Murray Hill Partners.
We act for private clients and their families, family offices, legal counsel, and companies to build resilience when the stakes are personal, the facts are unclear, and discretion is non-negotiable.
What we doIntelligence-led. Resilience by design.
We are an intelligence-led security company with deep digital, cyber, and protective expertise. Each discipline informs the others, helping us understand threats, identify vulnerabilities, and coordinate action. Together, they build resilience: the ability to anticipate disruption, respond effectively, and recover.
MHP sits at the centre of your digital, cyber, and protective security functions, connecting information, people, and decisions so they work together. We lead delivery, oversee existing providers, and leverage specialists as needed, ensuring risks are understood and addressed across disciplines.
Human-led. Technology-enabled.
Our approach begins with experienced people: their judgment, relationships, and ability to gather and validate information. We combine human source collection with digital research and technical capabilities to test what we learn, understand its significance, and guide decisions. Technology extends our reach; human expertise directs the work and determines what matters.
The core team is led by industry-leading security, cyber, digital intelligence, and crisis executives, and supported by special forces operators with current, active-duty expertise and relationships.
Four services. One intelligence foundation.
We act as your Chief Security Officer: a central point of leadership and a single point of accountability for security, intelligence, reputation, and risk management.
Digital
Research, monitoring, and investigations establish facts, identify exposure, and clarify threats affecting your people and interests. We turn fragmented online information into clear, actionable intelligence that informs decisions, from due diligence to harassment and reputational concerns.
Cyber
Reviews, technical safeguards, and incident support that protect accounts, devices, networks, and sensitive information. We strengthen defences for families and businesses before an incident; when one occurs, we investigate, contain, and guide recovery.
Protective
Protection, secure travel, and physical security measures for people and homes, informed by intelligence wherever you go. Every measure is proportionate, discreet, and built around how you live and travel.
Resilience
Helping individuals, families, family offices, and businesses anticipate and prepare for disruption through practical planning, clear responsibilities, and effective safeguards. You will have the people, plans, and resources to respond with confidence and maintain continuity when it matters most.
Your World. Secured.
Arctos Intelligence is a private advisory platform that keeps you and your family safe. Continuous digital monitoring, tailored vulnerability assessments, and a dedicated Intelligence Advisor; Arctos identifies emerging threats, mitigates risk, and works with a global team to manage crises across your digital, cyber, and physical landscape.
Membership is evaluated discreetly and offered selectively.
Before, during, and after.
We work with clients before concerns emerge, when questions require investigation, and when a crisis demands immediate action. Across each engagement, our intelligence-led approach draws on digital, cyber, and protective security expertise, bringing together the specialists the situation requires through the trusted hand of an experienced intelligence officer.
Ongoing advisory and oversight
Through a retainer relationship, we act as an embedded security advisor to your family or business. We provide ongoing intelligence, coordinate specialists, oversee security priorities, and maintain the context needed to act quickly when circumstances change.
Focused projects
We undertake defined assignments to answer a specific question, from intelligence assessments and due diligence to security reviews, preparedness planning, and targeted improvements to your safeguards.
Discreet investigations
When concerns arise, we establish facts through carefully planned investigations, including covert inquiries where appropriate. We combine human source collection and validation with digital intelligence and forensic expertise to clarify what happened, assess exposure, and inform your next steps.
Crisis response
When an incident threatens your people, operations, or reputation, we provide immediate counsel and coordinate a response. We bring the relevant specialists together to establish the facts, contain the impact, and guide you through stabilization and recovery.
A closer look at how we work.
What each service covers.
Each service draws on the same intelligence foundation. Select a pillar to see what it covers.
