Focus One Group expands global security and family office risk services

Focus One Group founder Steve Davies outlined the company’s international security and risk management business, including executive protection, family office support, and event operations. The company is also preparing for TIFF 2026 and widening partnerships to strengthen travel risk, crisis response, and global support.

Why it matters: - Focus One Group is positioning itself as a global security partner for executives, UHNW families, family offices, and event organizers facing physical, travel, cyber, and reputational risk. - The company’s model blends executive protection with intelligence, logistics, and crisis support, which can reduce disruption for clients operating across borders. - The expansion of family office risk management reflects rising demand for discreet protection around wealth, households, and legacy planning.

What happened: - Steve Davies, founder and managing partner of Focus One Group, described the firm’s security and risk management business in an interview published by SecuritySolutionsWatch.com on September 8, 2026. - Davies said his career began in the British Armed Forces before he moved into more than three decades of private-sector security work. - Focus One Group said its services cover executive protection, protective intelligence, corporate risk management, travel risk management, crisis response, secure transportation, and enterprise security. - The company said TIFF 2026 is an immediate operational focus, with Toronto-based support planned for celebrity and executive protection, secure transportation, protective intelligence, and risk management.

The details: - Focus One Group serves corporate executives, UHNW individuals, family offices, celebrities, royal families, and organizations operating in elevated-risk environments. - Davies said the company builds tailored programs around each client’s lifestyle, operational needs, and risk profile. - The firm’s service lines include executive and celebrity services, residential security, special event risk management, travel risk management, family office security risk management, and secure transportation. - The company said its residential offering includes personnel, technology integration, and secure lifestyle protocols. - Its event security work includes advance planning, venue and route assessments, protective intelligence, secure transport, and coordination with studios, publicists, production teams, venue security, and law enforcement. - Davies said the modern close protection agent now functions as a strategic risk advisor, not just a bodyguard. - He said that role now includes identifying and mitigating threats before they affect clients, families, or organizations. - Davies said family office security now extends beyond physical protection to cyber threats, reputational exposure, travel risk, residential security, and family continuity. - He said Focus One Group is expanding family office risk management services to include protective intelligence, executive protection, residential security, secure transportation, travel risk management, threat assessments, crisis preparedness and response, and 24/7 monitoring. - Davies said the company’s approach is meant to enhance a family’s lifestyle rather than disrupt it. - Focus One Group said it has worked on TIFF security engagements over the years and that the festival requires discreet protection because of high-profile talent, compressed schedules, media attention, and public exposure. - Davies said the firm provided in-country security resources and operational support to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce during COP25, COP26, and COP27 in the Middle East. - He said the company worked alongside Chamber protective security personnel to coordinate local resources and country-specific security requirements. - Davies said Focus One Group is active in more than 30 countries. - He described country risk themes including civil unrest and targeted crime in the United States, urban crime in Canada and the United Kingdom, organized crime risk in Mexico, and low-crime but compliance-heavy environments in Singapore and the UAE. - The company said it has a strategic partnership with Northcott Global Solutions in the United Kingdom. - Davies said the partnership strengthens travel risk management, crisis response, medical assistance, evacuation services, and continuous monitoring through NGS’s global security operations centre and Aurora platform. - He said Focus One Group is also expanding international capabilities through relationships with Ferrum Security in Mexico, Allround Security & Logistics in India, and Arma Group International. - Davies said the company is available for corporate keynotes, leadership briefings, HR and workplace safety programs, healthcare and education trainings, conferences, private events, and community safety presentations. - He said every speaking engagement is customized to the audience’s risk profile and goals. - Davies also said the company is broadening family office risk management support for single and multi-family offices, private investment firms, and private wealth advisors.

Between the lines: - Focus One Group is selling a broader operating model than traditional close protection. - The pitch is that security works best when it is integrated into business travel, events, residences, and family governance. - The emphasis on local partnerships suggests the company is building reach without relying only on a larger internal footprint. - The family office focus reflects a shift from guarding individuals to protecting the systems around personal wealth.

What's next: - Focus One Group plans to support TIFF 2026 and continue building out its Toronto operations for the festival. - The company expects its international partnerships to strengthen global incident response and travel support. - Davies said the firm will keep expanding family office risk management capabilities as demand grows for integrated protection and continuity planning. - He said the broader goal is to give clients one point of contact for security and risk management wherever they operate.

The bottom line: - Focus One Group is betting that the future of executive protection is intelligence-led, globally connected, and built around full-spectrum risk management, not just physical security.