Ms. Srinivasan is the Founder and President of VPC, a result of her passion for organization, creation, and purpose. In 2006, she founded VPC to provide personalized services to all levels of government with the goal to reduce risk in communities across the United States. She directs all planning, outreach, disaster management, grants management, and web design work for VPC, and oversees the marketing, business development, internal organization, and accounting aspects of the firm. She has recently established operations in India to cater to the need for innovative, integrated, and streamlined disaster management services in Southeast Asia.

Ms. Srinivasan has over 25 years of experience in policy consultation, project development/ implementation, community/land use planning, stakeholder engagement, and public outreach. Ms. Srinivasan’s expertise lies in managing complex programs with federal, state, and local clients with the goal of improving disaster resiliency in communities. Ms. Srinivasan has served as Project/Program Manager for over 35 projects in the last five years.

Ms. Srinivasan is a Certified Planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM). She is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program and a Fellow of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

Mr. Pathade serves as Chief Technology Officer and has over 35 years of experience of providing software solutions that leverage his strong engineering background. Pat has extensive experience in putting together teams, designing, and building IT systems, and managing technology projects from initial conception through final deployment and customer acceptance. His expertise stretches over a wide variety of leading-edge technologies and enterprise application development platforms.

He is a certified Salesforce Cloud Consultant and Drupal Consultant and specializes in enterprise architecture. He has developed a business practice to provide comprehensive business and technology consulting services including long and short-term IT planning and strategy development, workflow and business process optimization, requirements analysis, systems integration, project management, and systems and network assessment.

Mr. Pathade is an expert in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and multiple languages and platforms including Alfresco Digital Business Platform, Drupal, Salesforce, Talend, Open EdX, the semantic technology stack, and other open-source products.

Mr. Estrain serves as a Resiliency and Recovery Planner, Hazard Mitigation Specialist, and QA/QC Specialist for VPC. Mr. Estrain has a Master's Degree in Geography with a focus in Regional Planning. He has over 6 years of experience with a Community Planning background. He provides his expertise in Hazard Mitigation Planning, Land Use Planning, Emergency Management Planning, and Historic Preservation Planning.

Mr. Estrain has a true interest in getting to know, and working with, local communities. He has worked in a wide array of communities of different sizes to develop hazard mitigation plans, based on the local knowledge and experience of community residents, businesses, and organizations.

Mr. Estrain has worked with Federal partners on resiliency and recovery activities by developing materials to streamline the disaster recovery deployment process, including helping to develop: Strategic Communications Plans, Field Operations Manuals, Deployment Guides, and other useful documents. Mr. Estrain is currently a member of the American Planning Association – Maryland Chapter.

Mr. Henry serves as a planner for VPC and has over five years of experience in emergency planning, coordination, threat analysis, and organization. Mr. Henry assists clients with the development of Continuity of Operations Plans, Technical Plans, meeting facilitation, and After-Action Reports from a variety of disasters, including natural and human-caused hazards. He has experience in developing and facilitating tabletop exercises, and drafting Emergency Operations Plans and Hazard Vulnerability Analyses.

Mr. Henry recently supported the Department of the Interior’s Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance. He supported the Environmental Response and Recovery (ERR) Team and assisted in the development and maintenance of new policy and guidance.

Mr. Henry is familiar with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Emergency Preparedness Rule, and volunteered as an exercise evaluator for the 2017 Susquehanna Health / City of Williamsport full-scale Exercise in central Pennsylvania.

Ms. McCaw has more than 15 years of experience leading post-disaster response, long-term recovery planning, and community resilience initiatives across the United States, Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asia. Her background includes managing complex, multi-country disaster risk reduction programs; overseeing major donor-funded recovery efforts; and supporting communities rebuilding after wildfire, storms, and public health emergencies. As a certified planner (AICP) with a Master of Urban Planning from Columbia University, she brings deep technical expertise in hazard mitigation, community engagement, and resilience-focused urban planning.

Throughout her career, Ms. McCaw has led teams implementing housing, water infrastructure, and agricultural recovery programs valued at more than $3.5 million, while also managing U.S. government–funded response and resilience initiatives with budgets totaling over $10 million. She is highly skilled in grant management, regulatory compliance, and financial oversight, and has developed numerous donor-facing reports, budget analyses, and program evaluations. Her work also includes facilitating Community Wildfire Protection Plans, developing risk-focused public outreach campaigns, and strengthening the capacity of local governments through training, damage assessment guidance, and stakeholder coordination.