Michael Croy brings more than 25 years of experience in building, developing, and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity programs to Forsythe customers. As Forsythe’s business continuity practice director, Croy is responsible for the company’s business continuity offerings, including risk analysis, best practice models for continuity of IT infrastructure (storage, server, and network), and disaster recovery planning, strategy, and management.
Croy spent eight years at Rosemont, Illinois-based Comdisco, as global director of trading floor continuity, where he helped build Comdisco’s business continuity practice. In this position, Croy also managed the acquisitions and mergers of multiple firms specializing in business continuity and disaster recovery for financial services. After the acquisitions were complete, Croy developed methodologies utilizing the acquired firms to create an innovative business continuity offering on behalf of Comdisco for both U.S. and European markets.
Earlier, Croy spent 12 years in various roles including senior systems engineer, manager, and director of systems engineering for Minneapolis-based Network Systems Corp. His technology industry expertise also includes sales and engineering experience with Storage Technology Corp., Universal Safety Equipment, and the Stewart-Warner Corp.
Croy is a frequent speaker at a variety of IT risk management forums and conferences, including national Disaster Recovery Journal, Association of Contingency Planners (ACP), CIO Summits and Continuity Insights conferences. A highly-regarded industry expert, Croy has been quoted in such outlets as CIO, CIO Insight, Contingency Planning & Management, Disaster Recovery Journal, Federal Computer Week, Information Week, Processor, and interviewed on WBBM News Radio, Morning Business News, and has been published in CIO.com, Computerworld, Continuity Insights, Disaster Recovery Journal, Optimize, Processor and many local and regional newspapers around the country. His first book on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery is due to be published in fall of 2007. He also serves on the Disaster Recovery Journal executive council. Croy has also served as an expert source on business continuity and disaster recovery issues to the Technology Executives Club as well as the Society for Information Management (SIM), of which he is also a member.
Mr. Croy earned a bachelor’s degree in business from George Williams College in Downers Grove, Illinois.
