Our Mission: Your Resilience

Gordian Risk Solutions partners closely with organizations to navigate the unique challenges of today’s complex and shifting landscape. Our approach begins by understanding your business model and marketplace dynamics to identify threats that could hinder your organization’s growth and potential. We bring together the appropriate cross-functional stakeholders essential to managing crises, ensuring that those with the most relevant expertise are in the room. At Gordian, we believe that both who responds to a crisis and how they respond matter.

As the World Economic Forum continues to project an increasingly fragmented global order and rising environmental challenges, multinationals face a heightened need to adapt and mitigate risks. In this evolving landscape, Gordian supports clients at both strategic and tactical levels. Our team evaluates existing risk taxonomies to ensure they reflect the geographical and geopolitical complexities specific to your organization. With a well-defined taxonomy in place, we collaborate across functions to build a cohesive crisis response strategy, emphasizing effective communication and rapid stabilization. By focusing on the right infrastructure and a clear roadmap, Gordian facilitates a swift return to normalcy after disruptions.

Our solutions are tailored to your unique risk profile and are designed to:

Unlock Global Market Potential

Gordian identifies and thoroughly assesses risks, providing strategic guidance to help you expand securely into new markets by proactively anticipating and addressing challenges before they arise.

Stabilize Crisis Incidents

Our crisis response approach ensures that the right stakeholders are engaged, resources are efficiently allocated, and that decisions are informed to protect people, assets, reputation, and shareholder value.

Bring Clarity to Complexity

We help build sustainable, cross-functional teams within your organization, empowering your people to anticipate risks and respond effectively with learned skills and integrated processes.

Core Capabilities

At Gordian Risk Solutions, we deliver strategies that not only safeguard but also position organizations to thrive amid global uncertainties.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

– COLIN POWELL, FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE

Rodolfo “Rudy” Diaz

Owner & President , Gordian Risk Solutions

Rudy is a servant leader and an accomplished senior risk executive who has led diverse high performing teams focused on shepherding a myriad of multinationals through global uncertainty affording them open market access as they looked to penetrate new markets or grow their market share. From securing complex supply chains by disrupting the flow of counterfeit and contraband into international markets to leading crisis teams responding to events such as Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico or the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Rudy has spent three decades safeguarding human capital, physical assets, supply chains as well as the intellectual property and reputation of some of the world’s largest enterprises.
 
With a career focus in Risk, Crisis Management and Resiliency, Global Security & Safety, and Ethics & Compliance, Rudy has supported a wide array of industries including but not limited to Automotive, Consumer Goods, Governmental (US State Department), Healthcare, Lifestyle, Technology, Semiconductor, Electronics Manufacturing Services, Financial, Critical Infrastructure, Pharmaceutical as well as Entertainment sectors. This career has taken him to over 48 countries spanning Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.
 
Over the years Rudy has led global security consultancies as well as held some of the most senior security and resiliency roles for companies like Hewlett Packard, GlobalFoundries, Flex and Iron Mountain. Rudy is a graduate from Marquette University with a BA in Criminology and a combat veteran (United States Marine Corps) twice awarded the Bronze Star with “V” for heroism.
 
Rudy is a strategic and critical thinker who strives to simplify the complex, a passionate and effective communicator who is as much at home in the Boardroom as he is in the favelas of São Paulo, the streets of Mumbai, the alleyways in Matamoros, Tiananmen Square in Beijing or in the center of the Red Square in Moscow.

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