CIR Industry Awards 2007

The 2007 Business Continuity Awards Gala Dinner will be held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London's Park Lane from 7pm on Thursday 10th May 2007.

Nominations are now beingtaken for the following categories:

Business Continuity Manager of the Year

Business Continuity Strategy of the Year

Business Continuity Consultant of the Year

Most Innovative Product of the Year

Business Continuity Management Planning Software of the Year

Industry Newcomer of the Year

Business Continuity Service Provider of the Year

Industry Personality of the Year

Most Effective Recovery of the Year

Public Sector Business Continuity Manager of the Year

Lifetime Achievement

The judges this year are:

ANGELA HOBLEY Senior manager, business continuity, Bank of England
Angela Hobley is a senior manager at the Bank of England with responsibility for overseeing the Bank’s internal business continuity exercising strategies. She is also the Bank’s representative for Tripartite led external exercises. Angela led the planning and logistics and project office for the 2006 financial sector market wide exercise themed on influenza pandemics.

LIZ TAYLOR Director, Public Risk Management
With over 29 years experience in Risk Management, Liz Taylor is a veteran of the industry. A varied career has given her multinational and multi industry hands-on experience at operational and board level specialising in business continuity management and risk management. Liz chaired AIRMIC 1991/2 bringing it to corporate membership and initiated the set up of Pool Re. Previously chief executive of ALARM and then senior vice-president of Marsh, she now runs her own consultancy, Public Risk Management.

LYNDON BIRD Technical services director, the Business Continuity Institute
Lyndon Bird has a First Class Honours Degree in Chemistry and a Masters Degree in Management Sciences from the University of Manchester. He was an elected board member of the BCI for six years including nearly three years as chairman.

MALCOLM BROOKE Director of business continuity, EMEA, Credit Suisse
Malcolm Brooke is a director of Credit Suisse, based in London. He is head of European Business Continuity and is responsibile for the Bank’s business continuity programme in the EMEA region, including crisis management and disaster recovery planning and co-ordination.

MICHAEL BEWS Director, MSTA
Michael is a Member of the Business Continuity Institute and also a Chartered Engineer and corporate Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

RUSSELL HUSBAND Assistant general inspector, John Lewis Partnership
He was shortlisted for CIR Business Continuity Manager of the Year 2004 and was awarded it in 2006. His final task prior to forthcoming retirement is to protect the Partnership’s principal hubs with diverse (third party and in-house) 400 seat work area recovery centres.