ITG Alumni Profiles
2009
2008
Mike BENISH, ITG 5
Mike Benish is arguably the most highly qualified student we have ever had the pleasure of welcoming to the open enrollment courses taught by the International Training Group (ITG). In the Summer of 2005 when Mike came through ITG Class 5 and attended the full 21-Day Executive Protection Program, he was already a highly sought after private contractor with a great deal of “real world” experience under his belt. That has only become more true since. His resume reads like a “who’s who” of Private Security Companies (PSC) conducting operations and training in High Risk Environments (HRE). From that perspective, his comments about ITG’s instructor staff are pertinent.
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Ali M. TEHRANI, ITG 5
Ali Tehrani serves as a Security Consultant and is responsible for project development and delivery of consulting engagements for ITG® Consulting Services. He is also one of the Adjunct Instructors for the dynamic training programs offered by the International Training Group™. He is currently employed by another, very fortunate security services company on an energy sector project in Algeria. He was a student in ITG® Class #5 during the summer of 2005 when he attended the full, 21-Day Executive Protection Course.
Mr. Tehrani has more than twenty years of international experience in both the military and private sector conducting security management, protective operations, training development, and consulting services.
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Greg FAUGHT, ITG 9
“Precision”
Greg Faught is a graduate of all four open enrollment training courses offered by the International Training Group™. He also serves as ITG®’s Subject Matter Expert on Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).
A 1982 Graduate of Lodi, California High School, Greg went on to serve in the California Army National Guard with the 76th Infantry Detachment as a Pathfinder (Airborne) from 1982-1987. He then served in the US Army Reserve from 1987-1988 with the 12th Special Forces Group (Airborne), also as a Pathfinder. After being honorably discharged from the service, he began his Law Enforcement (LE) career and has been serving the Stockton Police Department (PD) since 1990.
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Teri SEAGO, ITG3
Benefits of Training to a Higher Standard
How does one go from wanting to be Jacques Cousteau to being a highly respected protective services agent and security manager? To find out, ask Teri Seago, graduate of three International Training Group™ courses.
“I went to Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington and that’s where I started being interested in Marine Biology,” Teri said recently. “I wanted to be Jacques Cousteau, but then found out I couldn’t be, because there already was a Jacques Cousteau.”
Adjusting slightly, Teri then went to the University of Washington, with a double major in Horticulture and Zoology, in hopes of one day working on the Cousteau scientific vessel, the Calypso. Although the Calypso did not turn out to be in the cards, Teri does say that college taught one lesson that has been vital to her in the security / protection industry. That lesson was “discovering that I could understand people better once I understood rats better.”
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