Rory Steyn has a long and accomplished history in the South African Police Service and 30 years' experience in the realm of security and protection. While in the service of the government he specialised as an investigator, intelligence field-worker and as section head of the VIP Protection and Bomb Disposal Units in an 18-year career.

Upon being transferred to the Presidential Protection Unit in 1996, Rory was appointed team leader of President Mandela's personal protection team, which entailed the protection of the President both nationally and internationally. He retired from the SAPS in July 1999 with the rank of Superintendent.

Rory served on the Security Directorate of the ICC Cricket World Cups in 2003 (South Africa) and 2007 (West Indies) and chaired the Security Directorate for the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 tournament (2007) and the ICC Champions Trophy (2009) held in South Africa. Rory has consulted to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Bid and worked at both the Athens and Beijing Summer Olympic Games and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Rory was contracted by a number of FIFA's commercial partners during the successful and largely incident-free FIFA World Cup hosted by South Africa in 2010.

Rory has completed eleven Comrades marathons holding Green Number 42743 and has run the New York and London marathons for charity.