Top Event Security Tips for Large-Scale Winter Festivals and Gatherings

Top-Event-Security-Tips-for-Large-Scale-Winter-Festivals-and-Gatherings

Winter festivals are a time for celebration, bringing communities together for holiday markets, ice-skating rinks, light shows, and seasonal concerts. However, these large-scale outdoor events also present unique security challenges. From managing large crowds to anticipating weather-related risks, ensuring a safe and enjoyable experience for all attendees requires careful planning and expert security measures. At […]

Event Security Planning: Key Considerations for 2024

Organizing a successful event in 2024 requires meticulous planning, particularly when it comes to security. The evolving landscape of threats and regulations means that event security must be comprehensive, adaptable, and proactive. At Blue Star Security, we understand the importance of creating a secure environment that allows attendees to enjoy the event without concerns. Here […]

Emergency Preparedness for Events: A Comprehensive Guide for Event Planners

Planning and executing successful events requires meticulous attention to detail, and one crucial aspect that should never be overlooked is emergency preparedness. In this comprehensive guide, Blue Star Security delves into the critical components of creating a robust emergency preparedness plan for events. Whether you’re an event planner or part of a security team, understanding […]

Covering All Bases: Exploring the Unique Security Challenges of Sporting Events

Exploring the Unique Security

In the heart of every sports fan, there’s an undeniable rush that comes with attending a live game in a massive stadium. The camaraderie, the roar of the crowd, and the electrifying energy that permeates the air all contribute to an unforgettable experience. However, behind the scenes of these exhilarating events lies a complex challenge: […]

Understanding the Importance of Special Event Security in 2023

Special Event Security in 2023

Whenever large groups of people gather together, security threats are present. It is the responsibility of event hosts to ensure the safety of their guests, especially in light of recent incidents involving terrorist attacks, mass shootings, and other violent incidents at large-scale events. Events such as festivals, concerts, sporting events, fairs, and fundraisers attract large […]

Understanding the Most Common Threats to Special Event Security in 2022

Planning a special event is no easy task. From vendors to ticket sales to permits and everything in between, special events involve several moving parts and require strategic planning and preparation. Any seasoned event planner knows that preparing for a special event means having contingencies in place for almost anything. Unfortunately, there’s a lot that […]

Event Security 101: A Comprehensive Guide for Event Planning

Event Security 101

Security threats are present any time a large number of people are gathered together, and it’s the responsibility of every event host to ensure the safety of their guests. This is particularly important in light of incidents that have occurred during large scale events in recent years, in which large scale events have become the […]

Event Security Tips: 4 Tips to Ensure A Safe and Secure Event

There’s a lot that goes in to planning a successful event, including factors that you should consider, such as event security and safety. Planners who manage VIP events, high-profile events, political events, and large-scale event have seen increased needs for safety and security. Use our four event security tips below to take a proactive approach […]

Summer Concert and Music Festival Safety

Music festivals and concerts are intended to be fun, exciting, and potentially transcendent, but they also raise safety and security concerns for people who attend them as well as organize them. This past weekend at Summer Camp Music Festival, in Chillicothe, IL, attendees are complaining about the lack of security. Whereas some people appreciate the […]

Safety Tips For This Summer’s Events

Summer is approaching fast!!! You know what that means, time for summer activities, concerts, and other events. We want to ensure that you and your family members can feel safe and be able to enjoy and participate in these summer festivities. Here are six event security tips from security professionals that will help ensure that your […]

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Norwalk, CT 06851, USA
Phone: 203.941.4700

Protos
Headquarters

383 Main Ave, Suite 505
Norwalk, CT 06851, USA
Phone: 203.941.4700

Mark Hjelle

Chief Executive Officer

Mark Hjelle is the CEO of Security Services Holdings, LLC as well as Protos Security and its subsidiaries. Mark is an experienced Chief Executive Officer and Board Member who has led large national business and facilities services firms for nearly 25 years delivering strong top- and bottom-line growth while building high-performing teams with strong culture. Most recently, he was CEO for CSC ServiceWorks, a B2B2C provider of technology-enabled consumer services. Prior to CSC, Mark was President of Brickman/Valleycrest a national provider of exterior landscape and snow removal services. Over the course of his 18-year tenure at Brickman, he held numerous leadership positions in operations, finance and business development. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government and a Law Degree from Case Western Reserve School of Law.