How to access your Board/C-suite and make an effective case for business continuity investments

Author's Biography

Christine S. Kite is Vice President, Cisco Global Workplace Resources and Risk Management. She is responsible for the identification, categorisation, mitigation and transfer of risk for the corporation. She is also responsible for the acquisition and disposition of real estate, management of workplace-related services, global safety and security, business resiliency, environmental and social responsibility, construction of buildings and projects, and the strategy and planning activities associated with these functions. She was previously responsible for innovatively exploiting technology to accelerate implementation of corporate strategies and new business opportunities. Chris graduated cum laude with a BSc in management science and has a graduate degree in systems management from the University of Southern California.

Gino S. Zucca is Business Resiliency Group Senior Manager within the Cisco Workplace Resources and Enterprise Risk Management department. Gino also serves as chair of Cisco’s Global Pandemic Planning Committee and co-chair of Cisco’s Silicon Valley Civic Council’s leadership track on community resiliency. He is a frequent speaker at Cisco’s executive briefing centre, at executive roundtables on business resilience, as well as pandemic preparedness forums. Previously, Gino managed crossfunctional application development teams in Cisco’s Engineering & Quality and Manufacturing IT departments. His focus areas include portfolio management, product life cycle management and engineering change management. He earned a BA in business economics with a concentration in accounting at UC Santa Barbara, and an MBA with concentrations in international business and information systems at Santa Clara University.