About Speaker

Brent Hickmon is the owner of Haven Defense Co. a custom holster manufacturing company he formed in early 2016 when he realized the need for access to better holsters and range gear after attending training with Defenders USA’s Adam Winch in 2015. Since then he has trained extensively under various Defenders USA instructors. Over the years since, Brent highly honed his skills in both handgun and rifle so much that in 2020, Adam asked him to start assisting in numerous classes, where he gained a lot of experience apprenticing as an assisting instructor and range safety officer.

Training & Certifications:

3 Day “Defenders Series”, Concealed Handgun Permit Course, Fighting Rifle 1 & 2, Combined Rifle/Pistol, Handgun Fundamentals, Handgun Speed & Accuracy, Advanced Fighting Handgun 1 & 2, Long Range Precision Rifle 1, Handgun Building Clearing, Church Security, Low Light Firearms Training, Urgent Trauma & Tactical Medical Care. Each have been attended multiple times.

Active Self Protection National Conference classes under John Correia (ASP), Brian Hill (The Complete Combatant), Neil Weidner (ASP), and AJ Zito (Practical Performance)

Certified NRA Basic Pistol Instructor with Dynamic Combative Solutions’s Dave Laird

Certified Instructor and Advanced Instructor, with Rangemaster’s legendary Tom Givens, where Brent won the coveted “Top Shot" award in the Instructor Development Certification program.   

Certified Handgun Instructor through The Complete Combatant's "Deliberate Coaching" with Brian Hill

Brent is the proud father of two young boys and has a magnificent wife, Marissa. They both run Haven Defense Co. full time, all while he enjoys camping, archery hunting, movies, reading, and oil painting.