RIMS-CRMP Exam Prep with RIMS Rocky Mountain Chapter

John Everett Button is an Enterprise Strategic and Technology Risk Strategist at AMERICAN SYSTEMS, where he advises on enterprise, technology, and emerging risk. He spent more than nine years at Gartner, most recently as Senior Enterprise Risk Advisor, working directly with Chief Risk Officers and senior risk leaders on governance, program design, and risk-informed decision making. His earlier work spans IT and cyber risk management across the public and private sectors, including enterprise risk policy development for the Texas Department of Transportation, information security policy at Deloitte, and controls and compliance engagements with the Options Clearing Corporation and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He holds an MA in Philosophy from Georgia State University.

John brings a strong teaching background to RIMS. He currently instructs UCLA Extension's graduate-level course on designing and implementing enterprise risk management programs, covering framework development, risk identification and assessment, governance structures, and integration with strategic decision making. He holds the RIMS-CRMP, the RIMS-CRO Certificate, the Open FAIR certification, and ISACA's Advanced in AI Risk (AAIR) credential, and his focus areas include risk governance, quantitative risk analysis, and emerging risk. He has also served as managing editor on several risk management titles, including Cultural Calamity: Culture Driven Risk Management Disasters and Chaos to Clarity: The Tao of Risk Management.