everbridge, inc. (nasdaq: evbg) is the global leader in critical event management and enterprise safety applications that automate and accelerate an organization’s operational response to critical events in order to keep people safe and businesses running faster. during public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events such as it outages or cyber-attack incidents, over 3,400 global customers rely on the company’s saas-based platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes, and track progress on executing response plans. the company’s platform sent over 1.5 billion messages in 2016, and offers the ability to reach over 200 countries and territories with secure delivery to more than 100 different communication devices. the company’s critical event management and ente