GEORGE RETTAS
George Rettas is the co-founder of Task Force 7 Security through his company, The Rettas Group, LLC, a Florida based family business with investments in security, cyber security, technology, media, and telecommunications companies. In addition to being an entrepreneur, Mr. Rettas is a seasoned Security Executive with thirty years of combined government and private sector experience.
Prior to building The Rettas Group, LLC, Mr. Rettas spent 15 years as a Managing Director and Partner with some of the most powerful Wall Street firms. As a Managing Director with Citibank, Mr. Rettas ran Strategy and Programs for the firm’s Information Security Department. Before Citibank, Mr. Rettas worked as Managing Director with J.P. Morgan Chase, where he held numerous executive security positions responsible for the firm’s Global Threat Intelligence Program, Cyber Security, Physical Security, Bank Robbery Prevention and Investigation, and all of the firm’s Corporate and Fraud Investigations.
Prior to joining the private sector, Mr. Rettas served as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service where he graduated the Secret Service Academy as a Distinguished Graduate, a very rare accolade given only to the highest performing USSS agents in the world. While with the Secret Service, Mr. Rettas conducted advances and was assigned to protection details for the President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, and foreign heads of state. He also served as a Firearms Instructor where he routinely trained agents to repel attacks on principal, and he co-founded the Newark Electronic Crimes Task Force where he authored the first Title III Wiretap on an Internet Facing Computer Network in United States history that brought down Shadowcrew, which was at the time, the largest Cyber Security Organized Crime Group in the world. In 2002, Mr. Rettas served on the security team to protect Olympians during the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. And following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, Mr. Rettas was assigned to the Newark FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force (JTTF) to track down the terrorists behind the attacks in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania where he worked on the largest criminal investigation in United States history.
Prior to joining the Secret Service, Mr. Rettas served as a Deputy U.S. Marshall responsible for protecting Federal Judges and as a Detective Sergeant with the Dover, New Jersey Police Department where he served as a firearms instructor and trained officers in Special Weapons and Tactics on the department’s Special Emergency Response Team (SERT).
Mr. Rettas has a Bachelors Degree in Criminology from Florida State University; a Masters Degree in Administrative Science from Fairleigh Dickenson University; and holds a Certification in Advanced Computer Science from Stanford University; a Chief Information Security Officer Certification from Carnegie Mellon University; a certification in Corporate Security Administration and Management from Florida State University; and a Certificate in Security Leadership from Wharton Business School. Mr. Rettas held a CISSP for 15 years and holds numerous certifications in advanced computer forensics.