Digital
Due diligence and vetting
- Background checks
- Investment due diligence
- Advisor and household staff vetting
- Partner and vendor vetting
- Financial integrity screening
Digital exposure and threat monitoring
- Digital footprint assessment
- Threat and reputation monitoring
- Online harassment and threat monitoring
- Sensitive information identification and removal
- Children's online safety
Investigative support
- Financial crime investigations
- Workplace and conduct investigations
- Asset and funds tracing
- OSINT collection and evidence reviews
- Deepfake and online impersonation investigations
Cyber
Cybersecurity reviews and planning
- Cybersecurity system reviews
- Cybersecurity risk assessments
- Cybersecurity planning and oversight
- Cybersecurity checks for investments and acquisitions
- Cyber incident cost and impact assessments
- SOC 2 and security compliance readiness
Personal and family cyber protection
- Password and account security
- Home network monitoring
- Device and network protection
- Personal information removal and privacy support
- Identity compromise support
Security testing and improvements
- Vulnerability scanning
- Penetration testing and security validation
- Security fixes and implementation support
- Business threat monitoring
- Secure code review
Incident investigation and recovery
- Cyber incident investigation
- Containment and recovery
- Employee data theft and misuse investigations
Training and preparedness
- Cyber safety and phishing training
- Cyber incident plans and exercises
Protective
Personal and residential protection
- Close protection (physical protective security)
- Residential security teams
Secure travel and transportation
- Travel threat assessments
- Country and geopolitical risk research
- Security drivers and transport
- Specialist transport coordination
- Travel security planning
- Travel monitoring and assistance
High-risk travel and specialist support
- Hostile environment support
- Emergency relocation and extraction
- Kidnap and extortion support
Assessments and security design
- Personal and residential threat assessments
- Physical security assessments
- Hidden device and surveillance detection
- Physical security design and installation advice
Safety training and security coordination
- Travel security training
- Situational awareness training
- Security provider and operational coordination
- Digital hygiene and operational security training for individuals and families
Event and workplace security
- Event protection
- Workplace threat management
Resilience
Planning and governance
- Family and business risk assessments
- Contingency and business continuity planning
- Codes of conduct and staff policies
- Fraud prevention and payment controls
- Whistleblower programs and report handling
- Family and team readiness workshops
Trusted when it's personal.
Our clients require discretion and a personal touch. They want a senior team that understands what is at stake and keeps it quiet.
Leadership
Kyam Schnitzer
Chief Executive OfficerKyam is a lawyer with 15+ years of experience building and leading the national intelligence practice at a Big 4 consulting firm. Kyam is an industry leader, managing crisis, digital (OSINT), and human intelligence operations, financial crime investigations, cyber and digital safety issues, as well as proactive geopolitical intelligence and protective intelligence programs for executives, athletes, and professional sports leagues. He is a certified private and workplace investigator and a trained crisis response operator. Throughout his career, he has often been embedded with the boards and CxOs of global multinational corporations and family offices alike in their moments of crisis, developing and executing response protocols. Earlier in his career, Kyam worked at a major national law firm and in the Canadian Intelligence Community, providing intelligence support to security operations abroad.
Specialized expertise.
Global reach.
Our core team draws on a vetted roster of carefully selected former senior domestic and international law enforcement officers, lawyers, public relations and investment experts, international operators, family office specialists, intelligence professionals, cyber practitioners, investigators, and corporate services experts. This roster of individuals and organizations works under the supervision of the core team.
The core operators
We bring together exceptional professionals drawn from special forces, intelligence agencies, and leading security operations around the world. Their strength lies in both their individual expertise and their ability to operate as one team, combining complementary skills with shared purpose and precision. This interoperability puts our philosophy of converged security into practice, integrating intelligence, cyber, and physical protection wherever our clients need us. Meet some of them below.
J is a highly trained senior intelligence officer with 25 years of experience with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) who thrives in fast-paced, time-sensitive, and often dangerous environments. He has built a trusted network of partnerships with law enforcement and intelligence services worldwide, and has expert-level skill in recruiting and handling sources in all walks of life. J is frequently called on to teach source recruitment, tradecraft, surveillance, information security, and identity security to intelligence professionals, law enforcement, and senior corporate and government representatives. He has spent decades preparing intelligence reports and threat assessments that identify threats, patterns, and vulnerabilities and inform strategic decisions.
T is a senior intelligence and investigations professional with more than a decade of experience across digital intelligence, corporate investigations, risk management, and security advisory services. His background spans the private sector, financial services, and research organizations, where he has led intelligence teams, developed investigative capabilities, and advised on complex security and reputational matters. His expertise includes open-source intelligence (OSINT), deep and dark web investigations, digital footprint assessments, threat monitoring, counterintelligence, financial crime, and geopolitical risk analysis. He has extensive experience investigating online threats, fraud, disinformation, foreign influence operations, and other risks affecting individuals, families, and organizations.
