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Our Team:
Our Team

Our team is lead by Peter Barnes FBCI
 
Peter Barnes is a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute.
 
He is a specialist in business continuity management who is recognised throughout the world through his many years as General Manager and International Operations Director of Survive! The Business Continuity Group.
 
He further developed his abilities in the application of BCP through a wide variety of consulting engagements at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he lead the UK BCP team until November 2001 prior to establishing 2C Consulting Ltd.
 
Through his role at Survive, Peter played a key role in the development and formation of the Business Continuity Institute which went on to become the recognised professional certification body for the world-wide business continuity and disaster recovery profession. He has also contributed or participated in a number of forums developing business continuity standards
and codes of practice in the UK, USA and Australia.
 
Peter’s recent assignments have included:

European institutionDefining strategy and leading the delivery of an ongoing programme of disaster recovery / business continuity testing within one of the major European institutions
 
team of BCP consultantsDevelopment and delivery of a series of workshops to expand the knowledge and familiarity with the market of a team of BCP consultants
 
UK regional development agencyDevelopment and implementation of a new business continuity plan for a UK regional development agency
 
mutual insurance societyDevelopment and implementation of a new business continuity plan for a high profile mutual insurance society and management of BCP obligations undertaken on their behalf through third party service providers;
 
European commercial bankDesign and implementation of Business Continuity plans for a European commercial bank;
 
UK Voluntary sectorDevelopment of a risk framework followed by design and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery plans for a leading British voluntary sector organisation;
 
TurnbullDevelopment of a risk management framework for a leading defence contractor seeking to demonstrate compliance to Turnbull guidelines;
 
Risk review and strategyWide-ranging risk reviews and audits of risk management strategies for a number of organisations in the services and manufacturing sectors; and
 
UK government departmentProgramme Contingency Planning for a UK Government department going through a major change programme.
 
Peter is joint editor of “The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management” (Pub. J Wiley & Sons, May 2001).
 
His numerous contributions to business journals and publications include
“The International Journal of Business Continuity Management”, Contingency Planning and Management “ (USA), “Corporate Risk” (Australia), “Journal of Business Continuity” (Australia), “Business Age” (UK), “European Continuity”, “The international Journal of Risk Management” and the Web Portal: “Globalcontinuity.com” .
Peter’s media activities include contributions as business continuity expert to features broadcast on the BBC, EBN (European Business Network), ABN (Asia Business Network), SKY News, BBC Learning Zone plus radio interviews with Independent Radio News, Classic FM, Heart 106FM, Capital Radio and BBC Radio Belfast.
 
Peter has spoken at and chaired risk and business continuity conferences in Australia, Austria, Bermuda, Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands,
South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, UK and USA.
 
Our Extended TeamOur Extended Team
 
We frequently find that our work requires a larger team of experts in order to achieve deadlines of timing or to effectively facilitate complex workshops and exercises. For this reason, 2C Consulting has established a network of relationships with other leading independent consultants throughout Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim. Full details of the parties with whom we work will be included in relevant proposals or otherwise on request.
Link here to our partners at Herne Consultants.
 

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