Meet The Staff
Shawn Visintin was raised in southwestern Montana and now lives in Missoula with his wife and two boys. He has been a professional educator and protector for over a decade working in Law Enforcement, Private Security, Private Investigations, Executive Protection, and various Martial Arts.
In 2013 he became the youngest National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Master Trainer. He currently teaches personal protection for numerous national training organizations, including the USCCA, Legal Heat, and the NRA. Shawn has experienced violence on numerous occasions both personally and professionally, making him a strong advocate for citizens taking personal responsibility for their own safety head on.
His mission is to end the needless suffering of the victims of violence through better training. His daily objective is simple: deliver the very best self-protection training to prevent crime and save lives.
Shawn Visintin
Director, Defense Programs
Nate Morrison
Director, Special Projects
Nate Morrison is a former USAF Pararescue Team Leader and instructor/ evaluator who also served in US Army Special Operations Command and America’s national intelligence community. He has sixteen deployments under his belt and a wide variety of unique experiences serving with joint and multinational forces.
Nate grew up in dairy farming, logging, and construction in Northern New England before joining the military and later becoming an independent defense contractor. He then shifted to human performance coaching, earning a worldwide reputation for results. Presently he is an electrician and a construction superintendent in the energy sector. He has never stopped working with individuals, units, and departments teaching a variety of skills from tactical medicine to military combatives, weapons and tactics, and more.
He is the CEO of Morrison Strategic, Ltd and the Director of Special Projects at RIKR Protection, LLC. He concentrates his activities in Northern New England and the Rocky Mountain West.
Mike Toth is a private investigator based out of Billings, MT. He serves Montana and surrounding states. Toth specializes in working with civil and criminal attorneys, locating and interviewing witnesses, asset research, background checks, and document retrieval.
Toth uses his 20+ years in law enforcement as a Patrol officer, Detective, and Sheriff to provide his attorney clients the best investigation services available to maximize their case success.
Toth was featured on the show Murdered & Missing in Montana on Oxygen Network.
As a sheriff in Montana, Toth was in charge of a 20 person department on the far West side of Montana. He managed training and oversaw the running of the jail which housed 27 inmates. Toth was previously a patrol officer in Seattle, WA where he later went to work for a neighboring suburb as a detective in the Major Property crime unit.
Mike Toth
Private Investigator, Elite PI
TJ Ruiz
Personal Protection Instructor
My name is TJ Ruiz. I was born and raised in Western Montana. My journey to understanding self-preservation began in high school when I found myself in a bank while it was being robbed. Since then, I obtained my concealed carry permit at 18 and have had a passion for educating, training, and growing the responsible-gun owner community of protectors.
I have two boys, and I also run a successful flooring business. My passion in life is to be the best father, protector, and educator not just to my boys but also to my community. In my free time, I am on the river fly fishing, at the range, or in the gym with my boys. I have 14 years of experience in firearms, concealed carrying, situational awareness, and studying Montana use of force laws.
I was recently certified by Liberty Firearms as a United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) Concealed Carry and Home Defense Fundamentals (CCHDF) Firearms Instructor. I am proud to be the newest representative of RIKR Protection and aid in the delivery of their mission: to save lives through better training.
