Business Continuity Management Framework, Second Edition

ANDREW HILES was founder and for almost 15 years Chairman of the first international user group for business continuity planning. He was a founding Director of the Business Continuity Institute, an international body for certification of business continuity professionals, and a founder of the World Food Safety Organization. Having begun his management career with the Royal Air Force, he pioneered IT systems before leaving to take up a position within the Finance Department of London Transport. Subsequently in their Central Productivity Unit he was a Senior Projects Manager and later became responsible for the business re-engineering function, implementing new services and major technical projects. He left to take up a position with the UK Post Office as their first Business Systems Consultant responsible for major projects. Andrew then joined the UK Atomic Energy Authority at the Harwell Laboratories where he managed the supercomputing, mainframe and other bureau and outsourcing services. Andrew was a founding director of Kingswell, an international consulting company with a blue chip client base specializing in Enterprise Risk Management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and in Service Management. He is a pragmatic global consultant and trainer on these topics. Andrew is an international speaker on risk management, business continuity and contingency planning and has featured on conference programs in the USA, Southern Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. He has presented workshops and seminars on these topics for Frost & Sullivan (Europe), IIR (Europe and Middle East), AIC (South Africa), CEL (Hong Kong), UPOM (Saudi Arabia) and other companies, having also lectured at Ashridge, Cranfield, GEC Dunchurch and Henley Management Colleges in the UK. He has broadcast on radio, TV and on Internet webinars. He has designed the training programs Emergency Business Management for the 350,000 members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) which run successfully in North America and his highly acclaimed workshop The ABC of Business Continuity Management has been franchised for use in several other countries. With IIR, the world's biggest conference company, he designed and delivered a Certified Risk management course specifically addressing the needs of the Middle East. He has over 300 published articles on business continuity. Andrew is also the author of Enterprise Risk Management: Best Practices, published by Rothstein Associates Inc. 2002 and of Guide to Risk Management, published by the Chartered Institute of Accountants of England and Wales in 2002. He co-edited and was the major contributor to The Definitive Guide to Business Continuity Management (published by Wiley, 1999) and The IBM GUIDE UK Disaster Recovery Manual. He contributed to the Confederation of British Industry business guide, Business Continuity Management and to the UK Institute of Directors / Department of TrHiles, Andrew is the author of 'Business Continuity Management Framework, Second Edition' with ISBN 9781931332330 and ISBN 1931332339.