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Patrick
Alesi
In the interim, Patrick worked at the New York Mercantile Exchange as its Director of Systems, Operations, and Database Administration. He has a broad range of technology experience in systems analysis, and voice and data communications. Mr. Alesi is a member of both the Securities Industry Association and Futures Industry Association Business Continuity Planning Committees. Mike
Denapoli
John P.
DiNuzzo
Previously, John had served in senior Continuity positions at Bank of America, the second largest financial institution in the United States, and enjoyed a long tenure as a senior manager at the New York State Emergency Management Office. Programs that he developed and managed have received awards from a number of national and regional organizations, including the Technology Managers' Forum, the National Hurricane Conference, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Citizens' Budget Commission, and the New York State Governor's Office of Employee Relations. John is the current Chair of the Contingency Planning Exchange, Inc., a professional association devoted to advancing the practice of business continuity and crisis management through its sponsorship of forums and other educational events. Founded in 1985, the CPE hosts regular programs in Manhattan, Washington, DC and Long Island. John is a graduate of Siena College (B.A., Political Science) and Russell Sage College (M.S., Public Administration).
Peter D.
Hofmann
Michael Lesk
From 1998-2002 Dr. Lesk was head of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. Currently he is on the faculty of the Library and Information Science Department, SCILS (School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies) at Rutgers University. Dr. Lesk received the "Flame'' award for lifetime achievement from Usenix in 1994, is a Fellow of the ACM, and in 2005 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
John Linse
Thomas E.
Martin
Prior to Eagle Rock, Mr. Martin held senior executive jobs at both Entex Information Services and Chubb Computer Services where he was responsible for strategic planning and product innovation. These ventures, combined with P&L responsibility, led to profitable growth for the responsible business units. One of Mr. Martin’s more notable achievements was the introduction of new consulting services for Entex which resulted in 65% revenue growth. For Chubb, Mr. Martin also introduced new products and services in support of both IT staffing and education. Before Entex and Chubb, Mr. Martin served 12 years at Comdisco Availability Services (now Sungard Availability Services), a large IT and financial services firm. While at Comdisco, Mr. Martin held various executive IT positions, including several years as CIO. In addition to pioneering products and creating technology solutions for the Disaster Recovery industry, Mr. Martin also provided customers with useful insight into the technology and economic tradeoffs associated with new IBM mainframe product releases in support of the leasing business. Mr. Martin’s impeccable reputation reflected his strong leadership and innovative spirit in this new burgeoning market and made him a much-respected and sought-after speaker at conferences. Mr. Martin’s early career of computer programming, systems design consulting and data center management provided a very strong foundation upon which he built his career focusing in IT services. With positions in senior management and consulting at American Management Systems for 11 years, Mr. Martin gained invaluable in-depth experience with large IT projects and infrastructure support. At Eagle Rock Alliance Mr. Martin combines his practical business knowledge, IT skills, strategic management experience, product innovation and financial savvy to lead projects for corporations looking to enhance the value of their resiliency investments and position their enterprise with more robust business continuity architecture.
Oscar
Menendez
In that capacity he provides subject matter expertise on the framework of Deutsche Bank’s Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning program, which includes the elements of BCM Documentation (BIA, BRP, Call Tree, Walkthroughs and Testing), advises on the development of preventative countermeasures and recovery strategies, and conducts Disaster Recovery Tests in multiple locations. Previously, Mr. Menendez managed the business continuity plan for Deutsche Bank’s funds transfer group for four years. Oscar is a current member of Continuity Planning Exchange (CPE) and the New Jersey Enterprise Resiliency Roundtable.
Peter Murray
Prior to joining Jefferies, Peter worked at Morgan Stanley for eight and a half years in several roles associated with IT Regulatory Risk Mgmt, Basel II, Sarbanes Oxley, BCP and Y2K. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Peter worked at Salomon Brothers for over 17 years, in several management roles within Finance, Operations, Technology and Business Continuity Planning. Lisa
Sciarrino
Prior to being named Managing Director, Lisa served as an Accounting Services Controller for HVB. In that role, she supervised the accounting and reporting functions. Lisa also managed the company’s Year 2000 project office and developed a compliance plan to ensure the Bank’s preparedness for the century date change. Lisa is a Certified Public Accountant and holds memberships with the American Institute of CPAs and the New York State Society of CPAs. She is also a member or the Contingency Planning Exchange. Lisa earned a Masters of Business Administration from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the State University of New York at Albany.
Frederick M. Spina
Matt Statler
Before joining InterCEP, Matt served as Director of Research at the Imagination Lab, a nonprofit Swiss foundation. In that role, he designed and facilitated strategy processes for major corporate, non-governmental, and educational organizations, while guiding a multidisciplinary research team that produced dozens of academic publications. Previously Matt had worked in A.T. Kearney’s Nonprofit Practice, and as Managing Director at Weberize, an internet consulting firm. Matt’s educational background includes BA’s in Philosophy and Spanish Literature from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He spent one year at the University of Heidelberg as a Fulbright Scholar, and then obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. Written with the support of the Mellon Foundation, his dissertation examined the role of repetition in education and focused specifically on the philosopher's allegorical return to the cave. His organizational research has appeared in a number of academic journals, and his most recent book publication is Everyday Strategic Preparedness: The Role of Practical Wisdom in Organizations (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007).
