Joseph A. Ruffini is a retired U.S. Army combat arms officer and Certified Master Anti-Terrorism Specialist who presents terror awareness, preparedness, and prevention presentations and training sessions to government, military, intelligence community, law enforcement, academic, and citizen audiences throughout the United States and internationally. Along with co-author and wife, Patricia, he is managing partner of and principal consultant for JPR & Associates, LLC, their education, training, and consulting company.

Patricia A. Ruffini is a terrorism subject matter expert and juvenile, restorative justice practitioner and consultant. She is a managing partner, senior research analyst, and program manager for JPR & Associates, LLC. For more than 20 years, Pat has scrutinized and quantified terror organizations, their tactics, techniques, and procedures, transliterating volumes of need-to-know information and data into formats that are easy to read and comprehend.