Richard Higbie
Protective Operations | Protective Intelligence | Threat & Risk
Richard Higbie brings more than three decades of experience across law enforcement, U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security, criminal investigations, executive protection, protective intelligence, major-event security, crisis planning, electronic crimes, travel risk, and private-sector security leadership.
His work at Global Makarios focuses on protective doctrine, threat and vulnerability assessment, client strategy, decision-grade investigations, protective operations, and translating career institutional knowledge into repeatable AI-enabled workflows.
Lawrence Cross, PhD/MBA
Artificial Intelligence | Systems Architecture | Infrastructure
Lawrence Cross brings more than 20 years of experience across artificial intelligence, cloud computing, networking, and the integration of complex technology platforms. His career includes experience at Cisco and Calix, and his public professional biography identifies him as Chief Scientist at Adoptex.
His technical background spans network management, systems design, and operational and business support systems—the technology that helps organizations operate services, coordinate information, and connect applications at scale.
That combination is directly relevant to Global Makarios’ platform direction: protection depends on intelligence, communications, operational workflows, and supporting infrastructure functioning together. Cross’s experience across those technical disciplines brings depth to the challenge of connecting specialized capabilities into a coherent system.
One operating idea
Global Makarios is designed so that protective doctrine, intelligence, operations, AI, and commercial scale reinforce one another instead of becoming separate silos.