Greg Ghironzi

Director of Operations


Greg Ghironzi is responsible for managing the obligations of the organization as the Director of Operations—ensuring the needs of TORIS clients are understood and met in a professional manner. As a Director and Shareholder, Mr. Ghironzi provides strategic planning, business development and management, staff development and management, and risk management to the organization. His areas of expertise as a consultant include: Law, Engineering, Finance, Public Policy, Banking, Project Management, Government, and Accounting. Mr. Ghironzi’s skill in the functional interrelation of these areas to provide funding for important public services can help make TORIS curricula available to any organization.


Mr. Ghironzi has a broad background gained from careers in Aerospace & Defense industry, Mechanical Contracting and Public Finance. In the Aerospace industry, he worked for Hughes Aircraft Company as a Developmental and Manufacturing Planner, serving on various classified programs—ranging from satellites to torpedos, including field support services.


He left Hughes Aircraft to start a Mechanical Contracting company which provided design, installation and service of HVAC equipment focused on the then-emerging needs of ‘computer room’ specific applications. His company was the first to provide qualified service in the technology of computer controlled variable air volume systems. Mr. Ghironzi sold the company and began work in the area of Public Finance—where he has spent more than 20 years.


Mr. Ghironzi is a founding partner and the Director of Consulting Services for NBS, a California based Public Finance firm specializing in land secured finance of public improvements and services. Since the company’s inception in 1995, he has built and managed the highly successful consulting practice by identifying, training and retaining talented staff in an extremely competitive industry.


An active volunteer, he has provided service and leadership to several organizations, including the Boy Scouts of America, Rotary International, and his local church. He has also performed extensive relief work in Mexico, Haiti, Belize, India, Kosovo and Burma.


After several years of study in the martial arts, he focused on lethal force training, and began working toward an Instructor credential through TORIS in 2004.


Mr. Ghironzi brings successful experience to the consulting team, working to accomplish the TORIS Mission.

TORIS Research

Due to the serious nature of providing personnel with information on debilitating injury, as it applies to lethal force, TORIS is dedicated to ensuring that the most current scientific information is the foundation upon which all of our curricula are designed. This ensures that personal lethal force curricula are based upon demonstrable scientific fact, which has been directly investigated and evaluated by TORIS as well as by our collaborative partners.Read more…

 

Curriculum Design

Training for lethal force situations prepares operators for the most stressful and highest-risk moments of an entire career. Regardless of the tools used, the training must ingrain the ability to deliver sufficient injury to stop a lethal threat and the judgment to use that ability properly. Firearms are a core portion of an operator’s training, but it is easy to foresee deadly situations where a firearm is difficult or impossible to bring to bear. Unable to draw, a mechanical failure, struggling for control of a weapon…Read more…

Risk Management

With the ad hoc nature of Defensive Tactics (DT) technique selection, most agencies are operating without soundly engineered and medically reviewed DT programs. When instructors are untrained in the associated knowledge of injury mechanisms, scope, and probability, they may fail to communicate the actual risk of serious injury. In addition, there may be liberal use-of-force policies that do not take into account the disguised risk of injury… Read more…

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