SPEAKER:     BROCK LONG Executive Chairman, Hagerty Consulting HagertyConsulting.com

Brock Long is the former administrator of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency). Confirmed in June 2017 by the U.S. Senate with strong bipartisan support (95-4), Long served as the nation’s principal advisor to the president responsible for coordinating the entire array of federal government resources to 50 states, 573 tribal governments, and 16 island territories to assist with executing disaster preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. He was the 10th administrator and the youngest to hold the office. Long coordinated the federal government’s response to more than 144 presidentially declared disasters and 112 wildfires, including three of the country’s most devastating hurricanes and five of the worst wildfires ever experienced. During this time, nearly $44 billion of disaster activity occurred under the various federal recovery programs. Long is a graduate of the prestigious Executive Leadership Program at the Naval Postgraduate School/Center for Homeland Defense and Security. A native of Newton, N.C., he earned an undergraduate degree in criminal justice and a master’s in public administration from Appalachian State University. He worked in emergency management in Georgia and Alabama for 12 years