“We have, and always will be, each other’s greatest resource.”
Kevin Peach is the Director of Business Development and Project Executive for Caldwell Strategic Consulting. As a management consultant with over six years of experience in emergency management, he has been recognized for his ability to effectively lead programs that address preparedness, protection, security, response, recovery, and mitigation. Having served in numerous capacities for various local, state, and federal agencies, Kevin possesses extensive and diverse professional experience managing government organizations, which includes writing grants and being awarded millions of dollars in federal and private funding for complex disaster projects and emergency management programs. Kevin has served on government boards and commissions as a strategic advisor to governors and mayors with an emergency management emphasis.
Kevin has experience with the formulation and development of policies addressing the mobilization of resources during emergencies, the preparation of emergency plans, and the coordination of emergency operations. He regularly advises municipal, regional, state, and federal officials and corporate executives on emergency management issues and funding strategies. Kevin has composed Congressional testimony for the Assistant Administrator of Recovery for FEMA, asked to contribute to the evaluation of the National Health Security Strategy, and advised the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force Chaired by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, which coordinated the federal investment of $60 billion passed by Congress.
He possesses comprehensive knowledge of the principles, practices and organizations that affect community resiliency, preparedness, emergency management and private sector activities in the United States. He has proven ability to exercise leadership and manage a diverse and complex organization to protect the Nation from all hazards, including natural disasters, terrorism, and other man-made disasters through a risk-based, comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, security, responsive, recover, and mitigation.
Kevin is a native of Oak Park, Illinois. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Community Leadership and Non-Profit Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as a Master’s of Science in Public Services Leadership from the University of DePaul.