Ashley Goosman, MBCP, MBCI, has nearly 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors. She’s managed multiple high-profile crisis events. She participated in the American Red Cross September 11 Recovery Program and Hurricane Katrina-Massachusetts’ Operation Helping Hand. As the Director of Emergency Services-Mass Dept. of Mental Health, she supported federal, state, and local emergency activations. She served as an adjunct Senior Instructor, teaching Terrorism and Disasters course for Health Care Administrators. Ashley has conducted business continuity and coordinated crisis events globally as a Risk Manager for Liberty Mutual Insurance.

Aaron Marks, MPA, NRP, MEP is an internationally recognized expert on risk, crisis, and consequence management. He has supported exercise programs and events across 48 U.S. states and territories and 10 countries and nations. Aaron combines his 30-years of operational experience in incident and crisis management with a fascination with cognition and psychology to deliver non-traditional exercises that achieve their design objectives while providing impactful and memorable participant experiences.
As a Senior Principal for Dynamis, Inc., a NATO Civil Subject Expert, and the Founder of One Thirty Nine Consulting, Aaron frequently works with clients and partners to develop novel solutions to emerging and evolving problems. His recent work includes addressing challenges associated with Insider Threat, Targeted Violence, Communicable Disease and Bio-terrorism, and CBRN Consequence Management.

Ray Holloman, M.B.A., M.S., CBCP, CCRP, MBCI, Senior Program Manager for Enterprise Disaster Recovery for F5 Networks and Founder/CEO of Holloman Solutions. Ray has a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Belmont University, a Master’s in Information Security from Lipscomb University, and an MBA from Tennessee Tech University. He works with teams and organizations to help them understand, implement and enhance their disaster recovery programs. By educating organizations, he is helping them become more resilient in the ever-changing threat landscape.

Shane Mathew is a Risk & Resilience professional who serves as Head of Resilience at Zoom Video Communications. In this role, Shane will oversee the inaugural development of the Crisis Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs for all of Zoom’s global operations.
Shane started his career in public health and led one of the first teams charged with developing bioterrorism response and mass prophylaxis plans for the CDC. He’s also served in various leadership roles within government, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare.
Shane is experienced in leading resilience programs within various industries, including government, healthcare, pharmaceuticals & manufacturing. Additionally, he led a professional services consulting team for a US based risk management firm, where he was responsible for all consulting operations that built resilience programs for many well-known global companies, including Netflix, Gulfstream and others.
Shane is based in North Texas with his wife of 18 years- Sylvia and their two young children.

Meredith Stone is an award-winning communicator with more than 15 years in front of a camera. As a reporter turned public information officer, Meredith specializes in corporate reputation, brand positioning, issues management, and storytelling.
As the external communications manager for Colonial Pipeline, she works to build brand trust and re-introduce Colonial as a critical piece of American infrastructure, vital to the economy and national security.
Early in her career, Meredith was a reporter and EMA PIO. While employed with Georgia’s top electric utility, she won the Silver Anvil in Crisis Communication. She’s also a two-time Emmy nominee for her work around preparedness and safety.

David Balcar is a Security Strategist at VMware. With 20+ years in security, David has extensive knowledge and experience in security research, network penetration testing, incident response, and computer forensics. David is also a noted featured speaker at global security conferences presenting on subjects including security trends, penetration testing, top threats and network security hardening. David is also a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA).

Since 2018, Brendan has directed the US crisis and resilience programs for a global pharmaceutical company, including coordinating the company’s US response to COVID-19. Prior to that, Brendan lead Security Resilience and Intelligence programs at two major critical infrastructure companies in the US.
He is a Steering Committee Member and former Chair of the ASIS Crisis Management and Business Continuity Community, and a founding member and former Chair of the New York Analyst Roundtable. Brendan has a BA from Boston College and an MA from Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland; and is MBCI and CBCP certified. Brendan is the author of the 2022 book, Strategic Corporate Crisis Management: Building an Unconquerable Organization.

Andrea Davis is a recognized expert in the field of emergency management who has dedicated her career to bridging the silos between public and private sectors to create a united approach when it comes to disaster risk reduction. Ms. Davis has held leadership roles with NGOs (The American Red Cross, Save the Children US), the US Federal Government (FEMA, The Federal Reserve) and for Fortune 500 Companies (Walmart, Disney). With each role, Ms. Davis used her influence to lead global initiatives focused on the importance of making risk informed determinations and engaging all members of the community in the decision-making process. Currently, Ms. Davis is the President and CEO of a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB), The Resiliency Initiative (TRI). Ms. Davis founded TRI out of a passion to serve the whole community before, during, and after an emergency.
Ms. Davis’ specializes in crisis strategic planning, brand management and creating continuity of operations frameworks. Her career highlights include: • During Ms. Davis’ tenure with FEMA’s Louisiana Hurricane Katrina Recovery Office, Ms. Davis oversaw all media, intergovernmental and congressional activities for one of the U.S.’ largest disaster recovery efforts, with a total recovery portfolio of over $25 billion. In her short tenure, she helped restore FEMA’s brand. Ms. Davis and her team created an innovative outreach campaign to regain the public’s trust. Their grassroots approach was credited with transforming the public’s perception of FEMA; culminating with over 300 groundbreaking/ribbon cutting ceremonies and the media coining a new acronym- TGFF: Thank God for FEMA.
• While in the private-sector, Ms. Davis led enterprise-wide crisis management departments for multi-national, Fortune 500 companies. Her departments were responsible for developing and implementing culturally relevant emergency management and business continuity trainings, creating mass notification platforms, leading crisis and family assistance operations, and spear-heading employee preparedness initiatives across the globe.
• Ms. Davis’ passion is volunteer service. She is currently serving as the Board Chair for the California Resilience Alliance and the Northwest Arkansas Chapter of the American Red Cross. She served as Board Chair for the Los Angeles Region, American Red Cross and was a national Corporate Board Member for Save the Children US. Her leadership was recognized by her selection as the Inaugural Emergency Manager of the Year by the International Association of Emergency Managers in 2018 and her inauguration into the Women’s Hall of Fame for Emergency Management in 2013.