Interview with:
Anthony Escamilla
Chief Financial Officer, Protos Security
Anthony Escamilla has more than 35 years of experience leading finance and operational functions across multiple industries and working with private equity-backed companies through growth, acquisition and transformation.
How A Security CFO Builds Financial Readiness For Scale
Anthony Escamilla explains why disciplined forecasting, strong service-level economics and investing in talent are essential to long-term value creation.
As CFO of Protos Security, Anthony oversees the financial infrastructure behind one of the nation’s largest security services networks.
That responsibility extends far beyond traditional accounting and reporting, encompassing provider performance, operational controls, technology investments. Rather than directly employing all of its guards, Protos Security manages and coordinates thousands of local owner-operator security vendors, adding labor volatility in a highly distributed workforce into the mix.
In conversation with CFO Leadership, Escamilla shares how he thinks about hidden cost drivers, the metrics that matter most in a third-party provider network and what financial readiness looks like as Protos continues to expand under private equity ownership.
