Executive

Managing Director of Israeli Division

Yuval Makovsky

Yuval Makovsky, Managing Director Israel, joined ASERO Worldwide after nine years of service in the security division of Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport.

In his last position Mr. Makovsky served as the airport’s security screening unit manager. As the unit manager, Mr. Makovsky was responsible for developing and integrating new security procedures into the Security Screening Unit’s operations. Mr. Makovsky was also responsible for the unit’s personnel training and level of preparedness.

Apart from these responsibilities, Mr. Makovsky was also a member of the project team that planned and led the implementation of the security measures in Ben Gurion Airport’s Terminal 3 (the new main international flights terminal). Mr. Makovsky served as the team’s security questioning, luggage screening and passenger screening expert.

Mr. Makovsky’s previous position with Ben Gurion Airport included serving as a security duty manager. In this capacity, Mr. Makovsky was responsible for commanding a force of several hundreds of security personnel, including screeners, profilers and zone supervisors, who conduct the security screening of all the passengers and luggage that pass through the airport. Mr. Makovsky’s responsibilities in this position also included training new security zone supervisors.

Mr. Makovsky has extensive knowledge in the following fields: Explosives Detection Systems, Explosives Trace Detection, walk through and hand held metal detectors, access control systems and security preparedness systems.

Prior to joining Ben Gurion Airport’s security division, Mr. Makovsky served in the Israeli Army’s Bomb Disposal Unit and is a certified bomb disposal technician. Mr. Makovsky holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Tel-Aviv and a Master of Business Administration from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

CEO of the North American Division

Carl J. Truscott

Carl J. Truscott, Chief Executive Officer for North America, is the former director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and a former head of presidential protection and assistant director of the U.S. Secret Service. Mr. Truscott advises ASERO’s clients on strategic plans for security preparedness, helps companies identify alternative uses for technology solutions to enhance homeland security defense and works to integrate those solutions into the security marketplace.
Mr. Truscott has 26 years of federal law enforcement experience, having provided strategic and operational leadership in uniquely challenging situations at two of the most prestigious and multifaceted federal law enforcement agencies in America. He has an exceptional background and experience in all phases of law enforcement, counterterrorism strategies, and integrated security planning and solutions.

Mr. Truscott was appointed by the attorney general to serve as ATF director, a role he held from 2004-2006. Under Mr. Truscott’s leadership, the bureau reduced violent crime to an historic 30-year low, expanded its role in explosives investigations, developed a National Center for Explosives Training and Research and constructed a new training academy. Most importantly the 5,000 men and women of ATF were able to make effective contributions to the Department of Justice’s highest priority – the prevention of terrorism – through intelligence sharing, investigations, regulation, training, laboratory services and an expanded international presence.

As an assistant director with the Secret Service, Mr. Truscott was responsible for the investigative and protective intelligence, threat assessment activities, technical security, information technology and emergency preparedness. Prior to his term as assistant director, he served as the special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division, where he had primary responsibility for supervising all protective matters relating to the president, the first family, and the White House. During a period of unprecedented global threat and terrorist activity, Mr. Truscott implemented a strategic approach to security structure, functions and operations. During his Secret Service tenure, Mr. Truscott was also assigned to the New York and Los Angeles field offices, he was detailed as a professional staff member to the U. S. Senate Appropriations Committee in the 105th Congress and he served as the Secret Service coordinator for the 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego. He began his law enforcement career in 1980 as an investigator for the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety.

Mr. Truscott received a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Delaware. He attended executive programs at The George Washington University and Harvard University and participated in the Director of Central Intelligence’s Intelligence Community Senior Leadership Program. He has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Criminology and at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Truscott serves on the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation Board of Directors and the National Law Enforcement Exploring Committee, and he is a member of ASIS International. Mr. Truscott also served on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and on the Board of Directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Mr. Truscott’s numerous honors throughout his law enforcement career include the Presidential Rank Award as Meritorious Executive in 2003.

CFO

Christopher Renaud

Mr. Christopher Renaud, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of ASERO Worldwide, has sat of the Board of Directors of ASERO since it was founded in 2005. Mr. Renaud also serves as a personal financial advisor to Mr. Doron Bergerbest-Eilon, ASERO’s Founder, President and CEO.

In addition to ASERO, Mr. Renaud sits on the Board of Directors of Travel Holdings, one of the fastest growing Internet travel service companies in the United Stated; he also sits on the Board of Directors of NMDC, one of the world’s largest independent global television and film producers. Mr. Renaud also serves as the CEO of NMDC’s main operating subsidiary in Switzerland.

Prior to his position at ASERO, Mr. Renaud has held a number of executive and senior level positions including the Director and Head of European Media Equity Research for First Boston / CSFB in London. Various polls carried out by Reuters and Institutional Investor on investors and chief financial officers ranked Mr. Renaud and his team in the top three companies within the European media equity research category.

Mr. Renaud holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.), Magna Cum Laude, in Government and Economics from Harvard University. He currently resides in Switzerland.

Chief Legal Counsel

Ilya Gusinski, Esq.

Mr. Ilya Gusinski, Chief Legal Counsel of ASERO Worldwide, sits on the Board of Directors of ASERO from 2019. Mr. Gusinski is a member of the New York State Bar and has expertise providing a of a broad spectrum of legal advice to multinational corporations and an in-depth knowledge of commercial transactions derived from a holistic approach to cross-functional collaboration.

Mr. Gusinski concurrently serves as Corporate Legal Counsel to New Media Holding Company LLC based in Greenwich, Connecticut.  As an in-house counsel, Mr. Gusinski is responsible for maintaining the legal framework for the business as well as dealing with contract negotiations, mergers and acquisitions (M & A), sales and international transactions.  Also in this capacity, Mr. Gusinski provides transactional risk assessment and due diligence for potential business ventures, support, management and oversight for complex multinational and multi-jurisdictional litigation, structures and prepares company data in preparation for strategic and business development and investment, leads due diligence negotiations for multi-million dollar investments, divestiture and M & A transactions and, liaises with outside counsel to achieve favorable litigation outcomes.

Prior to this, Mr. Gusinski was in private practice during which time he was involved in corporate governance, commercial litigation management, mediation, litigation support and oversight as well as business negotiations, mergers & acquisitions and divestiture transactions.  Additionally he served as Corporate Legal Counsel for Media Most International, Inc. in New York, overseeing legal, operational and financial aspects of the television broadcasting company including immigration, licensing, contracts, intellectual property, negotiations, broadcasting regulation, compliance and other day-to-day operations.

Mr. Gusinski earned his B.A. from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts and his J.D. from Pepperdine School of Law in Malibu, California.