Wayne Black is the founder of Wayne Black & Associates, a Miami-based security consulting firm. He was a Miami-Dade police detective and later an Organized Crime Group Supervisor for State Attorney Janet Reno. Later, for more than a decade, Black was the personal security detail leader for former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.
Black is a nationally certified firearms instructor who regularly trains armed private school and house of worship personnel as well as law enforcement. He also conducts threat assessments for government agencies, schools, and houses of worship.
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