Meet the Board of Directors

Dr. Bruno Dias

Co-Founder & Co-Principal, Key Operational Insights (KOI)

Dr. Bruno Dias is a violence prevention and behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) professional with more than 20 years of experience across homeland security, law enforcement, corporate security, education, and consulting. He previously served as Associate Director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), leading national targeted violence and terrorism prevention initiatives. He is currently Co-Founder and Co-Principal of Key Operational Insights (KOI), providing consulting, training, and strategic guidance in violence prevention and threat management.

Dr. Dias holds a PhD in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and holds CTM and PCI certifications. His work focuses on translating research, policy, and operational experience into practical strategies for early intervention and targeted violence prevention.

Karl Stephanz

Orange County Sheriff’s Office

Karl Stephanz serves as Secretary and Board Member of the International Threat Management Association, bringing 18 years of law enforcement experience with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. His career includes violent crime investigations, criminal intelligence, and service as a Task Force Officer with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and Threat Management Coordinator with the FBI Tampa Division.

He helped establish the Sheriff’s Office Threat Assessment and Threat Management Unit and continues to serve as a regional subject matter expert in behavioral threat assessment and management, targeted violence prevention, and threat mitigation. He is committed to advancing the profession through leadership, training, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Taylor Cilke

Manager, Threat Assessment & Mitigation, Take-Two Interactive

Taylor Cilke (“Silky”) is a violence prevention analyst passionate about the internet and its impact on people considering targeted violence. She is currently the Manager of the Threat Assessment & Mitigation program at Take-Two Interactive, one of the world’s largest video game companies. Prior to Take-Two, she worked at the FBI as an analyst, including as a Crime Analyst at the Behavioral Analysis Unit’s Behavioral Threat Assessment Center.

Her academic and field research focuses heavily on preventing mass violence, the mechanics of targeted threats, and the internet. A major cornerstone of her work involves studying bystander reporting: understanding the psychological barriers that stop people from reporting suspicious behavior and developing ways to encourage early intervention to disrupt violence before it starts. She received the FBI’s Medal of Excellence for creating the “Prevent Mass Violence” campaign, which seeks to educate the public about the warning signs to look out for. She is a wife, a gamer, and a dog mother to two rescue pups.

Tesney Davis, LICSW-S

Administrator of Mental Health and Social Services, Tuscaloosa City Schools

Tesney Davis, LICSW-S, serves as the Administrator of Mental Health and Social Services for Tuscaloosa City Schools in Alabama, where she leads a multidisciplinary team of 17 professionals and oversees districtwide mental health, student safety, and behavioral threat assessment and management initiatives.

With more than 25 years of experience in social work and mental health, Tesney brings a unique perspective to Threat Assessment and Threat Management, emphasizing the intersection of mental health, education, law enforcement, and violence prevention. She is a member of the Central Alabama Threat Team and serves as a Subject Matter Expert for the Institute for Intergovernmental Research, contributing to national school safety and violence prevention initiatives. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors for Ability Alliance of West Alabama and the School Social Work Association of Alabama’s Executive Board as the Legislative Liaison.

Tesney is a frequent presenter at state and national conferences, sharing her expertise in behavioral threat assessment and management, child and adolescent mental health, and emerging threats among youth populations. She is passionate about strengthening multidisciplinary partnerships to recognize concerning behaviors, facilitate early intervention, and prevent targeted violence. Her work reflects a commitment to collaborative, prevention-focused approaches to threat assessment and management that prioritize both individual well-being and community safety.

Major Sharon Jones

Counterterrorism and Behavioral Threat Management Section, Texas Department of Public Safety

Major Sharon Jones has served with the Texas Department of Public Safety since 1997, bringing nearly three decades of law enforcement, intelligence, and executive leadership experience. Assigned to the Counterterrorism and Behavioral Threat Management Section, she initiated and developed the Texas Behavioral Threat Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention Program, spearheading a comprehensive statewide strategy to prevent targeted violence, mass attacks, and acts of terrorism through multidisciplinary collaboration and proactive intervention.

Sharon authored How to Create and Sustain a Behavioral Threat Assessment Management Team and When Good Teams Get Stuck: Moving Your Behavioral Threat Assessment Management Team from Stalled to Strategic. She also spearheaded the development of iSAVE Texas, a statewide behavioral threat assessment and case-management system, and played a pivotal role in establishing the Texas Behavioral Threat Assessment Management Specialist Certification Program in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Her leadership extends to statewide policy development and legislative initiatives, including drafting statutory recommendations and advancing proposals to strengthen information sharing, multidisciplinary intervention, and targeted violence prevention.

Previously, Sharon served as Acting Associate Deputy Director and Section Chief of Watch Operations at the El Paso Intelligence Center, providing executive leadership in domestic and international intelligence operations, multiagency investigations, and emerging threat identification. She delivered intelligence briefings to senior government and military officials, state agency executives, and foreign dignitaries.

