our story
Our founders have spent decades solving complex problems for organizations in a variety of industries. Over time, they noticed an increasingly common trend challenging leaders and operating units - despite spending an ever-growing amount on technology, organizations have difficulty maximizing the benefits of those investments.
Technology needs to support your organization’s business processes. Rapid advancements outpace the ability to fully utilize hardware and software, leading to disjointed processes, communication silos, and limiting productivity. This challenge becomes particularly acute for risk management and during disruptive events.
Our team has developed a process that begins with listening to your specific and unique needs and facilitates a synergy between your goals, your processes, your people, and your technology. In the end, you will have an immersive, real-time understanding of your operating environment, including interdependencies, potential risk areas, and points of disruption, augmented by the ability to coordinate and communicate rapidly and seamlessly. In today’s highly interconnected and risk-laden world, you can’t afford not to.
Our Founders
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Chris McIntosh
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Ron Prater
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Russ Johnson
Executive Consultants
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Craig Fugate
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Alan Bradshaw
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Beth Bartholomew
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Jim Featherstone
Our Leadership
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Samantha Phillips
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Greg Brunelle
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Emily Nuñez Hunt
We deliver
Best in Class Solutions to Achieve:
Comprehensive operational awareness
Maximized utilization of existing tech stack
Alignment of personnel, process, technology, and goals
Immersive risk management & crisis response capabilities
Proven Outcomes for Dynamic Partners:
Listen-first approach
Customized engagement for each partner's needs
Passionate commitment to continuous improvement
Cost-effective
we’re ready to listen.
If your organization needs to actively understand its operating environment, identify risks and hazards before they occur, and quickly respond and recover from disruptive events, we are ready to listen.
Join the team
If you're passionate about using technology to make people's lives better, you'll fit right in with us. With BES, you'll work alongside our talented team to develop innovative solutions to challenging problems. We always value fresh perspectives, so don't be afraid to think outside the box. We look forward to hearing from you!
Our employees make us who we are, and we always strive to recognize their great work. This month, our highlighted employee is
Hunter Bruce
Employee Showcase
Hunter Bruce
Recent work
Hunter is one of Bent Ear's Senior Consultants, specializing in emergency notification system implementation and training. His most recent work has been dedicated to upgrading and implementing ENS systems across multiple federal clients, ensuring that staff are properly trained on usage and maintenance. His advocacy and emphasis on the practical usage and criticality of such platforms has led to improved confidence and competency with the systems and the clients he has built relationships with.
In their words
Public safety and crisis management runs in my blood. Working with this incredible team to implement systems critical to keeping our most important governmental functions running feels like an extension of the work that public servants in my life have dedicated their lives to protecting. Being able to facilitate information sharing and emergency communications gives me both a creative outlet and the opportunity to teach others, skills that have blossomed in the environment Bent Ear has created and for which I will be forever grateful.
