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Announcing the 2022 DRI Awards of Excellence Finalists!
Each year, the DRI International 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. This year’s winners will be revealed at the Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony at DRI2022 in Las Vegas, NV, on Tuesday, Feb. 15. We hope you’ll join us to cheer on all the deserving finalists:
PROGRAM LEADER OF THE YEAR – PRIVATE SECTOR
- Hadeel Alessa, Saudi Aramco
- Tyrone Clark, William Blair & Company
- Nita Kohli, Freddie Mac
CONSULTANT OF THE YEAR
- Gayathri Jaganathan, PwC Malaysia
- Timothy Miller, MorganFranklin Consulting
- Joe Starzyk, Kyndryl Business Resiliency Services (formerly IBM)
NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
- Nelly Aragon, CPSCP, City of Santa Rosa
- Joseph Dean, Castellan Solutions, Inc.
- Victoria Nkemdilim Ogbuehi, CBCP, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
- Ahmad Alkhafaf
- Nate Bridges, MBCP
- Wasim Malik, MBCP
- Frank Perlmutter, CBCP
- Leah Sawyer, MBCP
- Daman Dev Sood
- Michele Turner, MBCP
- Manuel Violante, MBCP
- Bobby Williams, MBCP
- Brian Zawada, MBCP
TEAM OF THE YEAR
- Anthem IY
- Ernst & Young Global Delivery Services
- Freddie Mac Operational Resilience
PRODUCT/SERVICE PROVIDER OF THE YEAR
- Agility Recovery Solutions
- Blackberry
- Castellan Solutions
- CLDigital
- Continuity Innovations
- Fusion Risk Management
- iluminr
- Infinite Blue
- OnSolve
- Pricewaterhouse Coopers
- Rave Mobile Safety
- Regroup Mass Notification
- Veoci
RESPONSE AND RECOVERY OF THE YEAR
- Houston Methodist Hospital
- OSAC Chennai Chapter
- Saudi Aramco
COVID-19 RESPONSE AND RECOVERY OF THE YEAR
- Amdocs
- CPS Energy
- Delta Dental of California
- TMX Group