Leonard Deonarine

Leonard has extensive experience in the emergency preparedness field, having managed the fire, emergency management, and training programs for U.S. Department of Homeland Security, private corporations, and other organizations. He is specifically adept with emergency management planning; program management; regulatory compliance; incident command; curriculum development; disaster simulation design, planning and evaluation.

For 11 years, Leonard served as the national emergency management executive at a U.S.-based, Fortune 200, healthcare corporation, where he oversaw the plans, programs, and incident command responsibilities for 65 hospitals and over 300 related healthcare facilities.

He also has 20 years of experience as an emergency responder. From rural farm lands to the urban environment near Washington D.C. he has served as a firefighter and fire officer. He spent 10 years in an industrial fire department as the Deputy Fire Chief responsible for training and operations. Leonard assumed the incident commander role for ship fires, train wrecks, hazardous materials releases, refinery process unit fires, storage tank fires, pipeline breaches and gasoline tank truck accidents.