Clint Bruce – Founder and President

Clint Bruce is the founder and President of Trident Response Group LLC – a legacy protection firm headquartered in Dallas. Trident protects the personal and professional legacies of their clients by actively managing the most serious risks to their families and corporate activities.

Clint was a standout football player at the United States Naval Academy, captaining Navy to the first bowl victory in twenty years and enjoying a brief career in the NFL. But greater challenges awaited as Mr. Bruce entered the U.S. Navy as an officer in the elite Navy SEAL Teams.

Mr. Bruce served in various positions of tactical and strategic command and leadership in the SEAL Teams during a 7 year operational career. With seventeen of his twenty-four months deployed in direct support of the Global War on Terror in multiple theaters, Clint’s SEAL career was marked with exposure to exceptional leadership, the immense talent of the enlisted special operations community, and innovation in both technology and joint operations strategies.

After leading a successful rescue mission in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Clint was asked to build a company that amassed the skills of the special operations, intelligence, and search and rescue communities. This company would be used by individuals and corporations to protect, provide for swift response to crisis, discreet information and intelligence operations, and search and rescue capabilities to key personnel in an organization and family.

Mr. Bruce is a sought after speaker and advisor on counter-terrorism and economic strategies combating factors that contribute to fallen economies and failed states – the host of bad actors and bad actions.

You Need to Know Clint Bruce – D Magazine

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C. Dewey Elliott, III – Founder and Vice President, Strategic Development

Mr. Elliott is a co-founder of Trident Response Group and has more than 35 years of leadership experience in executive and consulting positions. He has been principal architect and founder of several successful business ventures, including publicly reporting and privately held entities. These included retail and institutional financial services, a mutual fund family, syndications of real estate, entrepreneurial opportunities, structured settlements. He founded and operated a merchant bank serving clients focused on technology applications, mergers, and acquisitions. Previously, Mr. Elliott was a senior consultant with Washington and Boston-based firms where he supported intelligence, systems acquisitions and financial management issues for DOD, Fortune 500 and multi-national clients. Mr. Elliott also served as an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Management of the University of Dallas. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1970 with a BS degree, and has an MBA.

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Brad Novotny – Director of Business Intelligence

Mr. Novotny graduated from Texas A&M University in 2004. He has worked in Counter Terrorism Intelligence as an intern with the FBI and with the National Emergency Response & Rescue Training Center in their WMD Exercise Program.  Most recently, Mr. Novotny managed International Contracts for the Texas Engineering Extension Service, part of the Texas A&M University System, and was instrumental in the success of the program in the Middle East and North Africa.  He holds a graduate certificate in International Affairs from the George Bush School of Government. He is in his second year of a dual master’s in Information Assurance & MBA from the University of Dallas.

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Ghazi Bsaibes — Director of Middle East North Africa Operations

Mr. Bsaibes has extensive experience and relationships throughout MENA, and provides unique capability in support of Trident’s intelligence and investigations operations.  Recently for TRG, he supported a major US energy company in Yemen after the US embassy attack to enhance security measures for expats.  Previously, he served special operations and OGA assets as an Arabic Linguist attached to various Task Forces and as a mission interpreter attached to JSOC in Iraq.  He participated in over 100 raids and screened 800 people on target, brought native language proficiency to the Battlefield Interrogation Teams, and helped obtain immediate actionable intelligence from known terrorists and sympathizers.  He also aided in the interrogations of those who have been brought back to the detention facility, and was able to detect foreign Arabic dialects from the local Iraqi ones, which helped build cases against foreign fighter facilitators.  Mr. Bsaibes has a BBA in Management with background in Finance, Marketing, and Accounting and is currently completing his MS in Management specializing in Homeland Security.  He is a former infantry Marine Corps NCO.