A.J. Benefield is a Senior Associate and Investigative Operations Advisor with Toddington International Inc, bringing more than 25 years of policing experience across operational leadership, complex investigations, organized crime, critical-incident response, and major case management.
During a distinguished career with the Vancouver Police Department, A.J. served in senior operational and supervisory roles, including Inspector, Duty Officer, Staff Sergeant, and Sergeant. These appointments involved leading multidisciplinary teams, coordinating specialized responses to high-risk incidents, advising executive leadership, managing operational resources, and strengthening communication between investigative and frontline divisions.
A.J. is a primary instructor for TII’s Critical Thinking courses. Her background in psychology, investigative interviewing, evidence assessment, risk evaluation, and operational decision-making enables her to connect critical-thinking principles with realistic professional challenges. Drawing on decades of frontline and leadership experience, she helps participants recognize assumptions and cognitive bias, evaluate information more rigorously, consider alternative explanations, and make sound decisions in complex, high-pressure environments.
Her investigative experience encompasses robbery, kidnapping, assault, arson, organized crime, undercover operations, surveillance, forensic interviewing, and search-warrant preparation. From 2011 to 2016, A.J. served with British Columbia’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit as a senior investigator on complex organized-crime investigations.
Internationally, A.J. served as Team Leader and Lead Investigator with the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia. In this role, she led field teams investigating alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, conducted more than 150 witness and victim interviews, and directed evidence-gathering missions in challenging operational environments.
A.J. also brings significant experience in mental-health policing and inter-agency collaboration, having supervised specialized programs delivered in partnership with health-care, housing, and community organizations. This combination of instructional ability, investigative expertise, operational leadership, and international field experience supports TII’s education, advisory, and investigative capabilities.
A.J. holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Simon Fraser University and speaks fluent Spanish and conversational French.
Matt Sutherland is an OSINT Consultant and Instructor with Toddington International Inc, specializing in multilingual intelligence collection, foreign-language research, corporate transparency, and advanced investigative methodologies. He contributes to the delivery and continued development of TII’s training and advisory services, helping clients uncover critical information across languages, jurisdictions, and complex corporate environments.
Matt has extensive experience conducting sophisticated open-source investigations for government, academic, humanitarian, and international organizations. His work spans research security, enhanced due diligence, sanctions compliance, foreign interference, and geopolitical risk. He has examined beneficial ownership structures, state-linked entities, international supply chains, shell companies, front organizations, and transnational influence networks using publicly available information from sources around the world.
His experience in research security and institutional due diligence has helped organizations assess international partnerships, identify foreign-interference risks, and navigate sanctions-related exposure. Matt has also contributed to significant investigations involving the Wagner Group, Russian supply chains, and other geopolitical issues, producing research used by humanitarian organizations, allied governments, and international partners.
Matt conducts investigations using sources in Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, French, and Hindi. This multilingual capability enables him to identify and interpret information that is frequently inaccessible through English-language research alone, providing clients with deeper insight into individuals, organizations, and networks operating across international boundaries.
At TII, Matt works with clients in law enforcement, government, intelligence, and the private sector to strengthen their ability to discover, verify, and interpret complex information. His expertise expands TII’s international investigative reach and supports the company’s capacity to deliver scalable, high-value intelligence, training, and risk-advisory services. As global threats increasingly exploit opaque ownership structures and fragmented information environments, Matt helps organizations reveal hidden relationships, assess exposure, and make better-informed decisions.
Lyne Moussa is a Strategic Human Capital Advisor to Toddington International Inc., providing executive-level guidance in human resources, organizational development, leadership, and workforce strategy. She supports TII’s continued growth through practical, business-focused insight into organizational effectiveness, talent development, employee engagement, and leadership capability.
As organizations increasingly integrate artificial intelligence into intelligence and investigative environments, Lyne contributes to TII’s research and course development by exploring the human capabilities required for responsible AI adoption. Her work focuses on critical thinking, informed decision-making, ethical judgment, workforce readiness, and the evolving role of human responsibility in AI-enabled environments.
Lyne’s perspective is grounded in the belief that AI’s value is maximized when people understand both its potential and its limitations. Effective AI use requires more than technical skill; it requires the ability to question outputs, recognize bias, evaluate risk, challenge assumptions, and apply sound judgment.
A Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR), Lyne brings more than two decades of experience advising organizations on leadership development, organizational change, workplace wellbeing, and human resources strategy. She bridges the intersection of human performance and emerging technologies, reinforcing the importance of thoughtful leadership and responsible decision-making in an increasingly AI-enabled world.
Steve Hess is a Senior Associate and Strategic Security Advisor with Toddington International Inc, bringing more than three decades of experience in policing, security leadership, crisis management, and corporate security. His extensive operational and executive background provides valuable strategic insight to TII’s intelligence education, research, advisory, and risk management initiatives.
