Please join us for our Virtual February Meeting. We will be hosting Steve Caluris from ChicagoFirst who will be speaking about the private sector benefits of public/private partnerships and why these are more important now more than ever as we have a more remote workforce.
Speaker Bio:
Steve Caluris is currently the Executive Director of ChicagoFIRST, a nonprofit association that provides critical firms a collaborative forum to address private sector resilience and emergency management planning and response with relevant local, regional, and national public sector agencies.
Experience includes over 34 years in law enforcement as a sworn officer. In the Chicago Police Department, he was a Command Staff for over 14 years with assignments as an Assistant Deputy Superintendent in charge of Special Functions which oversees the Department SWAT teams, Airports, Mass Transit, Marine and Helicopter units. He was the Deputy Chief of Organized Crime, the Deputy Chief of Area 3 Patrol, the Commander of various units and oversaw the Joint Terrorist Task Force teams. He retired early in 2019 as the Deputy Chief in charge of the Deployment Operations Center / Crime Prevention Information Center, which functions as the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Fusion Center for the region, the counter terrorism section and the COMPSTAT unit.
Steve Caluris holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Illinois and has been the recipient of two Webber Seavy awards and the Kathy Osterman award for public service.
A Crisis is No Time to Exchange Business Cards
ChicagoFIRST is a nonprofit association that provides critical firms a collaborative forum to address private sector resilience and emergency management planning and response with relevant local, regional, and national public sector agencies.
Full time staff provide situational awareness, working groups, exercises, and roundtable discussions for members to explore best practices; test their cyber, business continuity and physical security emergency response plans; and effectively align and integrate their preparedness and crisis response with the public sector. In these trusted venues, members identify challenges and engage in collaborative solution-based discussions addressing risk management, emergency preparedness, response, and resilience.
Through longstanding relationships with the public sector, ChicagoFIRST takes a leadership role at the local, state and federal levels, representing resiliency issues of importance to members.
