Brian Zawada
Brian Zawada is the Vice President of Strategy and Innovation for Riskonnect, a firm specializing in integrated risk management solutions. Prior to being acquired by Riskonnect, Brian was the Chief Operating Officer for Castellan Solutions and a co-founder and the Chief Visionary Officer for Avalution Consulting. Over the past 28years, Brian has actively managed internal business continuity programs and consulted with public and private sector organizations of all sizes, helping them not only design and implement world-class business continuity and operational resilience programs. In early 2019, Brian and the Avalution team pooled their collective experiences and formally introduced the Business Continuity Operating System (BCOS) to help organizations achieve –and sustain –the right level of resilience. Outside of his work with Riskonnect and its clients, Brian previously served as the Head of the United States Delegation to ISO Technical Committee 223, the authors of ISO 22301. Brian contributed to ISO 22301 and led the project team that created ISO 22317, the business impact analysis standard, and ISO 22331, the business continuity strategy determination standard. Brian is certified as a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute.
