Your DRIE-SWO Executive
| Mike Fiorino is President of DRIE-SWO. Mike is BCM Relationship Manager with the Enterprise BCM Group at TD Bank, based in London, Ontario. He has held various Project and BCM / DR related positions in the bank since 1989, spending the past 9 years with the TD Enterprise Business Continuity team where his focus is on providing BC tool training, analytics, guidance and advice to internal TD Bank Business Units on business continuity planning and testing, along with Incident / Crisis Management, Governance and BC Strategies. Mike is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) and has been a member of DRIE-SWO since 2007. Mike can be reached at president@drie-swo.org |
| Tom Shebrek is past President of DRIE-SWO. Tom is currently Enterprise Crisis and Business Continuity division lead at Canadian Tire and has has been in the fields of Emergency & Risk Management, BCP and DR for more than 15 years. He has instructed at York University and Mohawk College. In addition to leading his own company, Advanced Resilience International (ARI), Tom has held senior positions at Walmart, RIM / Blackberry and Sun Life Financial. Tom co-chairs the Private Sector Partnership Working Group supporting Canada's Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (sanctioned by the United Nations). Tom can be reached at pastpresident@drie-swo.org |
Kim Sachau is past President and the current Treasurer of DRIE-SWO. Kim is Business Continuity Manager at MCAP in Kitchener, Ontario. She holds the Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) designation from DRI Canada and the MBCI certification from the Business Continuity Institute. Kim served as President of DRIE-SWO from 2008 to 2015. Kim Sachau is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, obtained while on the Six Sigma Team at GE Information Technology Solutions (ITS) prior to joining the Disaster Recovery Team as a consultant in 2001. As a consultant, Kim has assisted clients with their BIA’s, plan Development, testing and maintenance etc. Kim can be reached at treasurer@drie-swo.org | |
Lydia Van Slyke is Membership Director of DRIE-SWO. | |
Shanda is a Senior Manager, Business Continuity at opentext. She has over 20 years experience focused solely on business continuity and emergency management. Shanda has worked extensively with various organizations in business continuity, crisis management and emergency management, with public and private sector clients across a variety of industries. Prior to working at opentext, Shanda worked at MNP, was the National Practice Lead for Business Resilience at Protiviti, the Director of Business Continuity at Resolve Corporation, Manager at PwC, and Manager of BCP for Fidelity Investments Canada. Shanda can be reached at secretary@drie-swo.org | |
Pam de Boer is Vice-President and Program Director for DRIE-SWO For 30+ years, Pam has enjoyed various roles in the insurance and related industries, but since May of 2022 she has held the role of Strategic Relationship Manager with PREMIER, a Specialty Market "Managing Underwriting Agent". Throughout her insurance career, she has created and facilitated educational seminars and webinars. For 13 years in the insurance restoration industry she held various roles, including that of "Continuing Education Director - North America" Pam is Past President of the Toronto Insurance Women's Association and sat on the Board for the Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation for 8 years (and still volunteers for the charity today). She continues to facilitate and co-facilitate seminars, webinars and workshops throughout Canada, primarily in the insurance industry but also co-facilitating Emergency Preparedness Planning - Public/Private partnership workshops. Pam holds the Fellow Chartered Insurance Professional (FCIP), and Canadian Risk Management (CRM) designations. Pam can be reached at programming@DRIE-SWO.org | |
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| Ian Winsor is Session Director of DRIE-SWO. In his 'day job' Ian is the Senior Information Technology Officer at SNOILAB in Sudbury, ON. Ian can be reached at sessions@drie-swo.org |
Reena Patel is a Publications Director for DRIE-SWO. Reena can be reached at publications@drie-swo.org | |
Jim Loyer is a Publications Director for DRIE-SWO. Jim is retired, having last served as Manager, Business Continuity for Spectra Energy Limited (now Enbridge). Jim holds MBA and Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degrees from the University of Windsor, a CBCP from DRI Canada & a Masters Certificate in IT Project Management from George Washington University. Jim can be reached at publications@DRIE-SWO.org | |
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