MEMBERS
Mitzi Harlor
Chair
Director, Business Continuity Office, Marriott International
Mitzi Harlor, CBCP, has been a business continuity practitioner for nearly 20 years and is currently the Director of Business Continuity Planning for Marriott International. She is a Board Director for the DRI Foundation, is proud to be a charter member and former Vice Chair of the DRI Foundation’s Women in Business Continuity Management Committee, and received DRI Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award in 2022 for her commitment to growing networking and professional development opportunities for women within our industry.
Prior to her role with Marriott International, Harlor led business continuity efforts for AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals’ North American Continent team and was a Senior Consultant with SunGard Availability Services. Harlor has spoken at several industry conferences, is certified in crisis communications through FEI Behavioral Health, and serves as the Director of Strategic Alliances for the Mid-Atlantic Disaster Recovery Association as well.
Harlor graduated summa cum laude from Washington, D.C.-based American University and remains in the DC area with her husband and children.
Robyn Kimbro
Mentorship
Sr. Manager, Enterprise Business Continuity, Walmart, Inc.
Robyn Kimbro joined Walmart’s Global Emergency Management organization in April 2019 as Sr. Manager, Enterprise Business Continuity. She is responsible for Enterprise Business Continuity Program Governance and strategic direction, business continuity risk management, program metrics and reporting, and provides guidance and support to Business Continuity Managers in the planning and maintenance of Walmart’s global business continuity programs. Kimbro also supports Walmart’s Global Emergency Operations Center in crisis response efforts for Walmart’s most critical business areas across the globe. Prior to Walmart, Kimbro was at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA, for 10 years where she was responsible for Business Continuity Program Governance and strategies, risk management, and crisis response. Kimbro also previously worked at Fidelity Information Services in Little Rock, AR for 17 years as Administrative Manager and Assistant to the SVP, then moved into an Account Management role supporting financial clients in the development, implementation, and exercising of their business continuity and disaster recovery programs. Kimbro holds a Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP) designation, a Certified Cyber Resilience Professional (CCRP) designation, and has been a member of Disaster Recovery Institute International since 2005.
Marsha Buehler
Mentorship Lead, International Development Lead
VP of Business Resiliency Management, JP Morgan Chase
Marsha Buehler is currently serving as VP of Business Resiliency Management at JP Morgan Chase. Previously, Buehler worked for Mayer Brown, an international law firm, for five years as their Global Business Continuity Manager, where she brought a new level of maturity to their program allowing them to achieve their ISO 22301 certification. Buehler has diverse experience in financial, telecommunications, and legal industries. She has 26 years in IT project management and 11 years in business continuity with expertise in establishing and maintaining business continuity/resiliency programs.
Throughout her career, Buehler has had roles spanning resiliency, IT, Cyber Security Officer, Cyber security awareness training, marketing, and telecommunications management. She is well-versed in managing software implementations and complex IT projects to enhance and automate business resiliency systems and programs.
Buehler has a BA in Business Administration, an MA in Leadership and Management, and achieved the Master Business Continuity Professional Certification from Disaster Recovery Institute International. She also serves as an executive committee member for Women in Business Continuity Management for the DRI Foundation, managing their mentorship and membership programs, the organization’s focus is on supporting and uplifting women in the industry.
Karina de Allicon
Lead, Scholarships
Fulbright Scholar & Global Governance Director, Resilience – Business Continuity, Nike
Karina de Allicon is a Fulbright Scholar and a Global Governance Director of Resilience – Business Continuity at Nike. She has earned an M.B.A from Johnson & Wales University with a concentration in organizational psychology and counts with over ten years of experience in the field of business continuity management (BCM). She has designed and implemented BCM programs from the ground up for the financial, life sciences, and entertainment industry (Disney – 20th Century Fox) and has led global, cross-functional teams through incident management efforts to effectively respond to and recover from business disruptive events (e.g. Hurricane Maria, COVID-19).
De Allicon is a Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), Certified Risk Management Professional (CRMP), ISO 22301 Certified Business Continuity Lead Auditor (CBCLA), and a Certified FEMA Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Designer. She is a standing member of DRI’s Women in Business Continuity Management (WBCM) Committee as well as a published author in peer-reviewed journals. She has been a featured guest speaker in Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), New York University (NYU), the Governor’s Annual Emergency & Homeland Security Conference in Wisconsin, and the Fulbright Association’s Annual Conference.
