Matthew Alilionis is the Regional Training & Exercise Coordinator for CISA Region 2, which covers NY, NJ, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He oversees Bombing Prevention and Surveillance Detection classes as well as developing and facilitating tabletop exercises for the public and private sector.
Before joining CISA, Matt worked with the New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services (NYS DHSES) in the Office of Emergency Management. He began in 2018 as Regional Coordinator of Response for Long Island. This led to a promotion to Regional Director of New York City, where he held that position longer than any predecessor. Matt was responsible for directing and coordinating planning, requests, reporting and response with city, state, and bi-state authorities during emergencies and major planned events. This included identification and deployment of state resources, interoperable communications, cellular network assets, response staff, and mobile and temporary command posts.
His additional duties included agency liaison to NYPD Counterterrorism Division’s Interagency Intelligence Team, agency liaison to the US Coast Guard’s Sector New York and Sector Long Island Sound Area Maritime Security Committee’s, as well as numerous local committees on critical infrastructure and intelligence sharing. Matt also served on the Executive Steering Committee of the United Nations General Assembly from 2019 to 2023, the region’s only yearly recurring National Special Security Event. Matt’s role as Regional Director also saw him as the State Point of Contact for New York City’s SEAR 1 and 2 events (40% of the Nation’s SEAR Events).
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Matt was New York State’s liaison to FEMA for New York City, Branch Director at the Javits NY Medical Station, and Incident Commander of Aqueduct and Yankee Stadium Mass Vaccination sites. An experience he will never forget, it really hit home the importance of agency collaboration.
Earlier in his career, Matt served with the Garden City Police Department first as a Police Aide, and then as a Dispatcher. In addition to his regular duties, he frequently assisted the executive staff with planning for sporting events, special events, and major construction projects. This was Matt’s first experience with Emergency Management, having worked during Hurricane Sandy and liaising with the Nassau County Office of Emergency Management.

Our speaker will be Commissioner Kenneth Jackson of the Garden City Police Department. Commissioner Jackson also serves as the Executive Director of the Nassau County Municipal Police Chiefs Association.

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You can join us for an informal night of networking. We will have passed hor d’ourves, cocktails, and networking. We have invited our Long Island College Consortium friends to join us at this event.

Allen L. Bode began his career as a prosecutor in 1997 at the office of the Queens District Attorney, where he prosecuted armed robberies, arson, and economic crimes. In 2003, Mr. Bode joined the United States Attorney’s Office (“USAO”) for the Eastern District of New York (“EDNY”), where he served as an Assistant United States Attorney until December 2021. During his tenure as a federal prosecutor, Mr. Bode served 17 years in the Long Island Criminal Division, investigating, prosecuting, and winning at trial and on appeal in every type of case, including complex white-collar frauds, international cartel drug importation, child exploitation, physicians illegally dealing controlled substances, robbery, and murder. In 2016, Mr. Bode was appointed as a Deputy Chief in the Long Island Criminal Division of the USAO. In 2020, Mr. Bode was appointed Chief of the International Narcotics and Money Laundering Section of the USAO in the Brooklyn Criminal Division, where he served until his appointment as Chief Assistant District Attorney in Suffolk County.

During his career as a federal prosecutor, Mr. Bode was awarded the 2005, 2007, and 2009 Federal Prosecutor of the Year Award by Parents for Megan’s Law; the 2009 Investigator of the Year Award by NY/NJ Federal Law Enforcement Foundation; and the 2011 and 2020 True American Hero Award by the Federal Drug Agents Foundation.

Mr. Bode received his Bachelor of Arts from Western Washington University and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago School of Law.

John J. Mueller comes to the MTA after 28 years of service at the Yonkers Police Department. Mueller oversees the more than 1,000-member MTA Police Department and is responsible for patrolling and securing the MTA’s operating region, which stretches from Montauk to Poughkeepsie.  

Mueller began his law enforcement career 1992 with the NYPD, joining Yonkers PD in 1994 as an officer in the 4th Precinct. Mueller rose the ranks over the years, leading to his 2019 appointment as Police Commissioner. Among his many credentials during his recent ten years at Yonkers PD, the City of Yonkers saw a 45% reduction in crime through a hyper-focused, precision policing philosophy. This reduction has been credited to focused community engagement by officers, a program Mueller pushed during his time as the Commanding Officer of the 4th Precinct.  

