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value of branding.

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instruction. The training was going semi-OK

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the attacks and, using the data I had collected,

applied the science of engineering to vehicle

attacks and created a mathematical model.

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security personnel from US oil companies.

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other South America countries. At this point

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needed a name so I called it the Scotti School

of Defensive Driving, but the clients called us

the Scotti School, so that was the name we

went by.

At that time, the concept of protective

driving and executive protection in the

corporate environment was almost unheard

of, but while working with the oil companies

I met a security consultant who convinced

many of his clients to take a chance on this

new and innovative concept of protecting

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he and I conducted a program in Iran, at the

time a little known country, as a US company

inIran had some of their engineers killed in a

vehicle ambush which had sent shock waves

throughout the corporate community. I kept

on getting more requests to conduct training,

and over a span of seven to ten years a

business was born.

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throughout South and Central America, and

then to the Middle East, Europe and Asia,

and from that I started training corporate

security personnel working in the US.

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clients. We were conducting programs for

vehicle manufactures, law enforcement

agencies, and police, military and government

trainers. The programs varied from high-risk

convoys to off-road vehicles. One of the more

unique programs was designing training for

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the client; Can you do a boot-leggers turn in

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company and put my retirement plan into

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retire. However, selling the company turnedout to be a huge error. The folks that purchased

the company had no understanding of the

security or training business and in less than

two years came close to dismantling what I

had worked decades to create. They wanted

to re-invent the company in their image. The

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