Elevating the Voices
Driving Security Forward
Executive Checkpoint brings together the executives, operators, and innovators navigating the convergence of physical security, cybersecurity, and AI. Practical insight for leaders protecting people and organizations at scale.
For leaders who want more than surface-level security talk.
Executive Checkpoint is for the leaders, game changers, and innovators building what security becomes next, and who want to hear from others moving with the same energy and drive. Every episode goes past the talking points to the real calls: what worked, what didn't, and what they'd do differently. Guests come from physical security, cybersecurity, the military, government, and business, across the United States and Latin America.
Recent Conversations
Honest dialogue with the executives and operators shaping how the security industry leads, adapts, and grows.
The Security Professional We Haven't Trained Yet
George Simonds
Cybersecurity Expert
In this episode of Executive Checkpoint, host Tino Urbina is joined by cybersecurity expert George Simonds. They explore the connection between cyber and physical security, and the skills tomorrow's security professionals will need to protect critical infrastructure.
After the Finish Line: The Passion to Keep Building
Eric Mager
Founder & CEO, Avant-Garde Turnstiles
What drives a serial entrepreneur to keep building after they've already found success? In this episode of Executive Checkpoint, host Tino Urbina sits down with Eric Mager for a candid conversation about ambition, reinvention, leadership and the drive that keeps entrepreneurs moving forward. They talk about building businesses, navigating major transitions, taking risks, and what happens when reaching one finish line creates the next starting point.
Mission: From Fields to the Stars
Dr. José Hernández
Former NASA Astronaut, Author & Entrepreneur
In this episode of Executive Checkpoint, Dr. José Hernández shares his journey from migrant farmworker to NASA astronaut, author and entrepreneur. Host Tino Urbina and José discuss purpose, discipline, resilience and the roadmap that took him from the fields to space. A powerful conversation about leadership, family, perseverance and refusing to let circumstances define your future.
The industry is transforming.
The conversations must too.
Two Worlds, One Strategy
Physical security and cybersecurity are no longer separate disciplines. The leaders running both sides are writing the playbook for what comes next.
AI Demands Informed Leadership
AI is changing how threats are detected, assessed, and answered. Security executives don't need to build it, but they do need to understand it well enough to govern it.
Resilience Is the New Standard
The organizations that last are built to absorb disruption, learn from incidents, and keep moving. That starts with the people leading them.
Tino Urbina
Tino Urbina doesn't do surface-level. For more than 20 years he has built high-performing teams and grown business for global security companies across the United States and Latin America. Named one of the Life Safety Alliance's Top 40 Global Thought Leaders in Security & Safety (2025) and Global Ambassador for the Global Council for Responsible AI, he takes the stage in English and Spanish across the Americas. On Executive Checkpoint, his mission is simple: get past the talking points and into how leaders really decide, lead, and win.
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