Business Leader in Business Excellence
This category aims to reward an innovative initiatives that has significantly reduced operation costs and delivered sustainable solutions to increase organization productivity.
Business Leader in Customer Initiative
This category aims to reward an innovative initiative that has delivered concrete solutions and achieved tangible enterprise results by adding end-to-end business value to its internal and external stakeholders.
Business Leader in Value Creation
This category focuses on rewarding an innovative initiatives that had significantly improved customer satisfaction and contributed to deliver superior services.
Business Leader in Business Innovation
This category focuses on rewarding either a successful migration and delivery of advanced services or the development of an innovative solution that will path the ways for further growth of business services capabilities.
Business Leader in CSR
This category rewards a unique initiative with the most positive energy, creative mindset and a strong will to act in a responsive way towards the environment, culture and communities.
Business Leader in Education Initiative
A special award for a unique cooperation between an educational institution and company that has built brand awareness and enhanced the perception of business services sector among universities and student community.
*The categories will be organized if the condition of at least one application is fulfilled.
REGISTER NOW FOR THE ABSL AWARDS GALA
The event will take place on the 8th of October, 2015, at Radisson Blu, Atlas Room, in Bucharest, starting with 7 P.M.
Send us an e-mail at registration@absl.ro with the following information:
Dani SalilVice President Everest Group
Dani Salil
Vice President Everest Group
Salil Dani, Vice President – Everest Group, is a professional with 12 years of work experience in global services and management consulting Salil leads Everest Group’s Location Optimization Practice, which supports enterprises, service providers, and shared services in location decisions. He leads the analyst team that tracks more than 180 leading locations, including cities in Eastern Europe. Salil has led more than 30 studies involving Eastern European locations and has also assisted clients with decisions on scalability assessment and location portfolio end-state design. Salil also plays a leadership role in global sourcing subscriptions. Prior to joining Everest Group, Salil worked as a management consultant with KPMG. He holds an MBA (Chairman’s Medal Holder) from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, India.
David HandHead of Global Business Services, ACCA
David Hand
Head of Global Business Services, ACCA
David joined ACCA in November 2013 as Head of Global Business Services, responsible for ACCA’s strategy for the shared service, outsourcing and global business services sector, working with major companies, governments and other agencies global to drive both growth and standards in the industry. He has over 17 years’ experience within the GBS industry, working in both captive organisations for major multinationals and for a major BPO. His roles have included leading a finance and accounting shared service centre in Europe, the design and implementation of a new centre in Asia and the development of new services and products. Married with two twin boys, David splits his time between Malaysia and the Netherlands.
Werner ZeitlbergerSenior Manager, The Hackett Group
Werner Zeitlberger
Senior Manager, The Hackett Group
Werner Zeitlberger is Senior Manager at the Hackett Group and part of the German transformation team. He has more than 10 years of progressive experience in management consulting and industry activities and a proven track record of leading business transformation and process optimization engagements in Europe and the United States. His focus is on Shared Services and Outsourcing (strategy, feasibility, design, implementation and optimization). Besides that he is host and moderator of the Baltic Shared Service Community. The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: HCKT) is an intellectual property-based strategic consultancy and leading enterprise benchmarking and best practices implementation firm to global companies. Services include business transformation, enterprise performance management, working capital management, and global business services. The Hackett Group also provides dedicated expertise in business strategy, operations, finance, human capital management, strategic sourcing, procurement, and information technology, including its award-winning Oracle EPM and SAP practices. The Hackett Group has completed more than 11,000 benchmarking studies with major corporations and government agencies, including 93% of the Dow Jones Industrials, 86% of the Fortune 100, 87% of the DAX 30 and 51% of the FTSE 100. These studies drive its Best Practice Intelligence Center™ which includes the firm’s benchmarking metrics, best practices repository, and best practice configuration guides and process flows, which enable The Hackett Group’s clients and partners to achieve world-class performance. More information on The Hackett Group is available at: www.thehackettgroup.com
Richard PerrinPartner, Head of Advisory, KPMG
Richard Perrin
Partner, Head of Advisory, KPMG
Richard has more than 18 years experience in audit and financial advisory services. His main professional activities since joining KPMG Romania have been: Partner in the Advisory Department, leading Internal Audit, Accounting Advisory, Transaction Services, Leader of the teams performing audit and advisory services to large multinationals and also to small and medium sized entities in Romania, developing the portfolio of KPMG Romania clients as Head of Markets, Foreign Trade Counselor for France in Romania, where Richard is the sole representative from the auditing and financial services professions, Member of the Board of the French Chamber of Commerce in Romania. While his work as a Foreign Trade Counselor strengthens his relationship with larger companies, his position in the French Chamber of Commerce allows him to develop contacts with small and medium sized firms, Managing the French Desk of KPMG Romania. The objective of the Desk is to develop the portfolio of French clients and consolidate KPMG Romania’s reputation as preferred financial advisor in the French business community. KPMG in Romania offers Audit, Tax and Advisory services to a large range of organizations from the private and public sectors. We assist firms and organizations in meeting their compliance requirements and help them, for example, to develop, restructure and access financing, adding value to our clients’ business. We have specialized staff with many different skills and backgrounds, and we are flexible – we adapt our services and develop new ones to meet the needs of clients as market conditions change. KPMG was the first network of professional services firms to align its services along industry lines and focuses on delivering high-quality, coordinated services to organizations in key lines of business. Companies in different industries can have very different needs – that is why KPMG member firms place an emphasis on industry focus. KPMG in Romania is a member firm within the global KPMG network, which has offices in 155 countries and nearly 155,000 staff worldwide. So we combine detailed local knowledge with the international skills and experience we can draw on from other KPMG firms. KPMG in Romania opened its first office in 1994 and now employs more than 700 people, including both local and expatriate staff, in Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj, Iasi and Constanta. KPMG in Moldova opened in 1997 in Chisinau. Both are member firms of KPMG International, a Swiss entity.
Business Leader in Business Excellence: P&G
Business Leader in CSR: Telus International
Business Leader in Business Innovation: Accenture
Business Leader in Education Initiative: HPE
