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Al Rennick	President Colleagues, I have been in the Business Continuity industry over 25 years. The majority of my career was spent in the AT&T family starting disaster recovery programs for the different lines of business. I was involved with the recovery of the AT&T assets on September 11, 2001 for 2 months. We actually tested the plan on September 10th. Everyone did get out! I retired from AT&T in 2003 and opened my own business and became the President of Disaster Recovery Consultants (DRC), providing solutions for business continuity and service recovery. I’m happy to say that DRC is successful. I was very fortunate to be a Charter Member of the ACP Garden State Chapter and it has been a privilege to serve as the chapter President since its inception in February 2005. The chapters Board of Directors are dedicated to serving the chapter members. They are creative, talented and out of the box thinkers. I can’t say enough about them. The people I have met over the years at symposiums, classes and trade shows and within the ACP are some of the most talented people in our profession. To this day, we still communicate with each other and get together when traveling to the same place. They are friend’s for life. I attended Fairleigh Dickinson University majoring in Electrical Engineering Technology. I became a Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) in 1991. I’m also a former member of the Disaster Recovery Journal Editorial Advisory Board. I enjoy spending time with my family, traveling, and meeting people.
Stan Carlstadt	Secretary
Betty Byrnes	Treasurer Betty is a vice president at Marsh USA specializing in business continuity. She has extensive experience in business continuity practices, program management, and process improvement. She actively partners with clients to provide leadership as a facilitator, project manager, instructor and consultant, enabling teams to establish and effectively communicate customer-focused goals, strategies and plans for improving business continuity, recoverability and reliability. Betty’s leadership is in identifying vulnerabilities and gaps in businesses through business impact analysis, risk assessment, project management, process analysis, quality, computers and computer networking. Her strengths include strong organizational skills, excellent interpersonal and customer interaction skills, strong analyzing and evaluating skills, training, and planning. Betty has been an active ACP member since 2003. She is certified in Project Management from Stevens Institute of Technologies and has Master Business Continuity Professional certification from Disaster Recovery Institute International. Betty and her family live in Gladstone New Jersey. On a nice day, you will find her either in her garden or on her bicycle.
Timothy Joo	Education Director Timothy F. Joo, CBCP, CSM, MEP, FF/EMT CEMP Coordinator NJ Department of Health and Senior Services PO 369 Trenton, NJ 08625-0369 609.631.4903 Mr. Joo (pronounced ‘JOE’) is a Certified Business Continuity Professional employed with the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services in Trenton, NJ, where he currently serves as program coordinator for the Comprehensive Emergency Management Program. After first joining the Department of Health and Senior Services as a Regional Exercise Coordinator in 2003, Tim had the opportunity to attend the Emergency Management Institute and successfully completed the Master Exercise Practitioner Program. He has currently completed the first half of the Certified Public Manager Program (a 228 hour management development program) and holds the certification of Supervisory Manager. Tim started his Business Continuity career in 1997 as a Security and Disaster Recovery Planner for a worldwide chemical company headquartered in Philadelphia. He advanced his responsibilities throughout his 7 years there and ultimately held the position of Manager, Data Center Operations and Disaster Recovery. Tim has spent over 25 years in the emergency response community as a certified Emergency Medical Technician and more than 14 years with local and county emergency management. For the last 9 years he has expanded his expertise to include firefighting where he holds certifications in New Jersey for Firefighter I, Instructor Level 2 and Incident Management Level 3. Tim serves as a Captain with the Willingboro Fire Department, a combination volunteer/career department answering 1400 calls annually. Tim is also a member of the elite NJ Urban Search and Rescue Team (NJ Task Force 1) as a technical information specialist. A team of only 168 members, his role within the Planning Component is to provide digital documentation and GPS locating services, personnel accountability, assist with the incident action planning and implementation of the incident command system during activations and training opportunities. In addition, Tim was recently selected to serve on the newly formed NJ State Incident Support Team, providing overall incident management activities to support Incident Commanders in the field on long-term or complex incidents.
