Monika Stoeffl has over 15 years experience in emergency management and risk analysis, including writing plans, designing table-top and full-scale exercises, conducting trainings, facilitating cross-agency collaboration, and conducting risk analyses. She received her MBA in International Business from Thunderbird School of Global Management with a focus in operational risk management and competitive intelligence. With a passion for finding connections in complex systems, Monika brings together her diverse backgrounds and experiences in emergency management, business continuity, competitive intelligence, science, anthropology, psychology, project management, and international travel to offer a multi-perspective cross-disciplinary approach to resiliency.

Monika Stoeffl has over 15 years experience in emergency management and risk analysis, including writing plans, designing table-top and full-scale exercises, conducting trainings, facilitating cross-agency collaboration, and conducting risk analyses. She received her MBA in International Business from Thunderbird School of Global Management with a focus in operational risk management and competitive intelligence. With a passion for finding connections in complex systems, Monika brings together her diverse backgrounds and experiences in emergency management, business continuity, competitive intelligence, science, anthropology, psychology, project management, and international travel to offer a multi-perspective cross-disciplinary approach to resiliency.

Jeff Hamilton has over 22 years of emergency response and business recovery experience in executive management positions. During that time, he developed multiple unique emergency response and recovery approaches for many Fortune 500 companies. Prior to that, Jeff built a strong business acumen with positions in engineering, operations and business development in a variety of industries including high tech, finance, and manufacturing. More recently, Jeff has combined his technical and business background with talents in videography, founding EH LearnMedia LLC, to develop the visual learning and training aspects necessary for robust emergency response and business continuity programs. Jeff is a graduate of the University of California, Davis with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. He has also served multiple terms as Director of Finance on the BRMA Board of Directors and is an active Ambassador for the Vacaville Chamber of Commerce.

After leading both Marsh and PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Business Continuity practices in San Francisco and Hong Kong, respectively, Fiona founded Raymond-Cox Consulting in 2010, a San Francisco-based, boutique business continuity and emergency planning consulting firm. Fiona is a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute (FBCI), serves as an Expert on ISO/TC 292, is an accredited ISO 22301 Lead Auditor, and recipient of the BRMA 2020 Award of Excellence. She was President of BRMA from 2017-2019. As a California Disaster Corps member, Fiona was part of the initial intake and trained for the first program of its kind to incorporate disaster-trained volunteers such as Neighborhood Emergency Response Team members into California’s mutual aid system. From 2008 – 2016, she led the Emergency Preparedness Committee for a K-8 grade public school.

Marissa currently works at Google in the San Francisco Bay Area as a Regional Safety & Security Manager responsible for security operations and training/exercises locally as well as emergency planning and risk mitigation programs spanning North America. Previously she led global emergency response programs for Google's legal compliance team, which provides 24/7 support to law enforcement agencies worldwide for user data requests concerning imminent threat to life investigations (e.g. bomb threats, school shootings, missing persons, suicide prevention, etc). Marissa supported the Google.org Crisis Response team in the 2017 Sonoma County wildfires, managing online content related to mass care shelters on Google/Cal Fire technical maps. Marissa earned her Bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley, her Masters degree from the University of San Francisco, and holds certifications in Crisis Leadership, Homeland Security and Emergency Management from Harvard and UCLA Extension. She volunteers as a mentor for young women pursuing careers in homeland security through the non-profit Girl Security.

Edward “Ed” Westfall has had a near 40-year public and military service career. He now is the Director of Business Development and Customer Success with the Sikich State and Local Government Consulting team, the primary executive liaison with state and local government clients. Before Sikich, Ed served in the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) as the Deputy Director for Response Operations, overseeing all Cal OES regional emergency management, law enforcement, fire and rescue operations, as well as the State Operations Center and the California State Warning Center. Ed previously served as the Cal OES Coastal Region Administrator, providing comprehensive emergency management support to the coastal counties and local governments from Big Sur north to the Oregon border. Ed is a retired U.S. Coast Guard Captain who served globally during his decades of military service. This included assignments to multiple agencies in addition to serving at-sea for twenty years, ten of which were in command. Ed’s non-profit board experience includes the Lilac Preservation Project, Our Brain Bank for Glioblastoma, and the DC Chapter of National Railway Historical Society.

Erica Agiewich joined Applied Materials in 2017 as the director of Global Business Continuity Planning and Emergency Response. She manages a team of business continuity and emergency response professionals as well as a global network of volunteers in over 20 countries. Erica previously held positions in risk and resiliency at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, IntraPoint AS and Cisco Systems. She is a Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) through the Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) and is a member of the Bay Area Recovery Managers Association (BRMA). She holds a BA and MA in International Studies from UC Berkeley and the University of Washington, Seattle, respectively, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Lynn joined Lendistry in 2024 as the Head of Climate, Energy and Infrastructure. She works to bring financial solutions to support people and business with natural disaster recovery and resiliency initiatives. Lynn previously served in the California State government as the Executive Director of the California Strategic Growth Council and as the Deputy Secretary for Housing at the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, where she co-founded the Outsmart Disaster Campaign. She spent over ten years working on international development with a focus on infrastructure and operations while at DynCorp International and the United Nations Office of Project Services. For UNOPS she served in Afghanistan, South Sudan and Jerusalem. She holds an MPA from Princeton University, an MsC from Cranfield Defense Academy and a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of South Dakota.

Marianna Thomas is an emergency management professional with more than 10 years of experience leading 30+ disaster response and recovery operations including Los Angeles Wildfires, Camp Fire, Tubbs Fire and Hurricane Helene. She is an American Red Cross Mass Care Chief and FEMA-trained Public Information Officer (PIO) with extensive experience in preparedness, mass care and recovery. A former senior product manager at Apple and CEO of a technology marketing firm, Marianna brings together her technology background and passion for service to her role on the American Red Cross Enterprise AI team. Marianna has been a guest lecturer on crisis communications and emergency management at Stanford University and UC Berkeley. She is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, integrating trauma-informed approaches into her work.

Michael McCormick is a social entrepreneur, and the Founder and President of Farallon Strategies, a certified B Corp focused on capacity building for community resilience. He founded Farallon Strategies to support the creation of transformative community driven solutions to the impacts of a changing climate and resilience. Michael serves on a number of boards and commissions to support the ongoing evolution of the community of practice. In prior roles, Michael worked in local planning departments, served as the Senior Planning Advisor in the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and served in secondment in 2014/2015 as a Deputy Associate Director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as a Policy Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Conservation and Management at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.

Scott has over 40 years of experience including investigations, security operations, risk mitigation, emergency management, incident response, training/exercises and special event support. Scott’s service includes being a retired special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and a 20-year career with the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as the Supervisory Protective Security Advisor for SoCal and Hawaii. Scott earned a Bachelor’s degree from Wayland Baptist University, an MBA from Chaminade University of Honolulu, and earned ASIS International certifications of Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and Physical Security Professional (PSP), demonstrating his expertise in security program management and physical asset protection.