Disaster Planning and Preparedness for Maritime Ports: Five Important Points

2 D I SAS T E R R ECOVE RY TODAY.COM Stephanie Murphy, MS, CEM Vice President of Preparedness, Resiliency and Emergency Management (PREM) Tidal Basin Stephanie Murphy, a CEM, has over 19 years of experience in Emergency Management. She has been featured in Airport Business “40 Under 40” and recognized as a “Major Player” in Emergency Management magazine. She has worked at the federal, regional, local, public, and private levels developing emergency management programs from the ground up focusing on strategic, continuity, and incident planning; training and exercising; program assessment; gap analysis and implementing unique solutions for dynamic industry issues. Most recently she was the Emergency Manager for Dulles and Reagan Airports in Washington, D.C. Prior to the Airports Authority, Stephanie was the National Planning Section Chief with FEMA, as well as a Crisis Management Trainer with the Department of State. She has also responded to local emergencies and events, served in, and directed EOCs, and has built resiliency in communities through planning, training, exercising and preparedness programs. Kyle Gibbs Former Risk Manager PhilaPort (The Port of Philadelphia) Kyle Gibbs was risk manager at the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority when this interview was conducted. At the Port, he primarily focused on the agency’s complex insurance program and other risk initiatives. He also spent several years working with public entities to rebuild infrastructure post-Superstorm Sandy in NewYork and New Jersey, including an essential role on a billion-dollar recovery program. In the earliest days of his career, he was an insurance producer and broker, with a focus on the habitational, hospitality, energy, environmental, and marine markets. He is currently Insurance Risk Management - ProgramManager at Colorado Springs Utilities.

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