The After the Fire USA Wildfire Leadership Summit
September 20-22, 2022 in Sonoma, CA
KEYNOTE: "Home Hardening and The Certified Wildfire Prepared Home "
SPEAKER: Alister Watt, Chief Product Officer, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety
https://ibhs.org
Alister Watt, the Chief Product Officer at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS), delivers a keynote on how the materials we use for our structures make an incredible difference in fire-safe communities. IBHS performs research and testing for materials and structural integrity in the face of disaster-scenarios. Through their important findings, they have been able to define home hardening building standards for fire risk. Watt shares their new program, The Certified Wildfire Prepared Home, first launched recently in Paradise, CA and slated to roll out in more states. Find out more about IBHS at www.ibhs.org.
Selected Biography:
About Alister Watt, Chief Product Officer, IBHS
Alister Watt joined IBHS in 2018, bringing 25 years of strategy consulting and management experience across public and private sectors. Alister has worked in financial services, risk management, broadcast media, and fast-moving consumer goods.
As the Chief Product Officer, Alister leads the efforts to translate IBHS’s top-tier science into action. In addition to his enterprise-wide leadership role, Alister is responsible for several critical IBHS program areas, including FORTIFIED, media, product design, and technology.
Mr. Watt has led large and small teams across the U.S., Europe and former Soviet Bloc. In these diverse roles, Alister brought structure to problem-solving, creativity to developing solutions, and rigor to implementing change. Prior to his work at IBHS, Alister’s career has spanned independent consulting, consulting for Accenture, Coray Gurnitz Strategy Consulting and Acquisition Solutions, and project management for Mars, Inc.
A Scot by birth, Alister earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Aberdeen, and subsequent to emigrating to the U.S., he earned a Masters of Business Administration from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.
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