Pamela Lande is the Vice President of Administration and manages all administrative and logistical aspects of Gryphon Group Security Solutions global operations. Ms. Lande comes to GGSS with over 10 years of crisis management and customer service experience. She is also responsible for coordinating and supporting our Mobile Training Teams worldwide. In coordination with the rest of our staff, Ms. Lande maintains communication with our current and prospective clients to assure that our client's questions are being answered and their training needs are being met.

Brandon Salazar is the Vice President of Operations and served in the United States Marine Corps as an Amphibious Reconnaissance Marine. He has conducted intelligence operations extensively in Central and South America including West and South Africa. Mr. Salazar has previously been assigned to provide personal protection for COMMARFORSOUTH and presidential dignitaries in high threat areas of Latin America. Some of his other duties while at 2nd Recon Bat. included being a platoon marksmanship instructor for Nato small arms. He is also licensed to operate most Soviet block military vehicles ranging from tanks to troop carriers. He has been a martial arts instructor for over 14 years. Mr. Salazar has trained hundreds of U.S. Army Special Forces, Navy Seals and Marines in Advanced Special Operations Tactics.

Juan Ayala is the Vice President of Training and Development and has over 21 years in Special Operations, force protection, surveillance operations and counter surveillance details, urban combat as well as advanced weapons and tactics. He served in the United States Army Rangers and the U.S. Army Special Forces. Mr. Ayala has worldwide operational experience in unconventional warfare planning and execution. In addition to his many accomplishments Mr. Ayala served as the Director of Training at the Special Forces Officers Qualification Course at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Frank McBee is the former Vice President of the Florida SWAT Association and served over ten years as the Training Coordinator of the Southeast United States for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors. Mr. McBee has been a Law Enforcement professional for over 17 years, including 12 years as an Emergency Response Team member. As a Firearms Instructor, he has traveled and trained extensively in the United States and Europe, training elite civilian and military units in firearms and small unit tactics. Frank has served as an Adjunct Instructor for HK Inc., Olympic Arms and Offshoots Training Institute. He specializes in small arm tactics for squad deployment such as hostage rescue, vehicle/vessel assaults and counter force initiatives.

Mike Manning served in the United States Marine Corps for over 10 years including 3 years as a Force Reconnaissance Direct Action Platoon Team member and assistant team leader. Mr. Manning has extensive operational experience with the Marine Expeditionary Unites Maritime Special Purpose Force in South West Asia, Persian Gulf and East Timor Indonesia. He also served in the Marine Corps in the Combat Infantry and Military Police fields. Mr. Manning is a US Army trained Parachute Rigger and Jumpmaster. After leaving the Marine Corps, Mr. Manning served as a police officer in the State of Connecticut with over 5 years experience in a 300-man department as a patrolman and plain clothes Anti-Crime Team member. He has in-depth operational experience conducting surveillance, investigations, and arrest operations in high crime urban environments.

Richard Ramsey served eleven years in the United States Army. Mr. Ramsey was a technician and senior technician for a twelve-man tactical nuclear weapons fire team. As senior technician, he was responsible for the transportation, security and detonation of tactical nuclear weapons. Mr. Ramsey also tested new conventional explosives for practicality of use by the United States Army. In addition, he served as a military police officer and served as a squad leader, a patrol supervisor, and as point man on the Special Reaction Team for the 2 nd Infantry Division in Camp Casey, Korea. While assigned to Ft. Hood, Mr. Ramsey deployed with the military police to Panama in support of Operation Promote Liberty. He was also assigned to the 89 th Military Police Brigade III Corps and Ft. Hood’s Special Reaction Team. Some of Mr. Ramsey’s duties included Entry Team Leader, Sniper, Hostage Negotiator, Traffic Enforcement Section Assistant NCOIC, Special Reaction Team NCOIC and Lead Instructor for Ft. Hood’s Military Police Academy. As a Special Reaction Team NCOIC, his duties included the personal security of all visiting dignitaries and VIP’s.

Christian Van Zandt, Sr., began his law enforcement career in 1992 and is currently the Training Officer for a 150-officer agency in Central Florida. He holds additional responsibilities as a Counter-Sniper on the Special Weapons and Tactics team, and serves as a member of the agency's Firearms Training Unit and Honor Guard. Mr. Van Zandt presently holds instructor certificates and trains in Firearms, Emergency Vehicle Operations, M26 Advanced Taser and All-Terrain Vehicles. He is a former Field Training Officer, Defensive Tactics Instructor and Dive/Recovery Team member. Van Zandt receives extensive, on-going training in firearms, defensive tactics, and tactical operations. During his 14 years in the United States Marine Corps Mr. Van Zandt attained the rank of Staff Sergeant and received extensive training and experience in tractor-trailer operations, off-road vehicle operations, explosives transportation and vehicle recovery techniques. Following his military service Mr. Van Zandt worked as a Heavy Duty Recovery specialist in the civilian sector for 18 months in the Midwest. In this environment he daily employed many of the recovery skills he learned and mastered in the Marine Corps.

Elliot Coon serves as a Gryphon Group Security Solutions Operations Specialist. Mr. Coon was a combat infantryman in the U. S. Marine Corps from 1996-1999. His operational experience includes evacuating civilians out of Sierra Leone in 1998. Mr. Coon is a graduate of the USMC Mountain Warfare School in Bridgeport, CA. After the Marine Corps, he continued his education as a commercial diver and graduated from the College of Oceaneering in Wilmington, CA. Mr. Coon has over 400 working dives from minor underwater construction to bridge inspection on the skyway bridge.

Frank Dicolandrea serves as a Gryphon Group Security Solutions Operations Specialist. Mr. Dicolandrea served in the U.S. Navy Seabees from 1989-1994, where he has been deployed to the Middle East for Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He also has extensive experience in most of Southeast Asia and the Micronesian Islands. Mr. Dicolandrea also deployed to Homestead Florida for Hurricane Andrew Relief and to the Philippines to assist in the cleanup from the Mt. Pinitumo eruption. During his tour, he qualified on all battalion issued weapons: M-16, .45, MK19, AT-4 .50 cal, and M-60. After his service in the Navy, Mr. Dicolandrea worked as a certified auto technician for Nissan. Mr. Dicolandrea also has also completed EMT school and firefighter school with Florida state certification.

Robert Fishe serves as a Gryphon Group Security Solutions Operations Specialist. He served in the United States Army as a Tow Missile Gunner for 4 years. During his tour, he received combat lifesavers training and earned the expert infantryman’s badge. Shortly after starting a career in law enforcement, Mr. Fishe was reactivated by the Army in 1991 for the first Persian Gulf War. After serving in Desert Storm, he continued his career in law enforcement, serving as a corrections officer and later as a deputy sheriff for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department in Washington State. Several of Mr. Fishe’s police pursuits have been televised popular television show “Cops”.

Michael Spearing has over 24 years of Special Operations experience with the United States Army Special Forces. Mr. Spearing served with both the 5th Special Forces Group Airborne and the 1st Special Forces Group Airborne. He primarily served as senior medical advisor on operational A teams specializing in mountain, strategic reconnaissance and scout swim team operations. Mr. Spearing has served extensively throughout Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He also served as 1st SGT of the 95th Combat Support Hospital in Heidelberg Germany and as Medical Platoon SGT for the 64th Armored Battalion 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart Georgia. Mr. Spearing has a B.A. in Business Administration from Florida Metropolitan University. He also is a member and the 1st Vice President of the Alpha Beta Kappa (ABK) honor society at Florida Metropolitan University.

Administrative Assistant
Donna Manning