A private intelligence and security advisory firm.
About Kingfisher
Kingfisher is a private intelligence and security advisory firm that helps clients understand risk, protect their interests, and make decisions with clarity.
Our work brings together intelligence analysis, protective strategy, and global risk insight, supporting organisations, counsel, and select private clients navigating sensitive or complex situations.
We take a measured and analytical approach, informed by experience in intelligence, counterintelligence, and protective operations. Kingfisher maintains a limited caseload to ensure depth, precision, and close engagement on each matter.
Our focus is straightforward: identify what is happening, understand what it means, and support clients in responding with confidence.
Leadership
Bryce Ernst is the founder of Kingfisher Intel and leads the firm’s intelligence, protective advisory, and global risk work. His background includes service as a U.S. military officer, aviator, and special operations strategist, and later as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he worked in counterintelligence and protective intelligence operations.
His experience includes cross-border intelligence work, executive security matters, legal support, and analytical work for private and governmental clients. He has advised corporate leaders, legal teams, and private clients in Europe and the United States on issues involving risk, exposure, movement, and organisational dynamics.
His approach is grounded in clarity, sound judgement, and an understanding of how people and environments shape real-world risk.
Kingfisher’s work is defined by professionalism, accuracy, and a commitment to getting the details right.