J. BRANCH WALTON is an Associate Dean of Student Services at Henley Putnam University, an on-line university specializing in intelligence, protection management, terrorism and counter-terrorism studies. He is also active in teaching several Department of Homeland Security funded programs throughout the country.

Mr. Walton has more than 40 years direct experience in federal law enforcement, private security and college teaching. He retired from the United States Secret Service (USSS) after a 21-year career. Assignments included Special Agent-in-Charge of a field office; instructor and Assistant Agent-in-Charge of the Office of Training; investigative and protective assignments at three field offices; and security details for Presidents Nixon, Carter, and Reagan. Prior to his USSS service, Mr. Walton was a commissioned officer in the U. S. Marine Corps, and a special agent with the Office of Naval Intelligence (now NCIS).

After retirement, he served briefly with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Springfield, Illinois, as the Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee representative. Other post-retirement activities included Director of Corporate Security for Cummins Engine Company, responsible for world-wide security operations. He has also served as Chief of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s (FLETC) Management Institute, and as a criminal justice instructor at Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana.

He is past President of the National Association for Bank Security-Profit Protection, LLC, a company specializing in security and compliance training for the banking industry. Most recently, he was Airport Manager of Operations Training at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood -International Airport.

Mr. Walton is a well-known speaker and author on workplace violence-the insider threat, executive protection, identity theft, school safety and other security topics. He continues to instruct at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s Counter Terrorism Division and the Department of Homeland Security in the fields of physical and operations security, crime prevention, and terrorism. He is a past or current adjunct faculty member of the criminal justice department of six universities. Mr. Walton has authored numerous articles, crime awareness brochures, a book, book chapters and consulted on several workplace violence training videos.

Specific training topics of specialization include: Executive protection, school crisis management, identity theft, surveillance detection and counter surveillance training, workplace violence, physical security, crime prevention, security officer training, and others.