NFPA Journal - July/August 2018 - 4

NFPA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS
Keith E. Williams, Chair
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Northbrook, Illinois
James Pauley, President
President and CEO, NFPA
Amy R. Acton, First Vice-Chair
The Phoenix Society
Grand Rapids, Michigan

First Word

by Jim Pauley

NFPA President

Russell B. Leavitt, Second Vice-Chair
Telgian Corporation
Tempe, Arizona
Donald R. Cook, Secretary
Shelby County Department of
Development Services
Pelham, Alabama
Roger W. Montembeault, Treasurer
The Montembeault Group
Tampa, Florida
Kwame Cooper, Assistant Treasurer
Los Angeles Fire Department
Los Angeles, California
Randolph W. Tucker, Immediate
Past Chair
Tucker Consulting Associates
Houston, Texas
*Sally P. Everett, Assistant Secretary
Secretary of the Corporation,
VP & General Counsel, NFPA
*Bruce H. Mullen, Staff Officer
Executive VP and CFO, NFPA
DIRECTORS
Terms Expire in 2019
Tonya L. Hoover
Emmitsburg, Maryland
Hatem Kheir
Kheir Group
Cairo, Egypt
Teresa L. Deloach Reed
Oakland Fire Department, retired
Oakland, California
Stacy N. Welch
Marriott International
Bethesda, Maryland
Terms Expire in 2020
Jeffery C. Cash
City of Cherryville Fire Department
Cherryville, North Carolina
Eric R. Rosenbaum
Jensen Hughes
Baltimore, Maryland
James Sullivan
IDG International Publishing Services
Framingham, Massachusetts

am writing this column
following a very successful
NFPA Conference & Expo in
Las Vegas. Initially, my plan
for this piece was the same
as it had been in past years after the conference-to use this space to explain in words
what our association has been working on.
But I decided that a picture, and our
conference itself, could better explain what
we've been up to.
In my address at the general session in
Las Vegas, I described the Fire & Life Safety
Ecosystem, which illustrates that there are
a number of components that need to be
in place in order to reduce loss. For the

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ecosystem to function, all of these cogs need
to work together. When tragedies occur, we
can point back to failures in one or more of
the cogs of the system.
The Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem really
resonated with our conference attendees,
many of whom felt that the ecosystem
model drove home the idea that the work
they do is an integral part of a larger
system. The ecosystem is the focus of our
association, and you will hear us talking a
lot about this going forward.
To learn more about the ecosystem, and
to watch my general session presentation
from Las Vegas, please visit us online at
nfpa.org/ecosystem.

Brion Callori
FM Global
Johnston, Rhode Island
Martha Connors
Digital Media & Marketing Consultant
Newton, Massachusetts
Reginald D. Freeman
Hartford Fire Department
Hartford, Connecticut
William J. Fries
Department of Defense
Washington, D.C.
R. David Paulison
Global Emergency Solutions
Davie, Florida
Louis Paulson
Contra Costa County
Fire Protection District, retired
Walnut Creek, California
Michael Wallace
UTC Climate, Controls & Security
Jupiter, Florida

*Not a Board member

NFPA

Ecosystem Focus

Terms Expire in 2021
John D. Bonney
Alendi Consulting
Ropley, United Kingdom
http://www.nfpa.org/ecosystem
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