Paul Viollis And Douglas Kane, Risk Control Strategies: Protecting The 1 Percent The worse the U.S. economy fares and the bigger the income inequality gap grows, the better business seems to get for Paul Viollis and Douglas Kane. Their New York City-based company, Risk Control Strategies, has doubled its revenues this year by providing security services to the affluent. Viollis, who formerly ran one of the nation's largest police academies and a counterterrorism assault team, met Kane, who served in the FBI as a SWAT team supervisor, in 2003, on a job assessing a large bank that was a possible target for attack. "We clicked," Paul Viollis says. "Two weeks later, we sat in a bar in lower Boston until about 4 in the morning and, on a stack of bar napkins, wrote up a business plan."
They agreed the wealthy would face increasing risks to their lives and therefore require more security. That idea came years before the collapse of Wall Street, the recession and Occupy Wall Street. Viollis acknowledges the indelicacy of their serendipitous success, and explains why he's proud of their mission to protect the 1 percent. How did Occupy Wall Street and the economy in general benefit your business?