The people behind V4CR

As a strategic intelligence specialist for Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, Jack was central to analysis, reporting and law-enforcement liaison during several homeland-security incidents, including the Boston Marathon bombing and the active-shooter attack at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard, and led the intelligence effort to evacuate client staff from overseas danger areas. Earlier, as a senior security specialist at Booz Allen Hamilton, he was a senior law-enforcement intelligence analyst representing U.S. Army North at the FBI, focused on weapons of mass destruction, terrorist threats and human trafficking on a Joint Terrorism Task Force. Other assignments included senior intelligence analyst for the DEA, intelligence operations advisor and plans and exercise officer for the Department of Homeland Security, and threat and vulnerability assessments for the U.S. Treasury, the Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Congress.

Jack was formerly director of global physical security for a PricewaterhouseCoopers unit developing cryptologic systems for bank data, managing integrated security for facilities in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, and before that a senior member of the advisory staff at Computer Sciences Corporation specialising in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, and planning director for police training and explosive ordnance removal at Systems and Defense Services International.

He served 23 years in the U.S. Marine Corps in worldwide command and operational assignments, including liaison and detached assignments with U.S. and foreign intelligence services, cabinet-level departments, the U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Coast Guard, Public Health Service, DEA and state and local public-safety officials. He planned and ran special security and humanitarian operations, operations with joint and foreign special operations forces, and protective services for senior officials of the Departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, and led the Commandant of the Marine Corps' personal security detail. He instructed at Department of Defense schools on tactics, deception, denial operations and OPSEC.

Jack holds a Master of Arts in human-resource management and organizational development and a Bachelor of Arts in political science, and is a distinguished graduate of the Postgraduate Intelligence Program at the Defense Intelligence College. He is a qualified human-trafficking investigator with professional certifications as a criminal investigator and criminal profiler, professional security instructor, certified information technology architect and Six Sigma Green Belt, and has received numerous awards from U.S. agencies and foreign governments.

A media-forensics researcher, she gave expert testimony to the U.S. Senate, was principal investigator of a 1989 U.S. Department of Justice study on media content and crime, and consulted for the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services and Justice. Her research challenged the scientific foundations of Alfred Kinsey's work at Indiana University; The Lancet later called for an investigation into the Kinsey Institute. She authored Kinsey, Crimes and Consequences (1998, 2000) and Stolen Honor, Stolen Innocence (2013), translated into French, Croatian and Chinese, and her scholarship shaped legislation in the United States, Israel, the Netherlands, South Africa, Croatia, Canada and Australia. We honor her decades of work. The Reisman Institute.

His professional development and instruction include SWAT (Dallas PD and FBI SWAT schools) and hazardous warrants and apprehensions; K9 instructor and K9 patrol judge (Utah State Police); tactical and combat tracking instructor (TTOS and U.S. Department of Defense); defensive tactics and impact-weapons instructor; Master Peace Officer (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement); DEA Epic Pipeline narcotics interdiction; hazardous devices and booby traps (FBI); narcotics detection handler; technical security countermeasures technician; and joint counter-terrorism exercises with Germany's GSG 9 and SEK units.

Awards include the Medal of Valor (twice: Fort Worth PD 1998 and the State of Texas 1996), two Life Saving Awards, three Certificates of Merit, the Police Commendation Bar, Pistol Master, multiple Officer of the Year nominations, more than 100 supervisor and citizen commendations, and commendations from the FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service, Defense Intelligence Agency, IRS Criminal Investigations and the Texas Rangers. He has presented at the Law Dog K9 Conference, keynoted the National Police Canine Association Conference and published in Police K9 Magazine. Brad is a licensed private investigator and personal protection officer in Texas and works with Tactical Systems Network, LLC in executive protection and private investigations.

HiDow's hands-free TENS and EMS medical devices provide non-invasive stimulation for pain associated with trauma, surgery, musculoskeletal problems, bursitis, dental problems, labour and more. They have been featured by Forbes, A Current Affair and Today Tonight since launching in Australia in 2010, and are listed on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods.

