
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!