Arthur M Kassel

Arthur M. Kassel serves as Chief of Law Enforcement Services and Assistant to the Director of the California State Department of Mental Health, and Chairman of its Security Committee. Mr. Kassel also serves as Senior Special Advisor to Sheriff Lee Baca of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He is one of the nation's foremost experts on personal and corporate security. He has served as a security advisor to many of the world's top celebrities, political candidates, government officials and international corporations. Mr. Kassel has long been a supporter of community and law enforcement projects. Mr. Kassel was appointed to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Marshals Organization, where he served as its Executive Vice President. He is also the first President of the L.A. Police Protective League's Eagle and Badge Foundation. Mr. Kassel served as Member of Board of Advisor of MMR Information Systems, Inc. (also known as MyMedicalRecords.com, Inc.). He is the author of the How Not to be a Victim book - Fighting Back. Kassel had come west in 1973 to work as an assistant to Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty. He later found work as a bodyguard to Tichi Wilkerson, who had inherited the Hollywood Reporter from her husband in 1962 and quickly rose to become one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. She and Kassel wed in 1983. Gov. Jerry Brown named him to the Narcotic Addict Evaluation Authority and became a frequent guest at the Kassel mansion. Gov. Pete Wilson appointed Kassel to the State Compensation Insurance Fund board in 1994. In 1998 he was named "special assistant" to then-Department of Mental Health Director Stephen W. Mayberg. Kassel left state service in May 2011. He heads the Tichi Wilkerson Kassel Movement Therapy Foundation, a nonprofit Kassel originally founded to raise money for Parkinson's after his wife's diagnosis