Meet Our Team
Our diverse team brings together professionals from various fields, including emergency management, healthcare, and first response, all committed to enhancing community resilience and safety.
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Scott Ashley CCP(F)
President and CEO
Scott is the President and co-founder of Get Ready. Scott’s strong belief is to separate policies from procedures and truly “operationalize” these often complex, policy-based programs into response-ready capabilities. Scott has over twelve years experience in EMS from his early years as an EMT and paramedic in Banff, Los Angeles, and Toronto, and for eight years as a Critical Care Flight Paramedic on the Ontario Ministry of Health Air Ambulance helicopter service.
Since 2001, Scott has helped lead his team to develop Emergency Management, Business Continuity, and pandemic planning for all levels of government, hospitals, school boards, professional services firms, and Fortune
500 companies.
Ready FIRST AIDE™ is the latest program to help the members of the public prepare and respond to a medical emergency
Christel Hollinger Ivanyshyn
ABCP, CMM II (EMP), Dipl MM
Vice-President, Client Services
Christel designs and develops the content for Get Ready’s incident management programs. She is also a part of the implementation team, ensuring our clients needs are met.
Christel has over 20 years of emergency response and emergency management experience, working for the chemical industry, municipal government, fire service, and healthcare. She co-chaired the Province of Ontario Interoperability Task Group (POINT),and participated on provincial Critical Infrastructure Assurance Program working groups and national Technology Interest Groups to promote interoperability across Canada. She has created multi-tiered emergency management plans, and provided leadership for tornados, mass casualty incidents, ice storms, and H1N1.
Kirk Quesnelle
Director of the ATLAS-Leadingtheway™ Platform
Kirk has over 15 years of software development experience and is the lead developer behind Get Ready’s Proprietary software platform – ATLAS-Leadingtheway™. He has played a critical role in building and maintaining the systems that power our emergency preparedness solutions, including the Ready ALERT™, alert and notification system and the Code Tracker platform used by healthcare organizations to manage emergency codes in real time. His approach is to design software systems that are both efficient and scalable.
Kirk also manages Get Ready’s DevOps and server infrastructure, ensuring secure, high-availability deployment of our cloud-based tools.
Glenn Gosling-Cannell
RN, CNCC, ENCC
Specialty Programs Director
Glenn completed his training in Nursing at John Moores University. Since then, he has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in Critical Care, Emergency Care, Critical Flight Care, Emergency Management and Crisis Interventional Care. Glenn has worked in the Emergency Management industry for over 15 years, working closely with agencies operating in the field during an incident, and organizations during the planning and recovery of an incident. Glenn is involved with special projects and program development with Get Ready.
Craig Sumpter
Client Solutions Director
Craig works closely with clients to develop EM and BCP programs. He works with the Get Ready team assisting sectors such as big financial, pharma, health care, and transportation.
Craig has 20 years of experience in Emergency Management. This experience was gained with tenures in the military, front line policing, Tactical and Rescue (SWAT), Bomb Squad, and experience with Operational Planning for major events and bomb threat/active shooter contingency planning for the public and private sectors. He has had the pleasure of serving the community as a Tactical Team Leader and retired from policing as the Officer in Charge of an Explosive Disposal Unit. Craig currently serves as a Firefighter with the City of Brampton.
Coen Commijs
Creative Director, Brand & Social Media Strategy
Coen has worked with Get Ready for the past 10 years, creating all branded graphic design and marketing materials. With a strong background in web design, brand identity, and SEO, he also manages the social media channels for Get Ready and Ready First Aide.
With over 25 years in the design industry, and as founder of Black Bike Media Inc., Coen has collaborated with startups, nonprofits, and larger companies. He’s endlessly curious, always learning, and genuinely passionate about the creative process.
Tim Ivanyshyn
Director of Finance and Administration
Specialty Programs Director
Tim has over 35 years’ experience in Finance and Administration mainly as an Executive Manager, working for municipal governments. Areas of expertise are financials, budgets, human resources, contract development, project management and strategic planning. Tim oversees contracts, accounts payable and receivables.
Adam Revesz
Director of Media Production
Adam is an award-winning filmmaker and video producer who has spent the last 20 years working with large corporate brands, media companies, and TV shows through his own company.
As a co-founder and Director of Media Production at Get Ready he uses his accrued knowledge to produce high quality content for clients, as well as video marketing materials for Get Ready’s websites and social media accounts.
Julia Opie
Director of Business Development
Julia is responsible for building new account relations, identifying new business prospects, and securing new business contracts for Get Ready.
Julia has worked in sales and business development for over 20 years to bring health and safety products and services to clients, and customer support and service has remained a cornerstone of her work.
She has also worked with municipal governments for over 8 years, with a focus on accessibility, compliance, and policy development.
Lucas De Monte B.Sc.
Fire Science and Emergency Response Specialist
Lucas has over twenty years of experience in Public Fire and Rescue Services. Over the years he has worked as a Fire Prevention Inspector, during that time he completed a Bachelor of Science in Fire and Safety Engineering Technology from the University of Cincinnati. He is also a trained Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) and a Hazardous Materials Technician.
Since 2015 Lucas has worked with Get Ready’s on-site Emergency Response Team (ERT) at Sanofi Pasteur Ltd. (Toronto campus). He is now the ERT Manager and leads over twenty firefighters and paramedics to respond and manage emergencies on-site. He also helps ensure that the Fire Drill Program and Fire Equipment Maintenance Programs are accurate and in compliance with the Ontario Fire Code and the Fire Marshalls Office.
Mike Lende
Advisory on Web and marketing
Mike Lende is a seasoned marketing strategist, business coach, and founder of Digital WebKit, an agency dedicated to helping small businesses grow their client base.
He is best known for pioneering the digital and experiential marketing strategies that launched Zipcar Canada—scaling it from zero to over 50,000 members and playing a pivotal role in the company’s successful IPO.
Mike is our advisor and partner through his company Digital Webkit for social media, website optimization and SEO.
Additional Staff
Our 25 member client service team, consists of firefighters, police, paramedics, and emergency managers. They provide a variety of work from dedicated on-site Emergency Response Team (ERT) services including (fire/ medical response, HAZMAT spill clean-up, Occ H&S training, tabletop and exercises, fire plan development and approvals to our various clients in healthcare, manufacturing, municipalities, pharmaceuticals, commercial properties, performing arts, and community festivals.