Dave is a specialist in Emergency and Crisis Management, Incident Command, Crisis Training, and Business Continuity Planning. Having served over 31 years in the UK Fire and Rescue Service, retiring as an Assistant Chief Fire Officer in October 2014, Dave has extensive skills, knowledge, and experience in many different roles as a professional fire practitioner, senior commander and search and recovery specialist.

During his career, Dave served in many different roles, including Operations, Emergency Response Support, Training, Community and Fire Safety and the Emergency Fire Control Room.

Dave served as a Senior and Principal Officer operating at Tactical (Silver) and Strategic (Gold) levels for over 10 years, in both day-to-day management of the Service as well as operationally at multiple types of emergency incidents. These roles included command of the Operational Response Function for the Service with responsibility for all the Emergency Fire Stations in the County and the Emergency Fire Control Call Handling Centre with over 500 operational personnel, equipment, and assets. In 2010 he was seconded to undertake a project to introduce Civil Resilience Planning and a Fire Special Operations Team into the Service, capable of operating alongside the Police and other first responders, following the 9/11 and 7/7 terrorist attacks.

Dave has deployed around the world to multiple mass fatality incidents, including air crashes, natural disasters, large building fires, and building collapses. Dave has led large teams as an Incident Director and Team Leader, managing search and recovery, logistics, family and government liaison, personal effects, and family assistance.

Dave is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and has attended the Warwickshire University Executive Leadership and Gold Commander Programme.

Mike Plottel is an experienced senior leader with over 40 years’ experience in the aviation industry. His career as a pilot, manager and executive has spanned government, corporate and airline operations. Since 1995, Mike has specialized in aviation safety, focusing on safety management systems, fatigue risk management, human factors and safety leadership.

Mike has held positions with the British Columbia Government Air Services, Air BC Airlines, Transport Canada, the British Columbia Air Ambulance Service, WestJet Airlines and the Qantas Group. As WestJet’s Director of Safety Services, Mike was responsible for the development and implementation of several major programs including the airline’s Safety Management System, which comprised risk management, quality assurance, investigation, oversight, training and emergency response components. At the Qantas Group, Mike held positions as Head of Safety for Domestic and International operations, Head of Safety for QantasLink Regional Airlines and special advisor to the Qantas Group Safety Transformation Project.

Mike holds a diploma in Aviation Technology from Selkirk College, an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and a graduate degree in Public Administration from the University of Victoria. He is based in Calgary, Canada.

Blakely Webster has over 15 years of business operations experience. She has spent the past 10 years in operations management overseeing analytics, HR coordination, bookkeeping and accounting. She has always taken great pride in looking after the wellbeing of her team and has taken numerous courses in family assistance training over the past 13 years.

Throughout her roles in business, she has excelled in the creative aspects of presentation and training design, template creation, social media management, web design, and music creation and video editing. She participates in a weekly podcast promoting women’s golf, with accompanying social media to support it. Blakely obtained a degree in Business Administration (General Management) from Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta in 2015 and a Business Administration diploma with a focus in Entrepreneurship from SAIT Polytechnic in 2013. She is a community volunteer, having been a mentor for Big Brothers and Big Sisters for three years, and assisted in the response to major flooding in Calgary in 2013. She was also instrumental in assisting Spirit Airlines during their evacuation response to the 2017/2018 hurricane season

With over 30 years of aviation experience, Mei manages our GoCrisis clients, strategic partners, and GoResponders in China.

Her three-decades-long career at Air China included international business affairs, emergency response planning, crisis communications, flight safety, and employee training.

Mei served as Air China’s representative on the Star Alliance Emergency Response Committee, as well as IATA’s Crisis Communications Team. She has participated in multiple international joint emergency exercises, industry events, Star Alliance’s emergency strategy meetings, and led Air China’s IATA airline safety audit.

For the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, Mei was tasked with the management of Air China’s aviation emergency response plan exercise. During the Pusan aircraft accident in 2002, Mei was a member of the airline’s technical investigation team.

Ms Mei Su has an MBA and was awarded the Chevening Scholarship from the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth Office. She is a graduate of the Royal Holloway University of London.

Marle Rodgers is GoCrisis’ Training & Response Manager. Under this banner, she looks after our client training programs as well as our GoResponder programme. 

Marle has more than 20 years of experience in education, having managed several training and educational programs for adults and children. She has a passion for supporting people in developing their skills and inspiring learning.  Before joining GoCrisis, Marle owned and managed an educational organisation in South Africa.  This involved coordinating students and teachers, developing and planning curriculums, and managing the business administration.

Marle has worked with GoCrisis for many years as a GoResponder and have supported many activations for our clients, including natural disasters, product recalls, data breaches and maritime incidents.