PPBI Best Practices Award
By KEVIN SCHALLER
Every year, Private & Public Business, Inc. (PPBI) honors an individual by presenting the PPBI Best Practices Award. The award recognizes those individuals that exemplify superior leadership in furthering the understanding and evelopment of the relation between the public and private
sectors in communicating, planning, and developing processes
and practices for emergency
management and response to
critical incidents.
This year’s recipient is
Anthony Mangeri, CEM,
assistant professor, manager
of fire and emergency services
initiatives, American Public
University System.
Professor Mangeri is a
leader in university outreach
efforts to extend higher education opportunities to members of the military, business
continuity, and emergency
management fields. His
encouragement as a professor has been demonstrated by
his presence at conferences, meetings, and exhibitions across
the nation. He has tirelessly supported students, the Epsilon Pi
Phi Honor Society, the International Association of Emergency
Managers and the International Association of Fire Chiefs, ASIS
International and members of all branches of U.S. Armed Forces.
His foresight in bringing the AMU message to DRJ is on the cutting edge of bridging the gap between business continuity and
emergency management through higher education and service to
others.
PPBI recognized Professor Mangeri for his tireless efforts in
supporting the education, excellence and best practices as demonstrated by:
Professor Mangeri is on the faculty of the School of Public
Service and Health. He has more than 25 years of experience
in crisis management and public safety services at federal,
state and local levels. He offers extensive experience in crisis
management to include, disaster response and recovery
operations, hazard and threat reduction and emergency
planning.
In addition to teaching at APUS, Professor Mangeri is also a
practitioner providing technical expertise and consultation
services to public and private sector clients with an emphasis on
local, state and federal homeland security matters, emergency
services, disaster recovery operations, and governmental
affairs.
He has been a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical
technician for more than 25 years. He earned the rank of
Assistant Chief-Safety Officer, serving as the fire department’s
health and safety officer for three years. He remains active as a
volunteer firefighter and instructor.
For more than 10 years, Professor Mangeri served as New
Jersey’s hazard mitigation officer. He administered the state’s
Hazard Mitigation Grant,
Flood Mitigation Assistance
and the Pre-Disaster
Mitigation Programs. During
the attacks of September
11, 2001, he served as the
Operations Chief at the
New Jersey Emergency
Operations Center
coordinating New Jersey’s
response to the attacks on
the World Trade Center.
Professor Mangeri
earned a Master of Public
Administration from
Rutgers’s University and is
a Certified Public Manager.
He is also a certified fire
service instructor, Hazardous
Materials Technician and
completed a Fellowship in
Public Health Leadership
in Emergency Response
sponsored by the Center for Public Health Preparedness at the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Recently,
Professor Mangeri was awarded the designation of Certified
Emergency Manager by the International Association of
Emergency Managers.
Professor Mangeri’s selection was unanimous by the PPBI
Board of Directors based upon his outstanding contributions to
the field. Professor Mangeri was awarded this honor with a presentation of a plaque at the Disaster Recovery Journal’s Spring
World Conference in Orlando on March 27, 2012, by PPBI
Chairman Deidrich Towne, Jr. and Dr. Tom Phelan.
In his acceptance, Professor Mangeri said, “I am flattered and
humbled. Ever since I was the state hazard mitigation officer, I
have always been a strong advocate for public private partnerships. It is the only way that a community can be truly resilient
and sustainable in the face of crisis. My faith and family have
given me a sense of community. I simply am grateful to have an
employer and position that allows me to serve and partner with so
many organizations to build awareness of the university and offer
support to their missions.”
2011 PPBI Best Practices award winner Professor Anthony Mangeri,
flanked by Dr. Tom Phelan and PPBI Chairman Deidrich Towne.
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Kevin Schaller, of Resiliency Partners, LLC, is a security, business continuity, and crisis
management consultant and presenter at DRJ conferences. He is a 2010 Masters graduate of the American Public University School of Emergency & Disaster Management.
