Biography
Mr. Kurtz, joined The Steele Foundation in 1994, advancing through a
series of leadership positions in the company's Business Intelligence
practice with recognized expertise in strategic planning, competitive
intelligence, partnerships, and business acquisitions and mergers. In
1997 he was named a Managing Director and Vice President of the
corporation and was promoted to Executive Vice-President of
Corporate Affairs in January 1999.
Mr. Kurtz was elected to The Steele Foundation's Board of Directors
in 1999 and relocated to Europe in 2001 as President of Steele-
Europe. He was subsequently elected Chairman of Steele
International, the parent company of The Steele Foundation, and in
January 2004, he took the helm of the risk management company as
Chief Executive Officer of The Steele Foundation.
He is an active media consultant to the New York Times, the San
Francisco Chronicle, the BBC, and ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox
Networks; addressing topics such as intelligence gathering in the
Middle East, terrorism, intellectual property theft, and the emergence of the private security and private
intelligence sector. Additionally, he lectures to multi-cultural corporations and has been the keynote
speaker at various conference events around the world on topics such as international crisis management,
business intelligence, and the evolution of the private security market. He has served as a Security
Consultant for numerous think tank conferences and has consulted on the topic of risk management to
prominent social, government, and business leaders.
He began his career with the Los Angeles Police Department before pursuing his studies. Mr. Kurtz studied
in Cambridge, England and the University of California at Berkeley, majoring in jurisprudence and social
policies. Before joining The Steele Foundation, Mr. Kurtz then spent several years in the private sector
where he was actively involved in risk management consulting and security management.