Tom's commitment to people recovering from abuse and trauma has led him to work with nonprofits including Gold Coast Charities, Paradise Kids and Hand of Hope in the United States. A dollar from every unit sold goes to Gold Coast charities; his company has funded a school in one of the poorest areas of China and donated $150,000 to Hand of Hope, which runs children's homes in developing countries. Whether in the corporate world or with friends living on the street, Tom's goal is to relieve pain wherever it comes from, one person at a time.

Since 2006 Cliff has been president of U.S. Mechanical Contractors, Inc., overseeing commercial HVAC installations across the south-eastern United States for clients including Ulta, Home Depot, Starbucks, PetCo, Aldi, Verizon Wireless, Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works, Big Lots and Xfinity. He is also president of Dixie Ammo Dump, Inc., a fully licensed Class 1 and Class 3 firearms and sporting-goods retailer, importer and exporter, and president of G2 Research, Inc. and Acme Exploding Targets, LLC. His expertise spans social media, marketing, research and development, patents and trademarks, executive protection, intelligence, law enforcement and e-commerce.

His awards include a second-award Navy Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Meritorious Mast, two meritorious promotions, the Southwest Asia Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal, Navy Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Citations, eight Rifle Expert and five Pistol Expert badges, the Global War on Terrorism Medal and the Marine Reserve Medal, along with three SCCA ARRC and three Pro IT road-racing championships and the 2007 Road Atlanta Petit Le Mans Panoz championship. He holds unrestricted HVAC contractor licences in six states, an unrestricted explosives licence, Class 1 and Class 3 firearms and ammunition-manufacturing licences, a Marine secret security clearance, executive-protection certification and NRA pistol and personal-protection certifications, and is a professional race-car driver and motorcycle road racer.

Before the Sumners Foundation, Charles was president of Frog Street Press, leading its growth into the nation's premier provider of early-childhood curriculum and professional development; during his four-year tenure curriculum sales rose more than 300 percent and profitability more than 600 percent, culminating in the company's sale in 2017. Earlier he was president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, reorganising the workforce and lowering operating costs to position the organisation for renewed growth, and before that president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star, which became the largest BBBS affiliate in the country under his leadership, serving more than 10,000 children a year.

He still volunteers with BBBS and also serves on the boards of International Literacy and Development, Mission Alive (board chair) and The Oakridge School (board chair), the college-preparatory school from which his children graduated in 2019 and 2022.

His decorations include two Navy Distinguished Service Medals, two Legions of Merit, three individual-action Air Medals, seventeen Strike Flight Air Medals, the Presidential Unit Citation, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, the UAE Military Merit Order First Class, the Kalifiyyeh Order of Bahrain and the Korean Order of National Security Merit Cheon Su Medal. He logged more than 5,000 flight hours and 1,000 carrier arrested landings on nine aircraft carriers, received the Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Award for Inspirational Leadership as commanding officer of a strike fighter squadron, and for his last two years of service was the "Gray Eagle," the longest-serving Navy pilot on active duty.

After retiring from the Navy in October 2004 he joined Lockheed Martin as vice president for F-35 program assessments, then served as vice president for global sustainment and president of Lockheed Martin Middle East and Africa in Abu Dhabi, retiring in February 2013. He then chaired Dodsal Resources, an oil and gas exploration company in Dubai, and the Dodsal Group executive board until his retirement in October 2015, when he and Mrs. Moore returned to Fort Worth.

A 1968 Naval Academy graduate in aerospace engineering, he holds master's degrees in international relations from Salve Regina University and in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He is married to the former Lydia Parone Clado of the Philippines; they have two sons and six grandchildren.

Jeff helped develop the Remington Custom Shop SIXSITE rifle, won Maxim Magazine's Maximum Warrior competition and the "Best of the Best" special-operations title representing the U.S. Navy and the SEAL community. He appeared with Craig Sawyer in Animal Planet's Battleground: Rhino Wars, where the team of Navy SEALs and a Green Beret helped take down seven crime syndicates while training their South African counterparts. Read more.