Colonel/Doctor Drew Miller
Colonel Miller is a USAF Academy honor graduate who received an academic scholarship to Harvard University where he earned a Master’s Degree and PhD in Operations Research. His dissertation topic was underground nuclear defense shelters and field fortifications. Drew served in the Cold War at Strategic Air Command, deployed to Germany, Bosnia, and Iraq. In addition to serving as an Intelligence Officer and Plans and Programs Officer in Active Duty, Air Guard and Reserve positions, retiring as a Colonel. He also served in the Senior Executive Service in the Pentagon, the top DoD think tank, and in business management positions in several industries. His articles on the bioengineered viral pandemic threat and collapse have been published in leading journals.
Col/Dr. Drew Miller, CEO of Fortitude Collapse Preparedness and Fortitude Ranch
Colonel Miller has significant experience as a management consultant, due diligence analyst, and business wargaming professional for several decades. In addition to his own companies, he served as a Manager in Corporate Planning and Development at ConAgra Inc, running their strategic planning process and doing M&A work. Dr. Miller was Vice President of Corporate Planning and Development at Securities America, one of the largest independent broker-dealers in the United States. He has taught in university business schools, served as an intelligence officer in the AF Reserve (retired Colonel), the Senior Executive Service in the Department of Defense, a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and a County Commissioner and University of Nebraska Regent. He is a Certified Management Accountant, Certified Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor, Due Diligence Professional, and Certified Financial Planner.
Drew founded and is CEO of Disaster Preparedness LLC, running Fortitude Ranch survival communities across the U.S., and consulting on collapse survival preparedness.
Our Team
Meet the consultants, experts, and staff that work with Drew Miller on the team:
Dr. Byron Winn
Consultant
Dr. Byron Winn has been a research analyst and business consultant for 25 years. Dr. Winn served as a Senior Project Leader at Monitor Group and Vice President of Enamics, a software firm. Byron founded Eos Consulting along with John Murphy. Before his business career, Byron was an instructor at the USAF Academy and a Head Teaching Fellow at Harvard University where he earned his MA and Ph.D. Byron holds a BS from the US Air Force Academy, and served as a fighter pilot in the US Air Force.
John Murphy
Consultant
John Murphy has over 25 years of business consulting and executive management experience. He was COO of TIS Worldwide. He was VP Worldwide Sales, Operations and Consulting at Lotus Development Corporation. John also served as Director of Business Planning at The Travelers Corporation. He co-founded Eos Consulting with Byron Winn. John has a BA in Mathematics from Holy Cross College and two Master’s degrees (Computer Science and Management/Finance) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
L. Burke Files
Consultant
L. Burke Files is President of Financial Examinations & Evaluations, Inc., performing investment due diligence, independent investigations and consulting. He was Director of Corporate Finance for an investment banking company, Principal of a business and VC consulting firm, and a commodities specialist and foreign currency trader at Oppenheimer/Rouse. Burke is a licensed P.I. specializing in financial investigations and Co-Founder of the International Due Diligence Organization.
Annabeth Deats Miller
Consultant
Annabeth Miller has been a practicing pharmacist for over thirty years, and a manager in pharmacy manufacturing companies and service in government regulatory positions. She was a Pharmaceutical Analyst at Sandoz Pharmaceutical and Novartis Consumer Health, developing and running training all employees on FDA Good Manufacturing Practice Regulations, conducting plant and supplier audits. She was a member of Nebraska Board of Examiners in Pharmacy, and Associate Director in the Bureau of Examining Boards, Nebraska Department of Health.
Timothy Potter
Consultant
Timothy Potter has worked as a research analyst in the electronic payments industry and as an independent market research consultant, specializing in competitive intelligence and risk assessment. Prior to that he was a consultant with the Nebraska Business Development Center, and a community development planner with the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area Planning Agency. Tim has a bachelor’s degree in history from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and master’s degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (Community and Regional Planning) and the University of Nebraska at Omaha (Business Administration).
Anna Miller
Administrative and Office Assistant
Anna assists Drew within the Fortitude Corporate Preparedness organization as well as manages the Fortitude Ranch office operations, assisting with sales, memberships, inquiries, customer support, and administrative assistant duties. While she attended the University of Edinburgh for a year, she graduated from the University of Colorado where she participated in Army ROTC training. She has also served at each of the Fortitude Ranch operations throughout the country and continues to work alongside Drew in consulting and record keeping, preparing proposals, quotes, and other documentation for prospects and customers.
Maria Lindbloom
Director of Sales & Marketing
Maria has worked for over 20 years as a sales and marketing executive, primarily for academic research publishers and aggregators such as Gale, ProQuest (now Clarivate), De Gruyter Publishing, and non-profit organizations in the biology and geoscience disciplines, serving education, local/state government entities, and NGOs. Maria was also a contract sales manager for MIT Horizon, a new initiative within MIT Open Learning to provide corporations with fundamental instruction on emerging technology. She's been a trusted partner to enterprise-level customers such as ExxonMobil, Schlumbeger, GHD, as well as Ivy-League and research-level universities.
Our Mission is to Help Organizations Survive a Collapse
“The CEO should regard his position #1 as the Chief Risk Officer. Now, you have a lot of other functions too, but you should wake up every morning and think about ‘is this place built to take everything?'” - Warren Buffett
"So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated."
Richard Thaler,
American Economist
"People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant, too"
Martin Wolf,
Economics Journalist
Financial Times
"The impact of an EMP attack in the US would be catastrophic. Experts argue that the US is incredibly ill-prepared for such an event, with former CIA director James Woolsey calling it “one of the greatest national vulnerabilities.”
Ariel Cohen,
Global Risk Expert
Forbes
"Markets are facing a black swan event, and investors have nowhere to run as the rally across markets in 2023 has inflated a dangerous bubble, according to veteran technical analyst Jeff Bierman."
Jennifer Sor,
Markets Insider
Our Core Values
We practice what we preach
Integrity
Our strong moral principals guide us individually and as an organization so that you can trust us.
Accountability
We take ownership of our actions and results, ensuring we can be counted on.
Knowledge
Our deep expertise and years of training and research provide our clients with life-saving recommendations.
Commitment
We uphold and embrace a commitment of service and satisfaction to our client partners.
Passion
We have a personal passion and enthusiasm for disaster preparedness that we implement within our own families.