NYC Metro
President:
Len Gravesande
president@acpnycmetro.com

Vice President:
Marty Plevel
vicepresident@acpnycmetro.com

Membership Director:
Shelley Lee Johnson
membership@acpnycmetro.com

Program Director:
Matt Deane
program@acpnycmetro.com

Past President
Anne T. Ferraro
pastpres@acpnycmetro.com

The Association of Contingency Planners (ACP) is the nation’s premier organization for professionals in the field of Business Continuity.  The New York City Metro Chapter would like to invite you to attend one of our meetings and explore the benefits of becoming a member. Membership in our organization is open to industry professionals and individuals interested in business continuity and crisis management.

Please see our new Member Education page for useful links to government and private industry information about disaster preparedness and business continuity planning, and for downloads of forms and documents.

Association of Contingency Planners
Thursday, September 18th,  6:00 to 8:30 pm
 (recurring monthly on 3rd Thursday - varying locations & times)

HOST LOCATION:
Bank of America
One Bryant Park - 4th Floor, Room E
New York, NY  10036
(between 42nd & 43rd streets on 5th Avenue)

TOPIC:
Raise the Game on Quality Improvement for Your Entire Program

OPENING REMARKS:
Tim Farrell
Senior VP Business Continuity Event Management, Bank of America
and ACP Member

FEATURED SPEAKER:
Joseph Jurchak
Director of Resiliency Management
Institutional Client Group of Citigroup, Inc.

ROUNDTABLE FACILITATOR:
Matt Deane,
Director of Homeland Security Standards, American National Standards Institute
and ACP Chapter Program Director

To register, please RSVP before 06/16/08 to Shelley Johnson, Membership Director:
plan4later@aol.com OR 631-368-4795

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 IBCT courses Discount

As a benefit of membership, ACP has negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute for Business Continuity Training (IBCT) that provides for ACP member discounts up to 40% off IBCT courses.  They are self-paced, relatively inexpensive, and provide CEU credits for those who may need them.

To try a free on-line sample, please do so by going to www.ibct.com and registering.  Once you complete your registration send an email to Michael Bittle at mbittle@ibct.com and he will register you at no charge.

The ACP Corporate BoD announces it has entered into a strategic alliance with ICOR for education and research opportunities for all ACP Members. The International Consortium for Organizational Resilience (ICOR) has agreed to offer ACP Members a 10% discount on all of their training courses and workshops which span a variety of Business Continuity related industries. This is the same discount ICOR offers to its own members for its already low priced course offerings, if ICOR increases the discount for its members the ACP discount will also increase. In addition, when an ACP Chapter hosts the training event, venue, and refreshments the discount will be increased to 20% per ACP Member. ACP and ICOR will also collaborate on research opportunities through their respective Strategic Advisory Councils.

To assist you in preparing for certification, ICOR also offers a two day DRII Qualifying Exam Review course. ICOR stands behind its quality of education and guarantees that if you take this course you will pass the DRII Qualifying Exam, if not you can retake the course free of charge. This is of significant importance to the over 1,000 ACP Members who currently do not hold a Business Continuity related certification.

For more information about our meetings and programs:

please email Ms. Michael C. Redmond at msmichaelredmond@redmondworldwide.com

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