| Home > Events > Bulls, Bears, and Birds Conference, 2005 > Speakers > Michael Berkowitz Michael Berkowitz, Operations Manager, Business Continuity Management, Deutsche Bank Americas Michael Berkowitz is the Operations Manager for Deutsche Bank Americas Business Continuity Team. Until January 2005, he was the Deputy Commissioner for Special Projects at the Office of Emergency Management in New York City. In this position he worked on major planning initiatives, including the New York City Coastal Storm, Biological Terrorism and Transit Strike contingency plans. In addition, he responded to incidents including the 1999 outbreak of West Nile Fever, Tropical Storm Floyd, major flooding in Southern Queens (1999), the crashes of SwissAir 111 and American Airlines 587 as well as the recent anthrax incidents and the World Trade Center disaster. Prior to his arrival at OEM in March 1998, he was the editor of Emergency Preparedness News, a Washington, DC-based newsletter for emergency management professionals. |
