Inc. Magazine – September 2019

Emergency Care

Specialists trained

by Tomahawk don’t

solely provide security

services. They can

also administer

emergency trauma

treatment. In this

photo from a staged

incident, a specialist

ties a tourniquet to

stanch the bleeding

of an injured victim.

private-sector clients, comes down to

active-shooter preparation. It’s a very

unfortunate growth industry.

MB We had a great culture in our pre-

vious life. Our goal was to set up a

business with that same culture. When

you’re on a five-man team and you

spend 200, 220 days a year together,

you become really good buddies. That

allows for brutal honesty. We didn’t

always see eye to eye then and we don’t

now, but we’re able to have it out and

still know we’re headed in the right

direction.

KW And just as the battlefield can be

very fluid, so can entrepreneurship.

The flexibility we’ve learned in our past

life is huge.

MB With DevGru, on the more sensi-

tive missions, there were so many other

dimensions than going in on black

helicopters and then coming home.

We’d work with other government

agencies, and had to achieve outcomes

by adapting to those cultures. That

directly translates to what we are doing

today. We’re working with a large

Fortune 500 organization one day, the

next day a school, and then one of the

nation’s premier law enforcement

agencies. What works with one client

won’t necessarily work with the next.

So you build out that arrow quiver, and

then you pick out certain arrows that

you need for each problem set that

comes up.