Senior Manager, Global Business Continuity Program
Applied Materials, Inc.
Steven_Goldman@amat.com
3050 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Mr. Steven B. Goldman is an internationally recognized expert in crisis management, business continuity and crisis communications. His background is unique in that he has been a professional engineer, a corporate spokesperson, a crisis planner, crisis responder, a business owner, a Crisis Management consultant, and now leads a Fortune 500 Company’s Global Business Continuity Program.
Mr. Goldman has been involved in Crisis Management since 1978. He has written or improved many corporations’ crisis plans and procedures and trained all levels of response staff, from CEO’s on down. He has developed, conducted or evaluated hundreds of exercises, ranging from two-hour table-tops to massive three-day full-scale exercises involving multiple sites and hundreds of responders. Steve developed the Power System Y2K Operating Plan plus the Exercise Program for North America’s largest electric utility, Ontario Hydro. His former consulting practice maintained clients worldwide.
Steve has published several articles on the various aspects of Crisis Management. In addition, he conducts several Crisis Management and Crisis Communication seminars each year for industry and government, both domestic and international. For example, Mr. Goldman lectures on Crisis Management/Communications annually at the Harvard School of Public Health; he instructs the Scenario Development Workshop for the Disaster Recovery Journal Annual Conferences. Steve also developed and conducts the “Crisis Management Planning” Professional Development Course for the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS). He also is involved in an International Atomic Energy Agency project to provide eastern European and former Soviet Union nuclear plants and government agencies with public information/crisis communication programs.
Mr. Goldman holds a Masters degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the Senior Manager, Global Business Continuity Programs for Applied Materials, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA.
