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Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 DRI Awards of Excellence

Each year at the DRI International annual conference, the Awards of Excellence program honors the leaders and innovators in the fields of continuity management, technology recovery, and crisis and risk management. We’re pleased to announce the finalists for this year’s Awards of Excellence. The awards will be presented at the DRI Conference in Savannah, GA, Mar. 3, 2020 at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort and Spa. We look forward to seeing you there!
The Finalists:
PROGRAM LEADER OF THE YEAR – PRIVATE SECTOR
- Ray Bonilla, CBCP, MBCP, Kaiser Permanente
- Scot Buerkle, ABCP, ACRP, Mid-Rivers Communications
- Jason Fries, MBCP, S&P Global
PROGRAM LEADER OF THE YEAR – PUBLIC SECTOR
- Lori Dachille, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Dmitri Dits, CBCP, New York City Department of Buildings
- Dato’ Dr. Amirudin Abdul Wahab, CyberSecurity Malaysia
PROGRAM LEADER OF THE YEAR – NON-PROFIT
- Bonnie Canal, MBCP, Evacuteer.org
- Toulepi Fidele, National Center For Youths and Sustainable Development
- Efraim Wielgus, Columbia University Information Technology
CONSULTANT OF THE YEAR
- Sherri Flynn, CBCP, MBCP, RecoveryPlanner
- Juan Carlos Gonzalez Cardozo, Gestión Humana y Protección GHP
- Joe Starzyk, IBM Resiliency Services
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
- Larry Chase, CBCP, CCRP
- Wasim Jamil Malik, MBCP
- David Nolan
- Frank Perlmutter, CBCP
- Roger Stearns, CBCP
- R Vaidhyanathan
- Bobby Williams, MBCP
NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
- Nisha Baxi, Fannie Mae
- Ganesh Dhungana, Action Nepal
TEAM OF THE YEAR
- Amdocs
- Northrop Grumman
- Walgreens
PRODUCT/ SERVICE PROVIDER OF THE YEAR
- AVTECH Software
- Arcserve
- Assurance Software
- Avalution Consulting
- Axxana
- BC in the Cloud by Infinite Blue
- Continuity Innovations
- Continuity Logic
- Crises Control
- Ernst & Young MENA
- Fusion Risk Management
- GlobalSUITE
- OnSolve
- Rave Mobile Safety
- RecoveryPlanner
- Regroup Mass Notification
- SAI Global
- Sungard Availability Services
- Veoci
RESPONSE AND RECOVERY
- Bank of America
- JetBlue