Simon BannaghanBusiness Continuity Manager
Co-operative Group
Simon Bannaghan has worked in business continuity for over 13 years, initially in pharmaceuticals then moving in to finance and for the last five years has been responsible for the delivery of business continuity for the various Co-operative business and corporate functions. His experience is with large organisations, responsible for ensuring their recovery strategies support critical infrastructure and the people needed to maintain business following an incident. Through the work of him and his team, he has been able to demonstrate significant enhancements in the delivery of business continuity. A keen supporter of end-to-end business continuity he is a mentor for Manchester Councils Buddy Scheme and sits on the committee of the Retail Business Continuity Association.
David Bason IS director
Shoosmiths LLC
David Bason is a senior IT professional with over 25 years in IT and more than 10 years as an IT Director managing medium-sized IT departments and multi-million pound budgets along with managed services and consultancy experience. He has a Physics degree, an MBA from Warwick University and is a Fellow of the IOD. He has worked in two of the Big 5 consultancies and has international experience including the US and Australia, and across many industry sectors including Retail, FMCG and manufacturing. Under Mr Bason's guidance, Shoosmiths is embarking on a radical change to its business systems and technology landscape with SAP as the platform. The approach being taken is a first for the legal sector and will transform the way Shoosmiths operates.
Chris ColeDirector of operations
LCH Clearnet
Chris Cole is responsible for defining the continuity and information risk strategy for the UK and US business, and working with business and business support areas to develop supporting programmes to implement, enhance and enable a risk based control structure at a business operational level..
His 30+ year career has been spent in the finance sector at major retail and investment banks including Lloyds Bank, Barclays Bank, ABN AMRO, Mizuho and JP Morgan Cazenove. Since leaving mainstream IT in 1989, his career has been spent in information risk and/or business continuity roles initially undertaking day-to-day operational requirements, then progressing to starting up teams or taking over the management and future development of teams address risk and/or continuity requirements.
Gary Hibberdglobal head of business continuity
laterooms.com
Gary Hibberd is head of business continuity and facilities management for the LateRooms Group, which comprises of laterooms.com, asiarooms.com and hotel-london.com. He is responsible for the development and implementation of the group’s business continuity management system across the globe. With over 12 years in the business continuity management industry, Gary’s approach is based on many years of practical hands-on experience in both the discipline of business continuity management and incident management. This led him to publish the ‘Business Continuity Management Toolkit’, in 2009. Mr Hibberd has worked with in both the private and public sector and for large, multi-national organisations and small independent operations. He has a passion and enthusiasm for business continuity management which is harnessed and directed to achieve creative and flexible solutions to many business continuity problems.
Jason JarrettGlobal business resilience manager
Rio Tinto
As the global business resilience manager for Rio Tinto, Jason Jarrett is responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of business resilience, emergency response, business continuity and IT-Disaster Recovery. Together with his colleagues, Mr Jarrett works to ensure Rio Tinto is prepared to deal with a vast range of different scenarios that may affect its operations. Before joining Rio Tinto, Mr Jarrett was a disaster management consultant for 15 years, working for a wide range of public and private organisations. As a mature student with experience of working in disasters in the US, he gained a first class honours degree in disaster engineering and management. He is passionate about his work and his enthusiasm is infectious.
Richard McGrail Head of information systems
Baillie Gifford & Co
Richard McGrail graduated 1988 with a Business degree and started work as a systems analyst at Ferranti, a major electronics and military equipment manufacturer. In 1989 he joined Baillie Gifford as their second IT person and quickly began to specialise in developing systems for the fund managers and client service directors. In 2000 Mr McGrail was promoted to head up the IT department which is now around 120 strong, and in 2010 became a partner of the firm.
Mark Newsome EMEA business continuity and disaster recovery manager
Northern Trust
Mark Newsome is responsible for active oversight, coordination, management, and consultation of the overall business continuity and disaster recovery function for all Northern Trust EMEA locations. Mr Newsome is the incident commander for the london incident response team and delivers exercises of the incident response teams in the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands. As an active leader in the wider business continuity community, Mr Newsome is chairman of the Business Continuance Group and vice-chair of the Business Continuity Institute’s London Forum. Mr Newsome joined Northern Trust in 2007 as a vice-president from Threadneedle Asset Management, where he worked for seven years in London in business continuity and technology programme management roles. Prior to Threadneedle, he worked at Rothschild Asset Management in London in various roles. He holds professional qualifications as an Independent Financial Adviser and as a member of the Business Continuity Institute.
Stuart SterlingAssistant Director, Infrastructure and Corporate Resilience
Cabinet Office
Mr Sterling is one of the Assistant Directors within the Civil Contingencies Secretariat in the UK Cabinet Office, which provides central support to the British Prime Minister; Cabinet Ministers, and coordination of the government’s response to emergencies. Stuart heads up the Infrastructure and Corporate Resilience area within the department and has responsibility for the National Risk Register guidance to organisations and business continuity guidance that accompanies the Civil Contingencies Act. Along with being chair of the government estate business continuity forum, Mr Sterling oversees a group set up to provide support to businesses in preparing for the Olympics. He has spent most of his career in the public sector; with a short but successful period within the business environment, running a business and steering it through the exit process.