Nicholas Ruston Young
Nicholas Rushton-Young was the former Regional Business Continuity Manager for the Bank of America, managing emergency response, business resumption; BCP plans, BIA`s, Risk Assessments to strategies and command centres; including pandemic planning across Asia Pacific Japan.
Nicholas has worked for the world’s largest business continuity and disaster recovery service provider including Sema Global Recovery Services, Schlumberger Business Continuity and HP Business Continuity. His work includes relocation projects for customers in the financial sector before and during major incidents such as terrorist attacks, as well as recovery testing and hot site assessment and selection. He has held senior positions carrying high responsibilities, managing up to 923 Users during invocations and testing; held positions such as Global Head Business Continuity Management of a bank VPH, VP for Business Continuity, Head of Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Leader of Incident Response Team (IRT), Leader Salvage Team, Head of the Crisis Management Team, handling incidents from earthquakes to SARS; robberies at branches to terrorist attack to fires.
Voluntary Appointment within BCM Institute
Nicholas Rushton-Young is an Associate Instructor with the BCM Institute
Past Employment
He was previously was the Regional Business Continuity Manager for the Bank of America, managing emergency response, business resumption; BCP plans, BIA`s, Risk Assessments to strategies and command centres; including pandemic planning across Asia Pacific Japan.
He was previously the Global Head and Community of Excellence for BCM/DR, APJ, with Symantec Global Consulting. He has designed, built and run business continuity programs and disaster recovery centres, including some 25 command centres, internally for customers and for industry regulators. He has conducted assessments and constructed plans for Front and Back Office for Abbey National-AXA Investments, Barclays Capital, CNN, Credit Swiss First Boston, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, Chase Manhattan Bank, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, National Australia Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Siam Bank, HP Business Continuity Services and many more.
Nicholas has worked for the world’s largest business continuity and disaster recovery service provider including Sema Global Recovery Services, Schlumberger Business Continuity and HP Business Continuity. His work includes relocation projects for customers in the financial sector before and during major incidents such as terrorist attacks, as well as recovery testing and hot site assessment and selection. He has held senior positions carrying high responsibilities, managing up to 923 Users during invocations and testing; held positions such as Global Head Business Continuity Management of a bank VPH, VP for Business Continuity, Head of Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Leader of Incident Response Team (IRT), Leader Salvage Team, Head of the Crisis Management Team, handling incidents from earthquakes to SARS; robberies at branches to terrorist attack to fires.
Professional Certification
2007 Awarded Business Continuity Certified Expert (BCCE), BCM Institute, Singapore
2003 Awarded Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI), Business Continuity Institute (BCI), United Kingdom
2005 Awarded Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), DRI International (DRII), USA