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Michael has spent more than 25 years in developing readiness programs. He has extensive consulting in experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management and emergency response for many of North America’s largest organizations. He is President of Readysmith Advisers, experts in preparing organizations to deal with adversity - emergencies, crises, disasters.  Michael has built consulting practices for IBM, Ernst & Young and Marsh Risk Consulting, all specializing in readiness. Michael is a noted speaker and writer. He has written two chapters on business continuity planning for the NFPA 1600 Implementation Handbook.

 

Debra is a senior business continuity and risk management consultant.  She has over 20 years experience in the areas of business continuity planning, information technology audit and consulting, and operational risk management assessment.  Debra has experience in banking, insurance,re-insurance, manufacturing, and government sectors.  Her project work includes business continuity assessments and audits, business impact analyses, recovery resource requirements analyses, recovery strategy development, recovery plan development, crisis management, emergency response, recovery vendor analyses, recovery testing and training.  Debra was formerly Vice President and Senior Consultant with Marsh Risk Consulting.  Prior to Marsh, Debra was a Senior Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Debra is a Certified Business Continuity Planner, Certified Internal Auditor, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor. Her professional membership organizations include: Disaster Recovery Institute International, Northeast Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (NEDRIX), Association of Contingency Planners, Institute of Internal Auditors,and the Information Systems Audit & Control Association