Executive Bios

Captain(N) Paul A. Guindon (Ret’d), CD

Chairman, National Business Management Committee, Commissionaires

In 2008, Paul was appointed as Chairman of the National Business Management Committee to provide leadership and direction on behalf of a nation-wide alliance of 17 Commissionaires CEOs.  The committee’s focus is to find new and better ways of doing business in response to increased security threats, new standards and laws, continuous technological advances, and greater expectations for training and services. Today there are 19,000 commissionaires serving private and public sector clients from coast to coast.

In August 2004, Capt (N) Paul Guindon retired from military life to become the CEO of Commissionaires Ottawa – which today employs  more than 3,500 security professionals who provide services at about 500 corporate, industrial, public and government client sites. By 2006, Commissionaires Ottawa was appointed as the Lead Division of Identification Services on behalf of all Commissionaires offices from coast to coast. Under Paul’s leadership, Commissionaires was among the first to be certified and accredited by the RCMP to participate in their Real Time Identification Project (RTID) – a state-of-the-art digital fingerprint record repository capable of providing immediate criminal record updates and comprehensive information via a direct and secure link.  Additional business lines currently managed by the Lead Division are Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) background checks, child identification services, mobile identification services, and pardon services.

Paul Guindon is a 33-year veteran of the Canadian Navy. During his military career, he developed an advanced knowledge of weapons, missile systems and a wide range of national security protocols.  He also honed his leadership skills during five command appointments and two deployments in a theatre of war.  A graduate of Dalhousie University, Paul also attended "Le collège interarmées de défense" in Paris and is a graduate of the Advanced Military Studies Course (AMSC). 

In addition, Paul is Chair of the Canadian Society of Industrial Security Inc. - NCR Chapter and a member of the Association of Professional Security Agencies, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the American Society of Industrial Security, the Centre for National Security (The Conference Board of Canada), the National Security Study Group, as well as various other security, military and governmental associations.

Colonel J. Douglas Briscoe (Ret’d), OMM, CD

Executive Director, Commissionaires

In November 2006, Doug Briscoe assumed the newly-created position of Executive Director at Commissionaires.  In this capacity, he is responsible for garnering consensus on issues that will continue to advance the strategic goals of the federation. He is also responsible for implementing the national business strategy, managing partnership relations, developing national synergies, as well as building and managing an effective national team.

Doug brings extensive management, leadership, operational security, and strategic planning experience to Commissionaires. These skills were developed and tested during a 37-year military career and further strengthened while fulfilling national security contracts for the Department of National Defence and various Federal Government emergency preparedness organizations.

Among his diverse military command and staff appointments, Doug led the Personnel Division of the Canadian Army, commanded Canadian Forces Base Montreal and served as the military attaché in Washington D.C. for four years. Just prior to his retirement in 2000, he completed two tours as the Chief of Staff, Multinational Division (SW) SFOR, Bosnia where he directed operations of the 8,000 troop six-nation division. 

Doug has had a life-long commitment to voluntary activities including: United Way, MIRA, the Last Post Fund, parish council chair and Chair of the CFB Petawawa School Board.

A graduate of Loyola College (Montreal) and National Defence College (Kingston), Doug is a recipient of the Order of Military Merit (Officer), the United States Legion of Merit, the Minister of Energy Award for Innovation and the Last Post Fund Award of Merit.