Gianna Detoni

President & Founder

With over 40 years of experience in the field, Gianna is one of the leading experts of resilience and business continuity worldwide. She is the BCI Global Industry Personality of the Year 2017, the BCI Italy Forum Leader from 2014 to 2019, a BCI Approved Instructor and she launched and chaired for two years the BCI Women in Resilience initiative. She wrote many articles on the topics related to continuity and resilience and is one of the key contributors to the development of the Good Practice Guidelines of the BCI, the reference manual for resilience professionals. Last but not least, she is a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute (FBCI), the highest membership grade of the BCI, and certified by the Institute of Risk Management (IRM). Since 2009, she is President of PANTA RAY, an international training and management consulting firm, specialized in the disciplines of organizational resilience.

Werner Verlinden

CEO

Macarena Rodriguez Garcia

BCM & ITSCM Consultant, EMEA

Macarena Rodríguez is a Business Continuity & IT Service Continuity (BCM & ITSCM) Consultant at Getronics for EMEA region. Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) since September 2016, she is also chairing the BCI Spain Chapter since 2020. Her previous experience working for the European Commission has helped her to become a specialist in training and exercising staff to be prepared in the event of a real-life disaster or major disruption. Her background as communicator is key to provide and implement raising awareness actions and promotional material to understand better what a BCM is and how to be involved to make an organization more resilient. She is also a true believer of the European Union and she is fluent in Spanish, English, French and Italian.
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Macarena Rodríguez trabaja como consultora de continuidad del negocio y continuidad del servicio IT (BCM e ITSCM) para Getronics desde 2019. Es Miembro del Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) desde septiembre de 2016 y desde 2020 preside el BCI Spain Chapter. Su experiencia en el mismo puesto en la Comisión Europea desde 2014 le ha permitido especializarse en capacitar y ejercitar al personal para prepararse en caso de desastre o disrupción continuada. Además, es especialista en comunicación lo que le ha ayudado a implementar acciones de sensibilización y material promocional para ayudar a comprender mejor qué es la continuidad de negocio y cómo ser partícipes con el objetivo de mejorar la resiliencia organizacional. También es una apasionada de la Unión Europea y su construcción y habla español, inglés, francés e italiano con fluidez.

Jean Rowe

Corporate Workplace Resiliency Manager

Jean Rowe, Amazon's Corporate Workplace Resiliency Manager,  is internationally recognized as a subject matter expert in organizational resilience, security, enterprise risk, business continuity, & crisis management. She has over 20 years developing,implementing & managing strategic projects & programs in morethan 186 countries for both public and private sector organizations. Her experience includes developing and implementing the enterprise risk management and organisational resilience program for Uphold Inc. She designed and implemented world class business continuity and crisis management programs in 186 countries for the World Bank Group, the IMF, and two United Nations agencies. She also developed and implemented the business resilience program for Verisign, the world’s internet infrastructure provider. As a trusted advisor, she has in-depth experience in responding to and recovering from natural and manmade disasters (from social media to cyber security disasters). She is a published author, an engaging speaker, and served on several technical committees to shape BCP standards, leading practices, and industry benchmarking.

Uxía Fernández González

Deputy Director Ozona Consulting and ISO/TS 22317 Project Leader

* Expert Business Continuity Consultant with experience in implementing Management Systems based on ISO 22301 

* ISO/TS 22317 Project Leader (ISO/TS 22317: Guidelines for business impact analysis (BIA))

* Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI)

* HoD of Portugal in ISO/TC 292 WG2 Continuity and organizational resilience

* ISO 22301 Master, Lead Auditor & Lead Implementer

* ITIL Expert

* ISO 20000 Lead Auditor

Gert Kogenhop

Director

See LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gertkogenhop/ 

Vikrant Varshney

Chief Risk Officer & Managing Partner

* 20+ yrs of cumulative experience in Enterprise & Operational Risk Management, BCM, IT, Operations, Quality & Business Strategy. * c14 years of dedicated experience in Enterprise Risks and BCM at Head of Program Level in Banking & Financial services and IT services & Outsourcing domain. * Handled 3 out of 4 BRIC markets – Brazil, India, China. * Managed resources from Emerging economies in Latin America, MENA and Asia (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, India, China, Malaysia & Philippines etc) as well as resources from Developed economies (USA, UK, HK, France, Dubai). * Managed large global clients’ projects with Capital One, RSA, DELL, Prudential, D&T, AVIVA, Bank of America, JP Morgan etc during different roles. * Handled large operational losses in Mn USD and learned from them. * Worked with & supported Global Service Providers like SunGard, Synstar, IBM BRCS, EMC, Dell, Hitachi, SCS etc. * Led the Risk Oversight teams to manage Information Security, Corporate Security, Audit, Compliance & Risk framework covering US, UK, Europe & Asian entities * Strong Communication skills & profecient in presenting Business cases, Risk & vulnerability exposures, Risk appetite & Impact Scenarios to Senior Management as well as developing effective Risk treatments & maintaining effective business relationships at the highest level. * Strong Management Information (MI) capabilities, due to extensive coordination across geographically spread locations for consistent management reporting to maintain health index of various Implementations & resultant risk heat maps etc. * Led the formation of Corporate Task force supporting National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) under the chairmanship of Prime Minister of India and Led the Corporate Incident Forum to work with public agencies, including Ministries of Health, Embassies and around 250+ Indian Risk resources to develop an effective Risk Governance and disaster preparedness mechanism for massive disasters..

Scott Baldwin

Global Program Manager, Business Continuity

Alice Kaltenmark

Service Continuity Manager

Alice has over 39 years’ experience in IT with 37+ years at LexisNexis / Reed Elsevier (RELX Group). Alice began her career as a software engineer and quickly advanced into management. Since beginning her management career in 1989, she has led many organizations spanning the spectrum from software development, release management, development support, daily operations, technology introduction, and culminating in her current role in Global IT Service Continuity Management for RELX Technology Services. Alice holds the Member Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) and Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP) certifications with over 20 years of experience in business/service continuity management. Alice currently serves as a member of the BCI USA chapter board and holds the office of President for the chapter. Alice is committed to the growth of the continuity profession and also serves as past president and treasurer, Continuity Professionals of Ohio (CPO). Alice enjoys sharing her expertise with other professionals and presents at local, regional and national professional conferences and summits.

Alberto Mattia

Chief Executive Officer

During his role as the CEO of PANTA RAY, since 2014, Alberto has successfully guided and supported large enterprises across various sectors in developing effective business continuity management systems and in achieving their resilience objectives. For his work in PANTA RAY, Alberto was shortlisted by the Business Continuity Institute among the three best European resilience consultants in 2017. Furthermore, he is a Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) and certified by the Institute of Risk Management (IRM). In 2017, Alberto actively contributed to the writing of the most recent edition of the BCI Good Practice Guidelines, the reference manual for business continuity professionals. For two years, Alberto was also a member of the BCI Risk & Governance Committee.