EP 076 Anthony Hurley & Richard Mroz talk about Hurricane Sandy and why collaboration is key for successful crisis management

The Security Circle

Richard S. Mroz

Richard Mroz He has a long and distinguished career in law, government, and public service. He is Founding Member and Managing Director of Resolute Strategies, LLC and Senior Director of Archer Public Affairs in Trenton, NJ and Washington, DC. He advises clients in the energy, utilities, infrastructure and financial industries. He is also Senior Adviser to Protect Our Power a national non-industry non-profit advocacy organization supporting best practices and investments in cybersecurity and resilience measures for the energy, utility and critical infrastructure industries.

Mr. Mroz is the immediate past President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) serving as chairman and chief administrative officer of the agency and functioned as the chief energy officer for New Jersey. He was President of the NJBPU from October 2014 until January 2018 and remained as a Commissioner until April 2018. He was Chairman of the Critical Infrastructure Committee for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). He led efforts addressing cybersecurity protection, workforce development, and infrastructure improvements in the electric, gas, water and telecommunications industries. He was also the NARUC liaison to the Electric Sector Coordinating Council (ESCC) and served as President of the Organization of PJM States, Inc (OPSI).

Mr. Mroz served as Chief Counsel to Governor Christine Todd Whitman after serving in various capacities in her Administration and was involved in many infrastructure development issues and public private partnership issues, and public finance matters. He has served as a Commissioner of the Delaware River & Bay Authority and began his career in local government as in house solicitor to Camden County, New Jersey. He was for many years counsel to the New Jersey Conference of Mayors.

Anthony L. Hurley, MEP, CPP®, PCI®, PSP®, CPD, F.ISRM
Consultant/Partner, Critical Preparedness, LLC

Anthony Hurley is Partner/Consultant with Critical Preparedness, LLC, specializing in Utility Operations, Emergency Management, Business Continuity, and Physical Security. Upon his retirement, Mr. Hurley had celebrated 37 years in the utility sector, working for a Fortune 200 corporation that owned ten (10) utilities in five (5) states. During his career, he served in leadership roles in five (5) of those electric utilities in three states (OH, PA and NJ). He retired in 2017, as Vice President of Operations for an electric utility that served 1.1 million electric meters in New Jersey, where he managed an operations workforce of over 1,250 professional and represented employees. He has managed all aspects of operations, including transmission and distribution, substations, dispatch, engineering, asset management, project management, work management, facilities, vegetation management, fleet, stores, metering.

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