Tech Titans: Inside the Company That's Keeping Them Safe from Kidnappers, and Pie Throwers
For 20 years, San Francisco-based Steele Foundation has been in the business of providing protection to the uber-rich, and by numerous accounts, it’s the company to which Silicon Valley’s richest investors and entrepreneurs turn when they’re feeling vulnerable or need a security detail to pave their way to some far-flung destination. Indeed, asked various details about Steele’s regional clients, Steele CEO Kenn Kurtz says simply, “We own the tech sector.” While Steele protects much more than that -- the global company employs several thousand employees across 20 offices who work with governments, commercial clients, and “high-net-worth individuals,” including on intelligence-related work -- Kurtz and I talked exclusively about Steele’s security work with tech industry executives yesterday.