Born and raised in Yonkers, Mueller holds a graduate degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He has attended the Police Executive Research Forum, the United States Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Defense and Homeland Security, and the FBI National Academy. He has been married to Donna for 28 years and has three sons: Jack, Sean, and Shane. 

Please join us for our chapter meeting on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at 6 pm at the Wantagh Inn, 3264 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793.

Richard Esposito is an award winning national news and communications executive whose significant experience spans print, digital and network news as well as corporate and crisis communications.

Currently the CEO of RoundHouse Strategies Esposito provides C Suite level corporate and crisis communications advice and significantreputation management expertise. His experience spans the public and private sectors and includes significant expertise in setting and overseeing complex policy and investigative agendas.

His recent client base includes prominent international public figures, global entertainment figures, multinational entertainment, and media companies, first tier law firms, private equity firms, and Wall Street executives.

His advisory services include litigation support, conflict resolution, proactive reputation management and the successful execution of effective media strategies across a complex landscape.He effectively creates and manages teams of Search Engine Optimization providers, Influencers, researchers, private investigator and branded content producers to achieve his clients’ goals.

Esposito’s current clients are well served by his extensive news reporting and executive experienceas well as his public service including a public affairs role as Deputy Commission for Public Information and Deputy Commissioner for Strategic Communications at the New York City Police Department, the nation’s largest police agency.

The winner of fivenational Emmy Awards for breaking news and investigations, Esposito shares in a Pulitzer Prize and has twice been part of a team nominated as a finalist for that award. He has been recognized numerous times for his significant accomplishments as a journalist at ABC News, NBC News and other news organizations in the digital, cable, broadcast, radio and print industries. That recognition includes a prestigious George Polk Award and multiple George Foster Peabody awards.

Please join us for our chapter meeting on Tuesday, January 30, 2024, at 6 pm at the Wantagh Inn, 3264 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793.

Our guest speaker will be Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County Executive. A former Hempstead Town Councilman, Presiding Officer of the Legislature, Port Authority Commissioner, and advocate for law enforcement, Bruce Blakeman is using his experience to make Nassau County an affordable suburb and emblem of the American Dream. As Hempstead Town Councilman from 2015 to 2021, Bruce Blakeman voted to cut property taxes for multiple years. He approved budgets that earned the Town of Hempstead among the highest Wall Street credit ratings. Bruce previously served as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the aftermath of 9/11, where he fought to secure our airports, bridges, tunnels, ports, and facilities across the metropolitan area. As Executive Director of the New York Police Chiefs Benevolent Association, a member of the Crime Stoppers Board, New York COPS Foundation, and Deputy Counsel to the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Foundation, Blakeman has worked with our police, not against them. Beyond the elected office, Blakeman is an attorney who practices law before the United States Supreme Court, New York, and New Jersey courts, the United States Court of Appeals, and the United States District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Mr. Blakeman is a California Western Law School and Arizona State University graduate. Bruce was born in Oceanside, raised in Valley Stream, and resides in Atlantic Beach with his wife, Segal.

Please join us on Tuesday, December 12, 2022, at 6 p.m. at the Wantagh Inn, 3264 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh, NY, for our Holiday Party.

Our ASIS Long Island December meeting is a holiday get together.

Join us for some cheer, some good food and good company on December 13th from 6 to 9 PM!.

Please join us for our chapter meeting on Tuesday, November 28, 2023, at 6 p.m. at the Wantagh Inn, 3264 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793. 

Our guest speaker will be Justin McCaffrey, Commissioner of Public Safety for the Town of Oyster Bay, NY. Justin is a retired Sergeant from the NYPD and has also been a veteran of the Massapequa Fire District for 31 years. 

As the current Commissioner of Public Safety for the Town of Oyster Bay, Commissioner McCaffrey’s Department of Public Safety coordinates all available Town resources under one umbrella to develop and implement unified safety and security measures to prevent, mitigate and manage incidents, both natural and man-made, that threaten the quality of life of the residents and the critical infrastructure of our communities. Through its three divisions, Security, Emergency Management, and Marine Enforcement, the department works closely with local, state, and federal agencies to address security issues, plan and prepare for disaster response and recovery, and strengthen the Town’s responder capabilities.

Commissioner McCaffrey will share his extensive emergency management expertise with the membership.

