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212 Piccadilly | The Visor TeamMembers of the Visor team have won four prestigious Business Continuity awards and are as follows:
PETER POWER, Managing DirectorBA FIRM FBCI FCMI FEPS Peter Power has been Managing Director of Visor Consultants since 1995. He regularly helps organisations to plan and deliver highly successful scenario based exercises as well as workshops, leadership courses and motivation sessions and is one of the most requested UK public speaker on Resilience/Crisis and Business Continuity (BC) management who often appears on TV and radio in the UK and other countries. Much of his work is based on pioneering new ideas. Peter has considerable front-line experience of many real crises and is very well known as an authoritative and entertaining presenter and writer. His research on crisis decision making is quoted in the UK Government (Cabinet Office) Guide on Integrated Emergency Management and he is the author of many advice guidebooks including the original UK Govt. (DTI) booklet ‘Preventing Chaos in a Crisis' and the British Bankers Association guide on Crisis Management within their Business Continuity advice booklet. He is a founder member of the UK judging panel for BC Awards and sits on the British Standards Institute working party on Crisis Management. He is also a member of the Resilience subgroup within the UK Security Review Commission. He is a Special Advisor to a number of key organisations including the Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness and BC Institute London Forum. Peter is also listed in the UK Register of Expert Witnesses and occasionally lectures at Reading University (he is the author of a key module within the MBA course at the College of Estate Management at Reading University). He was a previous award winner for BC ‘Personality of the Year’ 2000 and ‘Lifetime Achievement’ 2006 (members of the Visor Consultants team have so far won 4 separate BC awards). Peter’s recent appearances on TV and radio include many interviews following the London bomb attacks in July 2005 and other incidents, as well as documentaries and taking part in the recent BBC TV Panorama current affairs programme examining the consequences of terrorism on London. He is specifically quoted on the BBC web site in relation to his role at the scene of several previous major incidents in the UK. Peter has a senior Scotland Yard background which includes setting up the multi agency operational management structure at the London Kings Cross underground station fire, secondment to the Anti Terrorist Branch, deputy forward control coordinator at the Libyan People Bureau siege and leading the team behind the existing police street philosophy for dealing with terrorist bombs. He is also the primary author / promulgator of the present UK Police command methodology Gold, Silver & Bronze which is now used extensively across many organisations in the public and private sectors. It has become the most commonly applied operational command system used by the majority of businesses as well as the emergency services.
Left: Peter Power (middle) at the 2006 Business Continuity Awards. Links to some of Peter's publications / media appearances:
DAVID BAWTREE, Technical DirectorCB Ceng DL David Bawtree has been the Technical Director of Visor Consultants for the past nine years. He was previously the Civil Emergencies Adviser to the Home Office, retiring from this post in October 1997. His task at the Home Office was to learn from the misfortunes from others so that the planning for and response to disasters in the UK would be the more effective. He travelled widely at home and overseas, attending and learning from such incidents as the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo underground, the Estonia ferry disaster, the Mull of Kintyre and Dunkeswick air crashes, flood incidents at Towyn and Chichester, London, Manchester and Northern Ireland terrorist incidents, the Southall rail crash and the Dunblane shootings. During his time in the Home Office David's advice to Ministers resulted in significant improvements to local and national civil protection arrangements and protocols. He was the author of three widely recognised publications, "Dealing with Disaster", "How resilient is your business to disaster" and "Why exercise your disaster response". He attended and spoke at a wide range of civil protection seminars, at home and overseas, and was involved with the planning for and assessment of all forms of exercise, from table top to major international events. Prior to his appointment at the Home Office David spent 38 years in the Royal Navy, retiring in the rank of Rear Admiral. In 2001 he retired from the appointment of Chairman of Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest acute hospitals in the country, and presently combines his work of occasional advice to government, industry, local authorities and the emergency services with leading a team to build the largest square-rigged adventure training and research sailing ship in the world. David is Chairman of HMS Warrior (1860) and of the Portsmouth Grammar School Governors. 
KATHRYN HOLLOWAY, Media Skills ConsultantBA (Hons) Kathryn Holloway has worked as a broadcaster and journalist since 1983. In 2005 she joined Visor as our Media Skills Consultant.As a television reporter she covered stories for news services such as ITN, TV-am, Sky News and Tyne Tees Television, reporting from crisis scenes including the Lockerbie explosion, Piper Alpha oil platform blaze and the Zeebrugge disaster. As a presenter, she has anchored live national news, breakfast and daytime television, terrestrially and on satellite, as well as radio news discussion shows for both LBC and Talk Radio. She continues to write national news features, principally for The Daily and Sunday Express.As an advisor in the release of public information and a media trainer she has previously run courses at the UK Government Emergency Planning College, MOD, Department of Trade and Industry and City of London Police. She recreates the key external pressure of the media in Business Continuity exercises including the Army's national civil emergency simulations. Kathryn can also provide direct highly effective Crisis Communications Media Plans. 
