Alice Kaltenmark Hon FBCI

Service Continuity Manager, LexisNexis Legal & Professional, USA

Alice Kaltenmark is a recognized business resilience expert who contributes as a resilience thought leader, mentor, and resilience evangelist. Her professional experience spans more than 20 years in business continuity and disaster recovery in the information solutions industry and 40 years in IT. Kaltenmark serves as a Director on the BCI global board of directors, a capstone of her many years of service to the resilience profession. She has been awarded the Honorary FBCI, FBCI, and MBCP certifications.

Joshua Adams AMBCI

Resilience Specialist, Colt Technology Services, UK

Joshua (BSc Hons Disaster Management and Emergency Planning) is a Resilience SME for Colt Technology Services, responsible for the BCMS and Crisis Response Framework for 22 countries.

He has been working in the Resilience sector for 11 years, in the field of Crisis Management, Ops Resilience, BC and Emergency Planning. Whilst recently working in the technology sector, he has worked across CNI operators globally, National Power Companies, and within local authorities, with experience in the third sector for disaster response in the UK.

Joshua is keen on training and facilitating, and takes a pragmatic approach to delivering resilience programmes for the organizations he supports.

Maribeth Anderson, BCI Affiliate

Global Senior Director – BC and Corporate Security, Xylem, USA

Maribeth Anderson, CSP is the Global Senior Director, Business Continuity and Corporate Security for Xylem Inc, a Fortune 1000 global water technology provider, which conducts business in over 150 countries. She has over 20 years’ experience managing and mitigating risk in a variety of industries including manufacturing, water, oil & gas, aviation, and retail operations.

She is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), who holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Maribeth is also an active member of the American Society of Safety Professionals and has twice served on the Board of Directors.

Her career within Business Continuity began at O’Hare International Airport, managing through 9/11, and she has been actively involved in a variety of other large-scale response efforts including Deep Water Horizon, Hurricane Harvey, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Russia/Ukraine war.

As a safety professional, her focus on resilience begins with people, to ensure their safety and their respective contributions to ensure a resilient organization. She influences her stakeholders to understand their role within Business Continuity and how their contributions are critical to develop a whole-organization approach which operates proactively versus reactively.

Vaidyanathan Chandramouli MBCI

Partner - Cybersecurity & Risk Service , Wipro Ltd, India

Vaidyanathan is a techno-management leader with over 25 years of rich and extensive experience in the information technology industry. His areas of expertise include Governance Risk & Compliance, Business Continuity Management, Internal Controls, and operational excellence.

He is a Partner with Wipro Ltd, providing strategic advisory services on Cyber Security, Resilience, and Risk Management to global customers. Before this role, he led the enterprise's Business Continuity programme. He was responsible for overall operations resilience during a disruption, regarding people, technology, and facilities.

Vaidyanathan is a certified independent director, and national security database empanelled Cyber Security scholar. He talks in areas of Business Resilience, Cyber Security, Governance, Operational Excellence, Crisis Management, Crisis Leadership, ESG, and Positive Psychology.

Rina Feria CBCI

Chevron Crisis Advisor, Corporate Real Estate, Philippines

Going on 12 years, Rina is the Crisis Advisor for all of the Philippine offices in Chevron.

A professional Occupational Therapist, she obtained her license by 2009 with years of practice under her belt. She then completed a certificate course on Disaster Resilience in the Asian Institute of Management last April 2022. This has helped strengthen her expertise for Business Continuity and Crisis Management after being certified as a BCP professional by the BCI in March 2021.

Organizational resilience has not only been her key role in Chevron. She is also one of the certified practitioners, building personal resilience with her peers, under the StRaw (Sustaining Resilience at Work) programme.

Jennifer MacKenzie MBCI

Operational Resilience Business Partner, abrdn, UK

Jennifer is an Operational Resilience Business Partner for a FTSE 100 financial services company, managing the Operational Resilience Programme and Global Business Continuity Programme.

She has over 15 years’ experience within the Risk, Continuity and Resilience industry, across both public and private sectors globally. She also developed her knowledge and expertise within the industry during this time and currently has multiple qualifications, including being a certified member of the BCI (MBCI), an ISO22301 Lead Auditor and holding a degree in Risk Management.

Jennifer’s varied career has seen her involved in many large-scale incidents and events, such as the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, Boston Marathon Bombing, Charlie Hebdo Paris Shootings, Berlin Market attacks, COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russia/Ukraine War – which provides her with a unique global view on all things resilience.

Wasim Malik FBCI

Principal Consultant GRC, CyberCX, Australia

Wasim Malik has over 25 years’ experience in GRC, Business Resilience and Risk Management across the globe, including Australia, New Zealand, UK, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE and India. A big advocate is that ESG and resilience have too much in common and risk and resilience professionals must plan and integrate ESG into their resilience and risk management plans.

As the CEO and Founder of Risk Professionals, Wasim is delivering expert consulting in Business Continuity Management, Cyber Resilience, and Artificial Intelligence, ensuring comprehensive risk management solutions. As a global partner of PECB, Risk Professionals also provides accredited training across all ISO standards, empowering individuals and organisations worldwide to achieve certification excellence.

Wasim Malik has worked previously for major banks and consulting companies, and implemented GRC and Business continuity programs successfully, adopting PAS56, BS25999 and ISO22301. Until recently, he was Principal Consultant GRC at CyberCX.

Wasim has won multiple awards, including two BCI Australasian awards and one BCI Global award and then inducted into the BCI Hall of Fame in 2018. Wasim Malik has been nominated for the Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 by DRI (Disaster Recovery International). Wasim previously served as a Director on the BCI Global Board.

Stephen Pybus AMBCI

Operations Resilience Manager, NATS, UK

Dr Stephen M Pybus (BSc (Hons) MSc MBA DBA AMBCI CEng FIET) started his career with the UK Civil Aviation Authority (now NATS) in 1989 as a Graduate Engineer and has progressed within the Engineering and Operations divisions, now accruing c.35 years’ experience within the Air Traffic Management (ATM) field.

During his career he has undertaken various roles within NATS, including systems engineering; requirements management; capital investment appraisal; advanced concept development; business case development; customer consultation; safety case development; and external stakeholder engagement.

His current role as Operations Resilience Manager is focused on Business Continuity to ensure that NATS Operations can provide resilient and efficient services when faced with unexpected adverse situations, events and incidents. He is experienced in Business Continuity, Incident Management and Operational Contingency.

Steve is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and an Associate Member of the BCI (AMBCI).

Meredith Spong MBCI

Director, Resilient Consultancy N.V., Suriname

Meredith has more than 17 years of experience across multiple industries and geographies in areas of Enterprise Risk Management, Business Continuity Management and Compliance.

She is Director of Resilient Consultancy, a consultancy firm based in Suriname; a certified member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI); a certified trainer with the BCI; and PECB Certified ISO22301 Senior Lead Implementer. 

Bethany Warren AMBCI

Business Continuity Professional, Marsh Advisory, UK

Bethany Warren (MSc AMBCI) is a Business Continuity professional, currently working at Marsh Advisory within their Resilience team.

She has particular expertise in Business Continuity and Resilience, and supports clients across the globe, from a number of industries. She is a qualified lead implementer for ISO 22301 and frequently attends and contributes to industry webinars, thought leadership and events.

Bethany was named Business Continuity Newcomer of the Year in the CIR Business Continuity Awards 2020 and spoke at the BCI World Conference in 2021. She sits on the BCI Women in Resilience (WiR) committee and the BCI London Chapter committee.