President Bernard J. Zapor

Passion and heart to help others. Courage and decisive leadership in crisis.

Bernard J. (BJ) Zapor is a 30-year executive leader - 25 years with the U.S. Department of Justice, ATF, and 5 years in corporate and private leadership. He is currently a faculty associate with the Arizona State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Value

Relative to today’s social challenges protecting the safety of our nation, Mr. Zapor is a subject-matter expert with frontline and leadership experience in the areas of active shooter, workplace violence, terrorism, bombings, gangs, crime syndicates, national firearms issues, the 2nd amendment, firearms violence, firearms laws, intelligence gathering, compliance, fraud, and corporate security.

Transformative Servant Leader

During his tenure with ATF, he created and executed numerous programs and initiatives that reduced firearm-related homicides and violent crime. He also introduced a new focus on intelligence gathering that significantly increased criminal case referrals and convictions. Mr. Zapor has also collaborated on the response for national active shooter events.

National cable and network news contributor and subject-matter expert.

Mr. Zapor provides leadership regarding active shooter, bombings, and workplace violence events and other issues such as violent crime, weapons proliferation, and terrorism with appearances on Fox News, CNN, CSPAN, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, CBS, The Discovery Channel, and more.