Ken Jenkins

Biography

Ken is the Vice President of Emergency Services for BMS Global in Fort Worth, TX.  BMS Global specializes in transportation accident response.  Specifically,recovery, restoration, inventory and control of personal effects, documentation of recovery efforts, personal effects claims handling, temporary mortuary and repatriation of remains on-site as well as disposal and recovery of wreckage.

Before joining the BMS Global team, Ken was the Manager for American Airlines Emergency Response and CARE Program.  As a volunteer he was assigned to work with families for two American Eagle accidents in 1994.  In 1995, he was a Command Center Leader at AA’s Telephone Enquiry Center for the accident response in Cali, Columbia and in 1999 served as the Family Assistance Site Manager in Little Rock (AA 1420).  As the manager of emergency Response he was responsible for AA’s Family Assistance response for the events of September 11, 2001 (Flight 11 and 77), the response to AA Flight 587 in New York in 2001 and the response for Corporate Airlines (American Connection) Flight 5966 in Kirksville, MO in 2004.

Ken is currently completing his Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Science at Embry-Riddle University.  He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science as well as a Bachelors Degree in History.  He is the recipient of the prestigious Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. He served as the Chairman of the IATA Emergency Response Planners Task force and as the Team Leader of the oneworld Emergency Planners Working Group.

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