Our team.

CHRIS CEASER

For twenty years Chris has worked for the US Government as an expert in vulnerability assessments and contingency planning. His core areas of focus are terrorist attacks, abductions, targeted theft, human trafficking, active shooters, natural disasters, medical emergencies, and many other things that pose a significant threat to clients. He is uniquely suited to analyze the operating environment to plan for site survey teams, high risk travel and search and rescue considerations. He can execute command, control, and logistics of emergency management centers worldwide.  He spent a lot of time planning for disasters and ways to enable flexible recovery options even in the absence of significant American presence. He also has the capability to train, advise and equip emergency services, federal agents, military, and civilians who may find themselves in harm’s way either domestically or throughout the world. He built foreign partner relationships, gathered intelligence/risk assessments in order to prepare the environment for threats, lost persons or disasters. Developed empowered leadership while directly supervising over 1,000 personnel and 15,000 students in ten separate management level positions.

  Chris has a Associates in Wilderness Survival, Bachelors in Criminal Justice and a graduate degree in Homeland Security. Some of his qualifications include: Wilderness EMT, Dive Professional Medical Instructor, Dive Master, Protective Services Tactics, High Threat Location Risk Management, Emergency Management Command & Control, Survival Instructor, Search and Rescue Specialist, Swift Water Rescue, High/Low Angle Rescue.

GARRETT COOPER

In 2006 Garrett joined the Army as a Forward Observer and was selected by the 1-87 scout/sniper platoon with the 10th Mountain Division. After a nearly 15 month deployment to Iraq he got on his motorcycle and rode south. He rode for 7 months through Central and South America reaching Tierra del Fuego, then went north again into Brazil before flying home. He covered 21,000 miles on this trip and loved every one of them.

After returning to the States he earned his BS in Expeditionary Studies from Plattsburgh State University. Garrett has worked as an expedition medic for a dirt bike tour company in Cambodia, paddled solo in a native wooden boat down the Mekong for 12 days, paddled 600 miles with a partner through Cambodia and Vietnam teaching CPR and the Heimlich maneuver in several villages, built a balsa wood raft on the Amazon and paddled it in a multi-day race, packrafted various tributaries to the Amazon, attended a survival school in Colombia, and paddled places like Wales, Scotland, and several states all over the country. He is a Wilderness EMT, Geo Medic, Wilderness First Aid/Responder instructor, ACA level 2 river kayak instructor, BCU L1 coach, and a BCU 4 star trainee for both canoe and sea kayak.

In addition to being the owner and founder of Feral Human Expeditions, he is an adjunct professor for the Expeditionary Studies department at Plattsburgh State University where he teaches outdoor living skills, paddle sports, and wilderness medicine. Garrett also teaches Wilderness First Aid, Wilderness First Aid Afloat, and Wilderness First Responder classes for SOLO.

DON WIANT

Don is a 26-year Air Force veteran with expertise in law enforcement, security, antiterrorism, threat analysis, and risk mitigation. He has served in the United States, Germany, Iraq, the Philippines, South Korea, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Don has been a formal training instructor and has experience developing and administering graduate-level education programs. He has served as an advisor and liaison with international partners and has experience developing long-term bi-lateral cooperation.

Don holds a BA in Political Science/International Relations from the University of Central Florida and is currently studying Anthropology/Archaeology at the University of South Florida. His academic research focuses on Cultural Property Protection (CPP) and cultural heritage under threat. Don’s archaeological field work includes excavations at the pre-Columbian Weeden Island (8PI1) shell mound site in St. Petersburg, Florida and the medieval Patakfalva (Văleni) “Lost Church'' funerary site in Transylvania, Romania.