At Potomac Risk Advisors, we identify strategies to mitigate physical, cyber, reputational and travel risk for high- net- worth, corporate, entertainment and sports industry figures. We help our clients understand how they are perceived by the public, their customers, and partners, and why tailored safety programs enhance their business resilience and lifestyle.

Our Services

  • We provide holistic risk mitigation countermeasures to enhance your physical, cyber, and reputational risk exposure at home, at work and the places you frequent. Assessments identify your vulnerabilities, and our recommendations are tailored to your lifestyle. They include technology, infrastructure or human capital based on the locations and events our clients are visiting.

  • In certain circumstances, physical protective resources are necessary. Our team provides bespoke tailored protective details to clients based on the threat environment, event, and in collaboration with the clients’ position and lifestyle.

  • The needs of our clients have resulted in a Virtual Chief Security Officer practice. We execute a CSO role for family office, hybrid and growing organizations who choose not to maintain the expertise in-house. This service offering is responsible for drafting corporate security policy, assisting in cyber incident response, providing travel risk and other threat assessments, and employee health and safety protocols among other expertise.

  • Our clients professional and personal lives bring them around the globe. Maintaining a safe environment to conduct business, while attending events, and on vacation requires extensive logistics and advance planning. Our global network of analysts and regional experts provide necessary guidance to inform our recommendations and planning. We mitigate risk from local instability such as crime, health and medical incidents, transportation logistics and other infrastructure concerns that can negatively affect business operational resilience.

Leadership

Christopher R. Dolan leads a team of Senior Advisors and Associates at Potomac Risk Advisors. Mr. Dolan retired as United States Secret Service Special Agent in Charge of Intergovernmental, Legislative and Congressional Affairs where he was responsible for oversight and policy coordination between the White House, Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. House and Senate. Mr. Dolan authored the Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act which provides training and resources to judges, prosecutors and investigators working to protect Americans from cybercrime.

Previously, he spent several years in charge of planning, implementing and leading high threat protective details of visiting heads of state. This included the leaders of Israel, Iran, China, India, Germany, France and the UK, among others. He served in the USSS Presidential Protective Division during the Obama administration, and later supervised on the protective detail of Donald Trump in 2016.This unique experience- domestically and in dozens of foreign counties, and his network of foreign partners and US resources globally, helps inform the insight he provides our clients.

Prior to his public service, Mr. Dolan worked in technology management consulting. He studied Cybersecurity Strategy at Georgetown University and holds a Bachelor of Science from Marist University.

Meet the Team

  • Chris Dolan

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

  • Joseph Freyre

    SENIOR ADVISOR

  • Amy Smith

    SENIOR ADVISOR