Jon Holloway

Jon Holloway currently works in senior security management in a Fortune 300 company. He served over 20 years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Holloway was a police officer in Virginia from 1992 to 1999, where he was a patrolman, detective, sergeant, and shift commander, and was involved in multiple high risk and tactical situations. In 1999, he left to join the FBI, and was assigned as a new FBI Agent to El Paso, Texas, where he was a member of the El Paso FBI SWAT Team and worked against the Juarez Drug Cartel, running undercover money laundering and drug investigations and other operations for several years. He was transferred and promoted to Supervisory Special Agent (SSA), worked cybercrime, and travelled to eastern Europe to set up joint initiatives with foreign law enforcement. Holloway was later promoted to lead a gang task force in Youngstown, Ohio, where he led investigators in Youngstown through multiple complex investigations and barricaded subject situations, culminating in the complete dismantlement of seven street gangs. Holloway was then chosen as Unit Chief of Behavioral Analysis Unit Four (BAU-4), the FBI’s serial murder and profiling unit upon which the “Criminal Minds” television show was based. He assisted federal, state, and local investigators in serial murder, cold case homicide, serial sexual assault and other high profile investigative matters, while training international, federal, state, and local agencies. Later, Holloway was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the Springfield Field Office, where he was responsible for leading FBI criminal investigations in the 84 counties of Illinois served by Springfield, while also being in charge of all crisis response, SWAT, and firearms and tactical training. A long-term martial artist, Holloway started training in Japanese martial arts when he was eight years old, has extensively studied Filipino and Indonesian martial arts, and has trained and taught various arts and fighting systems for several decades. He became a member of the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, a Japanese martial arts society headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, and holds instructor ranks in Aiki-Jiujutsu through this organization. He was awarded the rank of Tuhon (master level instructor) in the rarely seen or taught Filipino martial art of Albo Kali Silat, and was designated the successor and head of system of this art by Hasting Albo, prior to Albo’s death. Holloway has instructed in multiple police academies, martial arts schools, and seminars. He has taught officer survival tactics, firearms, homicide and serial murder investigation, active shooter prevention and response, knife combat and defense, unarmed combat, and other topics. He was an FBI Certified Instructor, FBI Adjunct Faculty Member, FBI Certified SWAT Operator, a Virginia Certified Police Instructor, and a Virginia Certified Police Firearms Instructor. He has written magazine articles for American Cop, Black Belt Magazine, and the Russian knife magazine, Prorez. Over the course of his law enforcement career, he has defended against real attacks from multiple individuals armed with various weapons, been on-scene during multiple shooting and death investigations, and has used these real-world experiences and his study of criminal violence to inform and develop his training, allowing him to pass on lessons learned to students from all walks of life.