Dave McCarthy
Lecturer, Enterprise Risk Management; Aviation Safety Inspector, Safety Training Manager, U.S. Coast Guard
Dave McCarthy is a career U.S. Coast Guard officer with nearly 18 years of service in the aviation, safety, and operational risk management fields. As part of the Coast Guard-sponsored program, he was the first active-duty Coast Guardsman to attend the Columbia ERM program. Since graduating, McCarthy has been utilizing the knowledge and skills from the program to enhance the Coast Guard's Safety Management System. As the chief of the Safety Training and Standardization Division at Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama, he leads a team to train up the next generation of aviation flight safety officers, conducts unit safety audits, and instructs on operational risk management in a high-risk training and operational aviation environment.