Who We Are

Dennis Reid is a seasoned IT and business resilience executive with strong execution credentials and a proven track record of working with global business sponsors to identify needs and implement cost-effective technology solutions that provide optimum resilience and availability to an organization. 

He brings four decades of IT experience and has a deep background building world-class, business-focused IT departments, establishing Best Practices, and leading departmental turnarounds.  He has used his three decades of BC/DR experience to build numerous business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management plans for corporations in a myriad of industries.

Mr. Reid has demonstrated a unique ability to marry business and IT recovery requirements to create a single plan that addresses the restoration of critical processes holistically for the entire organization. 

He has developed and managed numerous exercises for IT departments to test their technical resilience and recovery capabilities, which have ranged from small tabletop simulations to full-scale recovery scenarios.  He has led business units on tabletop exercises up through organization-wide business interruption simulations.  Mr. Reid is a technical expert in implementing highly effective business continuity/disaster recovery/crisis management plans that increase organizational resilience for the enterprise.  He has extensive experience in SOX, SOC, and PCI controls and compliance for both information security and BC/DR.  Mr. Reid is skillful in collaborating on resilience with all levels of an organization from junior staff to the C-suite.

Mr. Reid is the Director of Communications for the Tampa Business Emergency Council and is a past Director of Communications for the Greater Tampa Bay Chapter of the Association of Continuity Professionals.  He is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), certified by the Disaster Recovery Institute International.