Leadership

Jin Kim

Mr. Jin Kim founded the PerSec Academy & Advisory Group LLC upon his retirement from the FBI in 2018.  His decorated 23-year career in the FBI’s New York Office was highlighted by his service as the Active Shooter Subject Matter Expert while assigned to the Crisis Management Unit.  As the leading authority in active shooter and workplace violence mitigation, Mr. Kim served as the FBI’s principal liaison and collaborator for private sector partnerships and public engagement.

Mr. Kim is also a Founding Principal of The Bureau Consortium – a world-class multi-disciplinary collaborative of retired FBI experts and partner practitioners – uniquely specializing in violence prevention and mitigation risk management.  He also serves on numerous industry-leading security technology advisory boards and a premier non-profit organization dedicated to school safety.

Melissa Fortunato

Melissa retired from the FBI in 2022 after serving in the New York and Cleveland field offices for over twenty-three years.

Melissa is a seasoned practitioner in crisis intervention and negotiations having operated as an FBI Crisis Negotiator for over fifteen years. She successfully resolved domestic and international kidnappings, barricaded subjects, and other crisis events. For over a decade, Melissa led FBI-Cleveland’s Crisis Negotiation Team. She has trained hundreds of law enforcement officers, including instructing at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Budapest, Hungary and being an assessor/coach for the FBI’s National Crisis Negotiation Course. In addition, Melissa was selected to represent the FBI at the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard) Hostage Negotiation Course in London, England.

Melissa’s strong skills in strategic assessment and targeting come from her years as an FBI Undercover Agent. She operated both domestically and internationally. Her undercover portfolio included transnational organized crime, public corruption, drug trafficking, and counterintelligence matters.

Melissa is the founder of Alchemy Team LLC, a negotiation and conflict resolution training and consulting company. She has worked with professionals from different industries, including real estate, human resources, engineering, construction, and technology.

Barbara Daly

Barbara Daly retired from the FBI in 2019 and is a 30-year veteran of the New York Field Office.

Barbara Daly is an experienced practitioner in the field of Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management, with specialties in Workplace Violence, Threat Mitigation and Active Shooters.

For nearly a decade, Barbara served as the Supervisory Special Agent overseeing the joint FBI/NYPD Violent Crime Task Force and was also the primary Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) Field Coordinator in the FBI’s New York Office during that time. As such, Barbara served as the main liaison between local, state and federal law enforcement entities and the FBI’s BAU, to include Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP) requests.

Barbara was involved with the FBI’s Active Shooter program from 2007 to 2019 and regularly speaks on the topics of identifying, assessing and managing emerging threats, targeted attacks and workplace violence. Barbara has an M.A. in Forensic Psychology from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a B.A. in Journalism from New York University, and has earned a Certified Threat Manager (CTM) designation through the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP).