Marion has been an emergency management practitioner since 1992 and is currently the Program Coordinator for the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology’s (NAIT) Emergency Management Diploma Program - see web link below. Prior to that Marion was with the Government of Alberta Emergency Management Agency for 15 years and held a number of positions including Director of Training, Director Community Programs and Disaster Health Consultant. Projects and responsibilities included school and campus emergency planning, health facility emergency planning, teaching disaster health management, disaster financial assistance, disaster exercise planning and conduct, member of the National Emergency Management Training Committee. Involved in response to major events including 1994 Northridge (southern California) earthquake, 1995 Lamont Hospital fire, 1995 southern Alberta flooding, Alberta support to the 1998 eastern Canada Icestorm, 2000 Pine Lake tornado, 2005 southern Alberta flooding.

Currently Manager of Business Continuity at Cogeco. I serve as the Education and Awards Chair for OAEM and sit on various College Emergency Management Program Advisory Committees across the province.

Currently the General Manager of Infrastructure Services for Greater Napanee. I am a Certified Municipal Manager III and Emergency Management Professional. Over the past 25 years I have worked in various roles within Fire Services, Emergency Management, Airport Management and Infrastructure.

I am the owner of Emergency Preparedness Consultants Inc. and a senior partner in Realtime Risk Assessments Inc. With over thirty years of police experience and working as the Emergency Management officer for that police service. In addition to being an experience instructor, lecturer, and public speaker, I am also a certified instructor for the Province of Ontario and the new CSA Z1600. I also received the first ever CMMIII EMP designation from the OMMI in the Province of Ontario and have a B.Tech in Emergency Management from Cape Breton University. I also sit on the advisory counsel for York University, and Sheridan College in their Emergency Management Programs as well as being the Past President for the Ontario Association of Emergency Managers. I am also accredited as ABCP through DRII (Canada). In my spare time I volunteer on the Board of Directors for the Kawartha Haliburton Victim Services Program.

Paul is an award-winning emergency management graduate working at the City of Brampton as an Emergency Measures Analyst. He has a military background as an active member of the Canadian Forces Primary Reserve and is looking to continue his education in emergency management to further explore and develop the field.

My Emergency Management career began while working for the chemical industry. That is where I had the pleasure of participating in the Partnership Towards Safer Communities program with neighbouring industries and the Township of Woolwich.

My Emergency Response career started as a volunteer fire fighter with the Woolwich Township Fire Department in St. Jacobs.

Since then, I have been the Emergency Manager for the County of Perth since September 2005; building a comprehensive emergency management program from the grass roots. It has been a very satisfying experience.

Currently I sit on the OAEM Board of Directors as the Secretary, and am responsible for the Communications portfolio as Chair. I also chair the PTSC Online Steering Committee.

Paula-Marie Jannetta Saric, Principal Consultant

Critical Infrastructure Continuity Alliance provides expertise and advisory services in emergency management, business continuity programs and critical infrastructure resilience for public and private sector organizations.

Emergency management and business continuity consultant based in New Hamburg, ON. Has provided consulting services to all levels of government, industry, financial and health care organizations. Over 30 years experience in the oil and chemical industry, much of it focused on emergency preparedness and response. Experience in incident management, crisis management, member of technical committee that developed CSA Z1600 emergency management and business continuity standard. Promoting on line networking and social media to improve emergency management programs.

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Brad is a seasoned and highly accomplished professional with over 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 organizations. He brings a wealth of senior management expertise in the retail, government, financial, high tech and industrial sectors. His various roles have focused on providing a high quality of direct and supporting services to both internal and external clients. He is well versed in all aspects of vendor and contract management, facilities and maintenance services, corporate security programs, life safety and emergency preparedness program development, threat risk assessment, program auditing and gap analysis; and investigations.