Our Team
Meet the experts behind Videre
Videre’s instructors prepared federal employees and their families to live and work in unfamiliar and dangerous places for decades. The curriculum is federal. The delivery is not.
Leadership and instructors

L. Scott McMillen
Scott is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent whose career spans decades of extraterritorial investigations and global operations. He served as a senior instructor and program manager for the FBI’s Overseas Survival Awareness Program, then built Videre’s ACT curriculum on that foundation.
Before the Bureau he served as a police officer, a U.S. Customs Inspector, a Federal Air Marshal and a U.S. Army NCO. He founded Videre to bring that same preparation to people outside government.

Eric Velez-Villar
Eric’s FBI career reached the level of Executive Assistant Director, after decades spanning intelligence, counterterrorism and national security leadership, including service as Assistant Director of the Bureau’s Office of the Private Sector.
He went on to serve as a senior security executive for a global organization with expansive operations, and co founded Videre to bring that standard to people outside government.

Scottie Bogenrief Jr.
Scottie retired from the U.S. Army as a Sergeant Major, the service’s senior enlisted rank, after a career spent leading teams and running mission critical operations in complex settings.
He served as an Inspector General and is a graduate of the Army’s Advanced Inspector General Course, and he holds Department of Defense certifications in Antiterrorism and Physical Security. An MBA trained executive, he pairs that security background with business strategy to run Videre’s day to day operations.

Matt Godfrey
Matt is a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent and a U.S. Army Green Beret, with decades of service across FBI tactical operations and Army special operations.
He is a veteran of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team with numerous high risk operational deployments, and he currently serves as a senior instructor for the FBI’s Overseas Survival Awareness Program. His work centers on risk mitigation, crisis response and operational planning.

Christopher “Chuck” Savickis
Chuck is a retired FBI Special Agent whose 30 year career was spent on high risk threats to U.S. security, with deep specialization in counterterrorism and high risk law enforcement operations.
He served 17 years as an operator on the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, preceded by five years as a U.S. Navy SEAL. As a tactical instructor he has trained units across the Department of Defense and federal, state and local law enforcement.

Dean Anderson
Dean brings over 30 years in operations and intelligence as an operator, planner, leader and instructor, including more than 20 years as a U.S. Army officer.
He is a certified High Threat Dignitary Protection Specialist, and he supports the U.S. Marshals Service Global Threat Awareness Program in personnel recovery operations management and intelligence analysis.

Anthony Colantoni
Tony has 38 years as an EMT Paramedic and 36 as a Registered Nurse, including service as a MedEvac Flight Nurse and Chief Flight Nurse.
He served the FBI as a Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent and as a tactical paramedic for FBI SWAT and the Hostage Rescue Team. He founded the FBI School of Operational Medicine, and he is founder, owner and COO of the Medical Readiness Group.

Erin Powell
Erin brings a background in executive support, marketing, technical services and communications to her role as Director of Administration. Her experience spans government contracting, construction and media, which gives her a broad view of what organizations operating in demanding conditions actually need.
She has served as a C suite executive assistant, a technical specialist for a large government contractor and vice president of marketing for a general contractor, alongside an award winning radio broadcasting career spanning more than 25 years. At Videre she supports the company’s leadership, organizational effectiveness and continued growth.
Friends of Videre
Who we work alongside
- B&L Consulting
- NtelSec
- Riphean Investments
- Medical Readiness Group
- MXM Exposure
Get Started
Train with the people who wrote the curriculum.
Tell us the situation and we will scope the program.