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Founder · Executive · Operator
John LaPlaca and the work after the checklist
A former Yorktown police lieutenant built Altaris Consulting Group around the work that follows a school safety assessment: assigning responsibility, carrying out changes and checking again.
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Enterprise · Media
How Jefferson Waterman International Makes the World Feel Like a Small Room
A 13-person Washington consultancy sells something larger firms struggle to bottle: senior judgment, political access and the nerve to work where business plans become foreign policy.
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Founder · Executive · Engineer
Eric Smith Built a Career by Asking Security to Prove It
For nearly three decades, the Lares co-founder has treated cybersecurity as a claim that must survive contact with reality. His work helped give penetration testers a shared playbook - and executives a more useful question than “Are we compliant?”
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