Congratulations to all the finalists in this year's Business Continuity Awards. The awards provide an evening networking with hundreds of the biggest names in the business continuity field, combined with a night of entertainment. This year the Awards Gala Dinner and Ceremony will be held on 29 May 2014 at the Hilton on Park Lane, London. This year's host is stand-up comedian Jo Caulfield.

The finalists

Business Continuity/Resilience Manager of the Year
Khalid Bahabri, Vice-President, Operational Excellence, National Commercial Bank Capital
Chand Basha, Worldwide Business Continuity Planning Manager, Hewlett Packard GBS BCP & Risk Management Team
Mete Kasim Birecikli, BCM Project Manager, Qatargas Operating Company Limited
Khaled Embaby, Business Continuity Director, Xceed
Marcus Hamilton, Business Continuity Manager, KPMG
Arnab Mukherjee, Associate Senior Manager, Group Business Continuity, Colt Technology Services
Elaine Tomlin, Business Continuity Manager, Certus

Lifetime Achievement
Winner will be announced at the Awards Gala Dinner

Best Contribution to Continuity & Resilience
BSI
Datatecnics
Easy Continuity
Everbridge
NTT Communications
Phoenix
PwC
Sungard Availability Services
Transport for London

Public Sector / Not-for-Profit Continuity Manager of the Year
John Ball, Force Business Continuity Coordinator, Sussex Police
Andy Pepper, Senior Emergency Management Officer, Cardiff Council
Ian Taylor, Group Manager Business Continuity & Emergency Planning Officer, Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Richard Verrinder, Business Continuity Manager, Essex County Council

Business Continuity Consultant of the Year
Tim Armit, Managing Consultant, Clifton Risk Management
Karen Azzopardi, Manager, Shadow-Planner Operations, Phoenix
Neil Bourke, Manager, Deloitte
Emma Dadson, Director, Harwell Restoration
Omar Jabsheh, Senior Consultant, Deloitte & Touche
Sachin Kumar, Senior Process Consultant, ECC International
Helen Molyneux, Director, Cambridge Risk Solutions

Business Continuity/Resilience Strategy of the Year
Ark H Handling
Capital One Europe.
Deloitte
DHL Supply Chain
Hewlett Packard GBS BCP & Risk Management Team
Hotel Chocolat
LCH Clearnet Ltd
National Commercial Bank Capital
Royal Bank of Canada
TNT UK & Ireland

Industry Newcomer of the Year
Assem Abbassi, Business Continuity Planning Specialist, Xceed
Andrew Austin, Senior Associate, PwC
Sarah Keeling, Business Continuity Manager, TNT UK & Ireland
Rebecca Thornton, Consultant, Deloitte

Resilience in Infrastructure
Atradius Group
Sungard Availability Services
TelecityGroup

Business Continuity/Resilience Initiative of the Year
BB&A
Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service’s Availability Dashboard
Capital One
Crisis Guardian for Adidas
Datatecnics
DHL Supply Chain
Humanitarian Futures Programme, King's College London & Deloitte
Marks & Spencer’s Business Continuity Dashboard
Pinbellcom’s TheOneView.net

Business Continuity/Resilience Team of the Year
Arab National Bank
Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Capital One
DBS Bank
Deloitte
DHL Supply Chain
Hewlett Packard GBS BCP & Risk Management Team
KPMG
Marks & Spencer
Royal Bank of Canada
Xceed

Business Continuity Management Planning Software of the Year
ClearView Continuity
Factonomy
RecoveryPlanner
Services Conseils RDI.

Most Innovative Solution of the Year
Clifton Risk Management ‘s City Wide Exercises
The Everbridge Suite
Geminare’s Cloud Recovery
Phoenix VDR Platform
Vocal Command
xMatters

Specialist Company of the Year
Business Continuity Transport
Company85
Easy Continuity
F-24
Harwell Restoration
Perpetual Solutions
Plan B Disaster Recovery
Resilient PLC
Sentronex
Vocal

Most Effective Recovery of the Year
AIG Europe
Bupa Health Funding
Business Continuity Transport & Thompson
De Boer Structures
DHL Supply Chain, Philippines
National Commercial Bank Capital
Plan B Disaster Recovery
Quorum & California Bankers Association
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation

Most Innovative Product of the Year
Asigra
Datatecnics
Easy Continuity
Everbridge
Geminare
Phoenix Quickstart
Pinbellcom Limited

Student of the Year
Paula Sonja Karlsson, Glasgow Caledonian University
Juliana Richardson, Coventry University
John Still, Student, University Of Leicester
Christopher Yorke, University of Portsmouth
Adam Wallace, Coventry University

Business Continuity Strategy through Partnership
Hotel Chocolat & Cambridge Risk Solutions
Sentronex & BMS Finance
VTB Capital & ClearView Continuity

Transformation of the Year
Arab National Bank
Caisse d'Epargne Loire-Centre
DHL Supply Chain, Europe
PwC Africa
TNT Express UK & Ireland
Transport for London
Xceed
Xchanging

Cloud Services Provider of the Year
Databarracks
Everbridge
Idea Bank
NTT Communications
Onyx Group
Phoenix
Sentronex

Supply Chain Strategy of the Year
Capital One
DHL Supply Chain
MA Assist

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