
Mr. Misczak serves as the Chief Operations Officer for Rising Phoenix Holding Corporation (RPHC) and has more than 30 years of experience working in the emergency and disaster management industry. Prior to joining Tidal Basin, Mark held several key leadership positions with industry-leading emergency management consulting firms, and prior to that, he spent the majority of his career serving in leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
His work at FEMA included command roles overseeing the largest disasters in our Nation’s history. His former Federal titles include Branch Chief – FEMA Region VI, Deputy FCO, Director of the Office of Cerro Grande Fire Claims, and Acting Director and Deputy Director for Individual Assistance (at the time of his departure, this was the largest division within the agency). Mark has led complex programs and projects resulting in the delivery of billions of dollars in federal recovery and resiliency funding.
He is a highly sought-after resource for designing and implementing complex national recovery efforts. He is also an accomplished business leader, having managed thousands of employees and directed organizational transformations to produce efficiency, business growth, and expansion of services offered based on the full spectrum of emergency management and federal disaster grant programs.
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