People

Mark Baker. Director

Mark holds a BSc honours degree and is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He has completed the BSI Business Continuity Management Systems Lead Auditor course.

Mark has extensive public sector experience and has held senior management positions including Director of Governance for a large local authority. He has significant project and programme management experience having been responsible for the delivery of multi million pound projects.

Mark has also had responsibility for legal and audit services, servicing Audit and Standards committees.

He has over ten years experience of emergency and business continuity planning and has operated at a strategic level, attending multi-agency Gold groups on numerous occasions.  He has frequently been exercise director for multi-agency exercises, some involving in excess of 500 players from many agencies. He has lectured at Easingwold Emergency Planning College and been a speaker at many professional conferences.

Frederick Gentile. Director

Frederick’s range of experience covers advertising, teaching, working with the Foreign Office, emergency and risk management. He holds a BA honours degree and Diploma in Management as well as an MBE received in 1991. He has completed the OGC Management of Risk Practitioner course.

Frederick has headed the Risk Management service for a large local authority and has significant experience in business continuity and emergency planning, health and safety and insurance. He has also chaired a local resilience forum support group for several  years and led on a major regional resilience project involving the Cabinet Office as a key stakeholder.