2022 Annual Celebration of the Sector
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
The Museum of Ventura County
100 e. Main Street, Ventura
Individual Members: No fee to attend
Organizational Members: No fee to attend
Non-Members: No fee to attend
About this event
Faculty
Tony Briggs
Tony Briggs serves as the Regional Chief Executive Officer for the American Red Cross Central California Region – a role in which he oversees all Red Cross service delivery in 11 counties for more than 4.2 million residents.
A native of Philadelphia, Briggs completed a successful 24-year career in the United States Navy, rising to the rank of Chief Petty Officer. His career highlights include leading 80 Sailors deployed throughout the Western Pacific in support of humanitarian actions. He was an integral member of a team who brought a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Los Angeles, showing off the Navy’s finest to more than two million individual media impressions over a four-day period.
In 2014 he joined the American Red Cross as a communications manager for blood services in southern California where he was responsible all communications, public affairs, and marketing from Santa Barbara to San Diego. In September 2015, he accepted a position as the communications director for the Desert to the Sea Region and served as a national spokesman for the Red Cross at some of its largest disaster responses including Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Hurricane Irma in Florida and the Camp Fire in California and the Route 66 shooting in Las Vegas.
He earned his degree in Communications from the University of Maryland University College and holds certificates in six sigma quality improvement. He and his wife, Kelly, have been married for more than 30 years and they are the proud parents of five and enjoy spoiling their four grandchildren.
The Red Cross Central California Region serves Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Mono and Inyo counties and in the last year provided relief to more than 1,000 families affected by disaster.