About SMG America

The Security Management Group of America provides customized safety programs for trade shows, special events, and fixed sites. Designing a program to serve your specific needs and managing every aspect of that program are specialties of this dynamic company. Periodic reviews of safety programs to maximize effectiveness and minimize costs are important elements of SMG America’s service.

Years of experience contribute to this expertise, intuitive management and quality service. The company’s owners collectively possess 80 years of law enforcement experience and 66 years of security contractor experience.

Greg Ramirez, Henry Stanton and Mike Marano, principals of SMG America, each were distinguished members of the Chicago Police Department. Their department assignments ranged from the mayor’s security detail and tactical operations to public housing and public transit. Their service also included vice operations, child abuse investigation, intelligence work and patrol. All three have received certification by the US Secret Service. Even though retired from the police department, owner Greg Ramirez provides Peer Support to the Chicago Police Department voluntarily through the Chicago Police Department’s Employee Assistance Program.

Hands on management is an important element of SMG America’s services. A top executive always heads up your safety team. And members of the team never sit down on the job. You need to have confidence in your safety team and SMG America provides all the elements for you to develop that.

Although The Security Management Group of America focuses on the Chicago area, the company supports clients across the country. Once an organization has used SMG America’s services for trade shows or special events, no other security organization quite measures up.