Michael W. Wanik is SSC’s Vice President of Consulting and Investigations. He is board certified in both security management and business continuity planning. Prior to SSC, he spent more than 13 years as a Fortune 25 company’s corporate security director responsible for international operations. Michael Wanik has a robust background in providing risk management techniques to protect people, process, technology, information and environments in sensitive operations around the world. He has been intimately involved with world stage situations such as 9/11 and the recent attacks in Mumbai, India. His experience in crisis and recovery from these situations is from practice; not theory.

Mike Wanik was an early supporter and practitioner of convergence, wherein he partnered with information security and privacy personnel to better protect an entity from theft and disruption. In addition to his extensive risk mitigation background, Mike Wanik also has years of experience in conducting criminal and traffic investigations from his service in the United States Army where he served as a Criminal Investigation Supervisor and Military Police Substation Commander. Post service, Mike Wanik was awarded the Law Enforcement Order of the Purple Heart for injuries received in the line of duty.

Mike Wanik attended and taught at Central Texas College and was a senior law enforcement instructor at a satellite Military Police School, created to support Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Mike Wanik currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Police Commissioners in New Britain, Connecticut; a department with an authorized strength of 158 sworn officers. He is an active member of ASIS International, Infragard, the Disabled American Veterans and the Association of Contingency Planners. Within each of these organizations, he either currently holds or has held leadership positions.