Meet the Team
Randall Bright, CHPP
President/CEO
Randall (Randy) Bright is the President and CEO of Preparedness Consulting Company. From 1982 to 1995, he worked in the chemical and biological (CB) industry for W.R. Grace & Co. in research & development, manufacturing, safety and health, environmental management, and laboratory quality assurance & control. His CB laboratories and accreditation experience landed him a position with EAI Corporation supporting the stand-up, ISO 9001 registration, and ISO 17025 (Guide 25) accreditation of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (USAMC), Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty Laboratory. He led the EAI effort to become the first service company accredited to the USAMC Contractor Performance Certification Program. Since 1995 Randy has focused his efforts on antiterrorism/counterterrorism and emergency management assessments, planning, training, equipment/system selection, procurement, and exercises for federal, state, local, territorial, and private agencies. He has managed and/or controlled/facilitated over 425 exercises and trained over 195,000 first responders and first receivers. As Vice President and Director of Preparedness for EAI Corporation, Mr. Bright lead all Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high yield Explosives (CBRNE) assessments, training, and exercises to include the Army Emergency First Responder, USMC Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection, Navy Installation Protection and Disaster Vulnerability Assessment Training & Exercise, U.S. Coast Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness & Advanced Awareness, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Programs. He was the Senior Controller for the Orange County, CA “Orange Shield” multiple venue CBRNE terrorism full-scale exercise, the Nassau-Suffolk County, NY Hospital Council Bioterrorism functional exercise, and the National Naval Medical Center/National Institute of Health/Montgomery County Hospitals CBRNE full-scale exercise. Randy supported real-world CBRNE response actions for NYPD ESU immediately following the “9/11 Attack on the New York City World Trade Center”, anthrax terrorist incidents support to NYPD Emergency Service Unit (ESU) and NJ State Police, the U.S. Capitol lessons learned support, and emergency planning improvements immediately following the “2011 Virginia Earthquake”, and the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) “Suspect Letter” response actions at the Pentagon Mail Center. Following the acquisition of EAI by SAIC in 2005, and as Director of Programs for SAIC, he held the position of Operational Readiness Lead for the JPMG Installation Protection Program, Program Manager (PM) for U.S. Capitol Emergency Preparedness & Security Support, PM for DHS Office of Bombing Prevention Combating Terrorist Use of Explosives, Project Leader for PFPA CBRNE Response Division Proficiency Certification and Exercise Support, and Incident Response Coordination Team Senior Evaluator for the DHS FEMA National Level Exercise (NLE) 11. Randy is a Certified Homeland Protection Professional (CHPP), #P-12542, National Domestic Preparedness Coalition, and the National Sheriff’s Association, 2012 – present, and he holds a top-secret clearance.
Ken Holt
Instructor
Mr. Holt has been a DHS-certified Counterterrorism Operations Support (CTOS) instructor since 2014. He instructs courses on the WMD Radiological/Nuclear themes to America’s first responders for their protection while performing their jobs of protecting America’s property and population. Courses are conducted in the classroom, along with field exercises. Ken retired from the Montgomery County [MD] Police Department. He brings 15 years of response to CBRNE events to the CTOS Instructional Cadre.
Ken was a member of the National Medical Response Team (NMRT), DC Task Force 1. He received a great deal of training in CBRNE topics. As part of this team, he participated in numerous deployments, many at high National Security events. On September 11, 2001, he responded with the NMRT to the Pentagon, where he operated for 12 days to mitigate that incident.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
Retired after thirty years of strong and varied law enforcement experience
Retired after thirty-five years of Fire/Rescue training and experience
Retired Nationally Certified Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P)
Certified Hazardous Materials Technician Level
Instructor experience in law enforcement, emergency medical disciplines, as well as Incident Command advanced level courses (ICS 300-400)
george griffin
Mr. Griffin is a retired Philadelphia Fire Department Battalion Chief after 35 years of service. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Safety from St. Joseph’s University and dual Bachelor’s Degrees in Fire Science and Marketing. George is a WMD certified instructor and exercise evaluator for first responders in 40+ cities across the United States and US military and civilian first responders in over 10 countries.
patrick nolan, phd
Dr. Nolan has expertise in vulnerability assessments and mitigation planning. This includes training and exercises related to facilities CBRNE agent protection, collection, detection, and identification; sensor design, development, prototype, fabricate, and test; biochemistry, contaminants, explosives, drugs, sampling, spectroscopy, computational, colorimetric, fluorescence, optical, chromatography, FTIR and Raman mass spectrometry. Dr. Nolan possesses a Top Secret clearance.
stephanie Perrot
Stephanie is a professional in planning management with expertise in staff training, procedure, organization, and policy compliance.