OUR FOUNDER

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Jeffrey R. Cugno is the CEO and Founder of SOS Global Consulting, Inc.

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 for 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 six specialized areas concurrently: Threat Management Coordinator, Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team – West Coast Team Leader, Campus Liaison Agent, Adjunct Faculty Instructor, Crisis Negotiator, and Threat Assessment ReGional Evaluation Team (TARGET) Working Group - Director.

Mr. Cugno created and administered the TARGET Working Group, serving as the Director of TARGET from 2011 to 2023. TARGET was established to develop current 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 successfully accomplished through the identification of subject matter experts, 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 behavioral threat assessment & threat management teams serving Southern California.

Mr. Cugno served as an FBI Adjunct 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, missing person investigations, and threat assessment and threat management principles.

In 2022, Mr. Cugno was selected to be a member of the California Child Abduction Task Force, as well as the Los Angeles County’s Veteran Suicide Review Team.

In 2025, Mr. Cugno was elected Secretary of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP), Los Angeles Chapter.

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