Joseph Donovan Mr. Donovan is Senior Vice President at Beacon Capital Partners, where he oversees and directs the emergency response for Beacon Capital Partners’ 30 million square-foot portfolio within the United States, in London, and in Paris. Beacon Capital Partners (Beacon) is a privately held real estate investment firm with assets in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Boston, and Washington, DC. The focus of the investment strategy for Beacon is to purchase large complex properties in downtown urban environments. Mr. Donovan works with 17 real estate management companies to develop and execute emergency and crisis management programs with the goals of minimizing the impact of events and supporting the local, regional, and national public service groups’ needs to respond to events. He coordinates outside consulting groups focused on risk management, security, and crisis management public relations disciplines. In Los Angeles, the Rogers Group provides crisis communications, the Robert M Currey group (Boston based) represents Beacon for risk matters, and the James Mintz Group provides security support (New York based). Mr. Donovan also coordinates periodic tabletop sessions that each property team, vendor, public entity, and tenant group participates in roughly every 8 months. This program/frequency has been followed since the inception of the emergency program 5 years ago. His team averages about 50 tabletop events every year. He also identifies unique training opportunities that will benefit the properties and community as a whole in emergency preparedness (eg, Project Argus: Met Police provided 2-person SO15 team to conduct counterterrorism training in U.S. cities, coordinated industry discussion with Center for Biosecurity team to standardize response and create partnership with this group for fast response to the industry needs and demands, IBRD project to study effects on the business community of a bioattack, submission of the Beacon emergency response program for Safety Act designation, etc.). Mr. Donovan strongly believes in the need to create partnerships between property owners and public agencies to maximize the effectiveness of communities’ emergency preparation and response. He has assumed responsibility for the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) national preparedness committee. He is currently working to reorganize this group to build working relationships with key industry associations (public health, police, fire, public transportation, rail, etc.) with the goal of cataloging existing needs and creating a framework for growth and networking for resiliency. Mr. Donovan is active in the Real Estate Roundtable’s Security subcommittee and has worked with other industries and representatives of DHS to study and create programs for the commercial facilities sector.
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