Ridgeline partners with the owners of elite executive protection businesses, providing capital, credibility, and continuity to build the defining security firm of the next decade.

ABOUT

Ben Faw spent his entire career building things in hard environments — first in uniform, then in business

Ben Faw graduated from West Point in 2007 with a degree in Economics, earning the Superintendent’s Award and the Command Sergeant Major Morris Award for leadership excellence. A graduate of Ranger and Airborne School, he served as an Infantry Platoon Leader in Northern Iraq from 2008 to 2009.   After earning his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2014, he co-founded BestReviews, which sold to Tribune Publishing in 2018 and subsequently to Nexstar (NXST) in 2020. He subsequently founded AdVon Commerce, which sold to Ascential PLC in 2021. Together, the two exits returned 750X on invested capital. He currently serves on the boards of Tile Shop (TTSH) and Citi Trends (CTRN), and as a Partner at Dynamism Capital.

Ben has both lived the mission of executive protection overseas, and has been an investor and advisor to private security companies in the US.

MISSION

The world demands a different kind of protection company.

The threat environment facing executives, high-net-worth families, and global enterprises has fundamentally changed. Geopolitical volatility, digital exposure, and the erosion of traditional security boundaries have created a generation of clients who require more than a bodyguard — they require intelligent, integrated, discreet protection. The executive protection industry has no shortage of exceptional operators. What it lacks is the institutional infrastructure to match. The best firms in this space are founder-led, deeply capable, and under-resourced for the scale of opportunity in front of them. Ridgeline was formed to change that. Our goal is a single, decisive partnership — one firm, properly capitalized and strategically positioned — to become the defining end-to-end security provider for executives and ultra-high-net-worth individuals globally.

WHY RIDGELINE?

The Differentiators

1 We’ve served.

Our founding partner is a West Point graduate, Army Ranger, and combat veteran. We don’t need the industry explained to us — we’ve lived the mission.

2 We’ve built and sold.

With multiple successful exits and a 750X return on invested capital, we understand what it means to build something from nothing, and to protect what you’ve created when the time comes to transition.

3 We protect what matters.

We are not financial engineers. We are operators. When we acquire a business, we commit to preserving its culture, its team, and the reputation its founder built over decades.

4 We're discreet by design.

True security is felt, not seen. We operate the same way. No press releases, no theatrics. Just results, delivered quietly and with precision.

5 We're here to build.

We are not buying to flip, we are buying to build. Our goal is to partner with exceptional operators to grow what you have already built, strengthening its foundation and expanding its potential over time.

The next generation of executive protection starts here.

If you’re building something worth protecting, we should talk.