Veritas IntelligenceExecutive Intelligence & Risk Advisory
Independent intelligence, investigations, and risk advisory for consequential decisions involving leadership, complex environments, and incomplete information.
Clarity where information is incomplete. Judgment where the stakes are high.
How We Partner With Clients
Two ways to engage Veritas.
From ongoing executive security leadership to targeted intelligence and risk advisory for consequential decisions.
Fractional Executive Leadership
Fractional Chief Security Officer
Senior security leadership without a permanent executive appointment.
Veritas serves as an extension of your leadership team, providing ongoing security strategy, governance, crisis preparedness, and executive oversight tailored to your organization's risks and operational requirements.
Explore Fractional CSOSpecialized Engagements
Intelligence & Risk Advisory
Independent intelligence, investigations, and experienced judgment for high-stakes decisions, complex environments, and sensitive matters.
Explore Our ServicesProfessional Associations and Affiliations
The OSS SocietyAssociation of Former Intelligence OfficersDisabled American VeteransAmerican LegionCentral Intelligence Retirees AssociationASIS InternationalNational Notary AssociationFlorida Association of Licensed InvestigatorsFlorida Association of Private InvestigatorsArmy Counterintelligence Special Agents AssociationThe OSS SocietyAssociation of Former Intelligence OfficersDisabled American VeteransAmerican LegionCentral Intelligence Retirees AssociationASIS InternationalNational Notary AssociationFlorida Association of Licensed InvestigatorsFlorida Association of Private InvestigatorsArmy Counterintelligence Special Agents AssociationFigures represent cumulative operational data from public- and private-sector leadership.
Intelligence that informs critical decisions.
We provide independent intelligence, analysis, investigations, and risk advisory to help leaders understand complex environments, identify hidden risks, challenge critical assumptions, and make consequential decisions with greater clarity.
Explore Our ServicesGeopolitical Analysis
Assessment of political, economic, security, regulatory, and societal developments—and the actors and interests driving them—to determine how they may affect a client's operations, investments, people, and strategic decisions.
Risk Advisory
Independent assessment of threats, vulnerabilities, and emerging risks that could affect an organization's people, operations, assets, reputation, or strategic objectives—and practical measures to anticipate, mitigate, and manage those risks.
Executive Decision Review
Independent assessment of a high-stakes decision before commitment. Veritas tests assumptions, identifies information gaps, challenges the prevailing narrative, and examines what could cause the decision to fail.
Leadership Intelligence
Independent assessment of how a senior executive actually leads, makes decisions, builds and manages teams, responds to challenge and adversity, and exercises authority.
Executive Due Diligence
Independent investigation of a senior executive, founder, board candidate, or other key individual designed to identify undisclosed risks, verify representations, and provide a more complete understanding of the person before extending significant trust, authority, or capital.
Corporate Investigations
Independent, fact-driven inquiries into suspected misconduct, fraud, conflicts of interest, corruption, insider activity, theft, reputational concerns, and other sensitive matters that may expose an organization to risk.
Who We Advise
Veritas Intelligence advises executives, boards, investors, law firms, and corporations facing high-stakes decisions where incomplete or misleading information creates material legal, financial, reputational, or operational risk.
We are engaged when conventional diligence is insufficient and decisions must withstand scrutiny.
Drawing on decades of experience in complex international environments, we help clients understand not only what is happening, but the implications, risks, and opportunities that may follow.
We advise senior executives and boards confronting consequential decisions involving strategy, leadership, risk, reputation, and uncertainty. Veritas provides an independent perspective when internal assumptions require challenge or available information does not provide sufficient clarity.
- Executive Decision Review
- Leadership Intelligence
- Executive Due Diligence
- Geopolitical and strategic risk assessment
Facing a high-stakes decision? Engagements are selective and confidential. We welcome discreet introductions for complex risk, sensitive investigations, leadership matters, and other situations where independent intelligence can materially improve the outcome.
When Do Clients Engage Us?
Veritas Intelligence is engaged when the stakes are high, information is incomplete, and the cost of being wrong is significant. Our work is reserved for decisions and situations that demand clarity, discretion, and independent judgment.
High Stakes, High Consequence
The stakes are high and the consequences of being wrong are significant.
Incomplete or Distorted Information
Information is incomplete, unreliable, or intentionally distorted.
Complex & Unfamiliar Environments
Decisions must be made in complex, unfamiliar, or high-risk environments.
Discretion & Scrutiny
Discretion is critical and outcomes must withstand scrutiny.
The work is not theoretical, off-the-shelf, or designed for broad distribution.
Our work is tailored to situations where financial, legal, operational, reputational, or strategic consequences are significant. Whether evaluating a consequential decision, assessing a senior leader, navigating geopolitical uncertainty, or investigating a sensitive matter, Veritas provides decision-grade intelligence and experienced judgment.
How We Work
Our approach is informed by decades of senior government and private-sector experience across intelligence operations, diplomacy, investigations, international security, and enterprise risk. We apply that experience to real-world decisions - not theoretical models.
Boutique by Design
We work with a limited number of clients to ensure senior-level attention. Every engagement is led directly by our founder — not delegated to junior analysts or outsourced teams.
Discreet and Defensible
Our work reflects an understanding of legal exposure, privilege, and reputational risk. All engagements operate under a mutual non-disclosure framework executed prior to any substantive exchange.
Decision-Focused
We prioritize clarity and judgment over volume. Our deliverables are designed for principals, general counsel, and investment committees — intelligence they can act on immediately.
What You Can Expect
Veritas Intelligence works with senior leaders, counsel, investors, boards, and principals who require discretion, independent judgment, and intelligence they can act upon.
