5 Minutes to Chaos
Episode 19 - Senior Emergency Manager John Gibb Discusses His Extensive Local and State Career and His 9/11 Crisis Management Experience
24 Aug 2023
Introduction John Gibb has 40 years of local, state and consulting emergency management and homeland security experience. As an emergency management and homeland security agency head in New York State, he served four governors. He led and managed the integration of state level cyber security, counter terrorism, emergency management, fire service and interoperable communications functions when New York State created the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. He has served in significant response and recovery roles for a number of disasters and emergencies in New York State. As the Director of NYSEMO he was the State Coordinating Officer for ten Major Disasters and the H1N1 outbreak in 2009. He was a Deputy State Coordinating Office for the 9-11 attacks where he coordinated state agency response activities in New York City and was the state lead at the FEMA Disaster Field Office, leading initial recovery efforts. He had key operational roles for the 1998 northern New York ice storm, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and numerous floods, blizzards, hurricanes, ice storms as well as the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Key Positions: Commissioner (Acting), NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Director, NYS Emergency Management Office Assistant Director, NYS Office of Homeland Security Executive Director, NYS WMD Task Force Assistant Director for Preparedness, NYS Emergency Management Office Senior Consultant, Contingency Management Consulting Group, LLC Strategic Advisor, Redland Strategies Contact Information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gibb-099700b/ Twitter – John Gibb @emdir1
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