Brian Marren

Brian is a decorated Marine, High Threat Protection security professional and Subject Matter Expert on Human Behavior Pattern Recognition & Analysis. He has spent the last seventeen years conducting both real world and training operations all over the United States, the Middle East and both Central and East Asia.

While in the Marine Corps, Brian served as a Marine Scout/Sniper with multiple combat deployments to the Al Anbar Province of Iraq during the height of counterinsurgency operations. As a Team Leader, he successfully led hundreds of combat and training missions. During this time, Brian was meritoriously promoted ahead of his peers on three separate occasions due to his leadership capability and professionalism.

After being honorably discharged from the Marine Corps, Brian was hired by Cubic Applications to be a Tactics Analyst at the newly constructed Infantry Immersive Trainer (IIT) at Marine Corps Camp Pendleton. During his time at the IIT Brian trained and advised thousands of Marines on how to make better tactical decisions during highly complex and chaotic live fire training exercises. Under his guidance, thousands of Marines became more adaptable and better at sense making during highly stressful situations. While working as an instructor, Brian assisted with a number of scientific studies conducted by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Pacific Science and Engineering (PSE) in order to help determine the efficacy of the Infantry Immersive Trainer and the Marine Corps Combat Hunter program.

Brian has also worked as a security contractor for the U.S. State Department High Threat Protection program. During this time, he was responsible for personally protecting hundreds of U.S. Government personnel in various high threat environments including Iraq and Afghanistan. Brian performed all major duties within a security detail, including leading numerous small teams on highly sensitive protection operations.

Brian formerly worked as a Senior Instructor/Team Leader for Orbis Operations, where he taught Advanced Situational Awareness and Human Behavior Pattern Recognition & Analysis to numerous tier one military clients, conventional forces, and private sector clients. During Brian’s tenure at Orbis Operations, he trained hundreds of Law Enforcement Professionals including agents from the US Border Patrol, DEA, ICE, TSA, US Marshals and other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.

Brian holds a Masters of Science in Applied Psychology from the University of Southern California and a Bachelors of Science in Political Science from Arizona State University.