Clarity begins with experience
Leadership
Kingfisher is a principal-led intelligence and risk advisory practice. Our work is defined by the experience, judgment, and analytical discipline of the people who lead it. We maintain a small leadership team by design, ensuring that every engagement benefits from direct senior involvement and the discretion required for sensitive, high-consequence matters.
We bring complementary backgrounds across military, national-security, and private-sector intelligence work. That breadth allows us to approach each engagement with a calm understanding of risk, behavior, and context, and to deliver insight that is proportionate, independent, and actionable.
Our Leadership
Bryce Ernst
Founder & Principal | Intelligence, Risk, and Investigative Advisory
Bryce is an intelligence and risk advisor with experience across specialized military aviation, federal counterintelligence, and private-sector intelligence work. His background includes cross-border investigations, exposure and behavioral analysis, and geopolitical risk advisory for clients navigating sensitive or complex situations.
He has supported matters involving foreign intelligence activity, illicit finance, procurement networks, and organizational risk, working closely with legal counsel, corporate leadership, and high-visibility individuals. His approach blends investigative discipline, intelligence methodology, and protective-strategy principles to deliver clarity where discretion and accuracy are essential.
Bryce leads Kingfisher as a principal-involved practice, ensuring that each engagement reflects the rigor, independence, and quiet judgment that define the firm’s work.
You may contact Bryce directly at | bryce@kfintel.com → |
Nicholas von Voigt
Principal Analyst | Intelligence & Global Risk
Nic is an intelligence and global risk analyst with more than a decade of experience supporting defense, intelligence, and interagency communities on matters requiring strategic insight and multi-source analysis. His work focuses on geopolitical risk, foreign intelligence service activity, cyber-enabled threats, and OSINT investigations, distilling complex environments into clear, actionable assessments.
He has contributed to strategic-level intelligence for senior government leaders, as well as counterintelligence, protective-security, and organizational-risk initiatives across national-security enterprises. His methodological depth includes structured analytic techniques, threat modeling, and advanced open-source collection.
Nic strengthens Kingfisher’s intelligence, geopolitical, and investigative advisory capabilities across U.S. and international jurisdictions.