ZERO TRAFFIC DEATHS - Key Persons

Amy Artuso

Amy Artuso has worked for more than 22 years in the area of children's health and wellness. In her role at NSC, Amy serves as a subject matter expert. She drives sustainable growth by creating synergies across NSC roadway programs, including child passenger safety, Drive It Home, Our Driving Concern (TxDOT) and Check to Protect. She is well-versed in occupant protection and general transportation issues. A child is involved in a car crash every 33 seconds and dies every nine days from heat stroke in a vehicle; on average more than 66 children have been killed annually in backup crashes - all preventable deaths. Amy is leading NSC initiatives that seek to eliminate these tragedies by educating parents, caregivers and all vehicle occupants about the consequences of not using seat belts, booster seats or car seats, and what everyone can do to make sure all vehicle occupants are restrained correctly during every ride. Prior to joining NSC, Amy worked in pediatric injury prevention at All Children's Hospital, part of Johns Hopkins Medicine. In this role, she worked extensively with extramural funding provided by the Florida Department of Transportation. Programs included child passenger safety and bicycle and pedestrian safety on the West Coast of Florida. Amy has served as a multi-county Safe Kids Coordinator, focusing on a variety of childhood injury prevention topics, and coordinated Safe Routes to School funding and initiatives. She also has worked as a civilian training and curriculum specialist in child and youth services for the U.S. Department of the Army, stationed in Germany. She was a certified child life specialist for 16 years, working at Yale New Haven Hospital and All Children's Hospital. A native to western New York, Amy earned a bachelor's degree from East Carolina University in Child Development with a focus on children in healthcare settings. She completed post-baccalaureate courses at Yale University, training at Yale New Haven Hospital, and worked as a research assistant for the Yale School of Medicine. Amy earned a master's degree in public health from the University of South Florida in maternal and child health. Amy is a nationally certified child passenger safety technician instructor. She served as a past-chairperson of the National Child Passenger Safety Board and is currently its secretariat. She resides in Tampa, FL with her husband and children.

Anas Al-Hamwi

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Senior Director of Health, Safety and Injury Management, Walgreens

Dr. Al-Hamwi leads Walgreens Retail USA health, safety and injury management program and supports the global Walgreens Boots Alliance Casualty Risk Insurance group to improve health, safety and casualty insurance outcomes throughout the company. He is the founding member of the WBA Health, Safety and Environmental Governance Committee, and represents health and safety in the WBA Global Corporate Social Responsibility organization. Dr. Al-Hamwi developed an enhanced OSHA response system, and designed and implemented an Active Care model that delivers improved care post-injury while reducing cost. He has developed a culture at Walgreens that integrates safety into all company processes and procedures, resulting in three consecutive years of reduced team member injuries. Dr. Al-Hamwi earned a doctor of medicine degree from Damascus University, Syria, and is a member of the Chicago ALSAC chapter of St. Jude charities.

Andrew O. Johnson

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Chief Risk Officer, Captive Resources LLC

Bradley A. Thomas

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President, First Transit and First Vehicle Services

As president of First Transit and First Vehicle Services, Brad Thomas is responsible for more than 19,500 employees across North America. Brad joined First Transit as senior vice president of the East Region in 2003 and was named president in 2009. With more than 25 years of experience in the transit industry, Brad is well versed in traditional markets, including fixed-route, paratransit, shuttle and vehicle maintenance, as well as new emerging mobility services. Committed to the safety of the community, passengers and employees, he oversees all Transit operations across North America. His engaging and respected approach has helped transform the business and its relationship with customers across the continent. Brad earned a bachelor's degree in political science at the State University of New York College at Cortland and holds a master's degree from Binghamton University (NY) in political science - public policy analysis and administration.

Brian J. Cook

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Executive Advisor With Challenger, Gray and Christmas
Executive Advisor, Challenger, Gray and Christmas

Brian J. Cook is an executive advisor with Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a Chicago-based global career transition firm helping executives define their personal career goals and implement job search strategies to achieve those goals. He also is an adjunct instructor in the MBA program at Loyola University of Chicago's Quinlan School of Business. He recently retired as executive vice president and chief administrative officer of USG Corporation, leading the human resources, corporate communications, corporate services, and environmental, health & safety functions. He is an advisory board member for Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business and chairman emeritus of the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago. He attended Virginia Tech, earning a bachelor's degree in management and finance, as well as an MBA. He earned his juris doctorate from DePaul University College of Law.

