As Excel Technologies ’ CEO, Deb brings 31 years of program management, general technology, and resiliency expertise with a specific focus on organizational survivability and crisis management. Her organizational experience includes the National Security, Defense, Civilian, and Commercial sectors. Despite having spent more than 20 years as resiliency specialist, her beginnings as a technologist means she keeps her hands in current and emerging technology trends and is comfortable moving between discussions of IT business use cases to software and infrastructure as a service to monitoring bloom patterns in a pandemic. Deb also founded the Fairfax County Business Emergency Operations Council (FFXBEOC) whose mission is to enable better coordination and collaboration between businesses with a presence in Fairfax County and local government officials when preparing for, responding to, and recovering from, disasters or other events with the potential to impact normal operations.