Jan Sysmans
Mr. Sysmans holds a MBA and a BS in international relations.
Alexander C. Tabb
As a Foreign Service Officer, Alex served as both an Economics and Commercial officer in Eastern and Southern Africa. During his first assignment in Lusaka Zambia, Alex served as the Commercial Officer and assisted numerous firms interested in investing in Zambia. He dealt closely with the Zambian Ministry of Trade, and the Zambian government as a whole, where he routinely assisted foreign investors in dealing with the oftentimes-confusing local government bureaucracy. Following his tour in Lusaka, Alex volunteered to serve in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania where he was assigned as the Senior Economics & Commercial Officer. While in Tanzania, Alex gained first hand experience in dealing with complicated trade issues involving multilateral organizations, multinational corporations and the developing world. Alex assisted both the Tanzania Government and the U.S. Government on gaining a better understanding of the institutional obstacles involved with rationalizing, overhauling and improving the services available within the Tanzanian port system. Throughout his foreign service career, Alex was involved with numerous crises and international organizations, these include the sub Saharan draught of 1991-93; the Zambian transition of government (91-92), the start of the Zairian Civil War and evacuation of Shaba Province (93); the Rwandan/Burundian Genocide (94-95); the Rwanda/Burundian Refugee crisis (94-96); the capture and rendition of indicted war criminals from the Yugoslav Civil war (98-99); and the United Nations (99-01). Since his departure from the government, Alex has proven to be instrumental in providing critical consulting and project management services to his clients located throughout the nation. As a leading member of Kroll’s security services practice, Alex managed numerous security and risk assessment projects, as well as crisis management and business continuity assignments. He is considered an expert in the field of international affairs (with specialization in the developing world), crisis management & business continuity, international security and supply chain security. Alex is a graduate of the American University where he received a B.S. in history. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Foreign Service Institute where he studied economics, security and international affairs.
Ira Tannenbaum
Prior to this role, Ira served as a Preparedness Specialist with the Health & Medical Planning and Preparedness Division. In this capacity he has been involved in the preparedness programs for terrorism response as well as projects focused on improving the coordination and response of the health and medical systems to major events that may affect the City. Ira has spoken extensively for the NYC OEM ReadyNY initiative regarding preparedness planning for home and office settings. Additionally, Ira is an Adjunct Professor at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he teaches classes related to emergency management. Ira has an MBA with a focus in Healthcare Administration from the Zicklin School of Business of Baruch College and prior to joining OEM he was a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers/Mellon Financial Services. He has been an active EMT in a local volunteer ambulance service for the past 11 years.
Bert Wolff
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Patrick
Alesi is Vice President and Co-manager of Business Continuity
Planning at Lehman Brothers. He has held this position since
March 2002, but had previously worked for Lehman on its business
continuity plans as Assistant Vice President from 1997-2000.
Patrick’s current responsibilities include Incident Response
Management and Strategic Planning as well as Regulatory
Compliance for Business Continuity.
Mike
has worked in the IT industry from dot-com startups through
large enterprise organizations. With over 10 years of hands-on
experience in Microsoft Windows Server Disaster Recovery, he’s
constantly striving to find new ways to live in interesting
times.
John DiNuzzo is
the Vice President, Enterprise Business Continuity, for Freddie
Mac, a shareholder-owned corporation that operates in the
primary and secondary mortgage markets. His responsibilities
include managing all aspects of the company’s initiatives to
protect its personnel, processes and infrastructure during
emergency situations and other potential business disruptions.
Peter
Hofmann is currently the General Manager of Manhattan Electric
Operations for Con Edison. His responsibilities include
oversight of the safe operation of the electric distribution
system, including restoration activities in Manhattan. His group
also is responsible for the design of reinforcements to the
electric distribution system, to meet the need for increased
demand. His prior experience in 24 years at Con Edison include
General Manager of Construction in the Bronx/Westchester Region,
General Manager of Energy Services and Project Manager
responsible for the distribution network reconfigurations which
were completed in Lower Manhattan after 9/11. He also managed
the Power Quality Group, and in this capacity deployed a system
wide Power Quality measurement system in Con Edison. He has a
Bachelor of Science – Mechanical Engineering from New Jersey
Institute of Technology and a Master of Science – Management
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
In
the 1960's, Michael Lesk worked for the SMART project writing
much of their retrieval code and performing many of the
retrieval experiments, as well as obtaining a PhD in Chemical
Physics. In the 1970's he worked in the group that built Unix
where he wrote Unix tools for word processing (tbl, refer),
compiling (lex), and networking (uucp). In the 1980's he worked
on specific information systems applications, mostly with
geography (a system for driving directions) and dictionaries (a
system for disambiguating words in context), as well as running
a research group at Bellcore. In the 1990s, Dr. Lesk worked on a
large chemical information system, the CORE project, with
Cornell, OCLC, ACS and CAS.
