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The story
In 2003, in response to the security-industry market growth spawned by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Army Special Forces veterans Matt Mann and Tom Katis decided to establish a business focused on countering international terrorism. They applied their knowledge of military activities to “train government agencies in anti-terrorism techniques.”
The firm received its first contracts in 2004, following the invasion of Iraq, to help guard and equip allied forces in the war zone, especially for the Coalition Provisional Authority.
In the years following, Triple Canopy won additional State Department contracts, among others, to provide security services at some of the highest-risk U.S. embassies around the world. This work was performed under the Worldwide Personal Protective Services contract issued by the State Department, valued at up to $1 billion for the handful of companies assigned a share of the work.
Triple Canopy also assisted in humanitarian operations, including rushing aid and supplies to Haiti in 2010 following a catastrophic earthquake.
In November 2010, around 60 private security firms that were established in war zones promised to cut back their use of force, improve vetting and training of personnel as well as reporting any infringements of law. Triple Canopy was included in this agreement as well as the large British company G4S.
Parent company Constellis was sold to Apollo Global Management in August 2016.
From Wikipedia’s article on Triple Canopy, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4