ABOUT
About SBM®
Secure Brand Management (SBM®) is an independent, third-party risk management firm. We help organizations protect the things that are hardest to rebuild once they're damaged: their security, their compliance standing, their integrity, and their reputation.
Four pillars anchor the work.
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Security. Threat assessment, protective measures, and the verification of who has access to your people and facilities.
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Compliance. Policy, procedure, and regulatory review that hold up under scrutiny, including Title IX and civil rights investigations.
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Integrity. Independent fact-finding, free of internal politics, so the answer reflects the evidence and nothing else.
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Reputation. Risk identified early, before it becomes the thing everyone remembers.
We work from outside your organization by design. That distance is what lets our findings carry weight an internal review can't.
OUR TEAM
SBM® brings an outside perspective to problems that are hard to see clearly from inside. Free of internal politics, we identify blind spots, strengthen access controls, and sharpen risk mitigation for the government agencies, schools, and public safety operations we serve.
Sheri Stevenson
Founder and Principal
Investigations, emergency management, and psychology.
Over a 26-year career as a Management Analyst, Ms. Stevenson supervised more than 30 employees in the City of Pasadena's Department of Public Works and served as the department's Disaster Response Manager. She wrote the Emergency Preparedness Manual, with response steps tailored to laborers, office staff, and management, and trained more than 300 employees. She also wrote and implemented the annual New Year's Operations Manual for the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game, directing daily tasks across the four-month season before, during, and after the events.
Concurrently, Ms. Stevenson worked as an Educational Therapist at a private high school. Drawing on her master's degree in psychology, she worked with more than 2,500 students over 21 years, providing academic, college, and life-skills counseling to students with learning differences and behavioral and psychological challenges. In her post-retirement career, she completed certification in school, workplace, and taskforce-level athlete protection investigations: often multi-victim, multi-jurisdictional matters subject to media scrutiny.
Investigations & certifications
California Licensed Private Investigator (PI189770)
ATIXA-certified Civil Rights Investigator, Level IV
ATIXA-certified K-12 Investigator
ATIXA-certified Hearing Officer and Decision-Maker
California POST-certified Background Investigator
High-profile athlete abuse and protection investigations (nationwide amateur sports, task-force level)
Emergency management
Management Analyst, City of Pasadena (Retired)
Disaster Preparedness Manager and Instructor, Department of Public Works
Oversight of Pasadena's Strategic National Stockpile of emergency medications and vaccines
Homeland Security and UASI Grant Manager and Writer
Public Works Liaison to the Threat Assessment and Response Team (22 law enforcement agencies)
NIMS Instructor; CSTI Earthquake Management certification
Education & psychology
Master of Science in Psychology
Educational Therapist, adolescent psychology (learning differences, autism spectrum, behavioral and mental health)
Academic, college, and life coach
Emergency Room Counselor (victims of violent crime)
Tim Langan
Founder and Principal
Law enforcement, executive protection, and threat assessment.
Mr. Langan is a results-driven leader with more than 40 years in law enforcement and private investigations. His leadership was forged in the United States Marine Corps and sharpened through executive protection work in the United States and abroad, including protective services at the former U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is an expert in threat assessment and site survey analysis, work he has performed at corporate facilities and schools domestically and overseas.
In recent years, Mr. Langan has focused on abuse and protection investigations affecting high-profile athletes in amateur sports. He provided subject-matter-expert support to a national amateur sports federation, measuring and mitigating strategic risks to the organization's image and compliance, investigating taskforce-level athlete protection cases, and serving as a liaison to local, state, and federal law enforcement. His multidisciplinary approach spans single incidents through multi-victim, multi-jurisdictional matters subject to media scrutiny.
Investigations & certifications
California Licensed Private Investigator (PI19368)
ATIXA-certified Civil Rights Investigator, Level IV
California POST-certified Background Investigator
NASRO (National Association of School Resource Officers) certification
School CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) Practitioner
FEMA Multi-Hazard Emergency Planning for Schools; NSSC / DOJ certification
Violence Prevention and Active Shooter Survival Instructor; ACT certification
Open-source, social media, and trademark infringement / fraud investigations
Law enforcement & protection
Los Angeles municipal Police Officer (Retired)
SWAT team founder, leader, and scout
Robbery-Homicide Investigator
School Resource Officer
Executive Protection Specialist
U.S. Embassy Security Specialist, ITI-WSI international certified security force training
Federal Air Marshal Service (TSA/DHS) in-flight tactical / active threat response
Military & other
United States Marine Corps, six years, E-4 NCO, Honorable Discharge
Nominated for Marine of the Year, 1985
Inventor and entrepreneur; patents for emergency response products and equipment
