Hurricane Sandy made a mess of the Northeast recently. Our Chairman and CEO Andrew Makrides lost power for a few days at his home, and our office in Melville remains closed, not because of problems on Walt Whitman Road, but because of extreme gas shortages. One of our board members has taken up residence at the Marriott in Uniondale. The good news is that with smart phones, iPads and the like, as long as you can get a charge you are still in business. The vast majority of our employees are at our facility in Florida and we happily remain, business as usual at Bovie.
The attached article tells how other CEO's dealt with the results of Hurricane Sandy...
"When the approach of Hurricane Sandy left Lands' End Chief Executive Edgar Huber stranded on a business trip, he retreated to an impromptu backup headquarters—in his mother-in-law's apartment complex.
The CEO of the Sears Holdings Corp. unit was on his way to conferences in New York when cancellations prompted him to hop an Amtrak train to the Washington, D.C., area and take up residence in a communal entertainment room in the North Bethesda, Md., complex.
He used Wi-Fi to keep up with lieutenants about store closings and other storm-related issues until an outage left him with only his BlackBerry.
Forget the board room. This week, CEOs across the Northeast are managing their companies from the living room. The huge disruptions of transportation and power have displaced senior executives as well as the rank and file, and few have the benefit of the secret backup bunkers set up for government officials.
As a result, CEOs are juggling kids and dwindling battery life as they work to get their firms running again after the storm."
Continue reading the full article here.
J. Robert Saron,
President
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