As Director of
Business Continuity Services within the EMC Global Services
organization, John Linse oversees EMC’s Business Continuity
practice, maintaining its relevance and value to customers.
John’s expertise and commitment to quality is exemplified by his
leadership in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Strategies across many industry verticals including Healthcare
and Legal. Formerly with Accenture, John holds degrees in
Marketing and Accounting, as well as a US Patent for an
Electronic Bill Payment Device. John lives in Illinois with his
wife and four children.
Mr.
Martin is the Managing Director of Eagle Rock Alliance Ltd.’s
Business Continuity & Technology Solutions Group (TSG) practice
areas. With over 30 years of successful management and technical
experience, Mr. Martin possesses a leadership style which
balances his pragmatic business approach with his strong
creative and innovative abilities. At Eagle Rock, he employs his
keen business methods in his efforts to expand and manage the
consulting capability in support of business continuity.
Directed by Mr. Martin, one of the major priorities has been to
help customers develop Business and IT management strategies
that ensure greater reliability and availability, while lowering
risk and improving operating efficiency. Enterprise governance &
compliance program management, enterprise resiliency assessments
and application interdependence mapping initiatives are among
his practice strengths. Mr. Martin is able to promptly absorb
information and evaluate situations, accurately frame practical
and realistic objectives, and lead others by example in order to
achieve both short and long-term goals.
Oscar
Menendez is currently the Corporate Security and Business
Continuity relationship manager for all of the Operations Groups
in the US at Deutsche Bank.
Peter
joined Jefferies Group Inc. in mid-2007. Efforts have been
focused on building a global team with primary focus on
strategy, planning and work area recovery. Jefferies is one of
the fastest growing firm's within the global financial services
industry and presents a number of interesting challenges for our
business continuity management team.
Frederick
M. Spina is the Corporate Vice President, Business Continuity &
Recovery for New York Life Insurance Company. He is a Certified
Business Continuity Planner & Certified Safety Professional with
over 25 years experience. His experience includes insurance,
financial, healthcare, manufacturing and service sector business
operations. He has developed implemented Emergency Management,
Crisis Management and Business Continuity programs, managed
numerous crisis management situations, developed and evoked
business continuity plans domestically and provided training and
education at the all levels of an organization and has been a
guest speaker at the UCONN School of Business.
As
InterCEP’s Associate Director, Matt’s responsibilities include
conducting research and coordinating special projects to
generate findings and recommendations for strategic action.
As
Director of Business Continuity Solutions, Jan Sysmans is
responsible for defining and delivering the overall strategy,
positioning and go to market of the WebEx Solutions for Business
Continuity. These include programs for telework, business
continuity, COOP and virtual emergency operations centers. Mr.
Sysmans has over 12 years of marketing and product management
experience; including 5 years in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
segment. He joined WebEx in 2003 and prior to that, held various
product management positions at PlaceWare (Microsoft), Narus and
XO Communications. Mr. Sysmans also served as the Chairperson
for the Marketing Communications committee on the SaaS executive
council of the SIIA.
Alexander
C. Tabb is the practice lead and Managing Director for TABB
Group’s Crisis and Continuity Services practice. He joined Tabb
Group following his tenure at Kroll Inc. where he was an
Associate Managing Director in the Security Services Group.
Prior to joining Kroll, Mr. Tabb had a successful 12 year career
in the United States Foreign Service. As a diplomat in the
United States Department of State, Alex served in such places as
Lusaka, Zambia; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Tuzla, Bosnia –
Herzegovina; and New York where he served with distinction.
During his tenure, Alex gained invaluable security, crisis
management and project management experience serving as an
official representative of the United States Government.
As
the Coordinator of Public/Private Initiatives for
the New York City Office of Emergency Management
(OEM), Ira is responsible for designing and
implementing programs to maximize the coordination
of corporate and municipal emergency management
measures and resources within New York City.
In
his position as Corporate Business Continuity and Security
Manager for the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies since 2002,
Bert Wolff has been responsible for implementing a standard,
worldwide process for emergency response and business continuity
planning. He has also defined the roles/responsibilities for a
Corporate Incident Management Team and spearheaded a training
program for the team, which has included frequent tabletop
tests. In his security role, he is responsible for physical
security at Chubb’s worldwide locations, where his security
oversight extends to such diverse issues as workplace violence,
remote technology security and contract security. Prior to
joining Chubb, Bert held a variety of positions over a 26-year
span with Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, where his
responsibilities included assisting in the redeployment of
personnel after the September 11 crisis.