Michael Dan

Partnership for Disaster Response, Chair

The Role of Business in Disaster Response
15 minutes, 7.1mb, recorded 2010-09-08
Michael Dan

Recognizing that the private sector offers a strong network with valuable resources, the Business Roundtable's Partnership for Disaster Response has fostered cross-sector and public-private partnerships to help communities in crisis following large-scale disasters.  Host Karl Matzke, a Stanford Graduate School of Business alumnus and volunteer first responder, has a conversation with Partnership for Disaster Response chair and Brinks Co. CEO Michael Dan, discussing the goals of the Partnership, specific ways that Brinks Co. operates to protect its business and key stakeholders when disaster strikes, and how other businesses may adapt their vocation after a disaster. A rapid response is critical, as lives can be saved and damage minimized if programs are planned and implemented with greater coordination — all with a sense of unity and purpose. 


Michael T. Dan has been president and chief executive officer of Brinks Co. since 1998. He joined Brink's in 1982. Prior to Brinks, Dan has been a director of Principal Financial Group Inc. and its subsidiary, Principal Life.

Dan is a member of the Business Roundtable and serves as sub-committee chairman on the Security Task Force and is chair of the Partnership for Disaster Response at Business Roundtable since September 2008.

He studied business and accounting at Morton College in Cicero, Illinois, and completed the advanced management program at Harvard Business School.

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This free podcast is from our Disaster Response series.

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  • Post-production audio engineer: Mike Seifried
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  • Series producer: Bernadette Clavier