Plez Bryan Transou

Senior Vice President

Plez Bryan Transou brings to Hillard Heintze insights gleaned from a highly successful career designing and implementing domestic and international security strategies for some of the most important companies, business executives, wealthy individuals and political leaders in the world.

Prior to joining Hillard Heintze, Transou worked for Goldman Sachs, the world’s leading investment bank, in the global position of Vice President and Manager of Executive Security and Firm-wide Special Events Security.

In this capacity, Transou was called upon 24 hours a day to provide security services and consulting advice for all members of the Goldman executive office, the Board of Directors and the 300 Goldman partners as well as many of the firm’s external clientele – a list which comprises much of the top percentile of the world’s wealthiest individuals, families, celebrities, governments and corporations.

At Goldman Sachs, Transou traveled internationally conducting high-level security advances and setting up liaison with foreign governments and corporations, particularly in specific regions of the Middle East. In addition to serving on the firm’s global kidnap and ransom team, Transou authored and managed the firm’s executive security, its firm-wide “special events” global security programs and its executive office evacuation and relocation program. Every year, Transou earned the highest employee rating score – a designation that placed him in the “best of the best” category with fewer than 5% of Goldman’s worldwide employees.

Earlier in his career, as Executive Director of Corporate Security and Liaison for New York City’s premiere security corporation, Transou designed and managed the corporation’s executive security and external liaison programs and also set up an employee training program considered by many security experts to represent a “gold standard” in corporate security training. Transou was across the street when the Twin Towers were attacked on September 11, 2001 and, after assisting in the evacuation of the World Financial Center complex and the immediate implementation of the first search-and-rescue operations, was assigned to the New York City Mayor’s Office World Trade Center Recovery Team.

From 1983 to 1995, Transou served as a U.S. Secret Service Special Agent. In this capacity, he conducted high-level investigations as a member of the New York forgery, fraud and counterfeit squads; oversaw security advance work and security services for U.S. presidents, vice presidents, their families, U.S. presidential candidates and visiting foreign heads-of-state; and served on the prestigious Presidential Protective Division – White House Detail, a post that required him to travel with or conduct security advances for President Bush and President Clinton, their families and their administrations around the world. During his time at the White House, Transou received numerous United States Treasury awards and commendations, including his selection from within the Presidential Protective Division Detail to be a part of the First Lady Detail.

Transou graduated from Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice in 1980 and a Masters degree in 1982. He is a member, among many other organizations, of the American Society for Industrial Security and the Association of Former Agents of the United States Secret Service.  He holds a Top Secret Security Clearance.