Chantal Trépanier

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President, Cognibox, Inc

Ms Trépanier has been at the head of Cognibox for nearly 20 years. She orchestrated the transition from a consulting and training firm to a software company with a recurring revenue model. Ms. Trépanier stands out for her leadership and creativity, and considers innovation and development top priorities. She initiated and carried out the standardization and recognition project for Occupational Health and Safety training with approximately 100 client corporations. Her forward-thinking ideas led her to propel SIM Inc. internationally by imagining Cognibox, a contractor compliance management SAAS used by leading corporations across 30 countries. In 2015, she won the prestigious Investissement Québec CEO of the Year Award given by company executive leaders in the technology field.

Cheryl L. Gomez-Smith

Ms Gomez-Smith has extensive operations and safety leadership experience having worked in senior operating leadership positions in both the U.S. and abroad. Cheryl previously served as the lead country manager for Exxon Mobil's Kazakhstan business. Over her career, she has been directly responsible for the safety and health of thousands of employees and contractors, as well as developing "the world's best solutions" to safety challenges as Exxon Mobil moves toward its objective of eliminating high-consequence injuries and fatalities." She began her career with Exxon in 1990 as a facilities engineer in Texas and has held various technical and leadership roles of increasing responsibility in the USA, Qatar and Russia. She has onshore and offshore experience in facilities engineering, reservoir engineering, construction and project development and execution, and operations management. For over two years Cheryl was a producing operations manager in ExxonMobil Global Operations, responsible for development, execution and sustainment of ExxonMobil Global Best Practices. In 2009-2013, Cheryl was the Operations Manager for Exxon Neftegas Ltd., operator of the Sakhalin-1 project in Russia, where she was responsible for ExxonMobil's production operations business and engineering in the Russian Far East. Cheryl is an American citizen and graduated from the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and from Tulane University (Louisiana, USA) with an MBA.

Claire Stroer

Claire is a public health professional working on the Council's impairment initiatives. Claire is responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating the council's impairment initiatives, such as addressing workplace substance misuse and fatigue. This entails researching relevant topics and providing analysis for technical reports and initiatives to strategize and build future programs. In her responsibilities at the Council, Claire manages several initiatives, including the NSC Physician Speakers Bureau, where she works with experts to promote safe prescribing practices and opioid risk reduction programming. As a Certified Health Education Specialist, Claire also focuses on creating tools to aid employers in addressing substance misuse and other forms of impairment in the workplace. She works to create and draw awareness to holistic impairment interventions for employers, such as workplace training and impairment detection technology. Before joining NSC, Claire worked in clinical quality improvement at the Mercy Health Center, a nonprofit health clinic in Athens, Georgia. She also worked in health intervention programming in Atlanta area nonprofits, such as the Shepard Center. Claire holds a Master of Public Health with a concentration in policy and management from the University of Georgia, where she also completed her undergraduate degree in health promotion and behavior. A native Georgian, she now resides in Chicago.

Dane M. Bremer

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AVP and Director, Global Business Continuity and Employee Safety, Liberty Mutual Insurance

David B. Burritt

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President and Chief Executive Officer of United States Steel Corporation

David B. Burritt was appointed president and chief executive officer of United States Steel Corporation in May 2017. At that time, Mr. Burritt also was named to the company's board of directors. He had been elected president and chief operating officer in February 2017, with executive responsibility for all aspects of the company's day-to-day business in the United States and Central Europe. Mr. Burritt joined U.S. Steel in September 2013 as executive vice president and chief financial officer with responsibility for all aspects of the company's strategic and financial matters. Prior to joining U.S. Steel, Mr. Burritt, served as chief financial officer at Caterpillar Inc. Mr. Burritt earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Bradley University in Peoria and received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Illinois in Champaign. He serves on the board of directors for Lockheed Martin, on the Executive Committee of the worldsteel Board of Directors and is a member of The Business Council.

Dr. Marissa J. Levine

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Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa

Dr. Levine teaches leadership and focuses on population health improvement. She recently completed 16 years of state government work, most recently serving as the Virginia health commissioner and leading the Virginia Department of Health. As commissioner, Dr. Levine led the effort to create an action framework to enhance the conditions for equitable population health and wellbeing, called Virginia's Plan for Well-Being. Dr. Levine previously held deputy commissioner and local health department positions with VDH. She is a board-certified family physician with 16 years of medical practice experience. She received a masters of public health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., and she completed family practice residency training at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Elaine S. Beitler

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Board Director
Consultant

Ms. Beitler, board director and consultant, served as president and CEO of BROWZ, LLC, a privately held global software developer and provider until February 2019. Before joining BROWZ, LLC she spent 13 years at Bowne & Co. Inc., a shareholder and marketing communication services company, where she was corporate officer, president of marketing and business communications, and chief information officer. Ms. Beitler holds a master of business administration from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree from Albany University. She was listed among Forbes Women Business Leaders for 2016.

