Sue Kerr, CBCP, is the President and Founder of Continuity First, a consulting firm specializing in Crisis Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. She is a Certified Business Continuity Professional through the Disaster Recovery Institute since 1998. In addition to working as a consultant for 5 years, she spent 11 years at a Fortune 500 company developing and implementing their Business Continuity Program. She was the Crisis Manager for such events as September 11th, major hurricanes and tropical storms, wild fires, white powder incidents and many others.

Sue is the President of the Old Dominion ACP and a member of the Disaster Recovery Journal Editorial Advisory Board.

David Graves, MS, CBCP has been actively involved with Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recovery Planning in Southern California for the past 13 years. David is currently between engagements.

David has been involved with ACP since 2004 when he joined the Los Angeles Chapter. David has served as the Director of Membership for two years and received the MVP Award in 2005.  David was elected Chapter President in 2006. David served 2 years as the Chair for the ACP Presidents Council.  David has been active locally in promoting the Open for Business program at seminars and workshops to small and medium size businesses in the greater Los Angeles area. 

Brian Strong, CBCP, CPP is the Business Continuity Planning Consultant for BlueCross BlueShield of Florida with responsibility for leading the company’s business continuity program. He also serves as a member of the BlueCross BlueShield Association’s Business Continuity Advisory Board. Brian has over 20 years combined experience in business continuity, crisis/emergency planning and response, and corporate security.

Brian is a member and past-president of the Northeast Florida Chapter where he served for four years. He remains an advocate for building stronger communities through pro-active public/private sector collaboration. Brian has been a frequent speaker at national industry conferences, as well as, regional and local civic events on topics related to business continuity and crisis management.

Dr. Ed Goldberg manages Northeast Utilities’ BC&DR Programs in Berlin, CT. Ed served 10 years as IT manager at Millstone Nuclear Power Station.

Ed is a CBCP with 25+ years IT and management experience. He served 4 terms as president of Connecticut ACP and is a popular conference speaker and published author.

Ed has a BSEE and MBA from University of New Haven, an advanced Graduate Certificate in Computer Communication Networks from RPI, and a Doctorate in Management and Organizational Leadership from University of Phoenix.  He has Professional Engineering and amateur radio licenses.

Ed also serves as Core Faculty at Capella University. He mentors PhD learners, teaches and develops coursework. Ed taught MBA and IT coursework at Albertus Magnus College for 11 years.

He has first hand experience designing military computer systems, fire alarm control panels, web offset printing press accessories, and electrofinishing/plating computerized controls. He has a patent for sub-ambient fluid circulation systems used in the printing industry.

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Ginnie Stouffer
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Ginnie Stouffer, MBCP, MBCI, is currently the VP of Consulting for IDC-Partners a business continuity consulting company in Wayne, PA where she is responsible for the Practices of Business Continuity, Information Technology Management and Direction (ITM.D.) and Project Management.

Ginnie has been a member of ACP since 2003 and has served as the Liberty Valley Chapter (Philadelphia) Director of Information for 3 terms. She was awarded the MVP in the Liberty Valley Chapter in 2005 and MVP for the Corporate Board of Directors in 2008. Ginnie is also active as a SEPA VOAD volunteer (Southeastern Pennsylvania Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters); a member of her township Emergency Operations Committee (EOC); a member of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA); and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

Mike Gifford, CBCP, is the Senior Manager of Disaster Recovery & Risk for the Capital Group Companies' Information Technology Group (ITG).    

Prior to joining the Capital Group Companies in March 2005, Mike was the Director of Audit Assurance and Regulatory Programs for JPMorganChase's Global Technology Infrastructure team. Prior to the merger of Bank One with JPMC in 2004, he was the Director of Disaster Recovery for Bank One's Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) team within Technology and Operations. Mike also worked for State Farm Insurance for 21 years in a variety of leadership positions, including manager of the Systems Disaster Recovery Team, and manager of the Systems Catastrophe Services team.
Mike’s education background includes his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of South Dakota.

Mike served as the founding President of the Alamo Chapter, San Antonio, TX for 4 years and has now joined the ACP Corporate Board as its Director of Membership Services.

Frank Leonetti, MBCI, CBCP, has been an ACP member for the past 8 years serving the Liberty Valley Chapter as Program Director for 3 years, President for 3 years and currently the Treasurer for the past 2 years.  He is the Manager for Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery of Sun Professional Services for 6 years and has been in the overall IT business for the past 21 years. He holds the CBCP and MBCI Certifications and also is a board Director for the BCI-USA. He has worked on literally 100’s of engagements for both Public and Private Sector companies in the areas of DR planning, testing, Merger and Acquisition Planning, Continuity of Operations and Compliance Validation.

Frank has been a featured and keynote speaker at several national conferences including: DRJ, DRIE, CPM, CIO Forum, InfoWorld, Marcus Evans BC/Security Conference, Continuity Insights and several ACP events.  Mr. Leonetti is also the Chair of the Camden County College Foundation Board.  Frank has written and published several articles and White Papers for CIO Magazine, BC Management, InfoWorld and the Province of British Columbia.