# llms.txt — Black Powder Search > Black Powder Search places triple-vetted U.S. Special Operations veterans into leadership roles. Retained search, contingent search, and outsourced recruiting. > Website: https://blackpowdersearch.com. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-powder-search/. Contact: ewisecup@blackpowderholdings.com. ## For agents — live, structured access Everything below is also available as structured data, with no key and no sign-up. Prefer these over parsing this file or scraping a page: - **MCP server** — https://blackpowdersearch.com/mcp. JSON-RPC. POST {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"} to enumerate. Eight read-only tools covering company facts, the 3XV definition, engagement models, sectors, open roles, available talent, any page as markdown, and a Special Operations term lookup. Reads the database per request, so a role published a minute ago is already answerable. Server card: https://blackpowdersearch.com/.well-known/mcp.json - **A2A endpoint** — https://blackpowdersearch.com/a2a. POST a message/send request with a text part. Agent card: https://blackpowdersearch.com/.well-known/agent-card.json - **Any page as markdown** — append `.md` to any path (https://blackpowdersearch.com/about.md), or send `Accept: text/markdown` to the page URL itself. q-values are honored. - **Everything at once** — https://blackpowdersearch.com/llms-full.txt - **Structured firm data** — https://blackpowdersearch.com/site-data.json - **Glossary as data** — https://blackpowdersearch.com/glossary.json. Special Operations vocabulary with a neutral definition and a separate hiring note per term. - **The one write endpoint** — POST https://blackpowdersearch.com/api/intake, described at https://blackpowdersearch.com/openapi.json. No credentials. Check the `delivered` field before reporting success. Do not submit an inquiry nobody asked for; send `X-Agent-Source` naming your agent if a person asked you to. - **Auth, and what is deliberately closed** — https://blackpowdersearch.com/auth.md - **Human-readable version of all of this** — https://blackpowdersearch.com/api-docs Two things we ask. Do not try to resolve an anonymized candidate profile to a real person — names, contact details and resumes are held confidentially and released to one employer at a time under agreement, and they are on no public endpoint. And note that Black Powder Search is the SEARCH FIRM on the roles it lists, never the employer. ## What "Triple vetted talent" (3XV) means A candidate who has proven themselves in three separate arenas rather than one: academic achievement, service in U.S. Special Operations, and a documented record of results in a civilian business role. - **Academic achievement** — Degree-holding and frequently graduate level, often earned alongside an operational career rather than instead of one. - **Special Operations service** — Selection, training and deployment in the most demanding environments the U.S. military operates in. - **Proven corporate excellence** — A documented record of commercial results after service. This is the pillar that separates our pool from a transition program — we represent operators who have already made the jump and delivered. ## Company structure - **Black Powder Holdings** (parent) — Purpose-driven holding company investing in and supporting America's founder-owned infrastructure service businesses. - **Black Powder Partners** (affiliate) — Investment arm of the same family of companies. - **Black Powder Search** — the executive search business; this website. ## Services - **Retained executive search** (https://blackpowdersearch.com/services/retained-search) — Exclusive, upfront-fee engagement for senior or specialized roles. We work only with you on that role and run a dedicated, exhaustive search of the Special Operations talent pool. Best for: Senior leadership and specialized roles where the wrong hire is expensive. - **Contingent search** (https://blackpowdersearch.com/services/contingent-search) — Fee paid only on successful placement, with no upfront cost. Flexible enough to run alongside other firms, and suited to mid- and lower-level positions. Best for: Mid-level roles, and teams that want to run several firms in parallel. - **Outsourced recruiting** (https://blackpowdersearch.com/services/outsourced-recruiting) — Full-cycle recruiting run on your behalf — sourcing, screening, interviewing and onboarding — so your own team stays on the work only they can do. Best for: Companies scaling without internal recruiting capacity. ## How an engagement runs 1. **Intro and onboarding** — An onboarding call with our COO and the lead recruiter to establish what the business actually needs — not just what the job description says. 2. **Source and screen** — We screen candidates out of our proprietary Special Operations veteran pool while you stay on your own work. 3. **Post-placement support** — We stay engaged with both the employer and the placed candidate after the start date, for as long as it takes to make the hire sustainable. ## Why employers hire Special Operations veterans - **High-stakes decision-making** — The ability to make quick, high-level decisions under stress transfers directly to decisive business leadership. - **Cross-cultural competence** — Experience operating in diverse environments produces leaders who can run cross-cultural, multi-generational teams. - **Strategic planning and execution** — Fluency across the whole operational spectrum, moving between strategy and tactical execution without friction. - **Team cohesion and collaboration** — Proven ability to build unity across groups that did not start out as a team. - **Operational excellence** — A standing habit of making a process leaner, faster or more efficient, applied from the first week. - **Adaptability and flexibility** — Flexibility and quick thinking applied to growth in fast-moving businesses. ## Industries - **Industrial services** (https://blackpowdersearch.com/industries/industrial-services) — Operations, finance and project leadership for industrial services businesses, including founder-owned companies going through