Edward Panico

Edward Panico is the founder of Lynx Security Group, a private investigation, security consulting, and training company. He has spent considerable time teaching private investigators of all experience levels. Mr. Panico has created a wide variety of private investigation classes including classroom based and field-based training. Mr. Panico has assisted other private investigator entrepreneurs with opening and expanding their investigations companies. He has also mentored aspiring private investigators on everything from which career path they should choose to assisting with out-of-state job placement. For over 16 years, Mr. Panico has worked both domestically and abroad in intelligence, investigations, and security matters with the U.S. Military and with the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Panico has trained hundreds of domestic and foreign military, intelligence, and private sector personnel across the globe in security and counterintelligence. While employed with the U.S. Military and U.S. Department of State, he received extensive training and experience in risk mitigation, anti-terrorism/force protection, crime prevention, criminal investigation, counterintelligence, dignitary protection, physical security, access control, security operations, intelligence collection, investigations, interview/interrogations, and physical surveillance. He maintains an active security clearance with his commitment to the U.S. Government which also allows him continual access to specialized training not available to those fully entrenched in the private sector. Mr. Panico is a recipient of the Military Intelligence Corps Association Knowlton Award and over 30 U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of State service awards. Mr. Panico holds an M.S. in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Law Enforcement and Crime Prevention from the University of Cincinnati. He also holds a B.A. in Intelligence Studies from American Military University and an A.A.S in Intelligence Operations Studies from Cochise College.