Nicholas Rushton-Young

Principal Consultant Business Continuity Crisis Management, Risk Advisory Services. 

A seasoned industry recognised professional with extensive experience in Business Continuity Management, covering Security, Crisis Management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Risk, IT Governance, IT Compliance including GDPR, Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk Management, Compliance, Facility, Vendor, and Supply Chain Management, Quality Health and Safety based on delivery through international standards. Hands on through roles with but not limited to: Banking (Bank of America/OCBC bank), manufacturing (HP), telco (BT/Globe/Ooredoo), DR vendors (VERITAS/Symantec/HP/SGRS/SEMA Group), insurance AXA/AON, broadcasting such as CNN Time Warner, oil (Schlumberger/Trafigura).

Enhancing operational effectiveness, people to production processes. A Certified Fellow of the Institute Business Continuity (FIBCM) Certified with the US Disaster Recovery Institute International (CBCP), The Business Continuity Institute UK (MBCI), The Business Continuity Management Institute Asia (BCCE), Is a certified Project Manager (PMP), Master (MPM), Fellow and Advisory Board Member. A member of The American Society for Industry Security (ASIS) member of the Information Systems Audit Control Association (ISACA).

Nicholas seamlessly applies standards and best practices to organisations ensuring the regions staff, and critical systems, facilities, and processes across 26 countries are protected against threats and any potential disruptive events.  Able to foster long lasting relationships, through thought leadership and mind share to identify and manage risks by addressing controls needed for all environments, benchmarking, scorecard performance and regulatory audits. Train the trainer to developing online training for businesses & the SLT.

Global Business Continuity Crisis Management (BCCM) ITDR, cyber, policy writer, creator of online E-learning training including Enterprise Risk Management, and RSA Archer modules, concept to delivery. ARCHER / LDRPS / MIR2, and other automated tools from risk management to global travel. Implementation of Business Continuity Crisis Management, Risk Governance (BCCM/GRC) frameworks in numerous companies, global Community of Practice Leader, as well as being Asia Pacific Japan Principal Consultant Professional Services.

Speaker at The Asia Banker Summits, International Monetary Fund, stock exchanges, universities, to the development of new BC/DR and Crisis Management standards with other government bodies. Frequent writer of Crisis, BCCM, and Risk articles. Was awarded Business Continuity Crisis Manager of the year by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. 

Handling large scale incidents, moving people, and processes via real life events, and, industry exercises such as the: Singapore Island Wide Exercise (IWE) where he was selected as the Red Cell Facilitator to guide, steer, and, report on the banks behalf. Docklands bombing, Mumbai, WTC Terrorist  attacks, Sri Lanka, AU flooding’s, NZ quakes to Beijing and, London Olympic  Emergency Response Planning/plans for extraction to Fukashima meltdown where Nick was deployed for 8 weeks  working with the Japanese government and Pentagon on various activities, Hong Kong SARS & the Umbrella Movement  to more recently Cyclones & CORVID-19 in the Middle East.

• ISO22301 Lead Auditor: BCI (UK) BCM Approved Instructor – DRII (US) BCM Approved Instructor BCMI BCM Senior Instructor, ISO 27001 lead auditor
• Bank of America NA - Business Continuity Crisis Manager of the year
• Aon Security Risk Management -DRII Institute company recovery of the year award
• Crisis Manager of the year award for Fukashima deployment, Prime Minister engagement on relocation planning
• “Internal” award (working for the Pentagon) “boots on the ground” location/extraction/repatriation of souls
• All Asia Pacific Japan regulators, and Association of Banks & Middle East NECDMA/TRA`s
• Island Wide Exercise Red Cell facilitator for Bank of America Na (BofA) 6-week pandemic exercise
• Olympics (Beijing, and London) Emergency Response Plan writer based on terror attacks
• Philanthropy – Red Cross (AMS&UK), Red Crescent, Save The Children Fund 8.9 million
• 10 Day live split operations exercises (pandemics)
• Major City Down exercise writer, and facilitator (terror) dropping one city bringing up the next across India, running the local, regional and global command centres for Bank of America.

