Speakers
Garry Parker
Garry has served the citizens of Texas over 40 years in law enforcement
and retired from the Texas Department of Public Safety in 2009. He
holds a commission from the Texas Department of Public Safety as a
Special Texas Ranger.
Garry served as a Law Enforcement Liaison and Instructor with the
Texas Municipal Police Association and retired in 2020.
Garry is a certified speaker, trainer, and coach with the John Maxwell
Leadership Team
Garry has served as keynote speaker for many conferences around the
country. He has been recognized for excellence in program development
and presentation. He is a nationally recognized trainer and consultant in
traffic safety, traffic enforcement, law enforcement tasks, and emergency
vehicle operation.
Sheriff Michael A. Lewis
Sheriff Lewis retired as a Sergeant with the Maryland State Police Pro-Active Criminal Enforcement Team (PACE) after twenty-two years of loyal and dedicated service. In addition to his duties as the agency’s leading Traffic & Drug Interdiction Expert, Sheriff Lewis was directly responsible for the training and educating of all Maryland State Police personnel in the Criminal Interdiction Venue or “looking beyond the initial traffic stop” while enforcing Maryland’s traffic laws.
Sheriff Lewis remains a CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR through the Maryland Police Training Commission, and a certified MASTER INSTRUCTOR through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
He pioneered the Drug Interdiction Program along Maryland’s notorious U.S. Rt. 13 corridor, coordinating many multi jurisdictional investigations following the seizures of large amounts of illegal contraband.
During his twenty-two years as a Maryland State Trooper, he made many nationally recognized seizures of cocaine and Heroin found hidden inside electronically controlled compartments within motor-vehicles along the East Coast.
Sheriff Lewis has trained tens of thousands of law enforcement officers extensively throughout the United States and Canada as well as other parts of the world to include; Australia, London, Germany, Russia & the West Indies. Sheriff Lewis has been judicially recognized by the federal & state courts of this country as an EXPERT in the areas of Traffic Stops, Highway Interdiction, Hidden Compartments & Drug Valuation.
Retired from the Maryland State Police on July 1st , 2006, he was elected SHERIFF of Wicomico County, Maryland on November 7th 2006, and is currently running for his 5th consecutive, 4-year term. Sheriff Lewis serves a county of over 105,000 citizens, along with 96 sworn deputies, and seven canine handlers.
Mark Chung
Mark Chung, executive vice president of the roadway practice area at NSC, is responsible for leading roadway safety initiatives that range from overseeing and growing defensive driving programs to managing the Road to Zero Coalition.
Chung draws upon years of strategic and business leadership experience with the automotive industry. During his tenure with SAE International, Chung helped accelerate the organization’s broader transformation into becoming an industry-convening, growth-oriented, knowledge-based organization that served the automotive, aerospace and commercial vehicle sectors.
As SAE International’s chief marketing officer and general manager, Chung led discovery and validation activities of new product extension concepts covering emerging and unsettled areas of mobility. As general manager, Chung led the development and tactical execution of midterm regional strategic plans for Europe and Asia on behalf of SAE International and grew the business over 25% during his tenure.
Previously, Chung held strategic marketing and business leadership roles at Cooper Tire and Rubber Company, Cummins Inc., Yokohama Tire Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and Seoul-based Kaya Media and Yolimon Publishing.
Chung earned his master of business administration from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He holds a bachelor of science degree from University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
Lonny Haschel
Over the past 33 years, I have been a police officer in two states. From 1994 to 2000, I worked as a road trooper. In 2000, I was assigned to the Media and Communications section. The last 21 years of my career was spent working as the Texas DPS Public Information Officer in the Dallas-Ft. Worth media market. I worked with six media sergeants, and together covered 42 counties in North Texas with a population of over seven million people. During my tenure, I worked with news media on many breaking news events, cold cases, criminal investigations, and natural disasters. I retired from the Texas DPS on August 31, 2021 after serving over 27 years.
I am very proud to be a child passenger safety technician-instructor. Over the past two decades, I have been involved with child passenger safety in various aspects. I teach the National Child Passenger Safety Technician Certification Training, the Safe Travel for All Children course, as well as the CPS Restraint Systems on School Buses course. I served on the National Child Passenger Safety Board form 2017 through 2021. While on the Board, I served on multiple committees and served as the Vice Chairperson and Chairperson. I continue to work with the National Child Passenger Safety Board in an advisory role as needed.
After retiring from the Texas DPS on August 31, 2021, I moved back to my childhood home in Indiana. I currently work for the National Safety Council (NSC) in the Roadway Practice area and serve as a Program Manager in Mobility Safety.
As a Program Manager, I oversee the Check To Protect Campaign. Check To Protect is a national initiative, made up of a coalition of automakers, and led by NSC. The campaign reminds drivers of the importance of checking for open safety recalls on their vehicles and getting their vehicles repaired. More than 53 million vehicles across the U.S. have open safety recalls and Check To Protect focuses on older vehicles, which tend to change hands more frequently, making it harder for automakers to track current owners with recall notification systems.
In this role, I have the opportunity to collaborate with automakers, local, state, and federal government. Additionally, I work with community groups in underserved communities, traffic safety advocacy groups, and others in the auto industry.