Steve has held senior leadership positions in Canadian policing, government, and multinational corporate security organizations throughout North America and the Middle East. His experience spans security governance, crisis management, regulatory compliance, critical infrastructure protection, and chemical security, giving him a broad perspective on the complex challenges facing governments and private-sector organizations operating in today’s global risk environment.
Working closely with Toddington International’s leadership team, Steve contributes to the development and delivery of executive education programs, strategic advisory services, and specialized intelligence initiatives. His practical judgment, operational experience, and collaborative approach help ensure that TII’s methodologies remain relevant, pragmatic, and aligned with the needs of senior decision-makers.
In addition to his work with Toddington International, Steve serves as an Affiliated Expert with CRDF Global and is the principal of a consultancy specializing in chemical security for government and industry. He has authored and contributed to numerous research projects involving policing, private security, and regulated security training, and previously served as President of the International Association of Security and Investigative Regulators.
Steve holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Education from the University of British Columbia, together with advanced studies at the Canadian Police College and the University of St Andrews in Terrorism Studies. His professional interests include security leadership, crisis management, intelligence-informed risk management, critical infrastructure protection, and the responsible integration of emerging technologies into organizational resilience and security strategy.
Poh Hiang Tan is a Senior Associate and Financial Intelligence Advisor with Toddington International Inc, bringing more than two decades of senior regulatory and financial enforcement experience from Hong Kong’s securities sector. Her extensive background in financial regulation, market oversight, and enforcement provides Toddington International with valuable international expertise in financial intelligence, regulatory compliance, and investigative best practices.
Throughout her career, Poh played a significant role in the development, implementation, and enforcement of regulatory policies governing Hong Kong’s financial markets. Her experience includes regulatory investigations, securities compliance, enforcement strategy, and organizational policy development, providing practical insight into complex financial crime and regulatory environments.
Poh supports Toddington International on a consulting basis, contributing her specialist expertise to selected client engagements, advisory projects, and educational initiatives involving financial crime, regulatory intelligence, and governance. Her international perspective strengthens TII’s ability to assemble multidisciplinary teams capable of addressing complex intelligence and compliance challenges across multiple jurisdictions.
Her professional interests include financial intelligence, regulatory compliance, securities enforcement, financial crime, investigative methodology, governance, and the evolving role of artificial intelligence in supporting intelligence analysis and regulatory decision-making.
As part of Toddington International’s international network of senior associates and subject matter experts, Poh provides specialized expertise that expands the company’s capabilities in financial intelligence and regulatory advisory services while supporting clients operating in increasingly complex global financial environments.
Vincent Cook is Chief Technology Officer of Toddington International Inc, where he provides strategic leadership in artificial intelligence, cyber intelligence, emerging technologies, and technology-enabled product development. Working with TII’s executive and instructional teams, he helps translate evolving technologies and threat environments into practical intelligence capabilities, scalable learning products, and operational solutions for government, defence, law enforcement, financial services, and other regulated sectors.
Vincent has served with TII in technology, cyber intelligence, and instructional roles since 2021. His work encompasses advanced Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), cyber threat intelligence, dark web research, operational security, breached-data intelligence, social media intelligence, anti-money laundering, and analytical technologies. He has also developed and delivered specialized training for government, military, law-enforcement, intelligence, private-sector, and non-governmental organizations.
In his role as CTO, Vincent contributes to the continued development of TII’s intellectual property, digital training portfolio, technology infrastructure, and AI-enabled intelligence methodologies. He assists in evaluating new technologies, strengthening the integration of technical and analytical disciplines, and ensuring that TII’s solutions remain operationally relevant, secure, and adaptable to changing client requirements.
Vincent is also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cyb3r Operations, a UK-based cyber-intelligence technology company providing continuous threat detection, monitoring, and response capabilities. Its work addresses risks including compromised credentials, indicators of compromise, identity theft, social-media threats, corporate intelligence, and deep- and dark-web exposure. Under Vincent’s leadership, the company uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, external data integrations, established threat-intelligence frameworks, and analyst-led methods to improve the speed and accuracy with which potential threats are identified.
Vincent began developing technology ventures at an early age and has since worked across the commercial and public sectors on intelligence-led investigations, cybersecurity, digital risk, and emerging technology. His combined experience as a technology executive, intelligence practitioner, product developer, and instructor allows him to connect technical innovation with the realities of intelligence operations and professional decision-making.
Through his leadership at TII, Vincent supports the company’s long-term ability to develop, maintain, and scale technology-enabled intelligence and training capabilities. His work strengthens TII’s institutional depth, supports collaboration across its international team, and helps ensure that the company’s technical expertise and intellectual property extend beyond any one individual or business area.