RIE Toronto Board of Directors

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Sue Hilton, CBCP
President
Sue Hilton (CBCP) has over 25 years of experience in a variety of roles within Manulife and has deep knowledge and understanding of the complexities inherent in an organization with a global footprint. Sue has held a number of roles within RIE,
including the portfolios for Sponsorship, Program and most recently Vice-President. She is also on the planning committee for the Continuity and Resiliency Today conference and serves on the Certification Commission for DRI Canada. In her spare time, Sue can be found herding her clowder of formerly feral cats, dabbling in stained glass, painting, or writing her novel that may (or may not) get off the ground someday.

Suzanne Bernier, CBCP
Vice President & Communications
Making resilience relevant since 1997. A former journalist and government press secretary, Suzanne is now an international, multi-certified, award-winning crisis management consultant, trainer, speaker, and author, who has helped governments, communities and companies plan for, respond to, and recover from disasters for nearly 30 years. She is currently the Vice President of RIE Toronto and serves as Global Ambassador for Stars of HOPE USA.

Suzanne has had numerous career highlights that include being a guest speaker at The White House, developing and delivering the first Pandemic Tabletop Exercise and Action Plan for the United Nations Headquarters (New York), receiving BCI’s Continuity & Resilience Consultant of the Year – North America award, and authoring the critically acclaimed book Disaster Heroes. She is a current faculty member of both DRI International and DRI Canada, acting as their primary crisis communications instructor, and is an active advocate for mass casualty survivors around the globe. www.disasterheroes.com; www.suzannebernier.com

Gayle Mitcham, MBCP, MBCI, CBCA
Treasurer

Gayle is a Risk Management Professional with a Master’s Certification in Business Continuity and other Business Continuity disciplines. She has operational and consulting experience in many areas of Risk and Business Continuity Management. She is a rpoven leader, skilled communicator, and project manager with expertise in the following disciplines; Governance, Enterprise Risk, Operational Resilience, Emergency Response Planning, Crisis Management/Communication Planning, Business Continuity Planning, IT Disaster Recovery Planning, Third Party Risk Management, Scenario Planning and Exercising. Gayle currently works for Sun Life Financial providing governance oversight for their global business continuity program. She has been active in a number of volunteer roles related to the Business Continuity profession and has been the Treasurer for
RIE- Toronto Chapter for the past several years..

Mona Vaughan-Burnett, ABCP

Secretary

Mona Vaughan-Burnett has over 20 years’ experience in risk management, comprising areas such as business continuity,
crisis response & recovery, life safety, privacy, relationship management, and enterprise risk reporting. Mona holds a
DRI Canada certification in business continuity and serves as Secretary on the RIE Toronto Board.

Joe Ozorio, CBCP, CBCA, MBCI
Past President & Ex Officio
Joe Ozorio is the past President of the RIE Toronto Executive Team. Joe is a former Senior Managing Consultant, who worked in the fields of business continuity, pandemic planning, crisis management & communications, IT Disaster Recovery, plan exercising, and Agile and structured innovative thinking workshops. Recently retired from IBM, Joe still maintains active interest in the BCM profession, helping to support and map industry directions for fellow BCM and Resiliency practitioners and managers. Joe has served on the RIE Toronto Board of Directors for over 10 years in various capacities, and is honored to be its current president.

Tom Smedley, CBCP, CISSP
Director at large
Tom is an experienced business continuity professional with several decades of experience across disaster recovery, business continuity and risk management. Tom was a past program director for DRIE.

Milka Brajovic, CRM, CFCP

Membership

Milka is a risk management professional with over 20 years of experience. Milka has attained the Canadian Risk Management (CRM) designation from the Global Risk Management Institute and she is a Certified Functional Continuity Professional (CFCP)with DRI Canada. Currently serving on the RIE Toronto Board as the Membership Director, she works for Canada Life providing governance oversight for their Global Business Continuity Risk Management program.

Maurine Dyer, CBCP, CRISC
Sponsorship

Maurine Dyer joins RIE Toronto as Sponsorship Director and member of the Board of Directors.

In her role as Sponsorship Director, she oversees RIE's sponsorship campaign and supports various RIE initiatives. Throughout her career, Maurine has held several volunteer positions at RIE in the past, including as Communications Director, Board Member, and Editor for the DRIE Digest.

Nandini Shekhawat, CBCI, CBCP
Marketing
Nandini has over 18 years of global experience in building and successfully leading Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance programs in highly regulated environments, delivering transformational solutions across industries such as financial services, retail, e- commerce, energy, healthcare, and government. A recognized and certified authority in Business Continuity, Crisis Management, and Operational Resilience, she ensures resilience programs are aligned with ISO 22301 principles, focusing on operational excellence and compliance. Her expertise lies at the intersection of business continuity, risk management, and cybersecurity, where she crafts holistic strategies to protect assets and sustain operations.

Mark Silberg, CBCP, CISM
Webmaster

Mark Silberg is the Digital Communications and Webmaster Director on the RIE Toronto Executive Team. Mark has extensive Disaster Recovery experience across multiple financial services institutions. He specializes in the development and governance of technology recovery frameworks and strategies that enable organizations to resiliently weather the impacts of Information Technology disruptions. Mark is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) with DRI Canada. He also holds a degree from Ryerson University in Business Technlogoy Management.

Anton Coetzee, ABCP

Director at Large

Anton Coetzee is the Member Communications and Digest Director of the RIE Toronto Executive Team. Anton specializes in mastering and Controlling Chaos with Actions and Deeds, not just Words... A Crisis Manager and Communicator, with in-depth knowledge of "What to do... How to respond timely. When... not if... "a major event happens.