Tuesday’s Children Honors the Mets at Gala

 The president and chief strategist of Disaster Technologies Incorporated, based in Washington, DC, New York’s Roger Coleman also serves as chief executive officer at Coleman Group Partners, where he oversees impact investing, private equity evaluation, and market analysis to gauge returns. Alongside his work in NYC, New York, Roger Coleman is passionate about philanthropy and serves on the board of Tuesday's Children.

Formed immediately after the 9/11 terror attacks, Tuesday's Children helps families who lost first responders and service members during and after the tragedy. Its lifelong support includes programs such as free family fun activities at recreational centers, dedicated retreat sessions for adult family members, and youth mentoring for teenagers. The organization celebrated 20 years of service by hosting a Gala at Citifield with the New York Mets Alumni.

Tuesday's Children honored the Mets at the Gala, who have been longstanding partners over the last two decades. Mets alumni, 9/11 families, and other VIPs and guests were in attendance. Proceeds from the event went to Tuesday's Children’s mission to reach and impact more families.

Disaster Tech Named a Finalist for Microsoft's Partner of the Year Award

Roger Coleman is a longtime resident of New York City (NYC) who serves as the chief strategy officer for Disaster Technologies Incorporated.

Just last week, Disaster Tech announced it has been named a finalist of Rising Azure 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. 

 “Disaster Tech is honored to be chosen by Microsoft for this prestigious partner award”, Sean Griffin, Disaster Tech CEO, said. “Our customers rely on Microsoft products to include Azure and this partnership has accelerated our go-to-market and ability to deliver technical excellence for our clients and with reliable secure and scalable solutions.” 

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. Disaster Tech was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Rising Azure. 

The Rising Azure Technology Partner of the Year Award recognizes a technology partner (ISV) that is currently without a dedicated partner development manager (PDM) and has demonstrated strong customer focus and success by leveraging Microsoft Azure as their primary cloud platform and scaling their solution by selling with Microsoft through the commercial marketplace. “I am honored to announce the winners and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards,” said Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft. “These partners were outstanding among the exceptional pool of nominees, and I’m continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact for their customers.” Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced annually prior to the company’s global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, which will take place on July 19-20 this year.

DisasterTech One of Four Companies Recognized by WSP USA

As the Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at DisasterTech, longtime New York resident Roger Coleman maintains a number of responsibilities with the company. DisasterTech focuses on delivering advanced analytics solutions that enable the efficient coordination of emergency response efforts.

Recently DisasterTech formed a partnership with WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy dedicated to servicing local communities. The partnership features four technology firms, Bayotech, Bundle, DisasterTech and Sphera- to join Cohort 1 of the firms new Emerging Growth Partnership (EGPP).

The focus of this first cohort is Climate, Resilience and Sustainability (CRS), with the intent to focus future cohorts on other WSP target markets. WSP's Energy (Bayotech), Property and Buildings Bundle and Federal Programs (DisasterTech) business lines are co-participants in this pilot cohort being led by the CRS business line (Sphera). 

About the Decision Science Integrated

New York resident Roger Coleman is a former volunteer fire chief with the Plandome Fire Department, where he maintains lifetime membership. A graduate of New York’s Marist College with a degree in international business and marketing, he founded Coleman Ventures and Coleman Group Partners and is also the president and chief strategy officer at Disaster Technologies Incorporated (DTI). One of the projects Roger Coleman has been involved in at DTI is the Decision science Integrated Collaboration Environment (DICE), a situational intelligence platform.

Situational intelligence involves decoding complex situations into different facets to ease the overall understanding and enable a feasible response. DICE approaches disaster management and emergency response through technologically analyzing the available data, inherent risks, and integrated models to aid emergency response teams.

Assisted by real-time data gathering, analysis, and visualizations, the attending responders can protect critical assets, manage a cross-functional response, and ensure uninterrupted notifications. Furthermore, as an open-source platform, DICE enables different teams to easily collaborate, access the resources, work on the tasks, and share the results without resorting to proprietary technology. Common DICE application scenarios include response to wildfires, severe weather, and flooding.

Tuesday’s Children Rings Nasdaq Bell

An investor who donates his earnings to charity, Roger Coleman is the New York-based owner of Coleman Ventures and Coleman Group Partners. Among many nonprofits he’s contributed to throughout his career, Roger Coleman is an activer board member and Chairman Circle member of Tuesday’s Children, an organization supporting families affected by 911. To commemorate the event, Mr Coleman was asked by the Board of Govenors off the NASDAQ to represent Tuesday’s Children, to ring opeming bell at the Nasdaq Stock Market on September 10, 2021.

Tuesday’s Children assists families who lost a loved one due to terrorism and mass violence. Rather than providing one-off aid, Tuesday’s Children partners with a family for a lifetime, and tailors their help to suit the family’s current needs. They both operate their own programming and help locate programs that will benefit the interested family members the most. Examples of services families can ask for include job training, community service, or social activities.

Mr. Coleman led the families from Tuesday’s Children and rang the opening bell at 9:30 am Eastern Time, the time marking the 911 terrorist attacks. Those present also observed a moment of silence; this was broadcasted to 175 countries.

Advocates for Children’s Rights

Dedicated to advancing charitable causes around the world, Roger Coleman is a New York investor who divides his earnings between his own family foundation, and charities chosen by him and his partners. One organization that Roger Coleman donates to is Plan International. A nonprofit with global reach, Plan International advocates for children’s issues, especially issues that affect girls.

With over 80 years of experience, Plan International strives to give every child an increased quality of life. Their members provide immediate, material assistance, and also invest in their target children’s futures. They work to end practices that exploit children, or put them in avoidable harm.

Plan International operates in over 75 countries. They open schools and offer education to girls who otherwise would not receive one, and end practices like child marriage, so the children they serve are treated with the dignity they deserve. They support children up until secondary education, granting access to job training, and even pass on their sense of advocacy to the same girls they assist, to emphasize their worth as individuals.

Project to Enhance Disaster Medicine

Roger Coleman brings more than three decades of leadership experience to his role as owner and CEO of Coleman Ventures and Coleman Group Partners in New York City. In addition to his work in New York, Roger Coleman leads Disaster Technologies Incorporated, a Washington, DC-based firm focused on disaster risk management

In May 2021, Disaster Technologies Incorporated and the Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab (CTIL) announced that they had been awarded a $2.3 million contract from the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. As part of the contract, the two organizations will support a project to use data and performance science to improve COVID-19 health care and develop insights into how data can be used to enhance disaster prep and recovery in general.

Disaster Technologies and CTIL (the latter of which is a partnership of Indiana University's University Information Technology Services and the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering) will partner with other leaders in academia and the public and private sector to complete the project. Partners include Organizational Performance Systems and Data2Discovery.

The project is part of the National Emergency Tele-Critical Care Network, which is working to increase the availability of expert medical advice delivered via network-enabled mobile devices. For its part in the collaborative project, Disaster Technologies Incorporated will contribute its data science capabilities and decision support technologies.