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GLOI News James Lee Witt Associates Adds Emergency Management and Capitol Hill Veterans to Sacramento and DC Teams
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--James Lee Witt, CEO of James Lee Witt Associates (JLWA), a unit of
GlobalOptions Group (OTCBB: GLOI), announced today that Frank
Castro-Wehr and Diane L. Collins have joined the firm.
Frank Castro-Wehr comes to JLWA as a Program Specialist, based in the
Sacramento, California office. For the past sixteen years, he has worked
for Ecology and Environment, Inc., where he served as an Emergency
Manager, providing consulting services in counter-terrorism planning,
environmental assessment activities, and general emergency management.
Throughout his nineteen-year career, Mr. Castro-Wehr has created
emergency and counter-terrorism plans for local governments as well as
businesses. He served as Response Team Leader under a Federal EPA
contract, where his duties included staffing response and removal sites,
quality control of deliverables, hiring, training and orientation for
new staff, performing employee evaluations, client services, and site
field audits. He has also responded to such emergencies as train
derailments, plating shop releases, refinery releases, tire fires, oil
spills to waterways, floods, abandoned drums, meth labs, and abandoned
explosive facilities.
“With over nineteen years experience in
emergency management and environmental protection, Frank will be a
valuable addition to our team,” said Mr. Witt. “His
tremendous talent in emergency planning and exercises will bring great
expertise to our clients.”
Diane L. Collins joins JLWA as a Director of Government Relations, based
in the company’s Washington DC office. She
brings extensive federal, state and local legislative experience, which
will complement JLWA’s government relations
operations in Little Rock, Sacramento, Chicago and Atlanta. For the past
two years, she has worked on the staff of Representative Curt Weldon
(OH) in Washington D.C. as a Legislative Assistant, briefing the
Congressman on topics surrounding fire service, law enforcement and
labor issues. Last spring, she was promoted to Director of Operations,
where she managed the Congressman’s $1.2
million office budget, directed personnel and human resource functions
and coordinated the congressman’s travel and
schedule while continuing to cover legislative issues.
Ms. Collins was a volunteer firefighter for thirteen years and currently
serves as the Director of the Suffolk County (NY) Fire Safety Educator’s
Association. She also serves on the Advisory Council of the Center for
Campus Security.
In 2004, Ms. Collins was assigned to the Anti-Counterfeiting Operations
of the Underwriters Laboratories, where she assisted the staff in an
administrative capacity. Her other duties included corresponding with US
Customs Inspectors and helping to determine if products at US ports had
a counterfeit UL label or mark.
About James Lee Witt Associates
Founded in 2001, JLWA is a public safety and crisis management
consulting firm based in Washington, DC with offices in Atlanta,
Chicago, Little Rock, and Sacramento. Led by James Lee Witt, the FEMA
Director under President Clinton, JLWA has unrivaled experience and
hands-on knowledge of public safety, disaster response, continuity of
operations, and emergency management issues.
Most recently, JLWA was retained by the State of Louisiana to help
Governor Blanco coordinate activities in the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina. James Lee Witt also serves as the co-chairman of
ProtectingAmerica.org, a coalition leading an effort to improve
financial mechanisms to rebuild after a major event.
JLWA’s management team and staff include some
of the nation’s most notable and experienced
disaster management experts, such as General Wesley Clark, one of the
nation's most distinguished retired military officers, who formerly
served as NATO Supreme Allied Commander; and Rodney Slater, who formerly
served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
JLWA’s clients include the nation’s
premier universities, hospitals, governments, and a variety of Fortune
500 companies including those in the insurance, transportation,
entertainment, finance, utilities, public safety industries. JLWA has
advised government leaders, including governors, members of Congress,
administration officials, state and local elected officials and foreign
governments, on emergency management policies and programs. www.wittassociates.com
About GlobalOptions Group, Inc.
GlobalOptions Group, with headquarters in New York City and offices in
16 cities, is a provider of high-end risk assessment and mitigation
services to Fortune 1000 corporations, governmental organizations and
high-profile individuals throughout the world. GlobalOptions Group’s
services currently include risk management and security, investigations
and litigation support, and crisis management. These engagements take
GlobalOptions Group staff around the world and are typically
highly-sensitive engagements where GlobalOptions Group is interacting
with senior leaders in corporations and governments. Its overall mission
is to identify, evaluate, assess, prevent and correct issues that may
threaten people, organizations or strategic initiatives for corporations
or governments. Additional information can be found at www.globaloptionsgroup.com
Statements in this press release regarding the company's business
that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that
involve risks and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers
not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which
statements are made pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1994, and as such, speak only as of the date made. To the extent
the content of this press release includes forward-looking statements,
they involve various risks and uncertainties including the successful
integration of acquired businesses and revenue run rates.
Certain of these risks and uncertainties will be described in greater
detail in GlobalOptions Group’s filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. GlobalOptions Group is under no
obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or
alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.