Clearer Decisions
Intelligence that helps decision-makers understand what matters, what remains uncertain, and what could materially change the outcome.
Independent Judgment
An objective perspective free from internal politics, organizational consensus, or pressure to validate a predetermined conclusion.
Defensible Analysis
Findings and judgments grounded in disciplined analysis, corroborated information, and clearly articulated assumptions.
Real-World Perspective
Judgment informed by decades of experience operating and making consequential decisions in complex environments.
Benjamin House
Founder & Principal, Veritas Intelligence
Benjamin House is the Founder and Principal of Veritas Intelligence. He advises law firms, investors, corporations, and private clients when conventional diligence is insufficient, information is incomplete or conflicting, and the consequences of being wrong are significant.
Veritas serves clients through two complementary models. Executive Risk Advisory provides experienced guidance on defined risks, decisions, and complex challenges through focused engagements or ongoing advisory relationships. Fractional Chief Security Officer provides embedded executive security leadership, helping organizations establish strategy, strengthen governance, oversee security programs, and manage risk without maintaining a full-time CSO.
Benjamin brings more than three decades of experience spanning intelligence operations, diplomacy, counterintelligence, investigations, and Fortune 500 corporate security leadership.
As the senior-most security executive for a Fortune 500 company, he led Global Safety & Security with responsibility for security across an enterprise encompassing more than 25,000 employees and 2,000 locations worldwide. He advised senior executives on geopolitical risk, investigations, operational exposure, executive threats, crisis response, and other matters affecting global operations.
Previously, Benjamin served as a CIA Senior Operations Officer, including two assignments as Chief of Station in Latin America. His operational experience extended across five continents and involved complex environments and high-priority national security matters.
His intelligence career required assessing incomplete and sometimes deliberately misleading information, understanding people and their motivations, challenging assumptions, managing uncertainty, and making consequential judgments under pressure. These disciplines continue to inform Veritas's approach to evaluating counterparties, organizations, leadership, and complex business environments.
Benjamin also served as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer and a Special Agent in U.S. Army Counterintelligence. His instructional assignments included serving as a senior instructor at the CIA Directorate of Operations training academy and as an instructor at the Department of Defense Advanced Counterintelligence Training Academy.
- Fortune 500 Global Safety & Security Executive
- Retired CIA Senior Operations Officer, Directorate of Operations
- Two-time CIA Chief of Station
- Senior Representative to the Director of National Intelligence
- Senior Instructor, CIA Directorate of Operations Training Academy
- Instructor, Department of Defense Advanced Counterintelligence Training Academy
- Former U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Department of State
- Former Special Agent, U.S. Army Counterintelligence
Decorated for counterterrorism, high-risk operational planning, operational security, and counterintelligence. Operated across five continents against high-priority national security threats. Service-connected disabled veteran.
Native English | Fully bilingual Spanish (Advanced Working Proficiency, U.S. Department of State)
The Veritas Standard
Answers to common questions from prospective clients regarding our operational framework, confidentiality standards, and engagement terms.
Veritas Intelligence combines senior-level experience in Fortune 500 corporate security leadership, intelligence operations, diplomacy, and counterintelligence.
We provide both ongoing executive security leadership through fractional Chief Security Officer engagements and specialized intelligence, investigations, and risk advisory services.
Our approach emphasizes independent judgment, practical experience, direct accountability, and sustained attention to each client's requirements.
A fractional Chief Security Officer provides ongoing executive security leadership without requiring an organization to hire a full-time CSO.
Veritas serves as an extension of the client's leadership team, providing strategic direction, security governance, crisis preparedness, risk oversight, and executive counsel.
Unlike a traditional project-based consulting engagement, the relationship provides continuity of leadership and ongoing involvement in the organization's security priorities.
Veritas serves corporations, private equity firms and portfolio companies, executives, boards, investors, law firms, and select private clients.
Our fractional CSO services are particularly suited to organizations with complex operations, geographically dispersed facilities, international exposure, or growing security responsibilities that require senior-level leadership.
Our specialized advisory services support clients confronting consequential decisions, complex risks, sensitive investigations, and situations where conventional information is insufficient.
Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Veritas Intelligence serves clients throughout the United States and internationally.
Internationally, our deepest regional expertise is in Latin America and the Caribbean, complemented by extensive experience in the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe.
Engagements may be conducted remotely, on-site, or through a combination of both, depending on the client's requirements.
Engagements are structured around the client's objectives, operating environment, and specific requirements.
Fractional CSO engagements typically begin with an assessment of the organization's security posture, followed by the establishment of priorities, responsibilities, and an ongoing executive leadership framework.
Specialized intelligence, investigations, and advisory engagements are designed around defined questions, risks, or decisions, with clearly established scope, deliverables, and timelines.
Executive Due Diligence investigates the individual. Leadership Intelligence assesses how the individual operates.
Executive Due Diligence focuses on background, reputation, relationships, conflicts, integrity concerns, and undisclosed risks.
Leadership Intelligence examines judgment, decision-making, leadership behavior, influence, and how an executive is likely to perform in a particular role or environment.
In simple terms: Due diligence asks, “What do we need to know about this person?” Leadership Intelligence asks, “What should we expect from this person as a leader?”
From the Field
Operational insights and risk analysis drawn from three decades of intelligence, security, and investigative experience.
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Contact Veritas Intelligence
Veritas Intelligence works with a limited number of clients on a confidential basis. If you are facing a consequential decision, sensitive investigation, leadership question, or complex risk where independent intelligence and judgment may materially improve the outcome, we welcome a confidential discussion.
Initial consultations are confidential and designed to determine whether Veritas Intelligence is the appropriate resource for the matter.