Benson has served 40 years in the public safety field. His career has spanned operations, administrative, and command level assignments in fire suppression and emergency management agencies. Benson has extensive experience in street-level response and command in a wide range of emergency incidents, including fires, mass casualty incidents, and disasters. Chief Benson has been an advocate of integrating training and operations among multidisciplinary public safety agencies to improve preparedness, response, and resiliency to the communities served. He has collaboratively developed and conducted high-risk and disaster response training with a range of public/private entities. Benson has functioned in all EOC roles during incidents and large scale events. Educational achievements include earning a Master's degree in Public Administration, numerous executive-level emergency service certifications, and designation as a Chief Fire Officer by the Center for Public Safety Excellence. Greg is an adjunct instructor at Chicago area universities and colleges in emergency service operations, emergency management, and cybersecurity. Competencies include conducting vulnerability and organizational assessments, performance analysis, program evaluation, benchmarking systems, and technology integration in operations for process improvements. He has contributed to textbooks and other professional publications. He continues to research and contribute best organizational practices on contemporary preparedness and response challenges. He remains committed to supporting community preparedness, response, and resiliency through training, education, exercises to increase capabilities and reduce vulnerabilities