Mark Malcolm has over 40 years of crisis response experience with extensive focus in business aviation events, family assistance and humanitarian assistance, and human remains recovery and identification. His crisis response experience spans Business and Commercial aviation incidents, Hurricane, Tsunami, earthquake and other natural disasters as well as mass shootings and other terror related events.  Most recently Mr. Malcolm served as CEO of Disaster Management International, a global crisis response organization, Mr. Malcolm previously served as the Coroner for Pulaski County joining the office in 1987. 

In June 2007, Mr. Malcolm was appointed to the FEMA National Advisory Council.  The Council was created by Congress to provide advice and guidance to the FEMA Administration on all aspects of preparedness and emergency management.  Also in 2007, Mr. Malcolm was named Director of Mass Fatality Planning and Response for the Arkansas Department of Health. A position he held until 2013.

Mr. Malcolm served on the National Institute of Justice Mass Fatality Review Panel which published Mass Fatality Incident: A Guide to Human Forensic Identification.  He has previously served as a member of the National Institute of Justice technical working group formed to develop national guidelines for death investigation and the National Institute of Justice Mass Fatality Incident Management Training Curriculum Committee.  Mr. Malcolm’s extensive fatality management experience includes both international and domestic large scale natural disasters, as well as, numerous commercial and private aircraft incidents.

Mr. Malcolm is certified as an instructor in death investigation, crime scene management, and evidence preservation, by the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training and has served as the primary death investigation instructor for the Little Rock Police Department Training Academy. He is qualified as an expert in death investigation, determination of the cause of death, and crime scene management in United States District Court and the Arkansas Circuit Courts.