Emily Whitcomb

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Director of the Work
Director, Work to Zero, National Safety Council
NSC in 2014 As a Research Associate

Emily Whitcomb is the director of the Work to Zero initiative at the National Safety Council. Supported by a grant from the McElhattan Foundation, Work to Zero uses decades of insight, data and an unparalleled network of safety leaders to identify the most promising technological innovations for eliminating workplace deaths. In short, Work to Zero will serve as a hub of digital transformation in safety. Emily joined NSC in 2014 as a research associate, conducting program evaluation for community, transportation and workplace injury prevention programs. She then became senior program manager and subject matter expert for the NSC fatigue initiative. She created the NSC Fatigue Cost Calculator, which makes the business case for organizations to address fatigue, and forged partnerships to expand resources, information and expertise for the program. Before coming to NSC, she served as prevention specialist at the Institute for Public Strategies in San Diego and was a research associate at Advance Health Solutions. Emily has a master of public health from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a double major from Northern Illinois University in both psychology and public health. Her research has been published in multiple peer review journals, including Accident Analysis and Prevention, the Journal of Safety Research and Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour.

Glenn D. Trout Jr.

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Chief Executive Officer, Source Intelligence, and Founder & Strategic Adviser, VelocityEHS

I. David Daniels

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Chief

I. David Daniels is a retired fire chief who now serves as president/CEO of ID2 Solutions, LLC. He is certified as a safety director, workplace violence prevention specialist, and emergency management specialist. He served over 30 years in fire/rescue, emergency medical services, and emergency management organizations in four states. In 2021, he became the first-ever living African American inducted into the National Fire Heritage Center's Hall of Legacies, Legends, and Leaders. David received his bachelor of science in Fire Services Administration from Eastern Oregon University, attended the Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executives in State and Local Government program, achieved his master's degree in human resources management and services from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University and a PhD in occupational health and safety from Capitol Technology University in 2020.

James W. Connell

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Executive Vice President & Chief Customer Officer, Centuri Group, Inc

Jane Sinclair

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General Counsel, Firmenich International SA

Jane Terry

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Vice President, Government Affairs

Jason Melton

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Principal, Long Ridge Equity Partners LLC

Jennifer Steffus

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Chief Development Officer

John Dony

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Senior Director of Thought Leadership and Director of the Campbell Institute at the National Safety Council

Expertise: EHS Management, Sustainability, Leading Indicators, Campbell Institute

Joshua P. Ensign

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President, Proterra Transit, Inc

Kathleen E. Eaton

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Vice President - Safety, Building Services, Energy Management, the Home Depot

Ken Kolosh

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Manager of Statistics

Lorraine M. Martin

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Co - Founder and President of the Pegasus Springs Foundation
Leader of the National Safety Council
President & CEO, National Safety Council
President and CEO of the National Safety Council

Lorraine Martin is the president and CEO of the National Safety Council, a nonprofit with a century-long legacy of eliminating preventable deaths and injuries from the workplace to anyplace. Throughout her 35 years of experience in aerospace, including leading and developing global and international businesses as an executive at Lockheed Martin, Lorraine has been singularly focused on showing up for safety and supporting employees to reach their full potential. As a leader of the National Safety Council, Lorraine is passionate about helping people live their fullest lives. She is the chair of the Road to Zero Coalition, with more than 900 organizations focused on eliminating roadway fatalities by doubling down on proven measures, advancing technology and building safe systems. She is spearheading national conversations on eliminating workplace fatalities through promising technologies, addressing impairment and safety leadership. Over her career she has led global aircraft and complex system development and manufacturing, always with a focus on the safety of employees and those who used the products, often in high consequence environments. Among her top achievements, Lorraine led the largest defense program for the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter aircraft. She also spearheaded the successful operational and cultural integration of Sikorsky, a global leader in helicopters. Lorraine is the co-founder and president of the Pegasus Springs Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing opportunities for educators, students and community members to collaborate on learning models. She is an enthusiastic advocate for school, community and national resource engagement. As a proud champion for advancing women and girls in STEM, Lorraine was named among STEMConnector's 100 Corporate Women Leaders. She has worked with numerous organizations in support of this mission including Girls Inc., Girls Who Code and Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence, where she also served on the Board of Directors. In addition, she has served on the Board of Directors for INROADS and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Orlando. Lorraine currently serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee for Kennametal, a $2.4 billion global materials science firm that serves customers across aerospace, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation. Lorraine is honored to have served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where she held various leadership positions for software-intensive technology and development programs. She has earned a M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University and a B.A. in Computational Mathematics from DePauw University.