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Philip Jan Rothstein,
F.B.C.I., is a Management Consultant experienced in a broad variety of
strategic roles. As President of Rothstein Associates Inc. since
1985, his mission has been management of profound business risk
in the face of unpredictable circumstances. His consulting emphasis
is on business continuity, disaster avoidance and recovery, and continuous
availability of high technology business environments. He was elected
Fellow by The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) in 1994 in recognition
of his substantial contributions to the business continuity and disaster
recovery industry.
Among his diverse clients are international
banks, an explosives manufacturer, a gaming casino, universities, hospitals,
pharmaceuticals companies, public utilities, investment fund managers,
publishers, distribution companies and insurers.
Mr. Rothstein is a frequent speaker
on business continuity, disaster avoidance and disaster recovery for top
corporate management and at industry conferences. He is sought after by
the media: he has been interviewed live on CNBC-TV following the Oklahoma
City bombing, on KPIX-FM San Francisco after capture of the Unabomber
suspect and on News Channel 8 (Washington, DC) during the AOL outage in
August, 1996.
He has served
since 1994 on the Advisory Board of Survive! The Business Continuity
Group and from 1987 to 1994 on the Business Advisory Board of the
Contingency Planning Exchange. His articles have been commissioned
by Datamation, Contingency Journal, InfoSecurity News, Disaster Recovery
Journal, Communications News, Auerbach Publishers, National Computer Security
Association News, Enterprise Systems Journal, Datapro Research Corporation,
Survive! Magazine, Contingency Planning & Management, Bank Automation
News, the I.B.C. International Yearbook Planning for Disaster Recovery,
Westchester County Business Journal, Carolina Business and numerous
newsletters. He has written an ongoing column addressing top management's
concerns on business continuity for Contingency Journal and writes
an ongoing column appearing in InfoSecurity News.
He is Publisher of The Rothstein
Catalog on Disaster Recovery, the industry's principal source
for 1000+ books, research reports, software tools and videos, since 1989.
He is editor and principal author of the book Disaster Recovery
Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan (1994). He has edited
or authored over 40 books.
He has been interviewed by print and broadcast media including London
Times, Wall Street Journal, Australian News, TCI Cable Television, InformationWeek,
Crain's Business Chicago, Crain's Business New York, Investor's Business
Daily, Associated Press, Gannett Suburban Newspapers, Software Magazine,
Digital Review, Miami Herald, Connecticut Post, Hartford Courant, Home
Office Computing, Corporate Security Newsletter and Digital Review.
Mr. Rothstein has led numerous public
and custom seminars on Disaster Recovery for the American Management Association,
Hitachi Data Systems, Wang Laboratories, Data-Tech Institute and other
organizations.
His background over the past 28 years
also includes: strategic planning; productivity and organizational effectiveness;
mergers, acquisitions, consolidations and divestitures; security; software;
voice and data communications; and, human factors engineering. He has
relocated, consolidated or constructed over thirty data centers and high
technology facilities.
Mr. Rothstein serves on the Board
of Advisors of the City College of New York School of Engineering. He
holds a B.S. degree in Computer Sciences from the City College of New
York, School of Engineering, with extensive graduate studies in Human
Factors Engineering, Business Administration and Industrial Engineering.
He is an active member of Survive! U.S.; Contingency Planning Exchange;
Mid-Atlantic Disaster Recovery Association; Connecticut Disaster Recovery
Information Exchange; New England Disaster Recovery Information Exchange;
National Fire Protection Association; DRIE Ottawa; and, numerous other
business continuity and disaster recovery organizations. 
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