Your Partner in Resilient Operations
Shane Mathew,
Founder- Stone Risk Consulting
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Shane Mathew is a healthcare resilience and operations expert with over a decade of experience supporting large health systems in building practical, scalable solutions for continuity, emergency preparedness, and clinical workflow optimization.
With a foundation in clinical practice and hospital operations, Shane brings a grounded perspective to the evolving challenges of healthcare delivery.
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His expertise spans business continuity, downtime preparedness, interdependency mapping, and program governance—always with a focus on aligning technical processes with clinical realities.
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Shane’s approach is both strategic and implementation-focused. He is deeply committed to engaging clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders in developing solutions that are actionable at the front line and sustainable across the enterprise.
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Meet the Team
At Stone Risk Consulting, our team of dedicated professionals brings extensive experience and expertise to ensure the resilience and continuity of your organization. Our consultants specialize in business continuity, emergency management, IT resilience, and cybersecurity, working collaboratively to deliver tailored solutions that meet your unique needs.
Senior Consultant
Raghu Venugopal
Raghu Venugopal is a seasoned healthcare operations leader with over 15 years of diverse experience leadership experience.
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At Stone Risk Consulting, Raghu leads gap analysis projects, including long-term outage planning, to ensure robust and effective continuity strategies for healthcare organizations.
His extensive background includes managing comprehensive initiatives for healthcare institutions throughout the US.
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Clinical Consultant
Bena Thomas
Bena Thomas is a seasoned physical therapist with over 20 years of clinical experience across a range of hospital settings.
Throughout her career, she has delivered patient- centered care in acute, subacute, rehabilitation and outpatient environments.
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She transitioned into clinical management and operations, where she has led multidisciplinary teams, improved workflow efficiencies, and driven initiatives focused on quality improvement and patient outcomes.
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At Stone Risk Consulting, Bena leads initiatives focused on clinical downtime preparedness. She brings a systems-level perspective to every project, ensuring that resilience and efficiency are embedded into hospital processes.
Consultant & PMO
Stephen Mathew
Stephen Mathew brings a wealth of lean six sigma, supply chain resilience & project management capability to Stone Risk Consulting. He consults for our clients and oversees project schedules, communication, and timely delivery of all project components.
Starting his career in manufacturing automation, Stephen has honed his ability to make data-driven decisions and drive accelerated growth. His project management expertise has been pivotal in steering resilience efforts in the data and omni-channel communication client sectors. ​
Senior DR Consultant
Melissa Muniz
Melissa is a driven professional with a reputation for integrity, creativity, resourcefulness, and competence.
Through her career Melissa has developed and demonstrated exceptional IT Disaster Recovery skills and builds highly effective recovery strategies within the technical areas of a business.
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Melissa utilizes 15 years of building and enhancing continuity programs within various industries- including healthcare, to help clients solve problems related to recoverability, crisis management, incident response.
Clinical Consultant
Sweena Jacob
Sweena Jacob is an experienced healthcare clinician with professional skills and certifications in nursing.
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At Stone Risk Consulting, Sweena focuses on analyzing clients' healthcare processes, leaning into her experience as a hospital practicioner that has worked in Home Health, Pediatrics and Intensive Care units.
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Sweena joins projects that involve assessment of exisiting response processes and uses her skills to adapt complex resilience processes to the hospital environment.
Senior Consultant
Peggy Morales
Peggy Morales is a highly experienced consultant specializing in emergency management and business continuity within the healthcare sector.
At Stone Risk Consulting, Peggy excels in standards assessment and benchmarking, helping healthcare organizations align their business continuity programs with industry best practices. Her previous roles at Cook Children's Medical Center and various higher education institutions in the Dallas/Fort Worth area have equipped her with deep expertise in resilience planning.