Jeff Gaynor

• President
• American Resilience, LLC

Jeff Gaynor is the currently retired President of American Resilience, LLC. He brings better than six decades of military and civilian National and Homeland Security, Preparedness, Intelligence, Counterintelligence, Critical Infrastructure (CI) and Continuity of Operations experience and resulting innovations ranging from foxholes to the White House where he served as the Communications Security Officer for Presidents’ Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. As a Defense Civilian Jeff served as the Principal Action Officer for creation of the Defense Department’s Information Assurance program. As a Defense Intelligence Senior Executive, Jeff directed the Defense Department’s Year 2000 (Y2K) Operations. To correct America’s inextricably cyber-reliant, consequence inviting and multiplying Critical Infrastructure and — by extension — National preparedness trajectories, in April 2005, Jeff spearheaded the creation and operations of the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s (HSAC’s) Critical Infrastructure Task Force. In the wake of the long-predicted failure of the protected New Orleans Levee System in August 2005, the HSAC’s January 2006 principal recommendation: “Promulgate Critical Infrastructure Resilience (CIR) as the top-level strategic objective – the desired outcome to drive national policy and planning” stands as the foundational document for advancing and sustaining CIR across America.