Fred is the Executive Director of Ontic's Center for Protective Intelligence. He is one of the world's foremost experts on security and counterterrorism. A former police officer, special agent and New York Times best-selling author, Fred has served on the front lines of high-profile investigations like the hunt for and arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the first World Trade Center bombing; the 1988 plane crash of PAK-1 that killed U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel and Pakistani President Zia; and the search for Americans kidnapped by Hezbollah in Beirut, Lebanon.