Management
Harry W. Rhulen, Chairman/CEO Co-Founder
Mr. Rhulen, who spent the first eighteen years of his career in the insurance industry, has been Chairman and CEO of a public insurance holding company with United States and European operations.
Harry also has extensive due diligence experience, having participated in over thirty M&A transactions. He has lead several public offerings raising in excess of $350 million. As an insurance industry representative, serving on the board of the American Insurance Association, he testified before Congress to expand the opportunities for financial service companies.
Harry has worked as a consultant in many industries, using his risk management, crisis management, and business management skills, public company, legal, bankruptcy, and due diligence experience to help his clients.
He has served on the boards of several profit and not-for-profit entities. He has received humanitarian awards for many of his efforts, including the “Quality of Human Life” Award from the American Red Cross. He graduated Cum Laude from the College of Insurance and has both a Juris Doctor and Masters of Business Degree from Syracuse University.
Harry is co-author of Disaster Ready People For A Disaster Ready America. With Jim Satterfield, President of Firestorm, he will publish two additional books will be published this year: one on pandemic planning—The Pandemic Scam—Why Plan? and the second on the governance requirement for planning—Luck is Not a Strategic Plan.
James W. Satterfield, President/Chief Operating Officer Co-Founder
Mr. Satterfield has extensive public and private company experience in the identification of problems and designing solutions. He has been President, CEO, and COO of various public and private companies in insurance, reinsurance, technology, communications, and environmental fields.
Jim led the Firestorm team that provided the crisis and media management support at Virginia Tech in response to the shootings. He is currently leading a national focus on the failure of disaster plans, the role of schools in protecting their students, and the impact of disaster discrimination.
Jim has led in the development of national standards for pollution prevention, risk management, and environmental due diligence. He has spoken to hundreds of groups on risk management, governance,
and disaster planning.
Jim is co-author of Disaster Ready People For A Disaster Ready America. He and Harry Rhulan, CEO of Firestorm, will publish two additional books this year: The Pandemic Scam—Why Plan?, on pandemic planning, and Luck is Not a Strategic Plan, on the governance requirements for planning.
Suzanne Rhulen Loughlin, Esq. Executive Vice President/Chief Administrative Officer
Mrs. Loughlin has extensive consultative experience, and has served several Fortune 500 clients, in the development of pandemic and communicable illness plans, providing a focus on the legal and human resource exposures integral to the planning process.
For over twenty years, Mrs. Loughlin has worked with both public and private companies, assisting them in the development and implementation of corporate vision, strategies, goals and policies. In times of crisis, she managed both the bankruptcy and the rehabilitation/recovery process for several companies, and led the execution of expense reduction initiatives, corporate downsizing, facilities consolidation, lease terminations, vendor and creditor contract negotiations, and the termination of retirement and self-funded medical/dental plans.
As Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Director of a public holding company with 44 locations throughout the United States and Europe, Mrs. Loughlin directed all planning, staffing, managing and budgeting activities for Corporate Facilities, Property Management, Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Information Technology, Government Affairs and Internal Audit divisions.
Mrs. Loughlin spent many years litigating professional liability actions for a large New York City firm; thereafter she became Managing Attorney of a New York/Florida law firm, employing 40 attorneys.
Suzanne received her Bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University, her Juris Doctor from New York Law School and is licensed to practice law in the State of New York. She serves as a member of the Association of the Bar, City of New York, Insurance Committee and the Sullivan County Bar Association.
Don A. Huggins, Executive Vice President/Chief Security Officer
Mr. Huggins has over thirty years of hands-on management experience developing risk-based contingency plans in high-risk environments worldwide and includes twenty-three years as a Special Agent of the United States Secret Service, a United States Air Force Pilot, and as a supervisory Federal Air Marshal.
Don developed counter-terrorism tactics as a Secret Service Special Agent Counter Assault Team Member, in support of Presidential and Vice Presidential missions involving sensitive operations globally. He conducted risk-based event planning worldwide for the United States and foreign heads of state. His planning for these events often began years in advance and involved hundreds of people and dozens of varied entities.
Mr. Huggins was responsible for the planning of events that included G7 and G8 Summits, Space Shuttle launches and recoveries, United Nations General Assembly meetings, Organization of American States, Pacific Asian Economic Summit, Caribbean Economic Summit, NATO, Visits of Pope John Paul, 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Republican and Democratic National Conventions, Presidential Inaugurations, and security of many classified military and industrial locations.
Mr. Huggins retired from the Secret Service in 1999, but was called to public service again after the events of 9/11. As the Region Supervisor in charge of training and operations for the Federal Air Marshal Service, he oversaw the daily operations of Federal Air Marshals and was instrumental in developing the operational model and training in tactical concepts.
Peter Foley, EVP
Peter has worked in the financial services sector for over thirty years. With an MBA in Finance, he has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, including structuring joint ventures, and public company offerings, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in his career. His C-level experience in start-up companies, public companies, and turnarounds uniquely positions him to assist Firestorm’s clients in identifying financial and industry vulnerabilities integral to the development of a continuity of operations plan.
