Laura Borth

Ms. Borth has over twenty years experience in emergency management. She recently joined Contingency Management Consulting Group (CMCG) as a senior level consultant after serving for several years as the Hazardous Materials Coordinator for Adams County, PA. At Adams County Emergency Management Agency she supported the efforts of the South Central Pennsylvania Counter-terrorism Task Force and was responsible for the county’s SARA Title III hazardous materials program. She is trained to the Hazardous Materials Technician level and is NFPA 472 Pro-board Certified.

For CMCG, she has controlled and evaluated down-dam exercises involving hazardous materials scenarios, and was assigned as a controller for the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant exercise for the past several years. She is also currently serving as CMCG’s Project Manager for its contract with the North Central Task Force for the development of a law enforcement mutual aid plan.

As a consultant for various other firms, Ms Borth has worked in the all-hazards arena and in such functional areas of emergency management as hurricanes, nuclear power plants, and weapons of mass destruction, hazardous materials, oil spill pipelines, chemical stockpile emergency preparedness and the central artery tunnel project. She has trained adults in various disciplines including fire/EMS, law enforcement, public works, emergency operations center, health care and schools. She has worked at three nuclear power plant sites to develop the emergency plans, procedures and training in order to assist her team in obtaining a determination from FEMA that the public health and safety could be adequately protected.

Ms. Borth has also assisted the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency in implementing the Department of Homeland Security’s Capability Assessment in 2007 by assisting in data collection.

Ms. Borth also assisted with the design of the Comprehensive Exercise Curriculum (CEC) and the first Consequences of Terrorism Course at the National Emergency Training Center (NETC).

Ms. Borth has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Bloomsburg University and holds a certificate in Journalism.

Steve Erickson

Steve Erickson has fifteen years of experience in commercial nuclear power in the areas of operations training and emergency preparedness in both supervisory and technical positions. For CMCG he has specialized in Emergency Preparedness Drill & Exercise program management and improvement, including drill and exercise scenario development, conduct and critique. Industry recognized leader in design and execution of NEI 06-04 Phase III Hostile Action-Based Exercises, as well as identification and resolution of EP program enhancements resulting from these exercises.

Prior to employment by CMCG Mr. Erickson served as Emergency Preparedness Drill and Exercise Coordinator for Exelon Nuclear, responsible for the emergency preparedness drill/exercise development and conduct for the Midwest region nuclear stations (Braidwood, Byron, Clinton, Dresden, LaSalle, Quad Cities and Zion), including personal coordination of four biennial NRC graded exercises, a two-state Ingestion Pathway Exercise which included NRC Region III and National HQ NRC full-participation, and the first two NEI 06-04 Phase III exercises. Major initiatives included: Maintenance and enhancement of a single set of EP procedures for drill and exercise scheduling, development, conduct and evaluation processes for the Exelon Fleet; Involvement as a core task force member for the NEI “Hostile Action-Based Exercise” industry initiative (NEI 06-04); Maintenance of a common plant process computer accident assessment display system; Standardized a fleet-wide exercise evaluation process; Single point coordinator for all aspects of the NEI 06-04 Phase III process for the Exelon fleet.

Steve also served in the US Navy as a Nuclear Propulsion Plant Electrical Operator on board the USS Permit (SSN-594) and also served as Electrical Operator and Shutdown Reactor Operator. While part of crew, Permit received a Presidential Unit Citation, two Meritorious Unit Citations, and a personal Letter of Commendation from Commander of Sub Group Five. Graduated in top 10% of Naval Nuclear Power School.

Robert T. Bradshaw

Robert T. Bradshaw is Managing Partner of Contingency Management Consulting Group, LLC (CMCG). He is a senior consultant with over twenty-five years experience in governmental and private sector crisis management response, planning, training, drills and exercising.

