Erin Pezza is a Senior Director on the Healthcare & Life Sciences, Corporate Reputation team in New York at FTI Consulting. Working with a wide range of major pharmaceuticals, health systems and insurers, fast-growing biotech and life science companies, Erin has deep expertise in messaging development, media relations, crisis management and patient communications. She has provided media training and counsel to senior executives and has led communications initiatives around hospital legislation, key clinical trials, COVID-19 vaccine distribution and equity, drug development and medical technologies. Erin also leads incident response teams, providing clients with crisis communications counsel during volatile cybersecurity incidents. She has supported the management of dozens of active ransomware attacks and other cybersecurity matters and has played key client management, media relations, and stakeholder engagement roles on teams responding to some of the largest on record and most high-profile cybersecurity incidents in the hospital and health insurer space.