Robin Gaddum is a senior managing consultant with IBM’s Business Continuity and Resiliency Services. In addition to his normal role, Mr Gaddum has worked as part of an IBM crisis response team delivering services in support of customers at time of need. Prior to his career with IBM, Mr Gaddum held positions as a business continuity managing consultant with SunGard Availability Services, Guardian iT and Safetynet, undertaking a large number of consulting engagements across a wide range of businesses. Before becoming a business continuity consultant, Mr Gaddum worked as an IT project manager at British Airways, specialising in large and complex infrastructure projects and prior to that worked in the manufacturing industry, first as a production / planning manager and finally as an IT manager. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Mr Gaddum worked on a part-time voluntary basis in UK civil defence, latterly attached to RAF Strike Command and playing a role in its contingency plans in the event of a nuclear attack against the UK. This role ceased when peace broke out with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mr Gaddum is a Member of the Business Continuity Institute, also holding a BSc in Microbiology, MPhil in bacterial cell cultivation and (a far more conventional) MBA. Mr Gaddum is a member of the British Standards Institution’s BCM/1 business continuity steering committee and the subcommittee responsible for drafting BS 25777.