Efren Delgado
Former FBI Special Agent | Executive Advisor | Author
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Former FBI Special Agent and National Security professional with more than 25 years of experience conducting complex investigations, advising executives, assessing threats, and training law-enforcement personnel. Expertise includes civil-rights investigations, public corruption, counterterrorism, behavioral analysis, and executive advisory services. Combines investigative leadership, a Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology, and extensive public-speaking experience with a proven ability to communicate across government, corporate, and community environments.
Experience
Executive Protection Specialist - Lions4Security
(2021-01)
Executive Logistics Advisor - Luminar Technologies
(2025-01)
Security & Investigative Consultant - Independent Security & Investigative Consultant - Southern California
(2017-01)
Provide executive advisory, investigative, threat assessment, protective intelligence, and executive protection services to corporate executives, private clients, and leading security organizations.
- Fortis Security Group
- AS Solution
- 360 Group International
- Matador Security
Detail Leader, Protective Services Division - Gavin de Becker & Associates
(2016-01 - 2017-12)
Conducted domestic and international executive protection operations, protective intelligence, logistics planning, and threat assessments. Selected for high-priority assignments, including protective operations during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.
Special Agent, Criminal Investigative Division - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Los Angeles, California
(2007-01 - 2015-12)
- Conducted complex federal civil-rights investigations involving hate crimes, color-of-law violations, human trafficking, and related criminal matters.
- Coordinated investigations with federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies and prosecutors.
- Conducted interviews, interrogations, and investigative planning supporting criminal prosecution.
- Organized and led a multi-agency hate-crime task force recognized by the Anti-Defamation League with the Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate.
- Promoted to a temporary assignment as Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI Headquarters Public Corruption Unit and provided public-corruption instruction through the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA).
- Represented the Los Angeles FBI Office before diverse cultural and community organizations, delivering presentations on hate crimes and human trafficking in support of community-relations initiatives.
Investigative Specialist, National Security Division - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Washington, D.C.
(2000-01 - 2007-12)
- Supported foreign counterintelligence, espionage, and counterterrorism investigations involving threats to United States national security.
- Conducted surveillance operations and produced analytical intelligence reports.
- Participated in Pentagon recovery operations following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
- Supported research and investigative efforts through the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC).
- Authored behavioral research regarding terrorist radicalization and motivation.
Primary U.S. Pretrial Services Officer - United States Pretrial / Probation Office
(1999-01 - 2000-12)
U.S. Pretrial Services Officer - United States Pretrial Services Agency
(1998-01 - 1999-12)
Education
Master of Arts - Forensic Psychology - Marymount University
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology - The University of Texas at Austin
