Kenton Friesen
Director, Global Business Continuity Risk Management (Bcrm) @Great-West Lifeco Inc
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WORK HISTORY
Director, Global Business Continuity Risk Management (Bcrm) @Great-West Lifeco Inc
Winnipeg, MB, CA
Great-West Lifeco operates globally through segments including Canada Life, Canada Life Europe, Empower, Irish Life, and Canada Life Reinsurance. I am part of the Lifeco - Operational Risk Management (ORM) Lifeco and Canada division, which encompasses Operational Resilience (OpsRes), Operational Risk Management (ORM), Supplier Risk Management (SRM), Technology Risk Management (TRM), Business Continuity Risk Management (BCRM), and Physical Security Risk Management (PSRM).My role focuses on enhancing operational risk and resilience Lifeco and Canada Life through the 2nd Line of Defence (LoD) in the following risk areas:1) Emergency Response (ER) Risk2) Incident and Crisis Management (ICM) Risk3) Physical Security (PS) Risk
EDUCATION
The University of Winnipeg
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geography
UWinnipeg PACE
Canadian Risk Management (CRM), Global Risk Management Institute (GRMI), Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS)
Seneca Polytechnic
Canadian Risk Management (CRM), Global Risk Management Institute (GRMI), Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS)
The University of Winnipeg
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Computing
Westgate Mennonite Collegiate
High School
SKILLS
ABOUT KENTON FRIESEN
An operational risk and resilience professional with experience implementing, managing and maturing corporate resiliency strategies. This includes leading and/or facilitating cross-functional teams, establishing governance frameworks, incident and crisis response management, lessons management (i.e. after action reviews, lessons learned, post-incident/post-exercise, etc.), quality assurance, increasing awareness through education, as well as client or stakeholder engagement. Excellent credentials with more than 25 years’ experience facilitating corporate wide resiliency objectives within large organizations at the management level. Am able to think outside the box and motivate diverse specialists to contribute to a team effort in a collaborative and proactive working environment.Organizational or Enterprise Resilience includes Business Continuity Management (BCM)| Emergency Management (EM)| Operational Risk Management (ORM)| Operational Resilience (OR)Risk Types include Emergency Response (ER)| Incident and Crisis Management (ICM)| Physical Security (PS)Connect with me, my email address is: K••••••••@outlook.com.
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