Mr. Cote is a 30 plus year law enforcement veteran. During his tenure with the Harris County Sherriff’s Department Kevin began his career as a Deputy working the streets and eventually moved to the department’s Criminal Investigations Division where he works as a detective in the Violent Crimes Unit.

For more than 15 years Kevin has provided Executive/Close protection for C-Suite executives and their families, famous entertainers, high profile individuals, high net-worth individuals and their families and political officials, both foreign and domestic. Currently Kevin serves as a Lead Protective Agent with JNB Protection Group, leading the Texas teams through a myriad of unique and diverse assignments.

Mr. White began his career having served 5 honorable years in the United States Marine Corps and was honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant (SGT, E5). He served as a Military Police Officer on the Special Reaction Team (SRT). The SRT’s main objectives where the planning and execution of high-risk warrants/take downs, hostage rescue and low-profile surveillance in conjunction with military CID (Criminal Investigations Division) and NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigation Service) on military installations. As the ATL (Assistant Team Leader) and DDM (Designated Defensive Marksman) on SRT he was responsible for the training and compliance of the team members and was integral in the planning and successful execution of all operations.

Mr. White has since been providing proactive intelligence-based protection and security services. Mr. White specializes in site security advances, in depth physical, threat and vulnerability assessments, secure transportation and close protection. Mr. White’s experience includes working on the WPS (World Protective Services) contract with Blackwater USA and Triple Canopy for the Department of State as a DDM (Designated Defensive Marksman), Shift Leader, Security Detail Leader, and Unit Support Coordinator on various mobile security platforms, i.e., high profile, low profile, and reduced profile. Mr. White also worked as a Special Agent for the Central Intelligence Agency’s Global Response Staff (GRS), providing low profile security for human intel gathering and agency assets in hostile environments.

Mr. White has extensive experience in the planning and execution of protective security operations. He has also provided instructional training to various federal, military and local agencies in small arms, secure and defensive driver, close protection and small unit tactics.

After his military career, Mr. White has spent the last 14 years as a security contractor and Special Agent in various locations in the Middle East providing protection for Department of State Diplomats, US dignitaries, and assisting U.S. Secret Service providing close protection for visiting dignitaries such as the Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and visiting celebrities.

Christopher has over 27 years of national security, crisis management, forensic investigations, advance threat protection and site vulnerability assessments. He is currently the Director of Intelligence & Advance Threat Protection for JNB Protection Group. He is helping clients in all industries manage a myriad of business, financial, legal, regulatory and reputational risk. Christopher specializes in conducting site security advances and criminal investigations, as well as physical, threat and vulnerability assessments to include protective intelligence investigations. He also assists clients in achieving their desired protection from the Department of Homeland Security's SAFETY Act.

Christopher is also part of the Intelligence practice group that offers a full spectrum of governance, compliance, investigative, anti-corruption and intelligence services across all sectors of business - both public and private. In addition he heads JNB Protection Group Sports Intelligence practice which helps professional sports teams manage threats and increase opportunities to teams, players, ownership organizations, and events by integrating key capabilities to help sports organizations and event venues manage threats to their brand, their teams and their fans.

Prior to joining JNB Protection Group, Christopher was a Managing Director for the Mintz Group, and a Director with PwC in the Global Intelligence Practice where he lead PWC's Sports Intelligence team as well as the Enterprise Physical Security practice.

Christopher was a Special Agent for the United States Secret Service, where he investigated crimes against the government, acts of terrorism, and spent 5 years on the Presidential Protection Detail. Christopher has conducted numerous security advances for the first family both domestically and internationally, throughout Europe and the Middle East.

Before the Secret Service, he was a Police Officer with the Houston Police Department, enforcing federal, state and local laws. Christopher has a Criminal Justice degree from Texas State University where he played Division I college football.