Terror at the Table: Food Product Recall - Orland Park

If you are a Business Owner, CFO, Risk Manager, Crisis Manager, or Quality Manager ... this workshop is for you!  Given the number of recalls and the high profile they have taken in both the media and government, this is an area of risk that is frequently overlooked or misunderstood by many. Newly proposed legislation to mandate product recall insurance is in fact currently being reviewed by the United States Senate. This workshop will present a dual approach to protecting your brand in today’s global food chain. It combines preparedness and crisis management with risk transfer and insurance.

During this workshop, experts will discuss the unique exposures faced by food, beverage and ingredient processors, as well as contract manufactures and co-packers. Addressing each product type and reviewing the exposure from a first and third party standpoint along with a contractual standpoint.

Potential solutions to addressing these exposures will be offered that include pre-incident preparedness to minimize the exposure, as well as crisis response option s to minimize damage in a worst case scenario. Insurance and risk transfer options will also be reviewed with a discussion on how this “financial safety net” can be combined with preparedness and crisis management services to provide a complete risk management solution in addressing this unique exposure.
Guest Speakers

 Steve Gruler, Founder & President 

Global Quality Consulting, Inc.

Bernhard Steves, Senior Vice President 

Colemont Insurance Brokers of Illinois  

Steve is a results driven executive with 26 years of global strategic leadership experience in quality assurance and risk management. He is passionate about developing and institutionalizing world-class quality systems that assure premium quality products while delivering outstanding business results. He believes that companies must manage risk to part-per-million (PPM) levels with systems that predict and prevent vs. those that inspect and reject.  

He has gained this experience and passion working for companies like Quaker Oats, Consolidated Containers and as Global Head of Quality for Clorox and Gerber Products. His firm works with companies around the globe to ensure that they stay out of the headlines or if they do end up in a crisis; they are well equipped to manage it effectively.  

Bernie is recognized as one of the country's leading product recall, contamination, and food borne illness insurance specialists and is responsible for developing Colemont's Product Recall Team.

He has worked with some of the largest companies in the United States and Canada, including numerous Fortune 500 companies, to address product recall, contamination and food borne illness exposures.