Michael is responsible for long term strategy, tactical guidance and governance for business continuity management and resiliency programs across the globe at IBM. For the majority of Michael's career, he has focused almost exclusively on business resiliency. From his personal experience in the financial industry through his services and product tenures at IBM, he has experienced the resiliency business through the entire spectrum. From restoring data centers and client services at time of crisis, to developing technical and business solutions, through the industry's evolution to cloud, cyber resiliency, and shared resiliency solutions, Michael is able to bring forward a real-time perspective on today's key issues in the resiliency space.