Elvis Polanco, MS, CPP

President

Elvis Polanco, MS, CPP, is founder and President of Radiant Protection Management, LLC. Mr. Polanco has over 30 years of experience in the field of protection management and founded RPM to provide our clients with an exceptional business/operations experience. We provide personal administration of our services to our clients to ensure that the operation of the accounts maintain high standards of professionalism. Our relationship with our clients is above the rest of our competitors... guaranteed.

Mr. Polanco's protection management experience includes the retail, entertainment, corporate security and executive protection fields. In 1994 he joined an established and well respected security firm that continues to provide exceptional protection management services to a host of high-profile individuals and clients. A year later he joined a prominent life insurance company where some of his responsibilities included security training, presentations, fire drills, technical security and the day-to-day operation of a proprietary security staff.

Mr. Polanco holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the Bernard M. Baruch College School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Master of Science Degree in Fire Protection Management, summa cum laude, Graduate Dean's List, from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is certified as a Protection Professional--CPP--in Security Management by the ASIS International Professional Certification Board. As a New York City Fire and Life Safety Director, Mr. Polanco combines his security and fire safety management experience, from both academia and the built environment, to develop and administer compelling, comprehensive and incomparable fire safety consulting programs. He is a NYS Certified Security Instructor and an American Red Cross Certified First Aid CPR/AED Instructor who has authored and published numerous articles on security and fire safety in the built environment in Security Director and Security Director News magazines. Mr. Polanco's opinions have been published in the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, The Bronx Times and The Bronx Chronicle.

His active professional memberships include ASIS International, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) where he is a member of the Building Fire Safety Systems Section, the Fire and Life Safety Directors Association of Greater New York, NYPD Shield, the John Jay College Alumni Association and the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA). He is a Notary Public Officer of the State of New York.

John F. Reatz

Vice President

John F. Reatz has over 30 years of experience in public safety and security and has joined Radiant Protection Management as Vice President. His experience includes service in the United States Marine Corps, New York Army Guard, as well as over 25 years of Law Enforcement Service as a Park Ranger and Criminal Investigator with the City of New York. Mr. Reatz has also served as a Firefighter and Certified First Responder in Suffolk County, NY. In the private sector Mr. Reatz has worked in all facets of the security industry including: retail, corporate, hospitality and executive protection. He is a New York City Fire and Life Safety Director and had held several security management positions.

Mr. Reatz is also an educator and mentor. He is a New York State General Topics Police Instructor, New York State Police Firearms Instructor, FATS Firearms Simulator Instructor, ASP Baton/Handcuff Instructor, Verbal Judo Instructor and a New York State General Topics Security Instructor.

Mr. Reatz is a member of the following organizations: The Fraternal Order of Police, International Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors Association, North American Technical Investigators Association, Suffolk County Fraternal Order of the Leatherheads Society and the New York State Fireman's Association.