Brought To You By Major Partners:
Maria Salinas
President & CEO
LA Chamber of Commerce
Tracy Hernandez
Founding CEO
LA Bizfed
Stephen Cheung
Chief Operating Officer
LA County Economic Development Corporation
Ali Sahabi
Co-Founder & COO
Optimum Seismic, Inc.
Evan Reis, PE, SE
Executive Director & Co-Founder
U.S. Resiliency Council
Key Elected Leaders:
Fiona Ma
California State Treasurer
Eric Garcetti
Mayor of Los Angeles
Adrin Nazarian
California State Assemblymember
District 46
Key Officials:
Glenn Pomeroy
Chief Executive Officer
California Earthquake Authority
Aaron Gross
Chief Resilience Officer
City of Los Angeles
Webinar Champions:
Shane Diller
Assistant Development Services Director
CALBO President
Ben Stapleton
Executive Director
USGBC-LA
Linda Dishman
President and CEO
Los Angeles Conservancy
Jeremy Harris
President & CEO
Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce
Tracy Hernandez
Founding CEO
LA Bizfed
Ross Stein
CEO
Temblor
Lance Hastings
President + CEO
California Manufacturers & Technology Association
Laurel Rosen
President/CEO
Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce
Paul Little
President & CEO
Pasadena Chamber of Commerce
Matthew Wall
Executive Director
Western States Seismic Policy Council
Webinar Panelists:
Michelle Jones, AIA NCIDQ LEED AP BD+C
MANAGING PRINCIPAL – WESTERN REGION
RIM Architects
Jim Malley
Group Director, Senior Principal
Degenkolb San Francisco
Tracy Hernandez
Founding CEO
LA Bizfed
Aaron Gross
Chief Resilience Officer
City of Los Angeles
Jessica Westermeyer PE
Associate
KPFF
Paul Little
President & CEO
Pasadena Chamber of Commerce
Laurel Rosen
President/CEO
Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce
Lance Hastings
President + CEO
California Manufacturers & Technology Association
Dave Mar, SE,
Owner,
Mar Structural Design
Maryann Phipps, SE,
President
E Structure
Craig Stockbridge, AIA, LEED AP,
Principal
GBD Architects
Jeremy Harris
President & CEO
Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce
Shane Diller
Assistant Development Services Director
CALBO President
Laurie Schoeman
Senior Program Director, National Initiatives, Resilience
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Jeff Fullerton
Senior Vice President, Real Estate Development
The Plenary Group
David Cocke, S.E.,
President
Structural Focus
Jonathan Cohen,
Partner
The Society Hotel
Linda Dishman
President and CEO
Los Angeles Conservancy
Madison Spach Jr.,
Attorney
Spach, Capaldi & Waggaman
Ben Stapleton
Executive Director
USGBC-LA
Elaine Aye,
Associate Regional Manager
RWDI
Maria Salinas
President & CEO
LA Chamber of Commerce
Emilie Mazzacurati,
Global Head of Moody’s Climate Solutions
Moody’s Corporation
Gail Napell, AIA, LEED® AP BD+C
Firmwide Design Resilience Co-Leader, Senior Associate
Gensler
Lakisha Wood
Pres. and CEO,
National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)
Christine Goulet, PHD,
Executive Director for Applied Science
SCEC and USC
Ross Stein
CEO
Temblor
Steve Marusich, SE,
Principal and Director of Technical Excellence
FORELL ELSESSER Engineers
Mark Moore, SE,
Principal
ZFA Engineers
Fred Malik
IBHS Managing Director
FORTIFIED Products
The Resilience Advantage Interviewees:
Ali Sahabi
Co-Founder & COO
Optimum Seismic, Inc.
Anahid-Behrouzi
Assistant Professor
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Ben Stapleton
Executive Director
USGBC-LA
Byron Williams
Chief Administrative Officer
Oregon State Treasury
Colin Diaz
President/CEO
Culver City Chamber of Commerce
Craig Severance
Founder
iMod
Curt Haselton, PhD, PE
Co-Founder and CEO
SP3
Daniel Zepeda
Principal, Working Group Leader
Degenkolb Los Angeles
Henry V Burton
Associate Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Jessica Westermeyer PE
Associate
KPFF
Jim Malley
Senior Principal
Degenkolb
Jonathan Cohen,
Partner
The Society Hotel
Laurel Rosen
President & CEO
Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce
Laurie Schoeman
Affordable Housing Resiliency Expert
Enterprise Community Partners
Linda Dishman
President and CEO
Los Angeles Conservancy
Madison Spach Jr.,
Attorney
Spach, Capaldi & Waggaman
Michelle Jones
MANAGING
RIM Architects
Rene Vignos
Chief Operating Officer
Forell/Elsessor Structural Engineers
Ron Mayes
Staff Consultant
SGH
Ron Takiguchi, PE,
CBO Assistant Community Development Director- Building Official City of Burbank
Sharyl Rabinovici
Director Of Strategic Communications
US Resiliency Council
Sorrel Hanson
Assistant VP – Sr Staff Engineering Specialist FM Global
Tracy Hernandez
Founding CEO
LA Bizfed
Dave Mar, SE,
Owner,
Mar Structural Design
Janiele Maffei
Chief Mitigation Officer
California Earthquake Authority
Adrin Nazarian
California State Assemblymember
District 46
Aaron Gross
Chief Resilience Officer
City of Los Angeles
Reid Zimmerman PE, SE
Technical Director
KPFF
Craig Stockbridge, AIA, LEED AP,
Principal
GBD Architects
Alan Klembczyk
President
Taylor Devices
Kyle Wilson
Regional Engineer
SidePlate Systems, Inc.
Brandt Saxey
Vice President
CoreBrace
Blake Roskelley
Structural Engineer – Product & Business Development
Clark Pacific
Jeff Ellis
Director of Codes & Compliance
Simpson StrongTie
Gain The Resilience Advantage
Plan Now to Prepare • Respond • Recover
We’re seeing the severe economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Imagine how much worse it could be if a major earthquake hit California’s urban areas.
The human toll in terms of deaths and injuries could be staggering. Collapsed buildings and infrastructure could take years – even decades – to fully replace. Much of our housing could be destroyed. Many businesses would likely never reopen.
Avoiding this terrible scenario is the purpose of The Resilience Advantage webinar series. A coalition of leading business organizations is now in its fourth year of providing educational programming to assist business and community leaders prepare for natural disasters.
These webinars will bring you informative conversations with leading experts in many disciplines on relevant and timely topics, emerging issues and concerns in communication, developments in the profession, our community, and more.
Our programs will help overcome the myths and inertia that have in too many cases held back adoption of resilience techniques. We’ll show you the facts. We’ll bring you up to date on how you can protect your business, buildings, investment, employees and future from potential devastation. Join us for these important conversations about protecting California’s economy and quality of life!