Kenton Friesen

Director, Global Business Continuity Risk Management (Bcrm) @Great-West Lifeco Inc

Winnipeg, MB, CA
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WORK HISTORY

Sep 2022 — Present

Director, Global Business Continuity Risk Management (Bcrm) @Great-West Lifeco Inc

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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

1995 — 2000

The University of Winnipeg

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geography

2019 — 2021

UWinnipeg PACE

Canadian Risk Management (CRM), Global Risk Management Institute (GRMI), Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS)

N/A

Seneca Polytechnic

Canadian Risk Management (CRM), Global Risk Management Institute (GRMI), Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS)

1995 — 2000

The University of Winnipeg

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Computing

1992

Westgate Mennonite Collegiate

High School

SKILLS

Project CoordinationCross-Functional Team LeadershipOperational Risk ManagementEmergency ManagementProgram ManagementMitigationIncident ResponseCommitted to ProfessionalismRisk ManagementDisaster ResponseIncident AnalysisStrategyThinking Outside the BoxSpatial AnalysisResilienceGis AnalysisRelationship ManagementIncident ManagementPreparednessTrainingPublic SafetyWorkshop FacilitationBusiness ResilienceEmergency ServicesEmergency PlanningEnterprise RiskAnalysisPublic SpeakingResponseProgram DevelopmentTeam BuildingManagementHazard AnalysisNimsDisaster RecoveryGovernanceIncident HandlingExercisesBusiness ContinuityContingency Planning

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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