Kim Hirsch

Kim Hirsch

Kim Hirsch is the Manager of Advisory Services at Fusion Risk Management, overseeing the team that provides subject matter expertise to help customers plan, implement and exercise enterprise business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management and operational risk programs and associated components. These include program management and governance, business impact analysis, planning, exercise, crisis communications, vendor management, and program improvement and analysis.

Kim has more than eighteen years of experience in business continuity and crisis management at Fortune 100 companies. Earlier in her career she gained extensive experience as a vendor manager, giving her a unique insight into vendor issues related to continuity. She is professionally certified as a Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP), Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI), a Business Continuity Management Systems Auditor and ISO22301 Lead Auditor.

Managing Supply Chains in a Pandemic

U.S. retailers have faced numerous challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: shelter-in-place orders that closed all but essential retail, outbreaks of COVID-19 among employees for those remaining open and, naturally, supply chain shortages as vendors were hit by the same issues. For consumers this has meant some empty shelves — generally on sought-after items such as…