Critical Personal Recovery for Executives (and ALL Employees)
Ralph Petti
April 29, 2010

Ralph Petti, a member of the risk management industry for twenty-five years, is a Senior Consultant and President of RP Risk Advisors, LLC, a business continuity management firm in Basking Ridge, NJ. In 2009, he received a Letter of Appreciation from Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) for his Gulf Region volunteer work.

Mr. Petti is a Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) in London and is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) from the Disaster Recovery Institute International in the US. He has also served in key leadership roles at Comdisco, SunGard, EMC, Veritas, and Iron Mountain as well as major business continuity, risk management and security-focused industry groups nationally. Mr. Petti is VOAD-Certified (Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster) by The American Red Cross and has completed his NIMS 700 (National Incident Management System) certification, sponsored by FEMA.

He is the Vice Chair of Operations for the Contingency Planning Exchange (CPE) in New York City and has also served as Executive Board Member of the Association of Contingency Planners (ACP) for the New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania chapters. He was an Executive Board member for the Mid-Atlantic Disaster Recovery Association (MADRA) and the adjunct for the Northeast Disaster Recovery Information Exchange Group (NEDRIX) for the NY area. He has also served as a Disaster Recovery lecturer for the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) and Mr. Petti was approved for election into the InfraGARD national security organization and London-based The Agora Global Pandemic Committee.

Critical Personal Recovery Strategies for Executives (and ALL Employees) :

This session will address your most critical component for a recovery event - the ability of your team members to be available to go into action. Consider this, the disaster event is occurring and your recovery plan is in place...but, where is your team to carry it forward? In all disaster events, there are always key individuals that are torn between responding to their organizational needs and being distracted by events at home or with loved ones. By attending this session, you will hear many examples of this happening to organizations just like yours - and the lessons learned from those organizations. How will your executives act at this critical time? Are these employees members of critical departments such as HR, Personnel, Security, Operations? How do you know what resources are needed and what can be done at time of disaster to potentially save the business? How will everyone communicate if normal channels are compromised? This is a must-attend session focusing on new ideas, technologies and solutions that are available in the market today that provide for both personal and business recovery planning.

In 2007, Mr. Petti was published in The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Business Journal. He has also been featured in The New York Law Journal, Disaster Recovery Journal, Computerworld and other publications. He was a guest on WWDB-AM radio in Philadelphia in 2007 and SIRIUS Satellite Radio. In 2008, he was recognized by several Gulf Region parishes for his disaster recovery training efforts and appeared on Comcast TV and Cox Communications TV. He also appeared on ABC26 TV & WNBC-TV in 2009. In his career, he has presented at DHS, FEMA, CPM, ACP, CPE, ASIS, ISSA & NEDRIX events.

Mr. Petti holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with dual concentrations in Business and Political Science from Rutgers College and has also completed graduate course-work at Syracuse and NYU. In 2005, he was named by NJ Countryside Magazine as "One of Six New Jerseyans We're Proud To Know" for his efforts as Chairperson with The American Cancer Society's "Relay For Life" event - raising almost $1MM locally.