns n Roses, Canadian Idol, and most recently, Ozzy Osbourne. Before becoming a member of Reliant's management team, Gary performed as 'Wildman Williams' for Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation and Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling. Gary is an active member in the wrestling community often making appearances at schools to talk about drug awareness, education, and the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
Daniel Watson has been the Director of Operations for Shadow Group since 2009, when he was promoted after serving 6 years as Shadow's lead Investigator and manager of Shadow's investigational division. Mr. Watson's training includes all 4 Levels of Shadow's Licensed Venue Access Control program, as well as First Aid and First Responder certifications. Daniel has studied extensively abroad and is certified in Private Investigation, Counter-Surveillance Proper Evidence Taking and Storage, Defensive driving and statement taking. Daniel is also a trained & certified Fire Scene Investigator, receiving his NFPA 1031 Fire Investigator in 2009.
Joe brings over 21 years of experience in security work, specializing in crowd access control. He is Access Control Personnel Certified and has acted as a site manager for Shadow on dozens of major contracts and events. Joe developed and implemented policies and procedures to achieve organizational objectives related to the security function and worked in cooperation with Halifax Regional Police Services on the provision of security for Shadow's Clients. Joe has completed over 6,000 event security hours working nearly every event that has come to Halifax since 1991.
Chris has traveled the world as Nickelback's head of security. Chris's responsibilities within this role included providing the band with close quarters protection 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for a year and a half. He was also responsible to develop security and safety plans for every venue the band performed in around the world. His experience with Nickelback combined with his ongoing security work has provided Chris with over 10,000 hours of event security experience.
Fergus is a widely recognized and respected figure with concert promoters throughout the country. Fergus has accumulated over 2,500 on site event security hours during his career, having worked such high profile events as Snoop Dog, Motley Crüe, Sum 41 and Brian Adams. He has also provided close quarters protection for Rihanna, Chingy and the cast of Canadian Idol. Up until 2008, Fergus has overseen two teams of 25 securing crowds in the tens of thousands at the Superbike competition in Shubenacedie. Fergus is a key part of the annual Juno Awards security team. Some of his training includes crowd risk analysis, threat and risk assessment, identification and pass verification.
As a senior supervisor, Ryan has worked in the security business for over a decade. Mr. Cosgrove has accumulated nearly 4,000 event security hours, working in a supervisory capacity at such shows as Nickleback, Guns ´n Roses, Pearl Jam, 50 cent, Avril Lavigne, Ice Cube, The Tragically Hip, and Smashing Pumpkins. He has performed close quarters protection for high profile clients such as Axl Rose, and Pamela Anderson. Ryan's training includes threat and risk assessment, access control, pass verification, location monitoring and patrol procedures.
Karl has worked in various security functions for over two decades. He has been instrumental in the development and implementation of deployments and safety plans for such shows as Backstreet Boys, Edge Fest, and Snow Jam, with crowds exceeding 30,000. Karl has worked tour security for Gillette Entertainment and provided security at events such as the Juno Awards, Smashing Pumpkins, Nickelback, The Tragically Hip, and the Tsunami Relief Benefit Concert.
Mr. Mosher has attended both Dalhousie University (Bachelor of Physical Education) and St. Mary's University (Bachelor of Arts, Major in English and Criminology) and will complete his Masters at St. Francis Xavier University over the next 3 years. Bruce has been involved in Law Enforcement for over 20 years, the last 5 with the Halifax Regional Police, Crime Prevention Section working with Youth at Risk. Bruce has been involved in the Bailiff industry for the past 10 years as well as being the president of the Civil Constables Association of Nova Scotia from 2006- 2009 and the past president in 2010. Bruce is current president of the Fellowship of Christian Peace Officers – Bluenose Chapter.