A DHS-certified Master Trainer and graduate of the FBI National Academy, Sharon serves on the Texas State Crisis Intervention Program Committee and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Public Administration. Her leadership emphasizes moving beyond “See Something, Say Something” to “Do Something” through coordinated assessment, intervention, and prevention.

Randy McAlister, MA, CTM

Retired Deputy Director of Public Safety, Cottage Grove Police Department

Randy McAlister is a nationally recognized practitioner, trainer, and executive leader in behavioral threat assessment and management, with more than three decades of public safety experience spanning emergency medicine, law enforcement, investigations, tactical operations, domestic violence lethality prevention, stalking intervention, and targeted violence prevention. From his early service as an EMT and paramedic to his retirement as Deputy Director of Public Safety/Police Captain overseeing Investigations and Threat Management for the Cottage Grove Police Department, McAlister’s career has been defined by a consistent commitment to moving public safety systems upstream: identifying risk earlier, connecting fragmented information, protecting vulnerable victims, and intervening before violence occurs.

A Certified Threat Manager through the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, McAlister was among the first cohort in the nation to earn that designation. He co-founded community-based multidisciplinary Threat Advisory Groups in Minnesota, developed local case-management approaches for targeted violence and complex behavioral concern cases, served as an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Task Force Officer working on the Threat Assessment and Threat Management initiative, and became a Certified Master Trainer in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Threat Evaluation and Reporting Program. He has trained law enforcement, prosecutors, advocates, educators, emergency managers, public officials, and multidisciplinary teams across the country on behavioral threat assessment, stalking, domestic violence lethality, and targeted violence prevention.

Lt. Craig Parker

Tuscaloosa Police Department; Founder, Creed Protective Solutions, LLC

Lt. Craig Parker is a seasoned law enforcement professional with 16 years of experience at the Tuscaloosa Police Department in Alabama. Throughout his career, he has held various leadership roles, including Field Training Officer, Patrol Sergeant, and Shift Commander. His dedication to addressing behavioral health crises led him to become a Mental Health Officer in 2019 and establish the TPD Behavioral Health Unit in 2020, which later expanded into the Behavioral Intervention Team. This initiative has grown significantly, incorporating numerous officers and specialists focused on crisis intervention and threat assessment.

As one of only two CIT master trainers in Alabama, Lt. Parker has trained hundreds of officers across the state in de-escalation techniques for individuals in behavioral crises. His leadership has earned him several accolades, including TPD’s Supervisory Leadership Award (2020) and CIT Officer of the Year (2021) from NAMI-Alabama. His Behavioral Intervention Team was also recognized as Program of the Year in 2024.

Beyond his work with behavioral health, Lt. Parker serves as an FBI Threat Management Coordinator and Liaison to the Joint Terrorism Task Force. He is a certified instructor with expertise in mental health crisis intervention, trauma effects on youth, and threat management strategies, and has presented at conferences hosted by the IACP, FBI, and PBSO. He is also the Commander of the Crisis Negotiation Team attached to TPD SWAT. Recently, he founded Creed Protective Solutions, LLC, to provide specialized security training and site assessments for schools, houses of worship, private businesses, and other organizations beyond Tuscaloosa. He is married to an elementary educator and has three school-aged children.

Bruce Quinn, MSFP

Founder, The Center for Safety Training & Development (C-STAD); Director, Center for Strategic Safety & Prevention (CSSP)

Bruce Quinn is a public safety leader with more than 30 years of service, including nearly two decades as an FBI-certified bomb technician with the Rhode Island Office of the State Fire Marshal, where he retired as Deputy State Fire Marshal and second in command of the Explosives Operations Division. His work included render-safe operations on suspected improvised explosive devices, post-blast investigation, origin-and-cause investigation of more than 300 fires, explosives detection K-9 handling, and routine support of U.S. Secret Service protective operations. He is a recipient of the State of Rhode Island Lifesaving Medal, the state’s highest civilian award.

Today Bruce works where operational experience meets behavioral science, as founder of The Center for Safety Training & Development (C-STAD), Director of the Center for Strategic Safety & Prevention (CSSP), and Deputy Director of the Rhode Island Behavioral Health Medical Reserve Corps Trauma Response Team (TRT), which supports communities in the aftermath of critical incidents, including its deployment following the December 2025 shooting at Brown University. He has trained more than 10,000 professionals in the United States and abroad, including U.S. Department of State programs in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, and is a DHS National Threat Evaluation and Reporting Master Trainer and adjunct instructor with LSU’s NCBRT/ACE. He holds an M.S. in Forensic Psychology (Threat Assessment and Management) and is pursuing a Doctor of Criminal Justice, researching grievance formation and the pathway to intended violence.