Mr. Bradshaw’s hands-on consulting experience is diverse. Recent projects have included serving on Entergy Nuclear’s Independent Expert Task Force, advising the utility on radiological emergency management issues, and participating on the Exercise Design Team for the most comprehensive fixed nuclear facility terrorist threat exercise conducted in the US to date. Other recent projects have included serving assisting the US intelligence community with continuity of operations training, test and exercise programs; a major US energy company in developing a corporate crisis management program; an international construction materials corporation in developing a global corporate crisis management capability, including support to their Egyptian, Philippine, and Costa Rican business units; developing a global crisis management plan and conducting a tabletop exercise for the corporate crisis management team of a biotechnology company involved in genetic research; a business recovery plan for a major international consumer product company; an integrated contingency plan for a Pennsylvania-based technology firm; conducting a benchmarking study of global response capability; and developing a crisis management plan for a large manufacturing complex.

In addition, Mr. Bradshaw has responded to a number of high profile crises on both the national and international levels. In particular, Mr. Bradshaw was called upon to respond to the events of September 11th to assist a US airline in establishing and operating an emergency center to respond to the Pentagon disaster.

He has directed a major project for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Pipeline Safety to support facility oil spill response plan review process. Mr. Bradshaw also responded as a DOT representative to the San Jacinto River Pipeline incident in October 1994 and was a principle author of the San Jacinto Post-Incident Assessment. For FEMA and the US Department of Justice, Mr. Bradshaw also helped to develop and present programs on weapons of mass destruction and terrorism designed for local responders.

He has facilitated numerous crisis and emergency tabletop exercises and assisted corporate clients in such industries as petroleum, energy, pharmaceuticals, paper products, chemical, financial institutions, food and beverage, lodging and the cruise industry.

As a Project Manager for a major emergency management consulting firm, Mr. Bradshaw coordinated emergency management planning and training, exercising and drill support for all client project work. This included managing the offsite radiological emergency preparedness program for Philadelphia Electric’s Limerick Generating Station, where he developed a number of county and municipal plans and several school and health care facility plans. He also prepared and conducted two full-scale federally evaluated exercises for this facility. Mr. Bradshaw also served as the utility’s primary expert witness for emergency planning in Atomic Safety Licensing Board hearings.

He is a former Emergency Planner for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, where he developed and reviewed state and municipal emergency plans, revised the state’s vulnerability analysis and served as Controller/Evaluator for six full-scale federally evaluated exercises. He was also the State’s on-site planning liaison for major hazardous materials incidents.

Mr. Bradshaw has a B.S. in Environmental Science from Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and did graduate work in Urban and Regional Planning at Pennsylvania State University.

Kenneth Lott

Kenneth Lott is a CMCG Emergency Preparedness Consultant with over 22 years experience in governmental and private sector crisis management response, planning, training, drills and exercising.

Mr. Lott has been instrumental in creating plans and procedures that form the basis of a comprehensive all-hazards approach to emergency response while complying with federal guidelines regarding the National Incident Management System and the Incident Command System. He has provided guidance to local and county emergency managers on the development and implementation of a wide range of emergency management programs.

In recent years, Mr. Lott has provided a wide range of support for the radiological emergency preparedness program in Orange County New York, where his duties ranged from creating critical equipment inventory management tools to developing responder training programs. He has also been an exercise controller for several radiological drills, tabletops and exercises involving the Indian Point Energy Center.

Mr. Lott served as a FEMA Public Affairs Officer for numerous federally declared disaster assistance programs including Hurricane Andrew and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. His work included writing and disseminating news releases and other promotional materials in support of federal disaster recovery programs, serving as direct liaison between FEMA and the news media on a wide range of issues and concerns, and

analyzing media coverage of program activities in order to provide input to federal emergency managers.

He has evaluated 46 emergency response exercises for nuclear power plants throughout United States, developed and prepared significant portions of the “Standard Exercise Report Format” for FEMA Headquarters and developed and conducted training programs for the emergency response program at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory.

Mr. Lott studied Communications at the State University of New York at Geneseo and Journalism at Southwest Texas State University.