Mark J. Misczak, CEM

Mark Misczak serves as the Senior Vice President of Response & Debris Operations for Tidal Basin Group and has over 30 years of experience in the emergency and disaster management industry. Before joining Tidal Basin, Mark held several key leadership positions with industry-leading emergency management consulting firms, and before that, he spent most 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 some of 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 expanded services based on the full spectrum of emergency management and federal disaster grant programs.