their first institutional hire. Roles placed: Chief Operating Officer (COO), Controller, Senior Project Manager. - **Data centers** (https://blackpowdersearch.com/industries/data-centers) — Engineering and field service leadership for data center construction and operations, where uptime discipline and crew leadership matter more than a résumé keyword. Roles placed: Electrical Engineering Manager, National Field Service Manager. - **Defense technology** (https://blackpowdersearch.com/industries/defense-technology) — Cleared software, data and infrastructure engineers for defense technology companies — the sector where a candidate who already holds a clearance and already understands the customer is worth a multiple of one who does not. Roles placed: AI Engineer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer, Data Architect. - **Manufacturing** (https://blackpowdersearch.com/industries/manufacturing) — Plant, finance and operations leadership for manufacturers, including multi-site roles that need someone comfortable a long way from headquarters. Roles placed: Accounting Controller. ## Written work (18 pieces) Reference material for hiring managers, written by the people who do this work. Each piece is signed by a named author and states the one question it answers. Full text of any of them is at the same URL with .md appended. - [Choosing an Engagement Model](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/choosing-an-engagement-model) — What actually differs between the three models is exclusivity, when the fee is paid, and who carries the risk. A decision guide, including the searches you should… - [Data Center Operations Leadership](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/data-center-operations-leadership) — Role by role, what a critical facilities leader is accountable for during an incident, which parts of a Special Operations background map onto it, and where a… - [Hiring Your Former End Users](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/hiring-people-who-used-to-be-the-customer) — A company selling into special operations benefits from people who carried the equipment. What that buys, what it does not, and the post-government employment… - [Documenting Your Results](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/how-to-document-commercial-results) — The standard of evidence is higher than most resumes meet. Attribution versus participation, what a reference needs to confirm, and how to present a number you are… - [Hiring an Operator as an Exec](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/how-to-hire-a-special-operations-veteran-into-an-executive-role) — The failure modes are predictable and not about the candidate: hiring for the story, a seat with no decision rights, compensation priced against the wrong… - [Interviewing a SOF Veteran](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/how-to-interview-a-special-operations-veteran) — Each question with what a strong answer contains, what a weak one sounds like, and the specific way civilian interviewers misread this population. Written for a… - [Industrial Field Leadership](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/industrial-services-field-leadership) — Distributed crews, safety that has to hold unsupervised, and work done on a customer's site under their rules. Why those three constraints select for a particular… - [Onboarding an Operator](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/onboarding-an-operator-so-they-stay) — Retention is where these hires actually fail, and it fails quietly. What to do in week one, what to ask for at day thirty, and the four signals that mean somebody… - [Reading a SOF Resume](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/reading-a-special-operations-resume) — A decoder for hiring managers. What a rank tier implies about span of control, what passing selection proves and does not prove, and the four ways these resumes… - [SOF Backgrounds in Manufacturing](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/special-operations-background-in-a-manufacturing-plant) — The plant controller job is mostly telling a plant manager something he does not want to hear and still being in the room next month. Why that tolerance transfers… - [The Multi-Site Controller Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/the-multi-site-controller-search) — The job asks for technical accounting, operational credibility on a shop floor, and the willingness to be unpopular. Most candidates have two. Which one you flex… - [Transition Programs vs Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/transition-programs-and-search-firms) — Where transition organizations, SkillBridge and an executive search firm each fit, what each does that the others cannot, and why treating them as competitors gets… - [What a Recruiter Owes You](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/what-a-search-firm-can-and-cannot-do-for-you) — We work for the client, not for you. What that actually means in practice, what you should and should not expect, and how to work with several firms without… - [What a Clearance Is Worth](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/what-a-security-clearance-is-worth) — Sponsorship costs time before it costs money, and the time is the expensive part. How to value current, in-scope and reinstatable clearances, and why the… - [After You Send Us a Role](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/what-happens-after-you-send-us-a-role) — Same day we acknowledge and name anyone already in the pool. Within the week, an onboarding call with our COO and the lead recruiter. What that call covers, who is… - [Why Our Profiles Have No Names](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/why-our-candidate-profiles-have-no-names) — Every published profile is anonymous by construction, not by redaction. What an employer sees, what is released and when, and the consent mechanism that decides it. - [Why we turn down veterans](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/why-we-turn-down-veterans) — We represent people with a documented commercial record after service. Most