Our guest speaker will be Mike Sapraicone, Candidate for Congress, retired New York Police Department Detective, community volunteer, small business founder, and nationally recognized security expert. Mike served in the New York Police Department for 20 years, starting as a transit officer protecting millions of subway riders.  Mike saw first-hand the impact of crime on New York’s economy and the need for businesses to have a private security option. With this in mind, he started Squad Security to provide security services to New York-based companies, including the American Stock Exchange.

 Since retiring from the NYPD in 2000, Mike grew this small business into a global security firm in the heart of Long Island and employed over 600 active and retired members of law enforcement.

Mike was raised in Richmond Hill and attended Holy Cross High School in Flushing. He has continued to be involved at Holy Cross High School as a member and Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Mike has served as president of the Seaford Union Free School District Board of Education and is a Museum of American Armor senior trustee. Mike is also on the boards of Tomorrow’s Hope Foundation, Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital, Catholic Youth Organization, and the Columbus Citizens Foundation, for which he Co-Chaired New York City’s Columbus Day Parade. Mike has been a member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, Associated Licensed Detectives of New York State, and the American Academy for Professional Law Enforcement.Mike has frequently appeared on NBC’s Today Show, WINS Radio, NBC-TV, Fox News, Court TV, MSNBC, and CNN. Mike has also served as an expert on public safety and security issues in leading newspapers like the New York Times, New York Post, New York Daily News, and Long Island Business News. He also hosted “Mike Sapraicone’s Street Smart” on Long Island News Radio.

Mike has lived on Long Island for 32 years and resides in Oyster Bay with his wife, Eileen. Mike is the father of five children and has five grandchildren.

Mr. Sapraicone will share his extensive experience working across the public and private sectors and the opportunities and challenges of running for an elected position in the U.S. Congress.

Dear ASIS Members,
The Long Island ASIS Chapter will hold our last meeting/summer party before the summer break on June 27 at 6 pm at the Wantagh Inn. It will be a casual networking event outside under the tent at the Wantagh Inn.

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Please join us for our chapter meeting on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at 6 p.m. at the Wantagh Inn, 3264 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793.

Our guest speaker will be John Rowan, Suffolk County Police Department Chief of Detectives. Chief Rowan joined the Suffolk County Police Department in 1993. During his career, he has held various supervisory roles, including Commanding Officer of the 3rd Precinct from 2018-2022 and Commanding Officer Major Crimes Bureau, where he oversaw Homicide, Major Cases, Special Victims, and Hate Crimes. He was also tasked during that time as the primary liaison with the Federal agencies assigned to work MS 13 murders. He traveled to El Salvador in January 2018 and was recognized by Homeland Security for participating in Operation Matador, a joint task force investigating MS 13. He also served as a Captain in Internal Affairs and was the Commanding Officer of the First Squad Detectives, where he held the rank of Detective Lieutenant. 

Please join us for our chapter meeting on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at 6 p.m. at the A+ Technology & Security Solutions facility, 1490 North Clinton Avenue, Bay Shore, NY 11706.

Our guest speaker will be Tim Healy, the President and Owner of Healy Success Solutions Inc., also the Host of the small business podcast The Profit Express.

Tim will share his extensive expertise with Recruiting in a Tight Labor market! Tips on How to Hire Your Ideal Candidate. This meeting is the perfect opportunity to expand your knowledge and, as usual, increase your network, share ideas, and have a good time with your fellow security professionals. 

Tim works directly with business owners, sales management, and selling professionals to develop Consultative Sales Systems from 1st Point of Contact to Close.  His clients are from finance, insurance, industrial manufacturing, social media, digital marketing, information technology, payroll, real estate, and law. 

Please join us for our chapter meeting on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at 6 p.m. at the Wantagh Inn, 3264 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh, New York.
Our guest speaker will be Patrick Boyle, Executive Director of IgniteLI, the Manufacturing Consortium of Long Island, which supports and advocates for the regions manufacturing sectors. In this role, he acts as the voice for the industry. In addition, he collaborates with other regional non-profits to bring benefits, business, and opportunity to Long Island’s industrial sectors.  Mr. Boyle comes from the government, having served in the New York Senate as the Director of its Veterans, Homeland Security, and Military Affairs Committee and Deputy Chief of Staff for the Third Senate District.
Patrick graduated from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a BA in International relations and Military Affairs. He is currently a student at LIU’s Homeland Security and Terrorism Institute, focusing on cyber security policy and emergency services. 
Mr. Boyle will share his extensive experience working across the public and private sectors to promote business opportunities and protect the critical infrastructure across Long Island. 

