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CIR Magazine's 2016 Business Continuity Awards will be presented on June 9th at the London Marriott Hotel. The shortlist of companies and individuals shortlisted for the awards has now been published and reads as follows:

Business Continuity/Resilience Manager of the Year 

Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Managing Continuity Consultant, Fujitsu Services
Khalid Bahabri, Head of Operational Excellence (BCM Manager), NCB Capital
Marcus Hamilton, Business Continuity Manager, KPMG LLP
Suneel Kumar, Service Delivery Manager, Cognizant
Michelle O'Keeffe, Head of Global Business Resilience, Lloyd's Register
Russell Williams, Head of Group Business Continuity, Shop Direct

Business Continuity/Resilience Strategy through Partnership

Another 9 & OSG
ClearView Continuity & Royal Bank of Scotland
Data Pacific Limited & Diners Club
Glen Abbot Limited & Scottish Power
PA Consulting Group & Tesco Bank
Quantum & Cambridge Risk Solutions
Shop Direct & Daisy

Initiative of the Year

Barclays
Guardian News & Media

Specialist Company of the Year

Business Continuity Transport
Cobalt
F-24
Harwell
Six Degrees Group

Business Continuity/Resilience Strategy of the Year 

Arab National Bank
Barclays
Capital One Europe Plc
KPMG LLP
Lloyd's Register
NCB Capital
Royal Mail Group
Surrey and Sussex Police

Industry Newcomer of the Year

Hamish Cameron, Senior Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Anne-Marie Hobley, Insurance, Risk and Business Continuity Adviser, University of Exeter
Sam Holmes, Consultant, Deloitte
Elodie Huet, Business Continuity Consultant, Arup

Resilience in Infrastructure & IT Service Delivery

Airwave
Daisy
News UK
Sungard Availability Services

International Award

Commercial International Bank - Egypt
DRI International
Geminare
Linus Information Security Solutions
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC)

Incident Management Award

Deutsche Bank
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
KPMG LLP
NCB Capital
Royal Mail Group

Cloud-based Services

8x8
Crisis Control
Databarracks
Druva
Everbridge
Geminare
IBM
iland
IT Specialists
Tinubu Square

Best Contribution to Continuity & Resilience

Datatecnics Ltd
Deloitte
Geminare
IBM
PwC
Sungard Availability Services

Most Innovative Product of the Year

Crises Control
Datatecnics Ltd
Quantifi
Send Word Now

Business Continuity Management Planning Software of the Year

ClearView Continuity
Cobalt
Continuity Logic
Daisy
RecoveryPlanner
Services Conseils RDI Inc.

Most Innovative Solution of the Year

BoardPacks
Cobalt ITDRP
CrowdControlHQ
Quantifi
StorageCraft Technology
Sungard Availability Services

Transformation Award

Barclays
Lloyd's Register

Most Effective Recovery of the Year

Business Continuity Transport
Direct Line Group
Sungard Availability Services

Business Continuity/Resilience Team of the Year

Aon
Capital One Europe Plc
Deutsche Bank
KPMG LLP
Lloyd's Register
London Borough of Ealing
Milton Keynes Business Resilience Forum
Pearson plc
SWIFT

Student of the Year

Luke Fletcher, Coventry University
Jas Singh Jaskaran, Coventry University
Andrew MacLeod, Cranfield University
Roger Payne, Buckinghamshire New University
Oliver Wilkes, Coventry University
Christopher Yorke, University of Portsmouth 

More details about the Awards.


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