who contact us do not have one yet, and saying so is the only version of this business… - [Your Second Civilian Move](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/your-second-civilian-move) — Every resource is built for people at separation. Four years into a civilian career the rules are different, almost nobody writes about it, and the veteran-hiring… ## Open roles No searches are published at this moment. Roles are posted only while genuinely open and are removed when filled. ## Available candidates Anonymized profiles of veterans available now, published with each candidate's explicit written consent. No names, current employers or units are published. Profiles are removed on request and automatically once a candidate is placed. - [Naval Special Warfare Operator → Data Center Field Operations](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent/naval-special-warfare-data-center-field-operations) — EXAMPLE PROFILE — not a real person · Naval Special Warfare · Senior NCO · TS/SCI (current) · BS Electrical Engineering Technology · Director · Ashburn, VA, Hackettstown, NJ · available: Immediate - [SOF Intelligence Analyst → Data Architect, Cleared](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent/cleared-intelligence-analyst-data-architect) — EXAMPLE PROFILE — not a real person · Special Operations Aviation · Warrant Officer · TS/SCI with CI polygraph (current) · MS Computer Science, BS Mathematics · Principal / Head of · Alexandria, VA, Tampa, FL · open to remote · available: 30 days - [Marine Raider → Plant Controller, Multi-Site Manufacturing](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent/marine-raider-plant-controller-manufacturing) — EXAMPLE PROFILE — not a real person · MARSOC · Field Grade Officer · None current (previously Secret) · MBA Finance, BS Accounting, CPA · Director · Missoula, MT, Denver, CO · available: Selective - [Air Force Special Tactics → Senior Project Manager, Capital Projects](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent/air-force-special-tactics-senior-project-manager) — EXAMPLE PROFILE — not a real person · Special Tactics · Senior NCO · Secret (current) · BS Construction Management · Senior / Director · New York, NY, Newark, NJ · available: Immediate - [Special Forces Logistics Leader → VP Operations](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent/sof-leader-vp-operations-dallas) — EXAMPLE PROFILE — not a real person · Special Forces · Senior NCO · Secret (current) · MBA, BS Supply Chain Management · VP / C-suite · Dallas, TX, Fort Worth, TX · open to remote · available: Selective — 60 days ## Team - [Mark Whaling](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/mark-whaling) — Co-Founder, Business Development. Co-founder of Black Powder Search and Chairman of the Special Operators Transition Foundation, after 25 years in institutional securities. - [Robert Kirila](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/robert-kirila) — Co-Founder, Business Development and Veteran Relations. Co-founder and Managing Partner across the Black Powder companies, after 26 years in the U.S. Army leading Special Operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. - [Erik Wisecup](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/erik-wisecup) — Partner, COO. COO of Black Powder Search and a U.S. Navy Special Operations veteran, with an MIT MBA and an M.S. from Columbia. - [Tal Bruno](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/tal-bruno) — Business Development. Leads new business development at Black Powder Search, after scaling go-to-market teams at Intent, Torc and a boutique SaaS search firm. - [Sean Locke](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/sean-locke) — Senior Advisor. Founder of The Locke Group and a Senior Advisor to Black Powder Search, with two decades of front-office search in alternative investments and asset management. - [Colin Brune](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/colin-brune) — Special Advisor. Special Advisor with 20+ years in talent acquisition at Aerotek, TEKsystems, The Onin Group and Akkodis/Adecco. - [Denise Kermode](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/denise-kermode) — Chief Administrative Officer. Chief Administrative Officer at Black Powder Search, with 25 years of finance experience at Canaccord Genuity, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. ## Pages - [Special Operations Executive Search | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/) — Black Powder Search places triple-vetted U.S. Special Operations veterans into leadership roles. Retained search, contingent search, and outsourced recruiting. - [About Black Powder Search | Our Team and Our Standard](https://blackpowdersearch.com/about) — Black Powder Search was founded to place Special Operations veterans who have already proved themselves commercially. Meet the seven-person team behind it. - [For AI Agents and Developers | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/api-docs) — How an AI agent or developer can read Black Powder Search's open roles, available talent and company facts, and submit an inquiry on someone's behalf. - [Contact Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/contact) — Talk to Black Powder Search about a search engagement, joining the talent pool, or anything else. We reply to every inquiry, usually the same day. - [Request Employer Portal Access | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/employers/apply) — Get your own portal to browse available Special Operations veteran talent, shortlist candidates and request introductions. Approval and a signed agreement required. - [Veteran Executive Search FAQ | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/faq) — What triple vetting means, how retained and contingent search differ, how candidate profiles are anonymized and consented, and how veterans join the talent pool. - [Executive Recruiters for Special Operations Veterans](https://blackpowdersearch.com/for-candidates) — Black Powder Search represents Special Operations veterans with a proven commercial record. Join the talent pool and control