Klaxon Talks is The Klaxon’s speaker bureau. Lecturers are available for events at a venue of choice. The following members are qualified to speak on specific topics in emergency management. Interested? Send an e-mail to inquiries@theklaxon.com for rates and availability. Speakers of Klaxon Talks do not endorse or share the views of The Klaxon’s editorial content.
Law Enforcement, Terrorism
Tom Carey
tom@theklaxon.com
Carey is a combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom who obtained the rank of Sergeant Major in his 27 years of service. During his tour he served as both a committee member and advisor on security issues and operational issues for the Iraq Ministry of Defense complex in Baghdad, for Multi-National Force Iraq. He is also a twenty-three year (23) veteran of the New York City Police Department, serving in the capacity as the Course Manager for the Chief of Organized Crime’s Training Unit prior to his retirement. He has obtained both professional and academic training through many organizations to include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Secret Service, United States Army Sergeants Major Academy, The United States Army Military Police School’s Special Reaction Team Course, NYPD Bomb Squad and Counter Terrorism Bureau. Carey also is a graduate of Long Island University at C.W. Post, where he received a Master of Science in Criminal Justice and Security Administration. He currently serves as an adjunct professor for Metropolitan College of New York’s MPA Program in Emergency Management, as well as a trainer for other educational and training institutions.
Joseph L. Giacalone
joe@theklaxon.com
Giacalone is a seasoned law enforcement professional with an extensive police, safety, counterterrorism, investigations, training and security background. After the attacks on the World Trade Center, he was tasked with co-authoring the New York City Joint Bio-Terrorism Protocol with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Health. Giacalone is a certified fraudulent document instructor and terrorism awareness instructor and instructor evaluator for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. He has a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice with a specialty in Crime and Deviance from John Jay College in New York, where he has been an adjunct professor since 2006.
Tod Stephen Gluf
tod@theklaxon.com
Gluf is a 24-year law enforcement veteran who has served in a supervisory capacity for 14 of his 24 years of service. He currently assesses and evaluates all aspects of training within the local law enforcement community of New York City. He was instrumental in assisting the City of New York in amending the New York State Penal Law statute regarding criminal impersonation. He has served as an exercise coordinator for the City of New York where he traveled throughout the five boroughs of the city conducting tabletop exercises at various law enforcement facilities. He presently teaches Fraudulent Document Recognition for the State of New York Department of Criminal Justice Services in addition to Terrorism/Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness. He is both a certified New York State Law Enforcement Topics Instructor, as well as a New York State Instructor Evaluator. Gluf also is an instructor for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Center for Domestic Preparedness in the Incident Command System, WMD and Law Enforcement Preventative Measures. He received his Masters in Public Administration from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and has been an adjunct professor at Metropolitan College of New York Department of Emergency and Disaster Management since 2005.
Business Continuity
Tom Carey
tom@theklaxon.com
Carey is a combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom who obtained the rank of Sergeant Major in his 27 years of service. During his tour he served as both a committee member and advisor on security issues and operational issues for the Iraq Ministry of Defense complex in Baghdad, for Multi-National Force Iraq. He is also a twenty-three year (23) veteran of the New York City Police Department, serving in the capacity as the Course Manager for the Chief of Organized Crime’s Training Unit prior to his retirement. He has obtained both professional and academic training through many organizations to include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Secret Service, United States Army Sergeants Major Academy, The United States Army Military Police School’s Special Reaction Team Course, NYPD Bomb Squad and Counter Terrorism Bureau. Carey also is a graduate of Long Island University at C.W. Post, where he received a Master of Science in Criminal Justice and Security Administration. He currently serves as an adjunct professor for Metropolitan College of New York’s MPA Program in Emergency Management, as well as a trainer for other educational and training institutions.
Patricia Mercogliano
patricia@theklaxon.com
Mercogliano is a business continuity analyst at a major transportation authority in the New York City area. In this role she is responsible for development, implementation and ongoing administration of a corporate-wide business continuity program that ensures organizational resilience and the continuation of agency operations in the event of a major crisis or disruption. Mercogliano’s duties include leadership of a corporate-level business continuity steering committee; training and support for about thirty departmental business continuity coordinators; technical assistance in the development of business continuity plans; and the administration’s enterprise-wide business continuity planning and database system. Mercogliano also worked as an analyst for the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bureau of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (NJOHSP). In that role, she was responsible for the integration of critical infrastructure information into the statewide risk analysis and management plan, the first-ever initiative of it’s kind in New Jersey. Mercogliano has a Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is currently completing a Master of Science degree in Protection Management. She also has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Miami and has an Associate Business Continuity Professional certification (ABCP) from the Disaster Recovery Institute.
New Media
Chuck Frank
chuck@theklaxon.com
Frank is a master at orchestrating successful projects of any magnitude as evidenced by the extent of his career as a performer/director, real estate developer, and high-profile corporate executive. Possessing more than 20 years of executive experience in media and real estate, Frank is moving into the field of emergency and disaster management. He served as vice president of marketing and global events for a leading telecommunications consulting firm in Boston, and as chief executive officer of a technology publishing company that, according to The Wall Street Journal, “moved the market on a monthly basis.” Frank created technology conferences that brought together top authors, educators and business leaders from around the world to present cutting edge ideas to sold-out audiences. This ultimately led to a joint-venture with Forbes magazine. Frank is qualified to speak on new media issues and the use of emerging technology in the emergency and disaster management field. He also can discuss topics as they apply to residential, commercial and industrial property and building design and construction in relation to disaster management.
Joshua Wilwohl
josh@theklaxon.com
Wilwohl has been a journalist since high school. He’s led administrations to the verge of collapse and has pushed the limits of “new media.” He is an editor/writer at a major news organization in the New York City area. He also volunteers as iNET editor at the National Disaster Interfaiths Network. Wilwohl graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art history and journalism from Mercyhurst College in May 2008. After graduation, he worked as a copy editor at The New Jersey Herald. During undergrad, Wilwohl was editor-in-chief of The Merciad, the college’s newspaper, where he transformed the paper’s format, moved it online and took a more investigative journalism approach to the news. The changes led the newspaper to take the prize as one of the top 10, tabloid college newspapers in the country. During his time at Mercyhurst, Wilwohl also interned for The Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa., and The Citizen in Pittsburgh. He is a frequent speaker at Columbia University’s Scholastic Press Association on newspaper design, writing, handheld journalism and “new media.” He is the founder of the blog Handheld Journalism and has a book, “All the News that Fits in Your Pocket,” releasing summer 2010, on the future of journalism. Wilwohl’s been featured on BBC World Service and has a master’s degree in emergency and disaster management. He also is well-versed in Italian.
