RIE Toronto Board of Directors

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Joe Ozorio
President
Joe Ozorio is the current 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.

Sue Hilton
Vice President/Program Director
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. She has supported a variety of clients within the organization including Group Functions and most recently Enterprise Technology Services to develop comprehensive and detailed business continuity plans, conduct relevant tabletop exercises and educate others on the methodology behind business continuity planning. Sue has returned to RIE (Toronto Chapter), as Programme Director after a hiatus from the Board for several years. 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.

Mona Vaughan-Burnett

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.

Gayle Mitcham
Treasurer

Gayle is a Risk Management Professional with a Master’s Certification in Business Continuity and other risk disciplines. She has operational and consulting experience in all areas of Business Continuity Management. She is a proven leader, skilled communicator, and project manager with expertise in the following risk related disciplines; Governance, Enterprise Risk, Emergency Response Planning, Crisis Management Planning/Communications, Business Continuity Planning,
IT Disaster Recovery Planning, Supply Chain Risk, and Pandemic Planning.

Gayle currently works for Sun Life Financial providing governance oversight for their global business continuity program.

Gayle has been active in a number of volunteer roles related to the Business Continuity Profession.

Sponsorship Director

Anton Coetzee
Member Communications and Digest Director

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.

Mark Silberg
Digital Communications and Webmaster Director

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.

Education and Partnership Director

Suzanne Bernier
Communications
A former journalist and government press secretary, Suzanne is now an international, multi-certified, award-winning crisis management consultant, trainer, speaker, and author. She has helped governments, communities and companies plan for, respond to, and recover from disasters for almost 30 years. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for RIE Toronto, is a Board member of the Heroic Imagination Project and she still serves as Global Ambassador - Stars of HOPE USA.

Suzanne has had numerous career highlights that include being a guest speaker at The White House, developing and delivering first Pandemic Tabletop Exercise and Action Plan at the United Nations headquarters (New York), receiving BCI’s Continuity & Resilience Consultant of the Year – North America, and of course, authoring the critically acclaimed Disaster Heroes (and creator of the podcast of the same name). She is also a current faculty member of both DRI International and the International Consortium on Organizational Resilience, acting as their international crisis communications instructor.

www.disasterheroes.com, www.suzannebernier.com

Milka Brajovic
Membership Director