Bernard Jones	Information Director (webmaster) Bernard A Jones, CBCP Medco Health Solutions 100 Parsons Pond Drive Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417 Hi, I'm Bernie Jones and I am a business continuity professional at Medco Health Solutions in Franklin Lakes New Jersey. I have been in the IT field for over 20 years now, and have worked in DR/BC for the last 10 years. I had the pleasure of joining the ACP Garden State Chapter at the beginning of 2006. The experience so far has been great. I have met so many wonderful people within the organization. It's nice to be able to meet with and discuss business continuity topics, with others in the industry. This is a real bonus when attending the various chapter meetings. Last year I served as Education Director for our chapter and this year I was elected to the Information Director (webmaster) position. I hope you all are enjoying the new website design. Please feel free to send me an e-mail if you have any questions regarding the website of have any ideas on what you would like to see within the website. Hope to see you all at the next chapter meeting!! P.S. That's a picture of me during graduation ceremonies at NJPAC. I graduated with a Masters degree in MIS from Kean University.
Linda Vos	Publication Director (newsletter) Linda L. Vos, CBCP, is an IT professional with twenty (20) years experience in various aspects of corporate and organizational Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR). Prior to retirement from Prudential Financial, Linda was Director, Information Services and served as continuity liaison to the Enterprise BC Office, Infrastructure Technology and Business Units, accountable for BC & DR best practices, operational efficiencies, risk management, controls & compliance, project management and helped develop organizational standards for offshore vendor governance. Linda is proud to be among the ACP Garden State Chapter 2005 charter members, serving her second term as Chapter Membership Director, contributed to Chapter achieving the 2005 Eagle Award, recipient of the 2006 Chapter MVP and assists with the monthly Membership & Program Director calls. A staunch proponent of continuity, Linda is also remains committed to her community’s preparedness. She’s an active volunteer of the Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ OEM: EOC, RACES & CERT. From January 2006 to date, Linda has earned her FCC tech license, N.J. State Police OEM CERT instructor certification, teaches ICS & NIMS, and has successfully completed more than forty (40) Emergency Management Institute (EMI)/FEMA & USDA courses; including the Professional Development Series Certificate of Achievement and American Red Cross Shelter Management series.
Lori Keenan	Program Director (chapter meetings) Lori is a Vice President at Merrill Lynch in Pennington, NJ where she currently serves as Business Continuity Program Director for the Global Wealth Management Technology Division which resides in the US and International locations. In her current position she manages the business continuity program and is involved in vendor governance, information and risk, process improvement, etc. She has worked for Merrill Lynch for 27 years. She received her Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) in May, 2004 and her Certified Business Resilience Auditor (CBRA) in July, 2006. Lori enjoys spending time with her 3 sons ranging in age from 5 years old to 22 years old. Because of their diverse interests and ages, this keeps her very busy with balancing the work and family lifestyle. Some day she hopes to find time for her husband!
Morten Mikkelsen	Membership Director (membership) Morten has worked in the DR/BC industry for almost 6 years in a consultative sales role for DBSi, a Bethlehem, PA-based company with a 26-year history of delivering DR/BC, co-location, managed hosting and other IT services to medium-sized and Fortune 500 companies in NJ. Prior to DBSi, Morten worked for a VAR and a DSL provider in the Lehigh Valley. Morten graduated Summa Cum Laude from DeSales University's ACCESS program with a BA in Management of Information Technology in 2003. Originally from Denmark, Morten came to the US in 1982. Outside of work, Morten's hobbies include refereeing soccer and real estate investing.
Nat Tejo	Public Relations I am Nat Tejo and I work as a Program Manager in the IT Risk Management department of Carrier Corporation, a leader in the heating, air conditioning and refrigeration industry. I worked in the IT field for over 15 years prior to joining the business continuity/disaster recovery field in 2003. Even though I have a couple of master’s degrees and professional certifications in business continuity and project management, I strongly believe that unlike other professions, learning in the BC/DR field is quite different and requires constant sharing of ideas and knowledge between BC/DR professionals with varied backgrounds from public and private institutions. I have been fortunate to work and learn the basics from many different contingency professionals that I have met over the years at ACP chapter meetings, industry conferences and other vendor events. I look forward to such exchange of ideas constantly and ACP Garden State Chapter meetings are a wonderful resource for networking and learning from a distinguished set of speakers. I am a native of India and have lived in the USA since 1993. I became a US citizen in 2001 and it was one of the proudest moments of my life. I look forward to meeting you in one of the Garden state chapter meetings.

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