DRI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President, DRI Foundation
Alan Berman is an MBCP, a member of the ASIS BS25999 technical committee, a member of the Committee of Experts for ANSI-ANAB, a former member of the NY City Partnership for Security and Risk Management and the co-chair for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation committee to create the new standard for the US Private Sector Preparedness Act (PL 110-53). Over a career that has spanned 25 years, he has served as a President and CIO for a major financial institution, National Practice Leader for Operational Resiliency for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Global Business Continuity practice leader for Marsh.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Member of the Chair of the Board
AnneMarie Staley is the Global Business Continuity Manager for AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. in New York. AmTrust is a multinational property and casualty insurer specializing in coverage for small to mid-sized businesses. With extensive underwriting experience, AmTrust has earned a reputation as an innovative, technology-driven provider of insurance products. AmTrust is listed on the NASDAQ global market under the symbol AFSI.
Prior to AmTrust, AnneMarie was the Managing Director for Global Business Continuity Management at the New York Stock Exchange between 2000 and 2014. Due in part to her innovative management of BCM at the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE received the NYC OEM Private Partner in Preparedness Award. Her prior fields of business experience include Law, Investment Banking and Philanthropy.
AnneMarie is Chair of the DRI Foundation; the philanthropic arm of DRI International and, Chair of the DRI Awards of Excellence Program; a program that honors and bestows awards to business continuity professionals and organizations each year at the annual DRI Conference.
Industry memberships include BCP Steering Committee for SIFMA (Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association); Contingency Planning Exchange (CPE); and Association for Contingency Planners (ACP), Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council (FSSCC), Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and others. She is ITIL Foundation certified and has been a certified business continuity professional (CBCP) through DRI since 2004 and is an MBCI through the Business Continuity Institute. AnneMarie resides in Edison, NJ with her husband Kevin.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Scholarship Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Marketing Committee
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
Chloe Demrovsky, CBCV, is the President of Disaster Recovery Institute International, a professional training company for Fortune 500 companies and government bodies, where she designs and implements the international market development strategy and manages a global partnership network in 50 countries. She has participated in on-site briefings for government bodies and international organizations as well as for visiting groups including the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Munitions, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East, and the Sino-Canadian Tech Exchange. She manages DRI's Business Resilience Glossary and acts as International Editor for Thrive Magazine and Revista Thrive Iberoamerica. She has presented at industry conferences and events on four continents, most recently on a public-private partnerships panel at the Global Risk Forum in Davos, Switzerland and an impact investing panel at the University of San Diego's Leadership for Peace and Prosperity Conference. Outside of DRI, she is an Adjunct Professor at New York University teaching a course in public-private partnerships. Her independent work focuses on private sector solutions for poverty alleviation and social inclusion. She conducted research on economic liberalization policy in India, designed a market research survey for a non-governmental organization in Kenya, and was a member of a climate change think tank for the United Nations. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College at Simon's Rock and a Master's in International Business from NYU.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Development Committee
Frank has been a part of the Business Continuity profession for over 20 years. As a consultant, he delivered Business Continuity Services to over 200 clients. He was both the Founder and CEO of Strategic BCP and the Lead Business Architect of ResilienceONE business continuity planning and risk management software.
Frank is devoted to his community and the non-profits that support them. In 2019, he founded the Perlmutter Fund for Animal Welfare to support animals in need around the world and Frank has personally placed over 500 animals in forever homes through these wonderful organizations. Frank is a proud father of 2 and volunteer coach for the Horsham Youth Soccer and Horsham Hawks Youth Football Teams for 7 years. Frank is also a member of MENSA International (the High IQ Society) and enjoys spending time with the other members.
Job Titles:
- Counsel
- General Counsel
- Member of the Board of Directors
Jeffrey Berman is a litigator and in-house counsel who has extensive experience with compliance, risk management and securities law. He also served as a lecturer-in-law at UCLA School of Law for several years and has practiced in both state and federal courts in New York and California. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Law School.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Marketing Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Scholarship Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Marketing Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Volunteer Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Scholarship Committee
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of the Board of Directors
Michele L. Turner, MBCP, FBCI, CISA, CRISC, GRCP, has 25+ years' experience in the areas of governance, risk, and compliance, with a Master of Science degree in Business Continuity from Norwich University. She is the Head of Global Business Resiliency for Amazon. In this role, she has developed the framework and methodology for business continuity, and provides leadership for this team, Crisis Management and Workplace Resiliency within Amazon's corporate environment. Prior to this, she led governance, risk, compliance and business continuity roles within Microsoft, initiating the Operational Risk Management vertical for this organization. Turner is an international speaker on the topics of business continuity, risk management, and related areas. She is a requested guest lecturer at the University of Washington on such topics as cybersecurity and operational risk, and a course instructor and Board Director for Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRI). She provides input as a Director of Giving within that organization's Foundation, and is also a member of the Conference Boards' Business Continuity and Crisis Management Council.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Volunteer Committee
- Director of Operations
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director of Operations and Conferences
Michele Ostler is the Director of Operations and Conferences for DRI International and handles venue site management for DRI courses.
Prior to her work with DRI, Michele spent 4 years at Goldman Sachs as a Human Resources Generalist and In-House Event Planner. Following her tenure there, Michele has served as the Founder and Event Planner for Penta Dynamic Solutions - a full-service association management and event planning firm.
Michele serves on the Board of The Disaster Recovery International Foundation as well as the Manhattan Board of the American Cancer Society.
A native New Yorker, Michele holds a BA and an MA in Psychology from Marist College. Michele resides in Long Island with her husband Tony and twins Vincent and Madeline.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Scholarship Committee