Get to Know AFIMAC
ABOUT AFIMAC
People Protecting Productivity, Progress, and People.
For more than 40 years, AFIMAC has offered temporary travel labor, labor dispute security, and executive security services to help leading businesses manage serious risks to operational continuity. We pride ourselves on partnering with clients to fill labor gaps and protect people and property vital to normal operations—during times of crisis or regular business operations.
AFIMAC Is Ready When It Matters Most
Threats to security and business continuity continue to evolve, often in unpredictable ways. AFIMAC helps our clients manage risks that slam progress to a halt. Whether it’s protecting high-value personnel, securing a heated labor dispute, or filling a labor gap, AFIMAC helps our clients keep business moving forward.

Our Mission
To be recognized as an elite-level security and temporary labor solutions provider, capable of delivering best-in-class services with the speed and flexibility our clients need to solve critical threats to productivity, people, and property.
Our People
AFIMAC continuously builds and maintains a strategic organization that employs and retains the best people in the industry. Our team is relentlessly committed to meeting customer needs and exceeding expectations.


Our Approach
AFIMAC understands the unpredictable nature of risk. That’s why we continually strive to remain ahead of the curve and evolve our service offerings to directly meet the risk management needs of organizations of all kinds.
executive leadership
Meet Our senior management team
Our team gives business leaders access to unparalleled security expertise with pre-crisis contingency planning, premium security, and emergency response solutions for nearly every industry and scenario.

Joseph Schollaert
President and CEO
Joseph Schollaert
President and CEO

David Brainard
Chief Financial Officer
David Brainard
Chief Financial Officer

Prnuv Sharma
Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Prnuv Sharma
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Ruben E. Mena
LATAM/South America Outside Consultant
Ruben E. mena
LATAM and South America Outside Consultant
Ruben Mena served over 24 years on the Miami Police Department, retiring as the Lieutenant in charge of a major operational special unit. His civic career was highlighted by service as a senior officer and lead training instructor for the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team, Command helicopter pilot in the Aviation Division, and a certified Firearms Instructor. As a special operations supervisor, Ruben gained extensive executive protection experience as a result of his numerous protective operations in conjunction with the U.S. Secret Service in the protection of U.S. Presidents and foreign heads of state.

Agnaldo de Oliveira
VP of Operations, Brazil
Agnaldo de Oliveira
Vice President Operations, Brazil
Agnaldo de Oliveira is a security professional with over 23 years of experience and five thousand international security operations. As the Vice President of Operations for AFIMAC Global in Brazil, Mr. De Oliveira specialized in providing asset protection and loss prevention strategies for corporations with global operations. His responsibilities include providing leadership and strategic management for all client operations.
Mr. de Oliveira is proficient in conducting facility and residential security surveys, as well as detailed vulnerability assessments and developing crisis management plans for high profile events. Agnaldo has an extensive background in executive protection for multi-national clients and high profile individuals. He is also an expert in vehicle armoring and a seasoned Evasive-Defensive Driving Instructor having personally conducted many successful training schools both nationally and internationally, by using hard and soft skills and general knowledge to achieve an excellent standard professional on his team.
Through the years he Implemented the Canine Explosive Detection services (k-9) in the most important Intl airports in Brazil. He is also knowledgeable in explosives like TNT, C-4, Dynamite, Ammonium Nitrate, Water-Gel / Tovex, Semtex (RDX & PETN), Detonation Rope (Wick), Black Gunpowder & Gunpowder, Potassium Chloride and Sodium Chloride.
Beyond that, Agnaldo de Oliveira implemented the services of Surveillance and physical security by aiming to respond residential and commercial condominiums needs for a higher standard of security.
Agnaldo has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Sao Paulo (UNIP) in Security Management and he concluded an MBA in Strategic Management of Services, by the FGV teaching institution. Agnaldo has concluded the course of Management Essentials from Harvard Business School Online which presented state-of-the-art strategies for shaping and influencing managerial processes with a particular focus on decision-making, implementation, learning and change within organizations. As a member of the OSAC Latin America Group and the American Society for Industrial Security, he contributes for the Brazilian and the continent security in general.

Maria Teresa Septien, CPP, DSE
Managing Director, Mexico & LATAM
Maria Teresa Septien, CPP, DSE
Managing Director, Mexico & LATAM
Careers
Join our temporary labor network.
If you want the flexibility temporary work offers over a traditional full-time position, AFIMAC offers assignments at work sites across Canada and the United States. We’re looking for workers with wide skill sets, capable of supporting manufacturing, logistical, warehouse, and general labor operations.