Kevin D. Burton

Kevin D. Burton is a results-focused industry leader with 18 years experience driving the ground-up development, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency management programs for both multinational and small- to mid-sized organizations. Recognized subject matter expert (SME) known for building and running world-class programs fully aligned with FEMA and DHS standards. Master Auditor of SOX, HIPPA, SAS70, FDIC and other government regulations as well as such core IT best practice methodologies such as ITIL and COBIT. Strong communicator, program leader, and team builder adept at engaging and training diverse stakeholder groups in complex, globalized environments with large ERP and SAP installations.

With over 18 years of industry experience driving the ground up development, implementation and continuous improvement of enterprise emergency management programs for both multinationals and SMB’s Burton is a recognized subject matter expert known for building and running world-class programs that are fully aligned to emerging DHS and FEMA standards. Mr. Burton is a master of the nuances and topologies of regulation related to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery as well as Emergency Management areas of the NIPP and NSF. He is serving solely responsible for the McGladrey Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Emergency Management Practice.

Mr. Burton is the Author of graduate-level capstone textbooks including Managing Emerging Risk and Catastrophic Impact and Loss for Taylor Francis Press, the leader in Homeland Security Technical Education Materials.

Kevin began his professional career in 1996 as a Senior Consultant for a large business continuity and disaster recovery firm with responsibilities in e-commerce and complex architectures across the U.S. Kevin has also been an active thought-leader in the Emergency Management and Counter-Terrorism space, writing multiple state-wide Continuity of Government, Mass Evacuation and Pandemic Flu Plans. He has served the Global Emergency Management interest of Honeywell, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc. Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., The Gartner Group, and Toyota World-Wide.

Notable Engagements

With over 18 years of experience, Kevin has served both small businesses as well as G10 multinational organizations across the BC/DR and Business Intelligence spectrum delivering complete program solutions from start to finish.

Kevin has delivered Stakeholder Evangelism, Risk and Vulnerability Analysis, Business Impact Modeling, Process mapping, Incident Management, Managerial Leadership, HazMus3 Risk Models, and 100’s of Emergency Management, Plans, and complete Adaptive Capacity Management systems.

Kevin is a deeply skilled at big data modeling and visualization and has delivered measurable and repeat able data-driven results for technology organizations and governmental agencies.

Professional Achievements

Author of multiple peer-reviewed and published articles in several industry journals including DRJ, Continuity Insights, and many others.

Recognized industry leader who has established measurable and repeatable data-driven results in BC/DR and Operational Risk Management

Well-known keynote speaker who has traveled around the world countering the postmodern threats to globalized business models and has personally led the ground up recovery of a burned down ISP as the Incident Commander for this large data center fire.