Originally from Haifa, Israel, Danny Zelig is a Santa Clara-based security consultant and personal trainer whose clients include security professionals, executives, and everyday people. Danny is also the Founder and CEO of Tactica and its Krav Maga Institute, and Co-Founder of the non-profit Foundation for Self-Reliance.
Danny has been teaching functional fitness and combatives for over 30 years. He began his lifelong passion with combative sports through competitive boxing as a young teenager growing up in Israel. During his military service, Danny served as Infantry Staff Sergeant (סמל ראשון) for an active combat unit within the elite Golani Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Due to his skill and demonstrated natural ability in combative sports, Danny was nominated to train at the prestigious Wingate Institute where he received his Military Krav Maga Instructor certification in Israel in 1987. He subsequently taught Krav Maga (hand-to-hand combat) to active infantry for the remainder of his service.
Danny’s skill and rank as a top-level instructor of authentic Krav Maga is in high demand world-wide. In addition to training everyday people and creating multiple generations of Krav Maga instructors in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 20 years through his Krav Maga Institute, Danny has a long and varied list of private clients.
He has provided hand-to-hand combat and tactical firearms training to multiple government and private security agencies. He has trained bodyguards for high-profile executives throughout Silicon Valley, as well as the executives themselves; campus security at companies such as Google, Facebook, and Uber; and provided corporate wellness training and lectures at numerous companies, including NASA, PG&E, Bacardi, Twitter, and Pixar. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and in local news media.
Danny is available for lectures, consultation, private training, and corporate wellness programs.