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John Sharp leading BSi BCM Task Group                               Issued June 2009

John Sharp is leading a task group to develop a BSI Published Document (PD) on the Human Aspects of BCM, BS25111.  The document will provide help and advice to enable organisations to recognise and plan for the impact of disruptive events on people.  The Task Group is one of several operating under the umbrella of the BS25999 Technical Committee. 

John Sharp provides support for ICM                                     Issued  11/4/08

ICM Business Continuity Services Ltd has appointed industry expert John Sharp to be a senior industry advisor.   

John Sharp will provide high level advice and counsel to ICM, with his experience as previous head of the Business Continuity Institute and a director of the Continuity Forum giving the firm peerless knowledge and acumen on all aspects of business continuity planning across industry and the public sector.   

John has been a key member of the Chartered Management Institute’s team, undertaking definitive research into BCM awareness across the UK.  He was a member of the Technical Committee that produced BCM standard BS 25999, as well as advising on the guidance for the UK Civil Contingencies Act.  Throughout his career John has worked closely with government, regulators, the police and security organisations to ensure a uniformity in approaches to BCM, and most recently his work as a member of both the London Resilience Business Team and Metropolitan Police BCM Board have seen him advising at the highest levels of authority. 

Mike Osborne,  Managing Director, ICM Business Continuity Services Ltd, commented, “I am delighted that John is to join us as a strategic advisor.  His wealth of experience and knowledge is unrivalled, and he brings to ICM unique views and advice formed through his extensive career within the business continuity industry.  

John Sharp Moving On                                                             Issued   25/1/08

After three and a half years John Sharp is stepping down as Policy and Development Director of Continuity Forum to pursue other interests in the BCM arena through Kiln House Associates Ltd.  During the period he has been supporting Continuity Forum John has worked on several major initiatives as well as presenting on behalf of the Forum at events throughout the UK.

John said, “The time is right both for Continuity Forum and myself for me to move on.  The new BCM Standard BS25999 has been published and the bulk of the work associated with the Civil Contingencies Act is completed. Whilst I have enjoyed the period I have spent with Continuity Forum I have become interested and more involved in the delivery of BCM advice and training to organisations directly”.  His clients include a major government department, an international pharmaceutical company and Category 1 responders in the UK.  He is an Associate Course Director at the government’s Emergency Planning College where he assists in the delivery of BCM courses. 

John Sharp is the author of The Route Map to Business Continuity Management which provides a guide to meeting the requirements of BS25999 and was published by British Standards (BSI) in December 2007.