The leadership team of Prisere LLC led a prior venture in a community that was declared a federal disaster, one of the worst disasters in history. Thanks to our unusual professional backgrounds (in reinsurance and information technology), we were exceptionally well prepared.
Our team’s work was featured in the “Ready for Business” campaign of the Department of Homeland Security as an example of best practice for business resilience. To share our experience with other small businesses, our founder wrote a book that was published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for Small Business is updated with 40 per cent fresh content for the second edition, now available in paperback. The book has received favorable coverage from major news media. Work on the third edition of the book is underway.
For ten years after our experience of living and working in a federal disaster area, our team volunteered to help other small businesses impacted by disasters. The Hurricane Recovery Director of the American Red Cross honored our volunteer work to help small businesses in the Gulf Coast states recover from Hurricanes Katrina, Gustav and Ike. It became clear that our unique combination of professional and personal experience could motivate disaster resilience action in areas where other approaches had failed. We also recognized unique disruptive opportunities to develop, tools to enable and insure disaster resilience. And so Prisere LLC was established.
