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Andre Simons is a Director within Control Risks’ Crisis and Security Consulting practice for North America, based in Washington DC. Andre focuses on issues of active shooters and workplace violence prevention, specializing in providing critical incident threat assessments, crisis response and risk mitigation strategies for clients navigating the wide spectrum of potentially violent threat actors.
Andre collaborates with key stakeholders—including executive management, security, legal and human resources—to develop creative strategies to protect the organization and the workforce. Andre retired from the FBI as Unit Chief and Supervisory Special Agent after nearly 23 years of service, having devoted over 12 years to developing and advancing the FBI’s behavioral threat assessment program within the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) in Quantico, Virginia. As a Certified Threat Manager™ Andre is recognized across the public and private sectors as a subject matter expert in mass casualty prevention and response as well as threat management and behavioral analysis.
Highlights of Andre's experience include:
- Operational experience and skill in expertly navigating crisis situations, including on-scene response to numerous mass casualty events; immediately engaging to support investigative operations and to determine offender motive(s), planning and other pre-attack behaviors.
- Supervising the FBI’s Crisis Negotiation Unit and directing successful operations in high-profile, critical international and domestic incidents.
- Designing and developing an interagency multi-disciplinary task force (the Behavioral Threat Assessment Center) dedicated to the prevention of active shootings/targeted violence, the first-of-its-kind security solution in the federal government to counter an emerging threat.
- Personally addressing or supervising over 1,000 cases involving persons of concern and/or threatening communications.
- Assembling and managing the FBI’s groundbreaking Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center, a unique multi-agency center of excellence providing agile and comprehensive insight into evolving state-sponsored, terrorist and criminal enterprise cyber threats; collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to develop a premier program addressing computer intrusions, malicious code attacks, cyber information operations and high-technology facilitated offenses.
- Strategically recruiting key technical experts and thought leaders to ensure longevity and market services to a broad spectrum of clients.
Andre has co-authored and published numerous works on violence prevention and communicated threat analysis, including the chapter “The Assessment of Anonymous Threatening Communications” in The International Handbook of Threat Assessment (2014). Andre was a primary co-author of the landmark report A Study of the Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters in the U.S., published by the FBI in 2018. As a former instructor at the FBI’s National Academy and former adjunct faculty member of the University of Virginia, Andre holds a Master of Arts degree in counseling psychology from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He was formerly a police officer and member of the Crisis Intervention Team with the Portland Police Bureau.