JEFFREY R. CUGNO

Biography

Jeffrey R. Cugno is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of SOS Global Consulting, Inc., established to create strategic partnerships with private and public sector stakeholders to manage risks of harm through consultative assistance. Mr. Cugno and his clients collaborate to design and implement holistic initiatives, including foundational and advanced curriculum, to educate and safeguard any given environment.

Mr. Cugno served as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for over two decades. He worked on the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office (FBILA) Cyber Crime Squad and was a Team Leader of the FBILA’s Evidence Response Team (ERT). As an ERT Team Leader, Mr. Cugno led crime scene investigators in the collection of evidence for a variety of investigations, including bank robberies, kidnappings, homicides, Agent-involved shootings, and airplane disasters.

For over 17 years, Mr. Cugno maintained the position of the FBILA’s Primary Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) Coordinator until his retirement in October 2023. In this role, Mr. Cugno assisted with the investigation of repetitive and violent crimes, counterterrorism, and threatening communications. In addition to his primary role as the BAU Coordinator, Mr. Cugno also provided leadership and consultation in the following five specialized areas concurrently: Threat Management Coordinator, Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team – West Team Leader, Adjunct Faculty Instructor, Crisis Negotiator, and Threat Assessment ReGional Evaluation Team (TARGET) Working Group – Director.

Mr. Cugno was the founder of the TARGET Working Group and served as the Director from 2011-2023. TARGET was created to develop best practices in the identification, assessment, and management of threats to K-12 schools, college and university campuses, houses of worship, healthcare facilities, and other critical infrastructures. This was accomplished through the identification of subject matter experts, the sharing of information, and the facilitation of training. Subsequently, Mr. Cugno collaborated with local communities to expand TARGET’s education and liaison capabilities into four geographically located threat assessment and threat management teams serving Southern California.

Mr. Cugno was a dedicated FBI Adjunct Faculty Instructor and routinely provided training to domestic and international participants in the following topics: situational awareness, verbal de-escalation, behavioral indicators of targeted violence, crisis/hostage negotiations, interview and interrogation strategies, mass casualty response, cybercrime investigations, evidence collection techniques, counterterrorism, violent crime matters, and threat assessment and threat management principles.

In 2022, Mr. Cugno was selected to be a member of the Los Angeles County’s Veteran Suicide Review Team.

Mr. Cugno was elected to the position of Secretary of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP), Los Angeles Chapter, for the 2025-2026 term.

Mr. Cugno holds a Master of Science Degree in Justice, Law, and Society from The American University.