Management

 

ROBERT BURNS

President & CEO - Canpro Global Services Inc.

As the president of Canpro Pacific Services Inc. and the Canpro Global Group of Companies, Robert brings over 23 years of real world experience in human and organizational safety, and personal security.  Robert's experience includes risk assessment and threat management, security consulting, and he is operationally involved with increasing human safety through preventive, pro-active and insightful solutions.  Robert is a frequent speaker on these topics.  Global clients include foreign governments and international energy companies, and the international mining sector. He has provided services locally, nationally, and internationally, including the USA, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central Africa, North Africa, and the Middle East, under extreme situations for human safety.

Robert’s current projects include the development of global security plans for a international petro-chemical company with operations in over 15 countries, some of which are crime and terror ridden, and over-seeing the safety of several executive families from major corporations. He is consulting on travel safety and procedures for 18 executives who travel globally under threat. Additionally, he is supplying the country profile, threat assessment, physical security and training to a multi-national organization operating in a high-risk location, with over 200 personnel. Threats and challenges include terrorism, organized crime, extreme kidnap and ransom, extortion, police corruption, and lawlessness.

 

Mr Burns is a member of the International Association of Security and Investigative Regulators, and ASIS International, the world’s largest association for security professionals.  In November of 2007, Robert testified as an expert witness in the Air India Inquiry in Ottawa, as the outside expert to testify on witness protection and personal security.

 

KEN CAHOON

Director - Canpro Global Services Inc.

 

Ken Cahoon has been with Canpro Global since 1990.   He started his career as a Licensed Investigator performing Investigations for Local and National clients.  He has presented evidence in all levels of criminal and civil court and regularly speaks to insurance, legal and corporate clients on the use of investigations and privacy issues.  In 2002 Ken co-founded Canpro's pre-employment screening division and is currently the Managing Partner of Canpro HRservices Inc which provides clients with pre-screening services, an ethics reporting line, drug detection services and HR consulting.   He serves on the board of Canpro and leads Canpro's Business Development team.

 

Ken was Director of the Private Investigators Association of BC.  Currently, he is a Canadian liaison for the National Association of Professional Background Screeners, Canadian Regional Director of the Council of International Investigators, and he sits on the board of Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers.  Ken is a certified fraud examiner and a member of NABPS, CII and WAD.  He resides in Vancouver, BC with his wife and two children.

 

 

 

KEVIN CAHOON CII

Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information Officer

Kevin Cahoon was a founding member of FBIG Investigations in 1988 (now part of the Canpro Global Group).  He became the Corporate Controller in 1988 and is now Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer of Canpro Global. In this role, Kevin is responsible for creating value for all stakeholders through managing key functions including mergers and acquisitions, internal audit, finance, and IT.

 

Kevin Cahoon has 25 years of experience in business management and senior financial roles within the Private Investigation and Security Industries.

 

Prior to joining FBIG, Mr Cahoon worked for Japan Camera Centre Ltd. managing three of their retail operations.

 

Mr Cahoon is a current member of the Council of International Investigators, Canadian Association of Special Investigation Units, California Association of Licensed Investigators, and the Private Investigators Association of BC. Kevin recently completed a 2 year term as a board member of the Private Investigators Association of BC.

 

 

SHIRLEY L. BURNS

Director - Canpro Global Services Inc.

 

Shirley has been dedicated to the development of this organization since the beginning of her career in this industry for over 20 years.  She is a Managing Partner and her primary focus is within our Investigations Division as the Division Manager for the Insurance and Surveillance component. 

 

Shirley leads our team of over 50 experienced licensed, professionals in the Insurance and Surveillance Division covering all regions of Alberta and British Columbia.  This team supplies litigation support within the legal community and assists with investigating both civil and criminal matters. They are well versed in the insurance arena and supply a strategic approach to investigating claims with potential fraud.  Her team specializes and has been involved with many high exposure, complex claims, providing solutions and obtaining collateral evidence to assist in minimizing settlement costs.   This team also supplies solutions for corporate clients requiring support in Human Resources concerns; including unaccountable absenteeism, Theft of time, internal theft, disgruntled employee issues, drug related concerns and pre-employment checks. 

 

Providing a professional investigative strategy and solutions to the Insurance, Corporate & Legal community, as well as government agencies and private individuals. 

