Mike Mikkelsen FBCI,

Mike is the CEO of Redan International. He is a former member of the BCI Board of Directors and chairs the Communications Management Association Special Interest Group on Risk, Availability & BC. Up to 2000, Mike was responsible for BT’s BC Commercial activities and managed the BT portfolio of BC and DR Services. Return to Summer School

Helen Sweet, MBCI

Helen is an independent Business Continuity Management Trainer and Consultant (based in Leeds). This freelance status immediately follows a year working with one of the leading Business Continuity & Information Security consultancy firms in the UK and two years initiating and delivering Business Continuity Management for the UK's leading Internet Service Provider.

Prior to this, Helen accrued seven years of business and management experience including marketing, advertising, online production and best practice, business development, contact centre management, operations, customer experience, corporate governance and people management. This unique mix and wide range of operational and strategic skills has proved to be an invaluable basis on which to build her Business Continuity capabilities.

In recognition of her Business Continuity and Crisis Management work for the ISP, Helen Sweet (nee Pettet) was awarded the prestigious international title of Best Newcomer to the Business Continuity Industry in 2004. Helen is well known within the industry and is an active member of the Leeds City Centre Network & Business Continuity Forum and the North of England BCI Forum. Helen has also been invited to speak at a number of events including the Survive Conference and is a visiting lecturer for Continuity Shop, Continuity Systems, Survive and the Cabinet Office's Emergency Planning College. Return to Summer School

Ian Charters FBCI,

After a short career as a school teacher Ian worked as a project manager and systems designer for a Facilities Management company with several blue-chip clients. His contingency planning experience was gained with a warm-start facility supplier where he developed concepts and methods to assist clients in all aspects of contingency planning. He has applied these to projects in the manufacturing, insurance, construction, transport, financial services, health care, NGO, computer services, petrochemical, retail, government and local authority sectors. He was elected a Member of the Business Continuity Institute in 1997, a Fellow in 2004 and is now an elected Board member and held the position of Chair of its Education Committee for two years.

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Rosie Murray SBCI

Rosie is among a tiny handful of the world's specialists in the human aspect of disaster response. She was Project Co-ordinator both for the '9/11' and Tsunami help-lines and the face-to-face support co-ordinated by the UK Government. She was involved in supporting relatives through the identification procedure following the Kegworth air crash.

She chairs the UK Emergency Planning Society's Human Aspects Group and has contributed to a number of the national working parties and reports. She is in great demand as a trainer for the police, government and commercial organisations. She also has her own hands-on practice, bringing help to those in trauma. This is a long way from her beginnings as a mental health social worker, brought in to work with the Emergency Team of a city council. Return to Summer School

Simon Langdon, Former Principal Consultant, Siemens Insight

Simon's pioneering approach to projects both locally and abroad was acknowledged this year when he received the BCI's "Consultant of the Year Award". He was recognised for promoting business continuity best practice and his sterling work in establishing and chairing the International Disaster and Emergency Readiness Group (IDER) was a further consideration. In his role at Siemens, Simon worked alongside the United Nations and European Community to develop and promote crisis management processes to deal with major disasters. Simon is now a full time Independent. Return to Summer School

Warwick Partington, Chief Executive, Media Training Masterclasses Limited

Warwick has had extensive media experience whilst working with SKY News as a producer, and also a media trainer with the BBC. He will not only bring his expertise to the afternoon of specialist presentations but also a sense of realism to the crisis management exercise on day three.

Warwick will provide delegates with the confidence, tools and techniques for identifying the correct message in a crisis, preparing the message and delivering it in media interviews whilst under pressure.

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The Continuity Shop Summer School 2007 - Trainers & Speakers