Board of Directors
Gregg Bird is the Emergency Management Coordinator for Grand Traverse County.
Gregg has been involved in Public Safety since 1990. He has 26 years’ experience in the fire service and 23 years in 9-1-1 Dispatch and organizational management. His Emergency Management career officially began in 2005 while deployed from Maryland to the Mississippi State Emergency Operations Center in response to Hurricane Katrina.
Prior to being selected as Grand Traverse County’s Emergency Management Coordinator in 2013, he was the Deputy Director of Emergency Services for Kent County, Maryland Office of Emergency Services. His duties included the daily management and operation of the county’s multi-discipline 9-1-1 center, and the Advanced Life Support EMS program, as well as the Operations Chief for the Emergency Operations Center. Gregg is one of a handful of National Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) Advance Team personnel who have been assigned to the National Response Coordination Center during disasters and has also been deployed to numerous national incidents of significance, including Hurricane Katrina, The Mississippi and Red River Floods of 2006, Hurricanes Gustav & Ike, and the US assistance to the State Department as a result of the Haiti earthquake.
Gregg is a certified Professional Emergency Manager, a member of Cohort VI of the National Emergency Management Professional Porgram Executive Leadership Academy. He is also a graduate of the National Emergency Management Institute Advanced Leadership Academy. Gregg is also an Emergency Management Instructor for the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training (NCBRT) at Louisiana State University.
Gregg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Emergency Management from the University of Maryland and resides in Traverse City with his wife, Stacey and two stepsons, Shane and Cameron.
Contact
president@mi-em.us
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Jim Zoss has served as the 1st Vice President of the Michigan Emergency Management Association (MEMA) since 2013. Jim served as the Director of Emergency Services with the City of Battle Creek Police Department from 1972 to 2010.
Frank Post is new to the MEMA Board, being elected in 2017 to the position of 3rd Vice President. Prior to that, Frank chaired the Region 7 Homeland Security Planning Board for 2 years prior to his election. 
Jerry McCoy is a 31-year veteran of Emergency Management. From 1980 to 1989 he was Montcalm County’s Emergency Manager and a full-time Paramedic with Montcalm County EMS. In 1989 he was appointed Director of EMS in Montcalm and served in that dual capacity until his retirement in 2007. He remained as Montcalm's Emergency Manager until 2011 at which time he retired from that position as well. Recently he was re-hired by Montcalm County to serve as Emergency Management Assistant where he is updating emergency operations plans, the Hazard Mitigation Plan, LEPC plans, and designing and conducting disaster exercises for Montcalm County.
Erin Yingst is the Executive Coordinator for the 5th District Homeland Security Planning Board, which encompasses the ten emergency management programs in Southwest Michigan. She is responsible for overseeing the Homeland Security grant projects and board activities for the region, a position she has held since 2009.
Scott Corbin has served as the Director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for Allegan County, Michigan for 10 years. Of those years, Scott served as the Michigan Emergency Management Association (MEMA) Legislative Liaison from 2009 through 2013.
Therese Cremonte is the Livingston County Emergency Manager. She was hired by Livingston County in 2016 upon her retirement from the Michigan State Police (MSP). While with the MSP, Therese work five of her twenty-seven years with the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division (EMHSD) in the Training & Exercise Unit, Grants Unit, and as the Coordinator for Region One.
Mark Hammond has been elected to serve as the Michigan Emergency Management Association (MEMA) Liaison to District 2 North for 2017 - 2018.
Peter Locke retired from the Dearborn Fire Department in 2002 after 26 years of service, the last 11 years in which he served as Dearborn’s Emergency Management Coordinator. He had extensive experience in managing emergencies and disasters including three Presidential Disasters and two Presidential Emergencies. He obtained his Professional Emergency Manager (PEM) certification in 1992 and was awarded the Michigan Emergency Management Association Coordinator of the Year and Response of the Year Awards for 1999, and the Michigan State Police Homeland Security Emergency Management Division Professional Emergency Manager of the Year Award for 1998.
Jim Yarger has served as the Emergency Management Coordinator for Barry County since 2004. Jim currentlyserves as the Chairperson for the 5th District Homeland Security Planning Board, which encompasses the ten emergency management programs in Southwest Michigan. Jim currently holds many emergency management and fire service certifications which include the Michigan Professional Emergency Management Certification (PEM).
Teresa Schwalbach is the Emergency Management Coordinator for the County of Marquette, Michigan. She has worked in the public sector her entire career and in emergency management for the past 25 years. She coordinated the team of local, state, and federal agencies participating in the emergency response activities during the Silver Lake Dam flood event in May 2003. As a result, she was asked to write an article for Hydro Review magazine in 2004 and International Dam Safety magazine 2008 on the flooding event and the value of planning for emergencies and testing emergency plans. She has presented at various conferences including the Dam Association Conference in San Francisco in 2004 and the Canadian Dam Association Conference in Calgary, Canada in 2005. She was invited back to Canada to present as a guest speaker at the 2014 Canadian Dam Association Conference in Banff, Alberta, Canada on the past and present look at the Silver Lake Dam event.
