Greg Sassi

As Director of Security, Greg Sassi holds the responsibility for the leadership, direction, management, and oversight of the Gilbane Physical Security Program. He ensures a secure environment for employees, facilities, and projects. Greg manages security procedures for Gilbane project sites, identifies and evaluates risks, leads crisis management, guides internal investigations, develops security policy, and directs security assessments. A veteran of Federal law enforcement for over 30 years, Greg has held positions at agencies such as the U.S. Customs Office of Investigations, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security, where he was a Resident Agent-in-Charge. In this position, Greg held a Top Secret Security clearance and was responsible for leading complex investigations focused on criminal organizations threatening commercial/financial systems, national security, and public safety. Prior to joining Gilbane, Greg was a Regional Security Manager for CH2M, where he developed and managed the implementation of security procedures for CH2M's offices and project sites in the United States and Puerto Rico. He was also responsible for providing training on travel security, active shooter response, situational awareness, school security, construction site security, crisis response, and emergency preparedness. To execute Gilbane's corporate security vision, mission, and goals, Greg performs the following critical tasks: provides security leadership and direction; implements corporate strategy for contingency and crisis planning, and coordinates crisis exercises; develops and executes security procedures to protect employees and leadership, project site, company and client information, employee travel, and other corporate assets; plans and manages resources to safeguard executives, events, and travel security; collaborates with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to support corporate interests; evaluates data from events company-wide to develop strategies to improve safety and security; develops corporate Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan; leads office and project security vulnerability assessments to reduce risk; provides 24/7 security guidance and incident management. Considered an expert in security assessment and policy development, risk analysis, crisis management, and investigative techniques, Greg has spoken at conferences and organizations such as the American Society of Safety Professionals, Construction Risk Summit, Texas Associate of School Administration Conference, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, South Carolina State Legislators, U.S. Customs National Fraud Conference, the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition Conference, as well as various local, state, and federal law enforcement groups. Greg is a graduate of Northeastern University and holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. For more information on Gilbane Building Company, visit www.gilbaneco.com