Toby Braun is a nationally recognized private investigator, intelligence professional and security expert retained for complex, high-profile, and legally sensitive matters where discretion, investigative rigor, and strategic judgment are essential. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of American Special Investigative Group (ASIG), a veteran-owned private intelligence and professional investigations firm. Braun leads investigations for attorneys, corporate leadership, family offices, government entities, and private clients facing matters involving significant legal exposure, reputational risk, or multi-jurisdictional complexity. His work is frequently engaged in support of litigation, internal matters, and sensitive investigations where conventional investigative approaches are insufficient. Braun has led complex investigations involving criminal matters, litigation and pre-litigation support, corporate and internal investigations, asset tracing, blackmail and extortion resolution, insider-threat investigations, undercover operations, and sensitive surveillance. His work also includes intelligence-led investigative operations supporting legal proceedings, corporate risk matters, and private-client engagements requiring discretion, analytical rigor, and sound judgment. He additionally directs executive protection and high-risk security engagements. Alongside his private-sector work, Braun has developed extensive operational experience leading high-risk security details and participating in fugitive investigations and apprehension efforts, including operations conducted domestically and internationally. His background reflects environments where legal authority, operational discipline, and risk management must align under real-world pressure. Braun is a trained law-enforcement professional and certified law-enforcement instructor, with experience advising personnel on investigative methods, threat assessment, and operational decision-making. His approach emphasizes legal defensibility, ethical execution, and operational effectiveness. Motivated by a commitment to confront failures in justice, Braun has spent more than a decade conducting pro bono investigations into human-trafficking networks and assisting in the recovery of exploited and abducted American children. He serves as a commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard Reserve, specializing in maritime law-enforcement management. This role reinforces his experience operating within regulated environments, coordinating with government stakeholders, and exercising judgment where accountability is paramount. Braun is a frequent expert commentator across national media outlets, including Fox News, LiveNOW from FOX, CNBC, The NY Post and other national platforms, providing analysis on criminal investigations, security matters, and high-profile cases grounded in operational experience. He holds a master’s degree in national security studies and is a Board-Certified Investigator and Certified International Investigator, with experience supporting matters that cross borders, jurisdictions, and industries. He speaks German and French and regularly works on cases with international dimensions.