A seasoned industry recognised professional with extensive experience in Business Continuity Management, covering Security, Crisis Management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Risk, IT Governance, IT Compliance including GDPR, Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk Management, Compliance, Facility, Vendor, and Supply Chain Management, Quality Health and Safety based on delivery through international standards. Hands on through roles with but not limited to: Banking (Bank of America/OCBC bank), manufacturing (HP), telco (BT/Globe/Ooredoo), DR vendors (VERITAS/Symantec/HP/SGRS/SEMA Group), insurance AXA/AON, broadcasting such as CNN Time Warner, oil (Schlumberger/Trafigura).

Enhancing operational effectiveness, people to production processes. A Certified Fellow of the Institute Business Continuity (FIBCM) Certified with the US Disaster Recovery Institute International (CBCP), The Business Continuity Institute UK (MBCI), The Business Continuity Management Institute Asia (BCCE), Is a certified Project Manager (PMP), Master (MPM), Fellow and Advisory Board Member. A member of The American Society for Industry Security (ASIS) member of the Information Systems Audit Control Association (ISACA).

Nicholas seamlessly applies standards and best practices to organisations ensuring the regions staff, and critical systems, facilities, and processes across 26 countries are protected against threats and any potential disruptive events.  Able to foster long lasting relationships, through thought leadership and mind share to identify and manage risks by addressing controls needed for all environments, benchmarking, scorecard performance and regulatory audits. Train the trainer to developing online training for businesses & the SLT.

Global Business Continuity Crisis Management (BCCM) ITDR, cyber, policy writer, creator of online E-learning training including Enterprise Risk Management, and RSA Archer modules, concept to delivery. ARCHER / LDRPS / MIR2, and other automated tools from risk management to global travel. Implementation of Business Continuity Crisis Management, Risk Governance (BCCM/GRC) frameworks in numerous companies, global Community of Practice Leader, as well as being Asia Pacific Japan Principal Consultant Professional Services.

Speaker at The Asia Banker Summits, International Monetary Fund, stock exchanges, universities, to the development of new BC/DR and Crisis Management standards with other government bodies. Frequent writer of Crisis, BCCM, and Risk articles. Was awarded Business Continuity Crisis Manager of the year by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. 

Handling large scale incidents, moving people, and processes via real life events, and, industry exercises such as the: Singapore Island Wide Exercise (IWE) where he was selected as the Red Cell Facilitator to guide, steer, and, report on the banks behalf. Docklands bombing, Mumbai, WTC Terrorist  attacks, Sri Lanka, AU flooding’s, NZ quakes to Beijing and, London Olympic  Emergency Response Planning/plans for extraction to Fukashima meltdown where Nick was deployed for 8 weeks  working with the Japanese government and Pentagon on various activities, Hong Kong SARS & the Umbrella Movement  to more recently Cyclones & CORVID-19 in the Middle East.

• ISO22301 Lead Auditor: BCI (UK) BCM Approved Instructor – DRII (US) BCM Approved Instructor BCMI BCM Senior Instructor, ISO 27001 lead auditor
• Bank of America NA - Business Continuity Crisis Manager of the year
• Aon Security Risk Management -DRII Institute company recovery of the year award
• Crisis Manager of the year award for Fukashima deployment, Prime Minister engagement on relocation planning
• “Internal” award (working for the Pentagon) “boots on the ground” location/extraction/repatriation of souls
• All Asia Pacific Japan regulators, and Association of Banks & Middle East NECDMA/TRA`s
• Island Wide Exercise Red Cell facilitator for Bank of America Na (BofA) 6-week pandemic exercise
• Olympics (Beijing, and London) Emergency Response Plan writer based on terror attacks
• Philanthropy – Red Cross (AMS&UK), Red Crescent, Save The Children Fund 8.9 million
• 10 Day live split operations exercises (pandemics)
• Major City Down exercise writer, and facilitator (terror) dropping one city bringing up the next across India, running the local, regional and global command centres for Bank of America.

Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP)

Business Continuity Certified Expert (BCCE)

Fellow Institute Business Continuity Management (FIBCM)

MBCI (UK)