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. Angela has been involved in business continuity since 1989 with primary roles involving developing and exercising business continuity and crisis management strategies within two leading retail banks with environments ranging from front and back office through to industrial units. She has also worked with a major global investment research and fund management company project managing their global vendor due diligence programme and developing pass the book strategies between the US and UK and operations in Europe before moving to the Bank of England in February 2005.

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. He has also chaired the important BCI Education and Audit Committees. Lyndon has worked exclusively in business continuity since 1986 and has published over 100 articles on the subject and contributed major sections to a number of authoritative books. His opinion is regularly sought by news organisations such as the BBC, Financial Times and leading business journals. He has spoken at and chaired major business continuity management events throughout the world including Russia, India, Canada, South Africa and Japan.

Malcolm Brooke is a director of Credit Suisse, based in London. He is global head of business continuity and is responsible for the bank’s business continuity programme across all regions, including crisis management and disaster recovery planning and co-ordination. Prior to assuming this role in early 2007, Malcolm was head of business continuity for the EMEA region, a role he held since 2002. Previously, he worked in a range of roles across the Information Technology field. Malcolm is current co-chair of the Securities Industry Business Continuity Management Group, a position he has held since 2003.

Steven is a Policy Adviser in Financial Regulation at the ABI and also founded and runs the ABI’s ORIC initiative which sets standards and collects operational loss data. His areas of responsibility include GI capital setting and risk management including ICAS, ARROW, and aspects of Solvency 2.
An accountant by background, he was previously Lloyd’s of London Risk Based Capital Technical Manager, responsible for implementing and developing the process around the Lloyd’s Risk Based Capital model, together with examining the real effects of capital on the Lloyd’s market. During that time he implemented a quantified Operational Risk component to Lloyd’s capital setting.He is a professional member of the Institute of Operational Risk and a member of its Strategy Sub-Group.

John Milne has been Head of Business Continuity Management at the FSA for nearly three years. He sees his key role and that of his team as to strengthen the FSA's relationships with the firms the FSA regulates and their trade associations, with the Bank of England, HM Treasury and other parts of government and with overseas regulators in the other major financial centres in the area of business continuity. As part of that role, he represents the FSA
on the Joint Forum Business Continuity Working Group which in 2006 published a set of High Level Business Continuity Principles to provide an international framework for both regulatory agencies and regulated firms in the financial sector. He was also a member of the BSI Committee responsible for drafting the new British Standard on Business Continuity (BS25999) and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning.

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