KAMRAN LOGHMAN
Co-Founder

Kamran Loghman (Cameron Logman) is an adjunct lecturer for leadership at the US Naval Academy Annapolis with specific focus on Leadership and the Warrior Traditions. He  is the former President and CEO of ZARC, a global civilian and law enforcement-related company, as well as the Executive Director of NIFAR, a national addiction recovery organization. In 1994 Kamran was formally recognized by the US Army for his decisive management in support of the Haiti mission, and in 2010 he received a commendation letter from President Clinton for his leadership in the prevention and treatment of substance abuse.

Kamran is the co-inventor of the pepper spray technology for law enforcement and military application and holds various patents. He developed the Chemical Agent Use of Force training manual for law enforcement, while training and certifying more than 4,000 law enforcement officers. In accomplishing this, Kamran drew from his extensive study of the Warrior Arts. Some of these tactics are still being used by the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the FBI Academy.

After graduating from the École Internationale in Switzerland, Kamran went on to obtain a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of San Francisco and an M.A. in Eastern Philosophy from The Catholic University of America. An accomplished teacher, inspirational speaker and author, Kamran taught Eastern Philosophy in the 1980s at the Catholic University of America, and since the 1970’s he has undergone extensive training under the guidance of a number of internationally acclaimed meditation masters.

For the past forty years, Kamran has been a practitioner of Japanese classical martial arts (Koryu). He has studied Okinawan Karate as well as various Japanese martial arts traditions including Kenjutsu (sword art), Bojutsu (staff art) and Senjutsu (tactics). As an acknowledged expert in the warrior arts, Kamran skillfully draws from the wisdom and strategy culled from several closely held traditional Samurai schools, including Nito Ichi-ryu and Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu, among others.

As a martial arts historian, Kamran extensively researched the origin of these arts and traveled frequently throughout Asia documenting various artifacts as well as interviewing unheralded but highly advanced martial arts masters. Some of these adepts had never before been interviewed. During his three decades of research, Kamran worked closely with Dr. Gayatri Nath Pant, curator of India’s National Museum, who is the world foremost expert on Indian arms and armor. Kamran researched and studied the Indian warrior arts of Vajramushtee, as well as the closely guarded practice of Varma Ati with various leading experts. Because of this work, Kamran is widely acknowledged as the leading researcher on the migration of the martial arts from India to China.