Team
Team members of THE KERIK GROUP have decades of experience providing security, counterterrorism services, and engineering services in dozens of countries for government and industry. Our team includes professionals with tenure in such government agencies as the White House, CIA, Justice Department, New York City Police and Correction Departments, US Coast Guard, US Army Special Forces, and the private sector.

Chairman
Bernard B. Kerik
On December 3, 2004, Bernard B. Kerik, the Chairman of The Kerik Group, LLC, was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as the second Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Kerik’s qualifications for the post span his entire career, but most recently he served as Iraq’s interim Minister of Interior and the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Presidential Envoy to Iraq’s Coalition Provisional Authority. Arriving in Baghdad just days after coalition forces invaded, Mr. Kerik was responsible for beginning the reconstitution and re-instatement of Iraq’s interior ministry including the national police service and borders enforcement. Prior to his service in Iraq, Mr. Kerik served as the 40th Police Commissioner of the City of New York. Appointed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and responsible for 55,000 uniformed and civilian employees and a 3.2 billion dollar annual budget, his sixteen-month term was marked by dramatic reductions in crime, innovative and creative management and his oversight of the rescue, recovery and investigation of the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001. He also served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction where he was responsible for an 830 million dollar budget, a uniformed and civilian workforce of 13,000 and approximately 125,000 annual inmate admissions.He earned international recognition after creating a management and accountability program that received accolades from the Innovations in American Government Award Program sponsored by Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Kerik began his professional career in the U.S. Army’s Military Police Corps, serving in Korea. He was also assigned to the 18th Airborne Corps, at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, where he trained Special Forces and Special Operations personnel at the JFK Unconventional Warfare Center and spent four years working on various security assignments in the Middle East. He also served as the Commander of Special Weapons and Operations and Warden of the Passaic County Jail in New Jersey before accepting an appointment to the NYPD where his meteoric rise through its ranks is legendary. As a New York City Police Detective assigned to the US Drug Enforcement Administration, he was responsible for overseeing one of the most substantial drug investigations in United States history against the Cali Cartel. He has earned more than 100 awards for meritorious, heroic and public service throughout his career, including the New York City Police Department’s Medal for Valor, a Presidential Commendation for heroism from President Ronald Reagan and an appointment as Knight Commander of the Sacred Military Constintenian Order of Saint George by the Duke of Calabria, Italy. On February 13th 2002, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second, also honored him with an honorary appointment as Commander of the Most Excellent Royal Order of the British Empire (CBE). He presently consults on national and international security and counter-terrorism, and speaks around the world on topics such as the threat of international terror, crisis management and disaster recovery and crime reduction through management accountability.

He is the best selling author of “THE LOST SON: A Life in Pursuit of Justice.” He is a 5th degree master black belt and has studied both Korean and Japanese Karate, served on the Terrorism Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and as Chairman of the New York State Athletic and Boxing Commission. He holds a B.S. in Public Administration from the State University of New York (Empire State College), and has attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Leadership Program for the 21st Century at Harvard University. Mr. Kerik has served as a member of the Academe and Policy Research and Emergency Response Senior Advisory Committees for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Criminal Justice Advisory Council of St. John’s University in New York City. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Iona College, New York Institute of Technology, Manhattanville College, College of New Rochelle, and Michigan State University for his public service to the City of New York and the United States of America. Mr. Kerik was also a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Twin Towers Fund which raised and distributed all of the $216 million dollars to over 600 families related to emergency services workers killed on 9/11.