Trevor Townsend
President, CEO

Trevor Townsend is a trusted security and risk management advisor with over 23 years of experience. His professional history spans crisis management and security operations in the field, strategic planning in the boardroom, and all points in between. He has direct, in-depth, and hands-on experience conducting executive and diplomatic protection, counter-industrial espionage, crisis avoidance and management, information security, and organization-level integrated security program design and management. Uniquely, Trevor has been using and applying the Government of Canada Security Policy (GSP) and its associated operational standards for both government and private sector clients for over 20 years.

Previously, Trevor has provided services for The Anvil Group and IBM Canada. While with The Anvil Group, he provided sensitive and discrete security services to many of Canada's "first families" and Fortune 100 organizations, and he assisted with the development of the global Crisis Management Center (CMC). During his tenure at IBM, he held the positions of National Practice Leader for Public Safety and Security and for Critical Infrastructure Protection, and carried appointments as IBM Canada's advisor to several IBM world-wide task forces including Logical/Physical Security Integration; Global Customs, Borders, and Ports Security; Public Safety and Security; IBM’s Global Security Alliance and Partnership Development, and IBM’s internal global corporate security executive committee.

Trevor established and guides our rigorous services framework of assess, plan, design, implement, manage, and measure, which assures effective results and lasting quality for our clients. Known for his reliable innovation and trustworthy results, Trevor leads Sentinel House with a sense of duty to provide our clients with practical strategies and every-day solutions to protect their people, property, and information throughout all phases of security and intelligence operations and administration - prevent, detect, react, and recover.

Harvey Parisien
Vice President, COO

Harvey Parisien is the founder of Parisien Research Corporation, an established defence contractor with subject matter expertise in the fields of EW, Electronic Intelligence (ELINT), Defence Modeling Simulation and Training (MS&T). Harvey brings over 25 years experience across all aspects of business development and managing within the bounds of the Canadian Government Controlled Goods Registration Program (CGRP) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITARs). He has extensive experience at establishing strategic and tactical business partnering and teaming arrangements, and tailored business relationships ultimately focused on optimizing customer and shareholder value.

Harvey has experience in a variety of Security related projects including; Border Protection; Research, Test & Evaluation, and Training in the fields of IED Neutralization; consulting services in the fields of Emergency Management Planning, Threat and Risk (Vulnerability) Assessments (TRA), and Marine Port Security. Projects were executed using teams of subject matter experts from Law Enforcement and Military backgrounds, from which some remain associates of Sentinel House today.

Patrick D.R. Crandell, BA,CD2, psc, Colonel CF (Retd)
Vice President, Intelligence Services

Pat has over 36 years experience in Intelligence and Security at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. His military experience ranges from criminal investigation, to intelligence collection and collection management, to single and all source intelligence analysis, to planning and doctrine development, and to project and senior management. Noteworthy appointments included: Brigade and Command G2/Task Force J2; the OIC of Strategic Imagery Exploitation; Deputy Director of the ISX Crown Project; Intelligence Branch Advisor; Director of CF Intelligence Operations (1996-2001), and Acting Director General Intelligence for extended periods (1998-2000). Overseas assignments included: G2 Canadian Contingent UNEF II (1973-74), Canadian Defence Attaché (CDA) to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-95) and CDA to Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, and East Timor (2001-2004). In the latter capacity, he focused on counter-terrorism in SE Asia. He has extensive inter-departmental/inter-agency and international experience.

In addition to specialized intelligence and security training, he is a graduate of the UK Joint Staff Intelligence Course, the UK Electronic Warfare and Psychological Warfare Staff Courses, as well as the CF Land Forces Staff Course, the CF Command and Staff Course, and National Security Studies Course (Short), and is a Certified Human Behaviour Consultant.

He is a member of the Canadian Intelligence and Security Association, the Canadian Society for Industrial Security, the United States Naval Institute, the Acting President of the Maple Leaf Chapter of the Association of Old Crows, and a member of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group to the Senate Defence and Security Committee.

Barry A. Denofsky
Vice President, Security Services

Barry Denofsky is a security and intelligence professional with 35 years of combined service with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). In CSIS, Barry was the Director General of Counter Intelligence (CI), and the Research, Analysis, and Production Branch (RAP). AS DG RAP, in addition to the identification, production and dissemination of all source intelligence assessments for government and allied consumers, Barry had responsibility for the production of threat and risk assessments for government clients and the development and enhancement of national and international partnerships with a focus on intelligence sharing.

Throughout his career with CSIS, Barry also occupied a number of other senior positions where he had management, operational, and investigative responsibility for a wide range of threats to the security of Canada.

As a member of the RCMP and the former RCMP Security Service, Barry was actively engaged in numerous criminal and national security investigations and the provision of operational support during the visits of internationally protected persons.

On his retirement from public service in late 2004, Barry established a security consulting company where he provided advice and support to parliamentarians, managers and executives in the public and private sector on a wide range of security related issues. Counted among his clients are the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence, the Energy Infrastructure Protection Division of Natural Resources Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and a number of national and international private sector organizations.