The judges
The 2011 Business Continuity Awards judging panel will be announced later this year.
Judging panel 2010:
Patrick
De Bruycker
Head of business continuity
NYSE Euronext
Patrick De Bruycker is responsible for business continuity at NYSE Euronext. In this role he concentrates on globalising the methodology and standards while ensuring that the existing plans in Europe are maintained and tested. Mr De Bruycker began his career at Procter & Gamble 20 years ago and held responsibilities in IT, audit and business management. He moved on to the financial services industry in 2001 focusing on business continuity, crisis management and security. Mr De Bruycker is a graduate in Physics of the University in Ghent, Belgium. He has been based in London since 2007.
Stephen
Collins
Head of business continuity
Bank of England
Stephen Collins was appointed head of the Business Continuity Division
at the Bank of England in May 2005. He has worked in a wide variety
of areas in the bank, in particular in recent years on international
and financial stability matters. Mr Collins has been particularly
involved in the Bank's relations with the European Central Bank and
with the introduction of the euro. He also currently has part-time
involvement with the Bank's press office. Mr Collins has twice worked
in the International Monetary Fund, first as personal assistant to
the managing director, and latterly as the UK's alternate executive
director. Mr Collins is a graduate in Economics of Trinity College,
Cambridge, and has an MSc(Econ) in Accounting and Finance from the
London School of Economics.
James
Crask
Assistant Director of Olympic Capability, Olympic Resilience
Project
Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office
James Crask works in the Olympic Resilience Project Team within the
Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office. His role involves
the identification, development and delivery of local capabilities
required to respond to the additional risks posed by the hosting of
the Olympic Games in 2012. Mr Crask works in close partnership with
local and national response organisations to ensure these capabilities
are developed and tested in time for the Games. Prior to this, he
worked within the same Secretariat where he developed business continuity
policy and the bi-annual National Capability Survey of UK Resilience.
As part of his business continuity portfolio, Mr Crask managed a cross-government
forum of business continuity managers and worked towards aligning
the Cabinet Office and other key government departments with the British
Standard for business continuity.
Simon
Dunn
Head of business continuity
Rolls-Royce
Simon Dunn began his career with Coopers and Lybrand, then
PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he qualified as an accountant, working
mainly in external auditing. After this he moved to the Group Risk
Assurance function at Boots, undertaking several projects advising
on the quality of risk management and internal controls. Following
this he moved to Rolls-Royce, where, following a spell with the Business
Assurance function, he was tasked with implementing the global business
continuity programme. This included development of the programme and
reporting mechanism, definition of a maturity model, development of
supporting process guides, production of training and awareness material
and running exercises at all levels including senior executives. Mr
Dunn was named Business Continuity Manager of the Year in 2009.
Trevor
Partridge
Head of business continuity
Marks & Spencer
Trevor Partridge began his career with Marks & Spencer 30 years ago with a background in stores starting in commercial management, moving to a regional and divisional role towards the latter part of the century then into head office in 1999 reviewing management structures. Mr Partridge's current role, which he took on in June 2000, primarily concentrates on minimising the risks and threats impacting on the company’s people, the brand, property and profit where he is responsible for the entire group. He has led the expansion of business continuity within Marks & Spencer to one that is now firmly embedded into the business culture. he is currently developing resilience across Marks & Spencer's International Operations working towards alignment with the UK. Mr Partridge is a member of the BCI and in addition initiated and is chair of the Retail Business Continuity Association
Mario
Pascoe
Head of business continuity
Centrica
Mario Pascoe was appointed head of business continuity in
2005 having worked in various areas of Centrica as general manager
and head of supplies. He has been primarily involved in the strategic
development and implementation of business continuity within Centrica
on and offshore and oversaw the implementation of their current billing
system. Currently, he is involved with the National Pandemic Preparedness
for Gas and Electric Providers. Mr Pascoe is a Chartered Engineer
and has an MBA.
Ajantha
Thiagarajah (Tiggy)
Head of Emergency Response and Crisis Management
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Tiggy Thiagarajah is responsible for leading the senior crisis management
team in responding to any event affecting the Virgin Atlantic Aiways'
worldwide operations. His duties include developing contingency plans,
conducting emergency drills, delivering crisis communications training
and providing strategic direction to ensure business operations remain
safe, secure, resilient and compliant. Prior to joining Virgin in
December 2005, Mr Thiagarajarah was an executive advisor for KPMG
and responsible for the delivery of the financial authorities' market-wide
business continuity exercise involving some 100 organisations and
over 800 participants. In 2002, he developed a corporate recovery
centre and implemented a business continuity programme against industry
standards for British Airways. Mr Thiagarajarah has over 10 years'
crisis management, business continuity and emergency response experience
in aviation and financial services. He is a regular speaker at conferences
and a graduate of Imperial College, London.
Roland
Trott
Group business continuity management adviser
BP
Roland Trott has over 20 years' experience in business continuity
and related risk management disciplines. This includes both line and
management consultancy roles in a variety of industries and countries.
His role at BP has involved global rollout programmes for business
continuity and pandemic response planning. Mr Trott's current role
as group business continuity management adviser includes stewardship
of a global business continuity management community of practice,
business continuity management capability development and the provision
of an independent view of risk. He is currently conducting doctoral
research in Business Continuity Management at the University of Portsmouth
Business School. Mr Trott is based in London.
Ian
Walford
Head of Scottish Resilience
Scottish Government
Ian Walford began his career in the Civil Service in Whitehall
in the late 1980s at the Department for Education and Science. After
several years and several jobs there, including a spell as private
secretary to a Minister for State, he moved to Edinburgh in October
1993 to join the Scottish Office. After spending his first three years
in Scotland in the Education Department advising Ministers on Higher
Education funding he moved in May 1997 to the newly formed Constitution
Group where he worked on the Scotland Act and on establishing the
new devolution settlement. Following promotion to the Senior Civil
Service Mr Walford was the first head of the new Scottish Cabinet
Secretariat in the Scottish Executive and then had a spell as Director
of Corporate Development. He became head of the Civil Contingencies
Division in the Scottish Executive Justice Department in June 2004
and added policy on the Fire and Rescue Service to his remit in August
2005. The Fire and Civil Contingencies Division became Scottish Resilience
in February 2008. Ian Walford is based in Edinburgh.