Nathaniel manages Forbes Calamity Prevention (FCP) Pte Ltd, which has provided business continuity, crisis and emergency management planning for multinational companies in Asia for 17 years.

 

 

 

Nathaniel Forbes

Director Forbes Calamity Prevention Pte Ltd.

 

 

 

 

 

Nathaniel has lived and worked in Singapore since 1996. He is certified as a Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) and as Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) by the Disaster Recovery Institute International. He has been President of the Singapore Computer Society’s Business Continuity Group, and President of the Asia Council of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), a professional association that administers the worldwide Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) program.

His plenary talk, “Water & Emergencies: The Impact of Thirst” was one of the highest rated talks ever given at the World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM) in 2010. Clips of that talk appear on YouTube.

Nathaniel is the author of the Calamity Prevention blog http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog, consistently the most interesting online source of fact and opinion about emergency management and business continuity in Asia.

 

Web site www.nathanielforbes.com

LinkedIn http://linkd.in/U2vsLP

 

 

 

 

 

Nisar Ahmed Khan – MBCI [MS (IT), CBCI, CRISC, ISO 22301 IM& LA]

Head of Business Continuity
Kuwait Finance House

 

Nisar Khan has 13 years of professional career, with 10 years of experience in managing Corporate Business Continuity programs at Regulatory,conventional and Islamic banks. Previously he functioned as a BC/DR Manager for a consultancy firm, delivering end-to-end BCM programs and training to leading companies. He is a dedicated ambassador of the discipline and has earned the following recognitions and is the first individual in the world to achieve these milestones in all three BCI 2012 Awards:

• WINNER of the BCI MIDDLE EAST Awards 2013 as” BCM Personality of the Year”
• WINNER of the First BCI MIDDLE EAST Awards 2012 as” BCM of the Year”
• WINNER of the BCI ASIA Awards 2012 as” BCM of the Year”
• HIGHLY COMMENDED at the BCI GLOBAL Awards 2012 as” BCM of the Year”
  

Nisar also has vast experience in implementing enterprise level IT Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions such as Storage Area Networks (SAN), Backup, Recovery, Replication and high availability clustering, secondary data centers, redundant data networks and WAR/TAR sites. He is a frequent contributor at various forums pertaining to Business Continuity Management and a renounced speaker in regional BCM conferences.

In an interview with the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), Nisar recollects the BCI Middle East Awards 2013 as one of the proudest moments in his life a career.

“I was thrilled to be shortlisted for the Business Continuity Manager of the Year Award category. A dream came true when I saw my name besides the BCM heavyweights. Being recognized for all the hard work in your career makes you feel that it was all worthwhile and leaves you feeling totally contented.”

– read more on this interview Nisar Khan, BC Eye Blog, January 29, 2013.