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Our Mission

We help organizations grow, evolve, and operate with confidence by making security accessible, practical, and aligned with business performance.

Who We Are

Holtium is making high-impact security accessible to organizations facing growth, change, or complexity.

We provide enterprise-grade thinking, flexible delivery, and actionable insight to help businesses navigate risk with confidence and align security with business performance.

Our team has decades of experience across corporate security, insurance, enterprise risk, aerospace engineering, and data science. With cross-functional expertise, we help organizations align security with business growth, resilience, and measurable value.

At the core of our work is a proprietary methodology that blends niche industry expertise, scientific rigor, financial logic, and strategic foresight. We apply systems-level thinking and data-driven models to help organizations anticipate, adapt, and secure—turning security into a catalyst for better decisions in a fast-moving, volatile world.

Holtium is purpose-built based on our belief that securing your business requires both a boardroom mindset and real-world execution.

Our Values

Trust Through Integrity

Security is built on trust. We operate with transparency, honesty, and discretion.

Customer Obsession

We strive to deeply understand your business, adapt to risk, and secure long-term performance.

Specialization

We don’t generalize. We deliver focused expertise that fits your context, not just best practices.

High Standards of Excellence

We hold ourselves to uncompromising standards.

Our Leadership

 
Andres Paz Larach

Andres Paz Larach

Founder & CEO

Andres Paz Larach is the Founder and CEO of Holtium, a security and risk analytics company helping organizations align security with business priorities and expand enterprise-grade solutions into the middle market.

Before founding Holtium, Andres served as Executive Vice President at Pinkerton, where he led operations across North America, Latin America, and Europe. There, he drove market turnarounds, scaled business units, launched AI-powered products, and built high-performing teams, including professionals from military, law enforcement, and intelligence backgrounds.

Earlier in his career, he advised Fortune 500 clients on risk during M&A execution at PwC and began his professional journey in the property and casualty insurance sector.

Andres holds an MSc in Enterprise Risk Management from NYU and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

 
Francisco Velazquez

Francisco Velazquez

Founder & COO

Francisco Velazquez is the Founder and COO of Holtium, a security and risk analytics company dedicated to helping organizations align security strategies with business objectives and bringing enterprise-grade solutions to the middle market.

Prior to founding Holtium, Francisco was Senior Vice President at Pinkerton, where he led the Global IT Team and directed Service Delivery Operations across Protection, Investigations, and Consulting practice areas. In these roles, he drove digital transformation by implementing innovative technologies and reimagining operational processes to better align with business goals. Francisco spearheaded the integration of AI into core workflows, collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams of security experts to ensure new capabilities delivered measurable value.

Earlier in his career, Francisco founded a consulting firm in Mexico supporting startups expanding into the US, served as lead analyst in Investor Relations for a public company, and spent five years as a faculty professor and researcher in Mechanics and Wind Energy.

He holds a degree and MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Seville University in Spain, as well as an MBA from IPADE Business School in Mexico.

 
 

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