Todd Manns

Todd serviced in the United States Marine Corps Reserves in the early nineties. Military service led to a career as a Police Officer / SWAT Team member and law enforcement sniper, an interim Chief of Police, post 9/11 work as a surveillance operative, followed by seven years as an Emergency Manager for a Fire Protection District. Formally qualified as a type III Planning Section Chief and having passed S-420 as a planning section chief, Todd has incident management team experience and over 30 all-hazard deployments to both Incident Command Posts and Emergency Operations Center locations, on local and state level intermediate and complex incidents and planned events. Todd’s natural entrepreneurial drive led him to combine his commitment to service and education into a successful business model. Todd has owned and partnered in numerous business ventures since the 1980’s Todd is the Founding Owner and Managing Partner of The Blue Cell, LLC which was established in 2009. The Blue Cell, LLC currently does business in all 50 states, multiple US Territories to include all levels of government and the private sector with students engaging from all over 17 countries. Through the covid years The Blue Cell, LLC operated as a consulting firm to over 20 Fortune 500 firms and expanded its substantial list of government clients to over a dozen high profile Federal Agencies. In 2021 The Blue Cell, LLC became the world’s most active in person and virtual training and exercise company in the Incident Command System and Consequence Management field. In 2025 The Blue Cell, LLC in partnership with Simental Industries, LTD. released the Disaster Wargame, Emergency Operations Center, Complex Coordinated Attack 8.