Trusted Since 1999
California PI License 20703
Domestic & International
Security and investigations, aligned around your exposure.
Risk rarely stays inside a single discipline. Protective concerns can begin with digital exposure. Investigative facts can alter physical security decisions. Travel, litigation, visibility, and reputation can create connected conditions that require judgment before execution.
Security & Protective Advisory
Reduce vulnerability before exposure becomes disruption.
Protective intelligence, executive protection advisory, digital risk, secure mobility, and travel resilience are aligned around movement, privacy, continuity, and the client's decision environment.
Investigations & Intelligence Advisory
Establish facts before uncertainty shapes the outcome.
Investigations, due diligence, fact-finding, and intelligence clarify people, events, relationships, conduct, and exposure in sensitive or contested matters.
Connected expertise. A consistent standard of judgment.
The domains describe how risk is structured — not how services are sold. Each engagement is organized around the client's exposure, facts, priorities, and decision requirements rather than a predefined package.
Executive Protection & Secure Mobility
Designs exposure-first executive protection and secure mobility programs that integrate protective intelligence, travel risk management, advance work, residential and event environments, monitoring, and continuity around actual conditions.
Risk Intelligence & Investigations
Establishes facts, tests competing narratives, and clarifies hidden exposure through investigations, due diligence, and decision-grade intelligence.
Digital Security & Cyber Risk Advisory
Reduces identity, credential, data, doxxing, impersonation, reputation, and digital-footprint exposure by connecting cyber signals to physical vulnerability and operational consequence.
Special Situations & Strategic Advisory
Provides principal-led judgment for sensitive cross-border, litigation, reputation, transaction, market-entry, crisis, family-office, board-level, and other high-consequence conditions.
Security Risk Management & Advisory
Structures security risk around exposure, vulnerability, consequence, governance, and continuity so leaders can make proportionate, defensible decisions.
Exposure → Convergence → Outcome
Risk is easier to manage when exposure is understood before intent, capability, access, behavior, and timing converge.
Exposure
What is visible, searchable, predictable, or exploitable.
Convergence
Where exposure meets intent, capability, access, and timing.
Outcome
The physical, digital, reputational, or operational consequence.
Control the signals. Control the risk.
Defined by exposure, not industry.
Clients include executives, high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, private clients, boards, general counsel, legal and risk leaders, corporate security leaders, institutions, investors, and high-consequence businesses.
Engagement often begins when visibility, travel, litigation, growth, media attention, transaction activity, compliance pressure, fragmented vendors, a security incident, or intuition indicates that risk is not fully understood or controlled.
Base
San Francisco Bay Area | United States
Brazil / Latin America / International
From its San Francisco Bay Area base, Creswell Associates advises on domestic, cross-border, and international matters, drawing on long-standing operational depth in Brazil and the wider Latin American region, as well as significant experience in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.
Judgment before execution.
Every engagement begins by defining exposure and establishing the facts required for a sound decision. Creswell Associates determines what must be understood, which vulnerabilities matter, and what action is proportionate to the condition.
Creswell separates established facts, analytical judgment, and uncertainty before recommending proportionate action.
Each engagement is principal-led: Creswell Associates defines the scope, exercises independent judgment, and provides clear, proportionate recommendations.
Principal-Led Authority
Robert Creswell, CPP, CFE
Robert Creswell brings extensive security, investigative, and risk-management experience. He established Creswell Associates in 1999 to advise clients through sensitive security, investigative, and risk conditions where facts, discretion, and independent judgment matter.
He is a Certified Threat Management Liaison Officer (TMLO), with specialized training in Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM) and the Infrastructure Liaison Officer (ILO) program.
Where are you exposed?
Control the signals. Control the risk.â„