 

Dedicated and committed to setting the standard of professionalism and integrity within the industry.  She is recognized as a highly respected Investigator and was selected to represent her Industry on the Private Investigators and Security Act Advisory Board.  She has been acknowledged with the President’s medal for her contributions as a Director on the board of the Private Investigators Association of British Columbia and a member within the British Columbia Crime Prevention Association.  She continues to add to her knowledge by attending and being involved with a variety of professional development programs.

 

In her career as an Investigator, Shirley has accumulated a very large network of business associates and over the years has worked in conjunction with several different law enforcement agencies, crown counsels, and the legal community.  This has provided her with very good working knowledge of the Justice system in general. 

 

Her previous employment as an Immigration Officer has complimented her role within Canpro Global Inc.  

 

 

 

MATT HENSCHEL

Director - Canpro Global Services Inc.  

Matt Henschel has been licensed in the private investigation and security industry for 19 years. Matt currently sits on the Board of Directors where he oversees Strategic Management and Senior Leader Coordination, and at an operational level is also the Director responsible for BC Regional Operations, a position through which he ensures Canpro Global maintains core service competence in every area of British Columbia. His experience is primarily rooted in field operations. From 1989 to 1995, Matt performed security services, close protection, undercover operations and surveillance assignments. Having excelled as an operative, he moved into leadership roles, beginning with Managing a 40 person security team for the Workers’ Compensation Board. In 1995 Matt moved to a surveillance Team Leader position where he oversaw surveillance personnel focused on insurance and criminal investigations in the Vancouver/downtown east-side areas.

 

In 2001 He moved from being a manager to a company Director, where he was charged with overseeing Field Operations at a corporate level. This position found him coordinating the activities of a 25 member field investigations/surveillance team, modifying and developing the corporate surveillance program, staffing, personnel development, and writing all related policy, procedure and training manuals. In 2003, Matt created the Protection Services Division, a select program dedicated to addressing violence in the workplace issues throughout British Columbia. This endeavor included recruitment, training staff in confrontation management and close protection strategy, overseeing staff deployment and managing project strategy. In 2005 Matt moved to the Director, Regional Operations position for BC.

 

Over his years of service, Matt has developed a highly regarded management portfolio with clients and coworkers based on his ability, ethics and sense of fairness. Matt has dedicated himself to law enforcement, military and private sector research through which he continually upgrades his unique approach to client service, team development and project methodology. He has conducted over 3,500 investigation and protection assignments on behalf of private corporations, Crown corporations, the National Hockey League, Religious Institutions and various levels of government. He is licensed through the British Columbia Attorney General's office as a Provincial Security Consultant. His post-secondary education was in criminology, has certified level training in self defense, force options and confrontation management, and remains current in the study of humanities, ethics, discipline and legal liability. He has also served as a Board Director with the Private Investigator’s Association of British Columbia and as an active volunteer resource to the Board of Directors for the Protect Our Children Foundation.

 

 

LAUNCE SAUNDERS

Director - Canpro Global Services Inc.

 

Mr. Saunders commenced his Police and Investigative Career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police serving for over twenty-one years throughout Alberta and Western Canada.  He was the Senior NCO in charge of the Polygraph Units in Alberta, the Northwest and Yukon Territories.  He is a Certified Polygraph Examiner attending the National Training Centre of Polygraph Science in New York City.  He attended and lectured at the Canadian Police College in Ottawa, Ontario, completing courses on Security Equipment Engineering, Senior Police Administration and Instructional Techniques.  He also lectured at the Canadian Police College and the Alberta Headquarters of the RCMP on Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques.   He was also a lecturer at the Canadian Police College Polygraph Training School up until his retirement from the RCMP.

 

Mr. Saunders was also a founding member and principal of BSG Corporation (Bison Security Group) since its inception in 1980.  He was responsible for major investigations, in the Legal, Corporate, and Insurance Communities throughout North America and in parts of Western and Central Europe.  Bison Security Group at the time of amalgamation with Canpro Global Services Inc. in 2007 was comprised of over fifty personnel throughout the province of Alberta with partners in Investigations Canada in every major city across the country.  He continues to provide expert advice at all levels of the Investigative process.  He is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security, Congress of International Investigators and is responsible as a Board member of Canpro Global Services Inc. for all operations in the province of Alberta.  He has been involved at all levels of the Investigative and Security Consulting process for over thirty-five years.