With a National Diploma in Police Administration, Rory Steyn has an accomplished history in the South African Police. He specialized as an investigator, intelligence field-worker and as section head of the police VIP Protection and Bomb Disposal Units in Johannesburg.

Upon being transferred to the Pretoria-based Presidential Protection Unit in 1996, Steyn was appointed team leader of President Mandela’s personal protection team, entailing the protection of the president both nationally and internationally.

Steyn retired from the SA Police Service on 17 June 1999 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and set up his own security consultancy with his partner, Bob Nicholls. NSA Global Security Consultants is South Africa’s largest executive protection employer, counting Fortune 500 and blue-chip companies among their clients.

Steyn is a global expert in cricket security. He served on the Security Directorate of the ICC Cricket World Cup hosted by South Africa in 2003 and again in 2007 in the West Indies. He went on to chair the Security Directorates of the inaugural ICC Twenty20 World Cup and the ICC Champions Trophy tournaments hosted by South Africa in 2007 and 2009, respectively.

Steyn consulted as head of security for the three USA venues at the T20 World Cup in June 2024. He has worked on behalf of NSA’s clients at the Athens, Beijing, London, and Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympic Games and the 2010 Vancouver and 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. He also consulted for the successful Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Bid.

NSA Global served as security consultants for the first eight editions of the highly successful Indian Premier League T20 cricket tournament, as well as all three editions of the Indian Super League soccer tournament. NSA is contracted to Cricket South Africa, providing support for all of its tournaments, leagues, and international tours, including the betway SA20 League.

NSA was proud to be contracted by a number of FIFA’s commercial partners during the successful and incident-free FIFA World Cup hosted by South Africa in 2010, and Steyn continued this in Brazil in June and July of 2014.

Steyn is a respected and sought-after conference speaker and is regularly interviewed on South African media regarding private security and policing matters. He has completed twelve Comrades marathons, holds Green Number 42743, and is a Board member. He has run numerous marathons for charity. He fulfilled his dream to complete a marathon on each of the seven continents when he finished the Antarctic Marathon in April 2013. Steyn became an Ironman in Port Elizabeth in April 2013. He founded ‘The African Icons Invitational’ in 2018—a charity cycle ride raising funds in support of the children of police officers slain in the line of duty. This charity continues hosting Rides in support of those families to the present day.

Steyn is married to Gillian, a school headmistress. They have three sons, Kyle, Iain and Craig.