John Stagl is a Certified Business Continuity Professional, Corporate Consultant and Director of Marketing for BELFOR the largest disaster response company in the world.

Mr. Stagl works with corporate clients in the planning for and actual response to disasters caused by fires, earthquakes, terrorism and other medical and economic factors that interrupt business operations. He uses his 18 years as an executive in the insurance industry and more than 20 years of actual hands-on experience in the disaster response industry, to assist companies in the development of the most cost effective recovery tactics for their operations.

Mr. Stagl has been a Vice President of Strategic Planning as well as a Consultant in the field of Business Continuity. He was on the Board of Directors for the North American Society for Corporate Planning from 1982-1984. His work has been recognized in Marquis’ Who’s Who in Finance & Industry, Men of Achievement (a European Who’s Who published in Cambridge, England) and he was a charter member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Continuity Insights Magazine from 2003-2008. He is also a member of the Canadian Center for Emergency Preparedness, an international group of Business Continuity Planners. He has taught “Financial Economics” at the University of Baltimore, lectured on Strategic Planning and speaks & writes regularly on the subject of Strategic Business Recovery Planning.

Mr. Stagl worked in Army Intelligence from 1966-1969 including one year in Vietnam. He rec