If you’re a company passionate about building resilience in the world, like we are, it only makes sense to start with your community.  So that’s what Excel did.  Partnering with Fairfax County government on completely pro-bono basis we stood up the Fairfax County Business Emergency Operations Council.  Our purpose is to facilitate the sharing of information between the business community and the county government to better enable response and recovery from damage brought on by natural and man-made disruptions.  We’ve been joined by a number of other great companies across many business sectors in the county AND because we’re plugged in at the national and regional levels, we often have information before it hits the news – which is exactly what happened in the initials stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Membership is free and open to all organizations doing business in the county.