PYSK | Tim Harry
The Protector
-Liesel Schmidt
The story of someone’s why can be incredibly inspiring, and the backstory behind Timothy Harry’s work—both professionally and in the community—is no exception.
The owner and founder of Severance Security, Harry launched his company after experiencing the loss of multiple friends to suicide. The underlying commonality between those friends was military service and a return Stateside after deployments that haunted their minds and their dreams. Knowing they needed to be given a sense of purpose outside of their military service, Harry created a professional executive protection firm that would employ former military and law enforcement to provide them with that purpose. Now, the company protects some of the world’s most influential people.
In addition to protecting those high-profile clients, Harry dedicates his life to protecting those whose vulnerability made them targets of a different kind: children. As a board member of Children’s Rescue Initiative as well as a security expert, Harry does more than just send money to help the cause—he’s hands on in training the boots on the ground. “We rescue women and children from sex and labor slavery as well as human trafficking all over the world, including here in the US,” he says. “It’s something that a lot of people have never been aware of, and if they are, they don’t know how to help.”