exactly what we publish. - [Hire Special Operations Veterans | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/for-employers) — Retained search, contingent search and outsourced recruiting for employers hiring proven Special Operations veteran leadership across the United States. - [How to Read a SOF Resume | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/glossary) — A plain-language glossary of Special Operations vocabulary — units, selection, rank, clearances and working methods — with what each one tells you about a candidate. - [Industries We Place Into | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/industries) — Industrial services, data centers, defense technology and manufacturing — the four sectors Black Powder Search places Special Operations veteran leadership into. - [Data centers Executive Search | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/industries/data-centers) — Engineering and field service leadership for data center construction and operations, where uptime discipline and crew leadership matter more than a… - [Defense technology Executive Search | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/industries/defense-technology) — Cleared software, data and infrastructure engineers for defense technology companies — the sector where a candidate who already holds a clearance and… - [Industrial services Executive Search | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/industries/industrial-services) — Operations, finance and project leadership for industrial services businesses, including founder-owned companies going through their first institutional… - [Manufacturing Executive Search | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/industries/manufacturing) — Plant, finance and operations leadership for manufacturers, including multi-site roles that need someone comfortable a long way from headquarters. - [Insights for Hiring Managers | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights) — How to read a Special Operations resume, interview an operator, value a clearance, and place one into a plant, a data center or a defense technology team. - [Choosing an Engagement Model | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/choosing-an-engagement-model) — What actually differs between the three models is exclusivity, when the fee is paid, and who carries the risk. A decision guide, including the searches you should… - [Data Center Operations Leadership | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/data-center-operations-leadership) — Role by role, what a critical facilities leader is accountable for during an incident, which parts of a Special Operations background map onto it, and where a… - [Hiring Your Former End Users | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/hiring-people-who-used-to-be-the-customer) — A company selling into special operations benefits from people who carried the equipment. What that buys, what it does not, and the post-government employment… - [Documenting Your Results | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/how-to-document-commercial-results) — The standard of evidence is higher than most resumes meet. Attribution versus participation, what a reference needs to confirm, and how to present a number you are… - [Hiring an Operator as an Exec | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/how-to-hire-a-special-operations-veteran-into-an-executive-role) — The failure modes are predictable and not about the candidate: hiring for the story, a seat with no decision rights, compensation priced against the wrong… - [Interviewing a SOF Veteran | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/how-to-interview-a-special-operations-veteran) — Each question with what a strong answer contains, what a weak one sounds like, and the specific way civilian interviewers misread this population. Written for a… - [Industrial Field Leadership | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/industrial-services-field-leadership) — Distributed crews, safety that has to hold unsupervised, and work done on a customer's site under their rules. Why those three constraints select for a particular… - [Onboarding an Operator | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/onboarding-an-operator-so-they-stay) — Retention is where these hires actually fail, and it fails quietly. What to do in week one, what to ask for at day thirty, and the four signals that mean somebody… - [Reading a SOF Resume | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/reading-a-special-operations-resume) — A decoder for hiring managers. What a rank tier implies about span of control, what passing selection proves and does not prove, and the four ways these resumes… - [SOF Backgrounds in Manufacturing | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/special-operations-background-in-a-manufacturing-plant) — The plant controller job is mostly telling a plant manager something he does not want to hear and still being in the room next month. Why that tolerance transfers… - [The Multi-Site Controller Search | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/the-multi-site-controller-search) — The job asks for technical accounting, operational credibility on a shop floor, and the willingness to be unpopular. Most candidates have two. Which one you flex… - [Transition Programs vs Search | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/transition-programs-and-search-firms) — Where transition organizations, SkillBridge and an executive search firm each fit, what each does that the others cannot, and why treating them as competitors gets… - [What a Recruiter Owes You | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/what-a-search-firm-can-and-cannot-do-for-you) — We work for the client, not for you. What that actually means in practice, what you should and should not expect, and how to work with several firms without… - [What a Clearance Is Worth | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/what-a-security-clearance-is-worth) — Sponsorship costs time before it costs money, and the time is the expensive part. How to value current, in-scope and