Nathaniel Forbes is a very entertaining trainer, speaker and writer who founded and manages the consulting, outsourcing and placement firm Forbes Calamity Prevention (FCP) in 1997 in Singapore. For 13 years, he and his colleagues have provided business continuity, emergency and crisis management planning to large, multinational clients around the world, including ABN Amro Bank, BP, Celestica, Gillette, OCBC Bank, Pfizer, Singapore Exchange, Siemens, Wyeth Nutrition - and popular Singapore restaurants Brewerkz, Café Iguana and Wine Garage.

Nathaniel writes ZDNet Asia’s blog “BCP Confidential” http://www.zdnetasia.com/blogs/bcp and FCP’s informative email newsletter http://www.calamityprevention.com/our_newsletters.php. One attendee at his BCP presentation to the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore called it “one of the best I’ve seen given.” To learn more about Nathaniel, just type “Nathaniel Forbes” into your favorite internet search engine.

Nathaniel is an MBCI (Member, Business Continuity Institute) http://www.thebci.org and the Singapore National Representative for the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) http://www.iaem.com.sg. He was President of the Business Continuity Group, a chapter of the Singapore Computer Society, from 1999 to 2001. He also passed the Disaster Recovery Institute International Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) examination in 1998.

Kenny Seow has 17 years of international experience in disaster recovery, business continuity and crisis management in the banking, securities, logistics and public services sectors.

He is an independent consultant providing business continuity support, training and advisory services to the Western Australian Government. Kenny was the Regional Head of Business Continuity Management in Deutsche Bank AG, with responsibility for the development and implementation of the bank’s BCM program across 16 countries in Asia Pacific.

Kenny speaks regularly at seminars and conferences, and has presented papers on business continuity in the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. He conducts courses regularly and has trained over 1,000 senior managers and executives from public and private sector organisations on emergency response, crisis management, disaster recovery, business continuity, pandemic planning, and plan testing.

Kenny is professionally qualified as a Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP). He has a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Psychology, and Master Degree in Business Administration. He was awarded the BCM Lifetime Achievement Award in Asia in October 2007.