J. Alan Orlob, Orlob Group, LLC

Travel Security, Crisis Management
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn Profile: Alan Orlob
Location: Newport Beach, CA

Member, Business Advisors Consortium
Alan Orlob is the Chief Executive for the Orlob Group, an advisory and consultancy group that consults with companies and governments on crisis management, travel security and how entities identified as “soft targets” can protect themselves. He has been a prolific public speaker in venues worldwide, both for private organizations and for government groups and has been interviewed by most major media organizations, both in the U.S. and abroad. He has written several published articles on how organizations can protect themselves against terrorism.

Background
Alan recently retired as the Vice President of Global Safety and Security for Marriott International where he served for 35 years. Marriott is the largest hotel company in the world with operations in 130 countries. In his capacity, he created Marriott’s crisis management and security programs for all of the international properties.

As Marriott began moving into high risk areas and hotels became targeted by terrorist organizations, Alan created and implemented Marriott’s “threat condition program”, hardening hotels to deter or mitigate terrorist attacks. He co-founded the Hotel Security Working Group, an organization within the U.S. State Department’s Overseas Advisory Council, comprised of hotel corporate security directors, to ensure the hotel industry collaborated on security issues.

In 2009, Alan was a guest in the Ritz Carlton hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia when the hotel, along with the JW Marriott hotel, was attacked by terrorists. Alan led the crisis management efforts, ensuring an effective recovery.

Following the Mumbai terror attacks, Alan testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security in January 2009 and later testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security in 2016.

Accolades
In 2013, Mr. Orlob was selected by Security Magazine as one of the security industry’s “Most Influential Leaders” and in 2017 was honored with the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by Hospitality Lawyers.

Affiliations
Alan is the chairman of the Orange County Homeland Security Advisory Council, a public/private partnership with the Orange County, California Sheriff’s Department and a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves as a senior advisor to the U.S. State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) and was a co-founder of the Global Security Advisory Group (GSAG) to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

He is the former president of ISMA, the International Security Management Association. He has served as a consultant with the U.S. State Department’s Anti-terrorism Assistance Program on hotel security and was a stakeholder on a RAND initiative on counter-surveillance. In his role, he has consulted with several foreign governments on hotel security.

Following the Mumbai terror attacks, Alan testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security in January 2009 and later testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security in 2016.

Personal
He served with U.S. Army Special Forces, both active duty and reserve for a total of 24 years.