Please join us on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at 6 p.m. at the A+ Technology & Security Solutions, 1490 North Clinton Avenue, Bay Shore, NY 11706, for our chapter meeting.
Our guest speaker will be Dr. Errol D. Toulon, Jr., Sheriff of Suffolk County, New York’s, the 67th Sheriff, and the county’s first African American to be elected to a non-judicial countywide office. Now serving his second term as Suffolk’s highest-ranking law enforcement official, he continues to work to serve and protect the county’s 1.5 million residents. Sheriff Toulon has more than 30 years of criminal justice experience, heavily centered upon corrections intelligence and combating gang violence. Prior to serving as Suffolk County Sheriff, Toulon worked for 25 years with the New York City Department of Correction, beginning his career as an NYC correction officer and culminating as the Deputy Commissioner of Operations.
Sheriff Toulon has been recognized by countless law enforcement agencies, distinguished organizations, and publications across the nation for his work in corrections and law enforcement. He is an active member in several renowned organizations, including the Major County Sheriffs of America, where he was recently assigned to their Intelligence Commanders Committee to work on ways to share intelligence nationwide.

Please join us on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, at 6 p.m. at the Wantagh Inn, 3264 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793, for our January chapter meeting.
Our guest speaker will be R.S. Richard, Jr, Chief of Cyber Security with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Region 2 located in New York, NY. Rich is a native Long Islander who served in the U.S. Navy from 1983 to 2003. After honorably retiring from the Navy in 2003 as a Data Systems Technician Chief Petty Officer, he worked at the Naval Network Warfare Command as a Senior Cyber Security Engineer managing a team of cyber security engineers. Chief Richard also was an Information Systems Security Manager with Northrop Grumman in Bethpage, NY. He returned to service to the country in 2016, transitioning to the Department of Homeland Security / Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
Chief Richard will share his extensive Cyber expertise to present on CISA’s cyber resources for business & critical infrastructure (Public/Private Partnership)

Our guest speaker will be Chris Ferro, Chief of Detectives for the Nassau County Police Department. He becameChief of the Detectives after serving the county for 29 years. Ferro was most recently a two-star assistant chief and previously served as commanding officer of several precincts, oversaw the Major Case Bureau and Narcotics, and has received ten departmental awards.

Chief Ferro will share his extensive law enforcement expertise committed to protecting Nassau County residents with our members.

Our guest speaker will be Lt. Joseph Pangaro (Ret), CEO and Chief Security Officer of True Security Design. Lt. Joe is a retired, 27-year veteran police officer who was the lead training instructor of his police agency and certified as an instructor by the NJ Police Training Commission. In addition, he was trained in school security assessments by the Department of Homeland Security. He is also a trained and certified crime prevention officer who continues to train police officers at police academies throughout the Northeast. Lt Pangaro is also a former Director of School Security for a large district in NJ, and he is an award-winning columnist and author.

He will share his extensive law enforcement experience and discuss his role as a school and workplace security expert and trainer with the membership.

ASIS Long Island cordially invites you to our May Meeting at the Wantagh Inn, 3264 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh, NY 11793, on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, at 6 pm. (The price for cocktails and dinner will be $60.00 per person.)

Our guest speaker will be Michael Lewis, the Senior Supervisory Resident Agent of the Long Island Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The office is responsible for investigating Federal Criminal, Terrorism, and National Security violations that occur within Nassau and Suffolk Counties. He has been with the FBI for more than eighteen years. Prior to his current role, Mr. Lewis served on the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force as both a field agent and a squad supervisor. He began his career in the FBI investigating Organized Crime and labor racketeering cases in New York City. Before joining the FBI, Mr. Lewis was an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, where he prosecuted a wide range of street-level criminal offenses. Mr. Lewis holds a law degree from the University of Maryland and graduated with a Master of Forensic Science degree from The George Washington University. He lives with his wife and two children in Nassau County, New York.  

He will be sharing his extensive federal law enforcement experience and discussing his role as Long Island’s lead FBI resident agent with the membership.