A little bit about us

NACOR is a family-owned business that was established in 2019 by Catherine and Peter Strods. The father/daughter duo share over 50 years of combined experience working in the organisational resilience and IT industry. Along with their Associates, NACOR services all industries across Australia, including, but not limited to local government, education and industrial services.​

Our Leadership Team

Catherine Strods
Managing Director 

Catherine has worked in the field of organisational resilience for 15 years, beginning her career in Emergency and Incident Management, before moving onto specialise further in Crisis Management and Business Continuity. Working as a consultant, embedded contractor and internal Subject Matter Expert (SME) over the years at a number of organisations, she has a wealth of experience within all major industries across Australia.

Catherine holds the following academic qualifications:

• Doctor of Public Safety (in progress).
• Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA).
• Master of Emergency Management.
• Post Graduate Diploma of Psychology.
• Advanced Diploma of Public Safety (Emergency Management).
• Graduate Certificate in The Psychology of Risk
• Bachelor of Psychology.
• Advanced Diploma Security (Risk Management).
• Cert IV Training and Assessment (TAE).

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Professional Memberships:

• Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System (AIIMS).
• Business Continuity Institute (BCI).
• Australian Psychological Society (APS).
• Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM).

Catherine also serves as a Board member of a NFP organisation and President of her local Country Womens Association (CWA) branch.

To learn more, a link to her LinkedIn profile can be found below.

Peter Strods
Principal Consultant

Over the last four decades, Peter has undertaken consulting, IT Manager and CIO roles, establishing and overseeing IT Governance Frameworks, ensuring IT delivers value to the organisation through alignment of the ICT Strategy with business objectives, whilst adhering to sound IT risk management principles.  
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Peter’s area of expertise include:
IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) plan development, testing and implementation.

• Business continuity planning.
• Transitioning businesses to Cloud based combinations of IaaS and SaaS environments encompassing all core business systems, 'Backup as a Service',  'DR as a Service' and  ‘Desktop as a Service’.
• ICT security policy development and auditing.
• ICT Strategy development.
• Data Governance Framework development (including VPDSF compliance).
• ICT Vendor Management and Tender Evaluation.
• Change Management. implementation.
• ICT Project Management.

Tertiary Achievements:

• Bachelor of Engineering. 
• Graduate Diploma Municipal Engineering.
• Graduate Diploma Systems Analysis.
• Graduate Certificate of Management.

​To learn more, a link to his LinkedIn profile can be found below.

Bella Myers
Head of Communications and Marketing

New to NACOR in late 2022 Bella has been crucial to NACOR's rapid growth with her website creation, market research, content development, strategic planning and importantly a friendly approachable attitude that is at the core of NACOR's ethos.