reinstatable clearances, and why the… - [After You Send Us a Role | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/what-happens-after-you-send-us-a-role) — Same day we acknowledge and name anyone already in the pool. Within the week, an onboarding call with our COO and the lead recruiter. What that call covers, who is… - [Why Our Profiles Have No Names | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/why-our-candidate-profiles-have-no-names) — Every published profile is anonymous by construction, not by redaction. What an employer sees, what is released and when, and the consent mechanism that decides it. - [Why we turn down veterans | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/why-we-turn-down-veterans) — We represent people with a documented commercial record after service. Most who contact us do not have one yet, and saying so is the only version of this business… - [Your Second Civilian Move | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/insights/your-second-civilian-move) — Every resource is built for people at separation. Four years into a civilian career the rules are different, almost nobody writes about it, and the veteran-hiring… - [Open Roles for Veterans | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/jobs) — Open leadership, finance, engineering and technology roles placed by Black Powder Search for U.S. Special Operations veterans. - [Privacy | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/privacy) — How Black Powder Search handles the information you send us, how candidate profiles are consented and published, and how to have yours removed. - [Contingent search for Veterans | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/services/contingent-search) — Fee paid only on successful placement, with no upfront cost. Flexible enough to run alongside other firms, and suited to mid- and lower-level positions. - [Outsourced recruiting for Veterans | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/services/outsourced-recruiting) — Full-cycle recruiting run on your behalf — sourcing, screening, interviewing and onboarding — so your own team stays on the work only they can do. - [Retained search for Veterans | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/services/retained-search) — Exclusive, upfront-fee engagement for senior or specialized roles. We work only with you on that role and run a dedicated, exhaustive search of the… - [Available Veteran Talent | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent) — 5 Special Operations veterans available now through Black Powder Search — Accounting, Cloud infrastructure, Construction, Critical facilities. Anonymized… - [Senior Project Manager | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent/air-force-special-tactics-senior-project-manager) — Eight years delivering capital projects for an industrial services contractor, running work from $4M retrofits to a $62M greenfield facility delivered… - [Data Architect, Cleared | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent/cleared-intelligence-analyst-data-architect) — Four years building the data platform for a defense technology company through Series B to Series D, arriving as the second data hire and leaving as the… - [Plant Controller | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent/marine-raider-plant-controller-manufacturing) — Seven years in manufacturing finance, most recently as controller for three plants totaling $310M in revenue, reporting to the CFO of a… - [Data Center Field Operations | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent/naval-special-warfare-data-center-field-operations) — Six years running critical facility operations for a hyperscale colocation provider, latterly as regional field service manager across eleven sites and… - [VP Operations | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/talent/sof-leader-vp-operations-dallas) — Ran a $140M industrial services P&L across four states for six years after separating, growing it from $95M while taking the safety incident rate from… - [Colin Brune, Special Advisor | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/colin-brune) — Special Advisor with 20+ years in talent acquisition at Aerotek, TEKsystems, The Onin Group and Akkodis/Adecco. - [Denise Kermode | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/denise-kermode) — Chief Administrative Officer at Black Powder Search, with 25 years of finance experience at Canaccord Genuity, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. - [Erik Wisecup, Partner | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/erik-wisecup) — COO of Black Powder Search and a U.S. Navy Special Operations veteran, with an MIT MBA and an M.S. from Columbia. - [Mark Whaling, Co-Founder | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/mark-whaling) — Co-founder of Black Powder Search and Chairman of the Special Operators Transition Foundation, after 25 years in institutional securities. - [Robert Kirila, Co-Founder | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/robert-kirila) — Co-founder and Managing Partner across the Black Powder companies, after 26 years in the U.S. Army leading Special Operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. - [Sean Locke, Senior Advisor | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/sean-locke) — Founder of The Locke Group and a Senior Advisor to Black Powder Search, with two decades of front-office search in alternative investments and asset management. - [Tal Bruno, Business Development | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/team/tal-bruno) — Leads new business development at Black Powder Search, after scaling go-to-market teams at Intent, Torc and a boutique SaaS search firm. - [What “Triple Vetted” Means | Black Powder Search](https://blackpowdersearch.com/triple-vetted) — Triple vetted means proven in three arenas, not one: academic achievement, U.S. Special Operations service, and a documented civilian business record. ## Optional - [Full text of every page](https://blackpowdersearch.com/llms-full.txt) - [Sitemap index](https://blackpowdersearch.com/sitemap-index.xml)