BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• President - John Padilla
• President Elect - Trish Smith
• Secretary - Zach Smith
• Membership Director - Amanda Vazquez
• Program Director - Kat Robings
• Treasurer - Beth Bendos
• Public Relations Director - Mike Vito
• Information Director - Vacant
• Web Director - Vacant
• Past President - Vacant

Central Arizona Chapter Celebrates 30th Anniversary

By John Padilla, Chapter President

The Central Arizona Chapter marks a special milestone on October 2^nd.  This year is the chapter's 30th Anniversary with plans for a membership appreciation event at the Desert Willow Conference Center in Phoenix to celebrate.  The event features Michael Herrera, one of the chapter's founders.

The chapter was incorporated in November 1995 by Michael Herrera, Bank of America, Jan Williams, Valley National Bank, and Jim Roberts, Wells Fargo Bank.  The founding directors.  Michael Herrera’s senior manager (Mary Kanaga) at BofA supported the idea to build a local group of continuity planners and the bank provided initial financial support. There was no ACP chapter in Phoenix, so they decided to go out to fellow banks and the Maricopa County Department of Emergency Management for support and identification of planners in the area.  This jumpstarted the move to ACP to create a local chapter.

The Central Arizona Chapter was one of the first ACP chapters and was founded to provide an organized forum for members to discuss and investigate the spectrum of organizational, management and technical issues related to contingency planning, disaster recovery, crisis management, emergency management and business resumption planning.   The chapter continues to fulfil the ACP mission of continuing to transfer knowledge of Business Continuity Management and build meaningful connections.

Initial meetings averaged 50 to 60 participants at each meeting and every session was a learning session as during those times, there was little to no information sharing like now.  Attendees needed help with everything Business Continuity Management.  A 50-50 drawing was held at each meeting which provided needed funding.  There are currently 38 chapter members. 

Through the sharing of experiences of mutual interest or value, advancing contingency planning, disaster recovery, crisis management, emergency management, business resumption planning and providing an opportunity to build a network of resources the chapter continues to serve its members.  The current board includes the following members:

President: John Padilla

Secretary: Zach Smith

Treasurer: Beth Bendos

Membership Director: Amanda Vazquez

Program Director: Kathee Robings

Public Relations Director: Mike Vito

President-Elect: Trish Smith

The chapter will celebrate its 30^th Anniversary at the Desert Willow Conference Center with a luncheon and review of the chapter’s history with Michael Herrera, one of the founding members, talking about how the chapter and the industry have changed in 30 years.

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There is still time to contribute to this study and unlock your personalized dashboard and this study does accommodate permanent employed professionals, independent /self-employed consultants, unemployed, and retired professionals involved in all things related to resilience management (business continuity, IT disaster recovery, crisis management, and emergency management).

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