What Has Mentoring Ever Done for Us?

  • 9 September 2025

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In this session, Nick Simms FBCI and some of his current mentees, including Anoushka Chati CBCI,  Jenny Beck AMBCI and Russell Williams FBCI, discuss how the BCI Mentoring process is working for them.

Topics will include how and why they found each other, what they have gained from the process so far, how they hope to benefit from the process in the future, and how the process could be improved.

Speakers:

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    Nick Simms FBCI

    Senior Consultant, Cornwood Consulting

    Nick Simms is a senior consultant and interim manager with over 35 years’ experience of leading Operational Resilience and Business Continuity programmes across public and private sectors. His former roles include acting as Operational Resilience Director for M&G during and beyond its separation from Prudential Plc and independent flotation on the Stock Exchange, Head of Operational Resilience Strategy and Policy for Nationwide Building Society and global Head of Business Continuity Management for divisions of HSBC, Barclays and BP.  He has also led the remediation work for London Ambulance Society following the failure of its computerised dispatch system on New Year’s Day 2017, by far the busiest day of the year for the service, and an IT Disaster Recovery Improvement Programme for the Bank of England.

    Nick was made a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute in September 1994 on the first day that membership was opened to non-founders. He and his wife, Jillian, are still the only married couple to both attain FBCI status.

    Nick has mentored BCI members in North America, Mexico, UK, Continental Europe, Africa and Asia through the various BCI schemes since 1999 with several of his mentees having gone on to become Fellows in their own right. He is a qualified youth coach.

  • Russell Williams FBCI

    Head of Operational Resilience and Incident Management , GoCardless

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    Anoushka Chati CBCI

    Operational Resilience Analyst, Ardonagh Specialty

    Anoushka Chati is a CBCI-certified Operational Resilience Analyst at Ardonagh Speciality, a speciality insurance broker in London. She leads resilience initiatives aligned with the FCA regulatory standards, supports crisis response, and strengthens business continuity across the organisation. With a background in higher education and tech, she holds a Master’s in Management for Business Excellence, where her research focused on crisis leadership and organisational resilience. Anoushka is also a committee member of the Women in Resilience special interest group at the BCI, where she helps shape inclusive conversations and thought leadership in the field.

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    Jenny Beck AMBCI

    Operational Resilience and Continuity Analyst

    Jenny Beck has worked in financial services for over a decade. After taking time to raise her young children, she began her career in resilience.

    She earned her CBCI certification in September 2024 and gained her AMBCI in March 2025.

    Working as an analyst in a team of two at a regional building society, she covers Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Third-Party Supplier Management and Major Incident Management.

    Jenny thrives on identifying interconnections and vulnerabilities across complex processes & loves designing scenario exercises which showcase these, working with the organisation to build robust plans and mitigations. She’s passionate about knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

    In July 2025, she was shortlisted for her work in two categories in the 2025 BCI Europe Awards for Continuity & Resilience Newcomer and Most Effective Supply Chain Strategy categories.