Our Founders
The People Behind Your Plan
Real preparedness experience, real families, real solutions. Meet the co-founders of BePreparedSolutions.co.
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Brian Burk
Co-Founder
I’m a husband and a father of four — two adult children and two little girls who are still young enough to believe I can fix anything. That last part is what keeps me up at night in the best possible way. Preparing, providing, and protecting them is what drives everything I do.
It started long before I became a father. Both sets of my grandparents were farmers. I grew up spending weekends in that world — hunting, butchering, and preserving food — then coming back to a more urban life during the week. That hybrid upbringing gave me something most people never get: a working understanding of where food actually comes from and what real self-reliance looks like.
That way of life never left me. I still grow and preserve my own food — a lot of farm to table in our house, putting up vegetables and meals in mason jars so we’re never dependent on a supply chain. I’m a licensed HAM radio operator, an outdoorsman, a marksman, and I hold two sixth-degree black belts. I do virtually all of my own home repairs and renovations.
I also have an Ivy League MBA — so I think as much about systems and strategy as I do about skills and supplies. Preparedness, done right, is both.
What Tiran and I built here is what I wished existed when I first started. Something that meets you where you are and helps you take the next real step — whatever that is for your family.
Tiran Dagan
Co-Founder
I’m a husband, a father of two sons, and someone who’s spent his career helping organizations figure out what they need before they need it.
I’ve advised executives and boards at global firms across media, telecom, healthcare, and tech. I teach graduate students how to build with AI. But what really matters forBePrepared is that I live this.
Like Brian, I’ve been on my own preparedness journey. It started with a go bag I built using his knowledge and experience. Then COVID hit, supplies got scarce, and I realized how exposed most households really are.
Today, my home has systems I’ve built myself. First aid kits and emergency medical supplies for when access to care is limited. A food rotation system that cycles long-term storage so nothing expires forgotten. A custom tracker to know exactly what’s in which box and where.
I’m a woodworker and fabricator. I believe knowing how to make and fix things with your hands is foundational to being truly self-sufficient. I camp. I’ve learned foraging. Much of what I own serves double duty: great for a weekend trip, essential if the grid goes down. I have a camp stove that burns wood and uses the heat to charge its own battery. Good for coffee in the woods. Good for cooking when the gas line stops flowing.
Brian and I also built our own emergency radios, because when communication infrastructure fails, you need a backup that doesn’t depend on cell towers.
What Brian and I built here comes from living it. He brings the fieldcraft. I bring the systems thinking. Together, we help families stop hoping they’re ready and start knowing they are.
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