WHY CHOOSE
SPARTAN ANALYTICS GROUP?
Experience Matters.
Derek is the Chief Compliance Officer for Stratum Risk Advisors. In this position, Derek is responsible for developing and delivering targeted violence, personal security, and executive protection training to clients including the Las Vegas Raiders, private K-12 schools and a number of high net worth individuals. Derek also ensures that the company's security solutions are not only effective, but that they adhere to applicable laws and regulatory requirements.
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Previously, Derek worked for a Utah-based, billion-dollar tech start-up as the Senior Vice President, Compliance and Security. In this position, Derek created a robust Behavioral Threat based security program. During his tenure, he also developed CJIS and HIPAA compliance programs for the company.
In his last position as Chief Security Officer for the FBI’s Salt Lake City Division, Derek was responsible for all physical, personnel, and network security concerns within a three- state area. This included managing the security of over 400 FBI personnel, its 17 different secured facilities, and its Top Secret, Secret and Unclassified data networks. He was also responsible for compliance, governance, and policy issues facing the FBI's Field Office.
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As a Behavioral Analyst, Derek represented the FBI’s Behavioral Threat Assessment Center to state and local law enforcement as well as businesses, schools, and houses of worship throughout the Intermountain West Region. Derek developed threat and risk assessments focused on warning behavior typologies and risk factors related to insider threat, persons of concern and victimology. He also created and implemented targeted violence prevention strategies and behavior-based operational support strategies.
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Derek also led the FBI's multi-million-dollar High Risk Deployment Training program (HRDT) where he prepared over 1,500 FBI personnel for assignments to high risk locations, austere environments and active conflict zones worldwide. Derek provided instruction in Situational Awareness, Personal Security, Threat Stream Analysis and Assessment.
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Derek served for 18 years as a SWAT operator across a wide variety of operational responsibilities. For seven of those years, Derek served as a senior team leader for the FBI Director's Protective Detail. In this capacity, Derek led protective missions, conducted facility and residential security surveys as well as threat mitigation efforts, and developed and exploited intelligence streams around the globe.
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As a case agent, Derek successfully worked a variety of disciplines including kidnapping, bank robbery, counterterrorism, and complex multi-national enterprise investigations targeting organized crime and narcotics.
Derek earned his JD from the University of San Diego, School of Law and previously specialized in Regulatory and Employment Law practice areas.
Derek B. Price, J.D.
Founder
Lynn Van Male
PhD, CTM
Senior Mental Health Consultant
Dr. Lynn Van Male is the senior advisor in the Mental Health Consulting Practice at Spartan Analytics Group. Dr. Van Male is an international subject matter expert on threat assessment and management in health care and human services settings. She has over 18 years of experience implementing evidence-based, data-driven behavioral threat management processes at various systems levels in health care, including over 6 years of service as the national Director of the Workplace Violence Prevention Program for the largest integrated health care system in the United States.
Dr. Van Male served on the Scientific Committee for the 4th, 5th and 6th International Conferences on Violence in the Health Sector, as well as providing a special workshop on the biomechanical evaluation of physical safety skills used in health care venues and presenting several system improvement papers at these international events. She has provided trainings for several other international and national conventions and professional meetings, including annual conferences of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP), the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (CATAP), and the American Psychological Association (APA).
Dr. Van Male’s subject matter expertise and consultation regarding health care violence prevention has been requested by The Joint Commission, the Minnesota Department of Health, the Indiana Hospital Association, the US Performance Accountability Committee, the Interagency Security Committee of the Department of Homeland Security, and numerous health care delivery agencies and organizations across the United States. She was an invited participant at the 2015 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) symposium on targeted violence prevention, resulting in the 2017 publication of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit Monograph Making Prevention a Reality: Identifying, Assessing, and Managing the Threat of Targeted Attacks. Dr. Van Male currently holds the elected office of Second Vice President on the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP) national Board of Directors, having also served as the Vice President of the ATAP Northwest Chapter. Dr. Van Male is one of the first ATAP Certified Threat Managers (CTM), having beta-tested the CTM examination.
In addition to holding an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Oregon Health and Sciences University, Dr. Van Male is a Contributing Editor of the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management and a licensed Psychologist who provided direct clinical services for over ten years to US Military Veterans and their families as a member of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Clinical Team at the VA Portland Health Care System. Dr. Van Male earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia and completed an American Psychological Association approved internship at the VA Portland Health Care System.
Adam Graham
LCP/MHSP
Mental Health Consultant
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Adam Graham is a licensed professional counselor with experience in crisis care, suicidology, and severe psychopathology. Along with being a member of Spartan Analytics Group's Mental Health Consulting Practice, Adam serves as a consultant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a private practitioner as well as a professor at Vanderbilt University.
Beginning his professional career in community mental health, Adam served five years as a case manager for individuals in Nashville with treatment resistant schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. After a year of international volunteer work in Scotland, Adam returned to the US and completed a graduate degree in counseling to begin work as a crisis counselor, engaging with individuals facing suicidal, homicidal, or psychotic crisis. Adam next served as a supervisor and then program manager for three crisis stabilization units, providing clinical and administrative leadership to these 24/7 treatment sites. Here, Adam began his work as a suicidologist, partnering with national leaders to conduct and publish research which he presented annually at the American Association of Suicidology conference.
