EXCELSIOR ADVISORY ASSOCIATES LLC
With offices in the historic St. James Building in the NOMAD neighborhood of Manhattan, Excelsior Advisory Associates LLC provides life safety training and related consulting services. At Excelsior, we engage leading experts to develop and deliver our products and services. The people that we train are empowered to act. Our students have the knowledge and tools to respond to life threats, whenever and wherever they occur. At Excelsior, we believe that a life should never be lost as the result of a lack of proper training.
BLEEDING CONTROL
TRAINING
Excelsior’s bleeding control and trauma response training prepares an untrained or minimally trained bystander to treat life-threatening injuries in those critical moments before professional first responders arrive. We believe that training bystanders to be the first link in the “chain of survival” significantly increases the chances of surviving a life-threatening injury. Properly trained bystanders can also provide assistance to professional first responders once they arrive on-scene.
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
TRAINING
This training teaches decision-making processes that can be used in various contexts such as entering into business arrangements in new or unfamiliar countries or markets. Personal safety and safe travel techniques can also be addressed as part of an overall risk mitigation strategy thereby lessening the chances of being the victim of a crime of opportunity or the target of an attack.
CUSTOM COURSE DESIGN AND SECURITY PROGRAM CONSULTING
The experts at Excelsior can custom design training courses and security programs to meet your specific needs as well as provide qualified instructors to implement training courses and security programs. We also provide consulting services to assist you in developing and implementing a comprehensive security program.
TRAINING AND SECURITY PROGRAM EVALUATION
Excelsior can evaluate your existing training and security programs for compliance with industry best practices, guidelines and recognized conformity standards such as NFPA 3000, Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER) Program.
MEET OUR TEAM OF DEDICATED PROFESSIONALS
Steven T. Peluso, JD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Steven Peluso is an attorney in New York City and an expert in the development of personnel certification and certificate programs having been General Counsel for a nationally recognized test developer. Prior to law school, he served as a Special…
Michael P. Jones, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Medical Director
Dr. Jones is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. He is an attending physician at Jacobi and Montefiore Medical Centers in the Bronx, NY and is the Director of the…
Gardiner Hempel, Jr., CPA, GPHR
Managing Director
Gardiner’s career spans 40 years at both major accounting and consulting firms. He specializes in tax and HR consulting including work assignments in Germany, the UK, Hong Kong and Japan. He has been a volunteer firefighter since 2001 in Orange…
Paul Lauer
Managing Director
Paul Lauer (Retired) was a Captain with the Paterson, NJ Fire Department. He brings two decades of training, leadership and on-the-line experience in emergency response and awareness, fire suppression, building collapse, swift water and confined space rescue, and life safety.…
Andrew Bershad, AEMT-P, NREMT-P, CIC
Director of Training
Detective Andrew Bershad (Retired) was a member of the New York City Police Department’s elite Emergency Service Unit (ESU). He has over thirty years of experience in the field of emergency medical services. During his tenure, he was one of…
Brian Goldberg, EMT-P
Senior Instructor
Brian is a Senior Instructor at Excelsior. He is a paramedic with over 10 years of experience in Emergency Medical Services and has served in numerous roles, including leadership positions in private, volunteer and hospital based EMS departments in both urban…
Gerald A. Rosen, EdD
Consulting Psychometrician
Dr. Rosen is a consultant in psychometrics. He is a licensed psychologist and psychometrician with a Doctorate in Measurement, Evaluation and Techniques of Experimental Research from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rosen has worked with licensure and certification examinations since…
John D. Woodward, Jr., JD, MS
Senior Advisor
John Woodward is a Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies. Woodward is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. During his twenty-year CIA career John served as an operations officer in the Clandestine…
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