Our Crisis Consulting Team
Our Interaction Doesn’t Start with a Crisis; Rather, It Is an Ongoing, Confidential Relationship. Protecting Your Future Demands a Resourceful Partner. – Lt. General Patrick M. Hughes, United States Army (Ret.)
Over 50 Seasoned Professionals Offer Full-Time Intelligence, Response, Evacuation and Consulting Capability to Our Clients. We Do Not Believe in Sub-Contracting or Claiming Temporarily Hired Capabilities.
We have collectively managed or responded to over 1,300 cases. Each consulting team member has approximately 30 years of experience between government service and private industry sectors, and most of the key team leadership has worked together since the mid 1990s.
Our Management and Consulting Team Includes, among Others Not Shown for Security Reasons
Ambassador Cresencio Arcos, Chairman
Former United States Assistant Secretary of State, Executive Vice President of telecommunications giant AT&T, and most recently, Director of International Affairs (Assistant Secretary) at the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Col. Matias Farias, United States Air Force (Ret.)
A founder of Strategic Resource Group, the Hazelwood predecessor company, in 1992, and lead Director of a key United States government intelligence agency responsible for Latin America, Mat serves as Executive Managing Director and Director of Intelligence Resources. He manages a full intelligence staff augmented by open and closed source resources.
Senior Consultant and General Counsel
A licensed attorney with over 30 years field experience in intelligence, political, government risk, and kidnap for ransom and extortion response has operational responsibility for Hazelwood Street’s response operations as Senior Consultant and General Counsel. His identity is protected as he continues to manage field assignments.
Senior Managing Director
A recently retired Senior Special Agent for the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, with a full range of security and law enforcement management and operational experience in all parts of the globe, is the Senior Managing Director for global evacuation and response support. His identity is protected as he continues to manage field assignments.
The Management Team Is Joined by Retained Response Consultants
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry – University of Miami
A world-renowned eminence in post-traumatic stress disorder. He serves along with a full cadre of graduate fellows assisting in research into how best to serve our clients and victims. Rene also brings us a number of post-doctoral students, intent upon working on cutting edge developments in our field. Their work assists us in understanding and executing the dynamics of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary negotiating tactics.
He is joined by the first female dual Masters degree holder, who will be acting as an integral part of the training and response team, having substantial experience in mental health and marriage and family therapy; tools essential in assisting the response team, the client corporation and/or family as well as victim deal with these traumatic events.
Managing Director and Corporate Vice President
A former assistant Department of Homeland Security Attaché, subsequently Director of Operations, leads the investigative consulting group as Managing Director and Corporate Vice President.
