Paul Gibson
SVP, Disaster Recovery @Regions Bank
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WORK HISTORY
SVP, Disaster Recovery @Regions Bank
Charlotte, NC, US
Partner with IT DR Plan Manager, Business Continuity, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and executive stakeholders to define recovery objectives, align priorities, and communicate results from enterprise-wide recovery exercises.• Lead a high-performing team of 8 DR professionals overseeing recovery readiness for 900+ applications and 125 Technology Resilience Plans, ensuring prioritized protection, recoverability, and operational continuity.• Guided an enterprise Federal Resilience Audit by implementing a compliance-driven DR framework aligned to NIST 800-34 and FFIEC standards, strengthening governance, controls, and regulatory posture.• Design and deploy an enterprise application intake and tiering model to classify business criticality, enabling risk-based recovery prioritization and increased frequency and rigor of testing for high-impact systems.• Implement a modern DR operating model across the organization, incorporating governance structures, standardized recovery processes, vendor resiliency oversight, reporting frameworks, and program management.• Led the transformation of DR testing by leveraging ServiceNow automation, reducing end-to-end testing cycle time by 30% while improving procedural accuracy, auditability, repeatability, and consistency across scenarios.
EDUCATION
Belize Technical College
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
ABOUT PAUL GIBSON
Enterprise Resilience Leader with extensive experience building and governing unified resiliency programs across banking, healthcare, and global tech environments. Proven in cyber and operational resilience, regulatory oversight (NIST, FFIEC, HITRUST), cloud DR integration, crisis leadership, third-party resilience, and large-scale recovery testing, delivering measurable improvements in enterprise readiness and recoverability.CORE COMPETENCIES• Enterprise Disaster Recovery• Operational Resilience• Business Continuity Programs• Crisis Management Leadership• Regulatory Compliance (BC/DR/TP)• Third Party Risk Resilience• Recovery Testing & Exercises• Incident Response Governance • Risk Assessments & BIA• Governance Framework Design• Cloud Disaster Recovery• Board & Regulator Reporting
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