T combines advanced investigative techniques with practical risk assessment to identify vulnerabilities, uncover relevant intelligence, and support informed decision-making. He has advised corporate leaders, high-net-worth families, and their representatives on managing digital exposure, protecting sensitive information, and responding to emerging threats. His approach emphasizes discretion, accuracy, and translating complex intelligence into clear, actionable recommendations.
L is a leading cyber specialist with more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and digital forensics, including cyber breach response, malware analysis, and complex investigations involving data exfiltration, hacking, and intellectual property theft. L has led breach investigations and data exfiltration assessments, contained live attacks, and guided organizations through recovery. Beyond incident response, L builds and manages ultra-secure IT infrastructure for families and businesses, and regularly provides cyber assurance assessments that reduce the evolving risks of operating online.
With two decades of experience spanning the military, close protection, and security consultancy, S has created and led protective programs for high-profile clients across the UHNW, corporate, celebrity, NGO, and diplomatic sectors globally. A specialist in intelligence-led, risk-based family protective services, he develops proportionate security frameworks that balance discretion with effectiveness. His expertise includes managing complex stakeholder relationships, coordinating with international agencies and organizations, and adapting security operations to an evolving global travel environment. Known for his meticulous approach, S continues to shape industry-leading protective strategies that keep clients safe in a wide range of environments.
H is a senior protective security professional with more than 20 years of experience across military, government, and private-sector security operations. His background includes close protection, counterterrorism, and the assessment of high-risk properties and critical infrastructure. He has extensive experience advising high-net-worth individuals, families, and private organizations on residential security and risk mitigation across multiple jurisdictions. His work encompasses physical security, access controls, surveillance systems, household procedures, and operational vulnerabilities, with a focus on practical, proportionate recommendations that can be effectively implemented. He holds relevant professional security qualifications and maintains affiliations with recognized industry bodies.
G is a senior protective security professional with over 25 years of experience in law enforcement, close protection, and private security. His background includes extensive experience protecting high-profile individuals and their families, both domestically and internationally, as well as leading specialist protection teams. More recently, he has held senior security roles supporting high-net-worth families, working closely with principals and their private offices to oversee all aspects of personal and family security. His expertise includes residential security, travel planning, family protection, personnel vetting, operational oversight, and coordination with relevant authorities. He brings a discreet, practical approach to security, ensuring protective measures are tailored to each family's needs, routines, and lifestyle. He holds relevant professional security qualifications and has undergone specialist operational assessments.
Specialist expertise. Shared judgment.
Murray Hill Partners’ advisors are senior leaders whose careers span national intelligence agencies, law enforcement, cybersecurity, financial crime, crisis communications, and family office leadership, from MI6 to the private offices of founders, across Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Israel, the Middle East, and Asia. Working under the direction of MHP's core team, they contribute specialist expertise, independent judgment, and an international network of relationships, helping us challenge assumptions, validate intelligence, and shape responses informed by local context and global experience. Three of them are introduced below.
B brings more than two decades of international technology and security experience, beginning with a pioneering cybersecurity initiative within the Israeli Intelligence Corps and progressing through senior homeland security roles. His work spans national cyber defence strategy, critical infrastructure protection, and the deployment of advanced security technologies. As an experienced Chief Information Security Officer, he connects technical security with the broader risks facing individuals, families, and businesses, helping clients identify vulnerabilities and build resilience across their digital and physical environments.
W is an experienced advisor and operational strategist who helps founders build modern family offices. She focuses predominantly on first-generation wealth: founders still building companies, whom she has guided through exits and listings while structuring their private ventures and protecting their legacies. As Chief of Staff at a large family office based in Switzerland, she pairs venture investing with bespoke single-family office capabilities. She also leads a chief-of-staff service for ultra-high-net-worth founders, spanning business development, brand building, reputation, and security, with particular depth in sports, technology, entertainment, and gaming.
F brings 20 years of experience in crisis communications, reputation management, corporate communications, litigation support, and government relations. He has built and led some of Canada's most respected crisis and strategic communications practices, advising boards, executives, and families from Toronto, Ottawa, and beyond. As an advisor, F is known for giving leaders clear, practical strategies for their most difficult moments: protecting reputations when matters become public, and helping keep sensitive matters out of the public eye.
Speak confidentially
Murray Hill Partners is proudly Canadian, with trusted partners and teams worldwide. Every inquiry is handled discreetly by a member of our senior team.
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