Greg St. James is a native of Detroit, Michigan, where he enjoyed a career as a well-known and successful radio broadcaster for over 20 years. In 2000, he re-located to Montgomery County, Maryland. After the 9-11 attacks occurred, Greg decided to get involved in public safety and joined the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department as an EMT, eventually moving up to the rank of Master Medical Attendant at one of the busiest firehouses on the east coast, responding to thousands of 911 calls.

In 2007, Greg became the Program Manager for the Montgomery County Maryland Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). Under his leadership, Montgomery County CERT has become one of the most innovative CERT programs in the country. Greg is an EMI certified CERT Instructor, ASHI CPR instructor and Maryland EMT-B.

In addition to monthly trainings in disaster preparedness, readiness, and CPR offered to thousands of residents, Greg has developed the annual National Capitol Regional CERT conference CERTCON, which attracts CERT members from all over the county each year for two days of intensive continuing education in disaster preparedness topics, and a life-like field training exercise involving live role players, and various police and fire assets.

Greg also created and manages the nation's first Virtual Emergency Response Team (VERT) allowing VERT members to offer real time reporting on conditions at their location to emergency mangers during a weather or other incident. The VERT team has also partnered with Humanity Road to assist in data mining in international earthquake events in the Pacific region.

In 2010, Greg led a CERT team to Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake there to train village residents near the epicenter in emergency skills and the formation of a response team. He subsequently returned with a team of trainers for follow-up training in 2011.

In 2014, Greg developed Storm Camp, an interactive readiness program for children and families featuring the innovative and nationally recognized "Ready Pirates" children's disaster education program.

In 2015, Mr. St. James guided the formation and management of a 24/7 CERT GoTeam of highly trained CERT volunteers able to support the Montgomery County Fire Rescue Service (MCFRS) and the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) anywhere in the county with 90 minutes notice. In addition to GoTeam deployments, the team also volunteers at local parades, fairs, festivals and similar events.

In addition to his work with CERT, Greg St. James remains a broadcaster and can be heard on the air at C-SPAN Television.