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Shortlist published for the CIR Business Continuity Awards 2015

This year’s CIR Magazine Business Continuity Awards will take place on 11th June 2015 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.

The shortlist for the awards had now been released and reads as follows:

Business Continuity/Resilience Manager of the Year 
Tim Armit, Business Continuity Manager, SSCL 
Khalid Bahabri, Vice President-Head -Operational Excellence, NCB Capital
Marcus Hamilton, BCM Manager, KPMG
Suneel Kumar, Corporate Manager, KPMG
James Lodge, Head of ITDR, Nationwide
Arnab Mukherjee, Associate Senior Manager Group BCM, Colt
Debjyoti Mukherjee, Assistant Manager, KPMG
Ray Yamin, European Head of Business Continuity, RBC

Lifetime Achievement
Winner will be announced at the Awards Gala Dinner

Public Sector Continuity Manager of the Year 
John Ball, Business Continuity Coordinator, Surrey and Sussex Police
Vicky Finch, Risk and Resilience Manager, St Helens Council
Kieran Munnelly, Business Continuity Manager, London Borough of Ealing

Business Continuity Consultant of the Year 
Saurabh Agarwal, Managing Consultant - IBM Resiliency Services, IBM India Ltd
Neil Bourke, Manager - Resilience and Crisis Management, Deloitte 
Drew Gibson, Executive Consultant, Atos Consulting Ltd 
Andrew MacLeod, Director, Needhams 1834 Ltd
Helen Molyneux, Director, Cambridge Risk Solutions
Nicola O'Neill, Consultant, Marsh
Ahmed Riad Ali, Managing Director and Principal Consultant, Estmrarya Consulting 
Kaustubh Vazalwar, Business Planning Manager III B, Hewlett Packard

Industry Newcomer of the Year
Jaki Howard, Business Continuity Manager, Marks & Spencer 
Lucy Jones, Resilience and Crisis Management Consultant, Deloitte
Jaimini Patel, Continuity and Resilience Consultant, Atos Consulting

Industry Personality of the Year
Tim Armit, Business Continuity Manager, SSCL
Ian Houghton, Managing Director, Easy BCM Ltd
Mark Newsome, Global Head, Group Technology Business Continuity Management, UBS
Ahmed Riad, Managing Director and Principal Consultant, Estmrarya Consulting Ltd

Student of the Year
Connor Gallagher, Glasgow Caledonian University 
Juliana Richardson, Coventry University
Oliver Wilkes, IBM/Coventry University (Placement Student)
Christopher Yorke, University of Portsmouth

Business Continuity/Resilience Team of the Year
KPMG LLP
Nationwide Building Society
RBC Capital Markets
Rio Tinto
T-Systems Limited 
UBS AG
University of Exeter
USAA Business Continuation Team

Best Contribution to Continuity & Resilience 
BSI Assurance
Geminare Incorporated
Plan B Disaster Recovery
Send Word Now 
Sungard Availability Services

Business Continuity/Resilience Strategy of the Year
Brisa Bridgestone Sabanci Tyre Manufacturing & Trading Inc
Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Fire and Rescue Service
Capital One
KPMG 
KPMG LLP
National Commercial Bank Capital
Nationwide Building Society
RBC Capital Markets
Royal Mail Group

Most Innovative Product of the Year 
Building Forensics 
Phoenix
RecoveryPlanner 
xMatters

Business Continuity Management Planning Software of the Year 
ClearView Continuity
MetricStream Inc.
RecoveryPlanner 
Services Conseils RDI Inc
Sungard Availability Services

Most Innovative Solution of the Year 
ClearView Continuity
MetricStream Inc.
PinBellCom Ltd 
Quorum

Specialist Company of the Year
Airwave
Business Continuity Transport (BCT)
Everbridge 
F-24 UK Ltd
Harwell Restoration 
Plan B Disaster Recovery

Cloud Services Provider of the Year 
Databarracks
Geminare Incorporated
Onyx Group 
Send Word Now

Most Effective Recovery of the Year
Business Continuity Transport (BCT)
E.ON UK
JP Morgan
National Commercial Bank Capital - NCB Capital Incident Management Team 
National Commercial Bank Capital - NCBC Riyadh

Business Continuity/Resilience Strategy through Partnership
Ark-H Handling & Cambridge Risk Solutions
Google & Geminare Inc
Mediterranean Shipping Company UK & Wagstaff & Associates
Post Office Ltd & CSRR 
Securitas & Adapt
Specsavers Optical Group & ClearView Continuity

Transformation of the Year 
DLG 
Guardian News & Media
Nationwide Building Society
Post Office 
UBS AG

Supply Chain Strategy of the Year
Judges Choice - The winner will be announced on the evening 

Initiative of the Year 
Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Fire and Rescue Service
Building Forensics 
Crisis Guardian and AXA Group
Deloitte
Marks and Spencer
Phoenix 
Sungard Availability Services France

Resilience in Infrastructure & IT Service Delivery 
Airwave
SIRE Technology Ltd
Sungard Availability Services 
UBS AG
xMatters

Incident Management Award 
Capital One
City of Edinburgh Council
JP Morgan
KPMG LLP
Marks and Spencer
USAA Business Continuation Team
William Hill PLC

Cyber Security Programme
Judges Choice - The winner will be announced on the evening 

International Award 
Arab National Bank
Asigra
City of Calgary
National Commercial Bank Capital
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation

For more details about the Awards go to www.businesscontinuityawards.com



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