Montague was founded in 1996 in New York by Kathleen Lucey and Herve Riou, in order to unify the various risk management and continuity disciplines into single integrated program for clients. Evolving largely from the regulated corporate and large government agency world, traditional Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity were becoming further and further isolated from the real world of private sector business. And so we designed Montague from the beginning to be innovative and responsive to real business requirements.

Over the past ten years we have integrated a number of disparate disciplines into a single focus:

• Risk Management: insurance, controls, employee support programs, organization culture: Keeping the business bases covered.
• Emergency Management: building systems and protective alarms to first responders, evacuation and assembly, notification systems: Keeping staff safe.
• Crisis Management: press relations and the logistics of managing information flow in difficult situations: Making the right decisions under fire.
• Emergency Logistics Planning: those teams and tasks that manage critical support functions during an interruption: Keeping the emergency and recovery operations running smoothly.
• High-availability Services: uninterruptible IT applications, the world of supplemental power systems, sophisticated backup and data synchronization strategies for interdependent applications: Getting all the bugs out.
• Continuity of the business: get the interrupted functions up and running again on time in another location, with all the resources they need: Getting back to business.

But the proof is in the details, and there are a lot of those. To get the details right, you must have the right people with the right experience. To get it done on time and within budget, you must have the project management experience as well as the dogged personal perseverance to get around any and every obstacle to deliver the results.