ABOUT CONFIRMED
Confirmed brings together a leadership team and an advisory board spanning property management, law, military safety, construction, aviation, and corporate strategy — all focused on one mission: making life safety compliance clear, provable, and effortless.
LEADERSHIP

President & CEO
Lauren Fernandes' senior leadership experience with Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) brings a management consulting background to the Confirmed team. Her high-level engagement expertise, focus on assessing organizational strategy, health and strength, and management of client relationships all complement the Confirmed mission. Lauren brings the heart and intellect of an organizational strategist to this endeavor. She has earned her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Partner / CTO
As Partner and CTO, JD leads the technology and product behind Confirmed. He pairs a background in building software and digital products with a focus on solving real operational problems — turning the scattered documents, manual tracking, and last-minute scrambles of life safety compliance into clear, automated workflows. He has guided Confirmed from concept to a working product: the document automation, expiration alerts, and portfolio reporting that property teams rely on every day. JD's goal is simple — give owners and operators effortless, provable confidence in the safety of every building.
ADVISORY BOARD

Aviation
Madison, Wisconsin
As a pilot, Lars offers a broad spectrum of aviation experience on the ground and in the air. He currently serves as captain and safety officer for a Fortune 100 flight department overseeing the department's Safety Management System (SMS). The ultimate goal of this system is to identify and mitigate regulatory and physical risk before it occurs. Over the past twenty years, he has engaged with professionals within the FAA and NTSB and worked with airport developers and contractors.

Military and Consulting
Washington, D.C.
Recently retired as a ranking Brigadier General, Peder Swanson's professional career has successfully combined senior leadership roles in the US Armed Forces with corporate experience in leadership & organizational development. He has held strategic roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and at Headquarters, Department of the Army. He served as a lead medical planner in Afghanistan, orchestrating the provision of care for U.S. and multinational troops. His life-saving, life-sustaining orientation as an Army medical plans & operations officer aligns with and informs the values, mission, and vision of Confirmed Life Safety.
Commercial Property Management
Chicago, Illinois
In his 17th year as the President of Waveland Property Group, Inc., Jonathan Swindle has become increasingly aware of his clients' legal responsibility to create and maintain a safe working environment. Waveland continues to raise the bar for tenant safety standards. Jonathan is a 15 year member of BOMA-Suburban Chicago, is a member of the Board of Directors and chairs the Healthcare Real Estate Committee. A frequent speaker at real estate forums, Jonathan brings a knowledge-based appreciation of life safety considerations to our team.

Commercial Real Estate Consulting
Lake Forest, Illinois
George has had key oversight roles in commercial real estate for nearly three decades. In working for global service providers and investment/development firms, he has a unique perspective on both the challenges and legal obligations that property owners and occupier clients face. George brings strength to the Board through his proven leadership skills and diverse experience within the industry.

General Contractor
Castle Rock, Colorado
As the President of White Construction Group in Colorado, Chris Haugen has already proven to be invaluable to the infrastructure domain of Confirmed's life safety approach. His experience with building owners, architects, and field personnel provides a wealth of infrastructure-related insight. Chris brings the expertise of building codes and associated certification and inspection requirements, both in the construction and ongoing maintenance phases. His demonstrated vision and leadership in construction management add a vital skill set to the Confirmed team.

Lawyer, Risk Mitigation
Chicago, Illinois
As an attorney, Randy Heinig possesses a compliance and risk skill set perfectly suited to the work of Confirmed. He is the advisory board's legal expert with a rich and diverse background in asset management, real estate, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate law. As an attorney, he has served in general counsel, managing director and compliance officer capacities. In recent years, he founded a boutique firm serving the compliance needs of asset managers and specializes in the use of analytics to provide deep insight into regulatory risk. Randy is a graduate of the Yale School of Law.
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