Edward D. Tracy is the Chief Executive Officer of The Tracy Group Inc., a consulting company specializing in the development, design, implementation, and testing of Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Management Programs for small and medium size companies. Additional services provided relate to contractual entitlement audits, internal operational audits, development of business plans and the packaging of motion picture production finance deals for independent film production companies.

Prior to founding The Tracy Group, Inc. Ed Tracy had a thirty year career with Paramount Pictures Corporation in Hollywood, California, responsible for the enterprise-wide business continuity planning and internal audit programs, corporate policies and procedures, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance for all motion picture costs and corporate treasury functions, studio business development, the studio’s emergency operations center and emergency preparedness program, Y2K business partner contingency planning, confidential and sensitive special projects, production support, and production finance. Based upon his extensive and diversified experiences with the Paramount Pictures Corporation he served on the Viacom Inc. (the parent company of Paramount Pictures Corporation) Business Continuity Planning Best Practices Committee.

Mr. Tracy was also with a New York City-based “Big 8” public accounting firm for five years responsible for the performance of audits of publicly held companies and was an Adjunct Professor of Accounting at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, New York.

In addition, Ed Tracy has over forty-one years of volunteer fire department service experience with a Long Island, New York Fire Department (rising to the rank of Captain) and with a Southern California Fire Department located in Los Angeles County, serving as the Chief of Department for fourteen years.

Ed Tracy has frequently been a guest speaker and presenter of programs relating to Emergency Preparedness, Business Continuity Planning and Fire Department Management for such organizations as the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the Contingency Planning Exchange, the Flagg Management Business Continuity Conference, the Long Island (New York) Hurricane Conference, Fire Engineering Magazine’s Fire Department Instructors’ Conference, the Bravest Seminars Program and numerous career and volunteer fire departments.

Mr. Tracy can be reached through The Tracy Group, Inc. at 516.568.7319 (office), 323.864.5849 (cell) or via e-mail at edtracy@thetracygrp.com.