Brad A. Goldberg
Biography
Brad A. Goldberg currently owns TriGold Consulting, LLC, a firm providing contingency planning and risk management solutions
to meeting professionals.
Brad began his meeting planning career in the United States Air Force, where he served as an officer specializing in risk management.
His leadership in that field led to organizing and managing international risk management conferences for the military,
civilian contractors and other government agencies.
In his 20 years of military service, Brad also supported the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cambodia,
trained embassy attaches in international security, oversaw operational security for seven U.S. bases in Asia and the Pacific,
and deployed three times to the Middle East during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Brad has continued his tradition of teaching risk management principles and strategies since retiring from the military in 2006.
He served the Tampa charter of Meeting Professionals International as its 2006 Southeast Education Conference Risk Management Chair,
developed and led a related seminar at the Clearwater-based conference, and still teaches the subject each term in the University of
South Florida's Meeting and Event Planning Certificate Program. Based on his wealth of knowledge and earlier accolades,
Brad has been asked to speak at the SEC again in 2009, and chair the Risk Management Committee for the 2010 conference.
He is also a frequent speaker on risk management, crisis and contingency planning for other trade and professional groups.
He has recently presented at the Destination Managers Association International 2009 Conference and Webinar,
Tampa Business Journal's Hurricane Preparedness Symposium and will be addressing the Professional Conference Managers Association
Annual Meeting in 2010.
Prior to starting TriGold Consulting in 2008, Brad worked as Conference Services Manager for CommGenix,
a medical meetings and communications company, and was a senior meeting planner for the University of South Florida's College of Medicine.
He currently serves as Vice President of Education for the Tampa Bay Charter of Meeting Professionals International,
and as the Risk Management/Contingency Planning speaker for Train2Meet.
Brad is also the author and publisher of Meet Prepared, a contingency planning and risk management blog for the meeting and hospitality industry,
online at http://meetprepared.blogspot.com
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