BRIAN HISCUTT, Business Continuity ConsultantMBCI M.InstIS Brian is a former Vice President of the Institute of Information Security and has over 25 years Business Continuity (BC) experience. He is a skilled auditor/reviewer of processes and operations, implementer of key processes and procedures to comply with Business Continuity (especially FSA) guidance. He has been at the forefront of many pioneering Business Continuity projects. For example, where the task was to recover an Internet Bank within 34 minutes of a disaster and without Data Loss. Other recent responsibilities included Audit & Compliance, Risk Management, Asset Management, and Health & Safety. Using his own Business Continuity software tool 'Strategy' he developed rigid plans across the organisation focusing on the individual departments requirements and rehearsing these with the recovery of the IT services. In 2002 Brian was involved in the Information Security compliance of the London Congestion Scheme. He Project Managed the Gap Analysis on the available documentation proceeded to up date new procedures where necessary, installed a Badge Access system together with the training and awareness sessions and helped to install a CCTV system following extensive researching of various options. Prior to joining Visor Consultants Brian worked on several international projects, including the development of Business Continuity Plans for a department of the Irish Government involving multiple Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessments. Most recently he worked very closely with the Continuity Management Team at Royal & Sun Alliance in London in a major contract role. 
DR. ANNE EYRE, Specialist ConsultantBA Ph.D Dr Anne Eyre is a sociologist specialising in stress, trauma and disaster management. She provides lecturing, training and consultancy services for various organisations planning for and responding to incidents, including those involving sudden, traumatic and mass death. This has included coordinating the Tsunami Support Network established by the British Red Cross Society after the Boxing Day Disaster 2004. 
TOM PINE, Associate ConsultantBSc (Hons). MIEM. MIMCE Tom Pine is a senior lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and an EU short-term technical expert for the various accession programmes, and an occasional media advisor and expert witness in legal proceedings. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he is also the Secretary of the Institute of Emergency Management and a council member of the European Academy for Crisis Management and Research. Tom brings expertise from many years experience in contingency planning for extreme events and the consequence management of widespread emergencies, much of it gained during his long career as a specialist officer at Scotland Yard. Whilst in the police he played a significant part in the design and implementation of the high-profile contingency plans that protect London from the terrorist threat and was responsible for many other national and pan-London emergency arrangements. Tom has published and delivered papers to conferences in the USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Italy, the Czech Republic and the UK (e.g. Cranfield University), and has also taught coastguards at the police college of the United Arab Emirates. The latter opportunity arose from his expertise in public safety and marine security gathered when he was responsible for policing the River Thames and Port of London in the lead up to the Millennium celebrations. 
BRADLEY WRIGHT, Resilience ConsultantBEng CEng MSc MIET Bradley joined Visor in 2008. Before that he held senior positions within a variety of national and international organisations and has comprehensive experience across the entire spectrum of corporate resilience, including business continuity, risk, programme and crisis management. He has previously supported the 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority. He specialises in helping organisations build corporate resilience by establishing, testing, auditing and maintaining business continuity and emergency management systems to meet the requirements of BS25999-2. He was previously Chief Emergency Planning officer for the City of Portsmouth where he led several enterprise-wide change programmes and multi-agency exercises to implement the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. This work included demonstrating the city’s ability to manage the response to and recovery from a major radiation incident in 2007 (requiring mass shelter, medication and decontamination of the built environment); safety certification of the city’s premiership stadium; building crowded places resilience, managing severe weather events and exercising maritime counter-terrorism plans. He was a standing member of Hampshire’s Local Resilience Forum for 2 years and has been involved in some of the most ambitious exercises yet held in the UK. A former Weapon Engineer Officer in the Royal Navy, his experience includes successfully leading, training and directing multi-disciplinary teams during recent war-fighting operations at sea, international intelligence and counter-narcotics operations. He has managed nuclear weapons, conventional explosive incidents, a multitude of mission critical tests and trials, aviation emergencies, air sea rescue operations, CBRN defence, floods, fires, and critical equipment failures under the most demanding circumstances at the end of extended supply chains./p> Deployed in a Type 42 Destroyer for the 2003 Gulf War, he held lead responsibility for the detection, warning and informing of the NATO task group in the event of biological and chemical weapon attack in the Northern Arabian Gulf before, during and after the amphibious raid on Al Fawr. This included directing full response and recovery procedures in relation to several real and false alarms and conducting post incident investigations and debriefs. Bradley is a Chartered Engineer and an associate member of the Emergency Planning Society. |
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Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, Emergency Planning Society, Business Continuity Institute and Institute of Risk Management. He is also as a member of the Guild of Freemen of the City of London.