De Allicon’s strong commitment to cultivating mental health has inspired her to become a UCLA-Certified Mindfulness Instructor and find creative ways to “connect the dots” between mindfulness, organizational psychology, and BCM. She has consulted with the University of Irvine (UCI) on performing randomized, longitudinal mindfulness experiments to promote mental health in the Hispanic community and has taught mindfulness at Stepping Forward, a counseling center for neurodiverse children (e.g. OCD, ADHD, autism). De Allicon has leveraged her academic background and experience in the field to train executives and recovery teams in Corporate America on how to leverage mindfulness and organizational psychology to optimize incident management while lowering stress, increasing cognitive functioning, and optimizing decision-making. She has partnered with DRI to develop “Managing BC Team Burnout”, the first course of its kind in the space that trains practitioners on how to optimize incident response by leveraging mindfulness tools.
De Allicon was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, and first arrived in the US thanks to a diplomatic mission with her family to Washington, D.C. She has taught Zumba at LA Fitness and now resides with her family in the Portland Metro Area.
Aubrey Wade
Programs & Engagement Co-Lead
Resilience Manager, a financial services company
Aubrey Wade recently joined a team of experienced resilience professionals at a Fortune 500 financial services company. The breadth of this role includes domains within business continuity, crisis management, and cross-functional work across disaster recovery and emergency response efforts.
In her prior role at UKG, she focused on IT disaster recovery strategy, responsible for program development and standardization. The role required a heavy focused on IT risk management, expansion of exercises and testing, and metrics on program maturity. She has nearly a decade of experience building and managing business resiliency programs, starting from the ground up as a leader of plan execution for a contact center. She has a breadth of knowledge in program management, cybersecurity, third-party risk, and disaster recovery.
Wade holds an MBA from the University of South Dakota, is a certified member of the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRI), and earned the Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) distinction. She recently joined the DRI Foundation’s Women in Business Continuity Management (WBCM) community as the co-lead for Programs and Engagement. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and expertise in business continuity and disaster recovery through networking and community involvement.
Melody Wen
Programs & Engagement Co-Lead
Crisis Management, an aerospace manufacturing company
Melody Wen currently leads Global Security’s Crisis Management Program at a Fortune 100 aerospace manufacturer. She leads initiatives to safeguard the company’s global critical assets – people, sites, products, operations, and reputation.
Prior, Wen was with Control Risks supporting a large technology company with the Americas Crisis Management program. She also has experience with JPMorgan Chase’s Asset & Wealth Management division in building out the global crisis management pillar which was instrumental during the beginning of the Covid pandemic. She has additional global crisis management, emergency management, and business continuity experience in the insurance industry at Chubb Insurance, healthcare at Mount Sinai Health System, media at Time Inc., and higher education industries through George Washington University.
Wen started her career with an internship at FEMA and later the Port Authority of NY & NJ’s Aviation Security & Technology Department. She found her passion for the field after volunteering with the American Red Cross for years preparing and helping New Yorkers through crises. She’s an advocate for resiliency programs to reflect the communities, customers, and clients that these programs serve. As an Asian-American woman in the field, Melody is especially passionate about helping women break into the field, flourishing as a leader, and building bridges to help the next generation of resiliency professionals.
Wen has a Master of Public Administration degree specializing in Emergency Management from CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She holds multiple business continuity and crisis management leadership related certifications.
ADVISORS
Diane Doering
Past Chair and Advisor
Global Head, Enterprise Risk Management, Takeda Pharmaceutical
Diane Doering leads the global Enterprise Risk Management program at Takeda Pharmaceutical. She is actively involved in the implementation and alignment of Enterprise Risk with other risk mitigation programs. She recently expanded her remit to lead the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) function as part of the Information Security risk management program. This consists of implementation of various risk frameworks, including NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework and programs designed to strengthen operational resilience and address cybersecurity risk.
Her career in leading enterprise risk, operational risk & business continuity management has spanned nearly 20 years within financial services and commercial industries including: Putnam Investments, Bank of America / Columbia Management and State Street Global Advisors. In 2011, she was recruited to develop and implement the Operational Risk program, including business continuity management, for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where she lived with her family until she returned to the states in 2016. Doering has been recognized for her track record of delivering results while creating consensus across diverse cultural backgrounds.
She currently serves as a Board Director for DRI International. Previously, she served as Chair of the DRI Foundation’s Women in Business Continuity Management Executive Committee, a position she held for nearly 5 years. The Committee’s objective is to empower and elevate women by creating networking and professional growth opportunities. In March 2020 she received the DRI Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award in recognition of her extraordinary dedication and commitment to helping others.
Camila Pezzutti Domingues Ishikawa
International Development and Founder of WBCM Latin America and the Caribbean
Camila Ishikawa is from Brazil and has 25 years of experience in financial institutions in audit, GRC, business continuity, crisis management, project management, and process and improvement. Ishikawa has been working in business continuity for 15 years. She is currently the International Development and Founder of WBCM in the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA) region. Ishikawa holds a Bachelor’s in Accounting and an MBA in Finance. She also completed several executive courses at Kellogg, and Wharton, and holds many professional certifications including Prince2 Practitioner and ABCP.