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In 2018, Adam was promoted to the Director of Emergency Psychiatric Services to help evolve the crisis program to meet the growing needs of Nashville. In this role he led the design and launch of a new Crisis Treatment Center, with the development of new staff, new services, and new partnerships, expanding the capacity and capabilities of crisis care for the city. Some of these new partnerships included the Partners in Care program, which trained and placed crisis counselors in police cars to co-respond with law enforcement, the embedding of crisis counselors in emergency departments, a joint initiative with the juvenile justice center to reduce youth incarceration, and Adam being selected to serve in the executive committee of the Tennessee Governor’s Suicide Prevention Advisory Council. During this work Adam began partnering with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to launch what would later be recognized by the FBI as a national best practice in mental health partnership. Throughout this partnership, Adam has provided training for special agents, co-responded with special agents in the field, provided liaison services, and consulted on conceptualizations and strategies during investigations.
Adam has consulted with the Centerstone Research Institute and continues direct care as a counselor with the Melton Counseling Group. Adam teaches as an adjunct professor with Vanderbilt University’s Human Developmental
Counseling program and as a trainer with Renaissance Counseling and Psychological Specialists.
Adam earned his MS degree in professional counseling from Lipscomb University, has been licensed as a professional counselor for 10 years and as a licensed clinical supervisor for two years.
John Wyman
Senior Behavioral Analyst
John Wyman is a senior advisor in the Behavior Analysis and Threat Assessment/Mitigation Practice at Spartan Analytics Group. John recently completed an accomplished career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
From 2017 through his retirement in 2021, Mr. Wyman served as the Chief of the FBI’s Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC), a world-renowned, multi-agency, multidisciplinary task force focused on the prevention of terrorism and targeted violence through the application of behaviorally based operational support, training, and research. Mr. Wyman joined the FBI as a Special Agent in 1998 and he spent substantially all his FBI career working on counterterrorism (CT) and targeted violence prevention. Mr. Wyman successfully led and managed numerous investigations and operations, resulting in disrupted attacks, mitigated threats, and arrest/conviction. Mr. Wyman served as Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) supervisor and the terrorism program coordinator (PCOR) in the FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO) and the FBI's Richmond Division.
Mr. Wyman worked as program manager within the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, served in a joint duty capacity at the Guantanamo Detainee Prosecution Task Force (GDPTF), and conducted numerous domestic and overseas deployments in support of FBI CT operations. Mr. Wyman is a two-time recipient of the prestigious FBI Director’s Award for Outstanding Counterterrorism Investigation and a three-time recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s “Shield Award.”
Mr. Wyman is a 1994 graduate of the University of Virginia, holding a Bachelor of Science in commerce with a concentration in finance. Between graduation from UVA and his transition to the FBI, Mr. Wyman worked as a financial analyst and investment banking associate in the corporate finance department of J.C. Bradford & Co.
Mr. Wyman and his wife Nikki are the proud parents of two children. They currently live in Richmond, Virginia.
Steven W. Hersem
Senior Data Risk/
CIED Consultant
Steven W. Hersem is a senior advisor in the Global Data Risk (GDR) and Counter-Improvised Explosives/Hazardous Materials Practices at Spartan Analytics Group. Steven has broad experience in countering domestic and international terrorism threats and has more than a decade of expertise, leading Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) threat mitigation programs.
Before his 2018 transition to the private sector, Steven served as the Deputy Director of the CIA Community HUMINT Division. He was responsible for the coordination and deconfliction of global operations. Additionally, as the Deputy Assistant Director for the FBI's counterterrorism program, Steven led the FBI's efforts to analyze a decade's worth of information regarding mobilization indicators to violence, which informed investigative targeting packages for FBI field offices.
He recently led a global energy company's threat management and intelligence vertical, including developing an insider threat program, a cybersecurity incident response team, and the anti- workplace violence campaign.
Steven began his federal government service in 1995 as an FBI Special Agent assigned to the Houston Division, where he investigated international and domestic counterterrorism, violent crimes, and organized crime. He also served as a special agent bomb technician (SABT), and member of the Hazardous Materials Team (HAZMAT). Steven was part of the recovery operation that investigated the crash of Space Shuttle Columbia after the disaster in 2003. From 2004 to 2009, Steven served as aninvestigator and team leader on the FBI’s Counterterrorism Fly Team (FT), the FBI’s expeditionary counterterrorism investigation and operational unit.
He participated in numerous domestic and world- wide deployments and was awarded the J. Edgar Hoover award for valor and FBI’s Shield of Bravery for his actions while embedded with a military special operations team in Afghanistan. Steven also served with military teams during combat operations in Iraq and the Horn of Africa focused on countering the improvised explosive device (C-IED) threat. Steven is adept at outlining preferred strategies or tactics based on national security priorities, credible threat environment, available resources, and organizational mandates.
He is a law enforcement and corporate security subject matter expert with a graduate degree in security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School. He has an expert understanding of security operations, investigations, threat analysis, and counter-threat strategies or methods.