The Team

Patrick Doyle

CEO

Patrick Doyle

Patrick is an accomplished Enterpriser and business owner with particular strength in M&A strategic vision/ planning. Patrick was previously a partner in a consulting firm with a focus on First Nation and Inuit engagement and business development. He worked closely with First Nations, large industries, and governments across Northern Canada. Since joining the security industry, Patrick has held various senior management and executive roles in operations and business development. Patrick became CEO and was the creative force behind the company’s strategic approach to First Nation partnerships and industry engagement. Patrick has volunteered on numerous boards of charities and community non-profit organizations, such as Stanton Territorial Hospital Foundation, along with chambers and community small business investment funds. He has a passion for agnostic use case-driven solutions and has built a leadership team to take on large, complex integrated programs. His no-nonsense approach to cut to the heart of the issue and achieve results has made him well recognized and liked by his peers and clients.

Doug Maynard

President ARC Protection Corp

Doug Maynard

Mr. Maynard has extensive experience in Policing at local, Provincial, National and International levels. With thirty two years of experience across all business lines in policing he was exposed to a multitude of situations and environments. At the time of his recent retirement from the RCMP, he was the Superintendent In Charge of all Tactical Assets in the Province of British Columbia, including Emergency Response, Public Order, Dive Teams, Negotiators, and Bomb Disposal.

Mr. Maynard is also the President of the National Network group that Trains and Accredits all Critical Incident Commanders for all Police agencies in Canada, referred to as ACCIC or Association of Canadian Critical Incident Commanders. Recent experience has taken him Internationally as an expert in Command and Control models utilized in other countries such as the United Kingdom, The United States, France, The Netherlands, Germany and Australia. Mr. Maynard’s teaching experience involves the Canadian Police College, and the Justice Institute of British Columbia as an instructor of Critical Incident Command, Critical Incident Management, Incident Command Systems, Gold Silver Bronze, Initial Critical Incident response and many other Tactical courses. He developed a series of exercises designed to develop and affirm the response mechanism to a terrorist attack across multiple locations for not only police, but government and other related agencies. This resulted in policy change and the adoption of Gold/Silver/Bronze as the method of Crisis Management.

Mr. Maynard was also one of the main architects of the RCMPs response to “Resource based, Culturally sensitive Protests” Given this experience he is well placed with ARC Protection Corp to assist with a partner response hand in hand with Law Enforcement and  contracted parties in relation to lawful and unlawful protest activities as it relates to major projects or resource based infrastructure.​ Doug Maynard is also President and COO of Lions Gate Risk Management Group

Owen Court

COO of Scarlet Security Group

Owen Court

Owen has 25 years of experience in public safety and security. He started his career with the BC Corrections Branch, later joined the RCMP, and ultimately held senior positions in death investigation and police oversight in the BC Ministry of Justice before leaving government in 2015. Prior to joining Scarlet, Owen led the Pacific Region for a large, multi-national security provider. Owen holds a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University and completed an executive program for senior government leaders at Harvard University.

Joel Pouliot

Director of Operations

Joel Pouliot

Joel has been working in the private security industry since early 2004. He acquired his knowledge and experience while working internationally for large security organizations as well as owning and operating a security company. Joel’s overseas security experience included contract missions and embassy contracts, where he was the administrative specialist working under tremendous pressure to meet a variety of required and emergency deadlines. Locally, Joel’s security experience has included the commercial, retail, residential. and entertainment sectors.

Joel’s responsibilities within ARC include overseeing security staffing requirements and logistical support for clients and ongoing operations.

Cathy Pederson

Operations Manager

Cathy Pederson

Cathy worked as a legal assistant for 18 years before moving into the security industry in 2013.  The career change was the result of her passion for working personal protection dogs and wanting to get more hands on experience.  In 2015 Cathy was hired by ARC as a K9 handler and she quickly demonstrated she was capable of taking on more responsibility.  In 2016 Cathy was promoted to supervisor and was responsible for training and monitoring staff and liaising clients on site.  In 2017 Cathy was given more responsibility and took on the scheduling of the K9 units.  Within a relatively short period of time Cathy took over the scheduling for all of British Columbia and Alberta.  In 2021 Cathy was promoted to operations manager where she is now more involved in the day to day running of the staff and sites.

Dino Visaya

Alberta Operations Manager

Dino Visaya

Dino’s security industry qualifications include a military background (Canadian Army), four years as a Peace Officer (Edmonton), investigations, security consulting, security project management, static guard patrols, access control, mobile patrols, labour dispute and special event security management.

Currently, Dino oversees ARC Protection Corp’s Guard Operations in Alberta within such diverse facilities as rail yards, bus stations, property management companies, and social assistance institutions, plus commercial, industrial and residential locations and critical infrastructure. Dino is actively in the field maintaining Quality Assurance.