The first Professional Security Women in Security awards were presented at the ASIS Europe conference in London last month. They went to Marva Jackson, of Birmingham-based guarding company Leon Security Services; Kathy Ridgard of Sodexo; and Sue Seaby of Aon.
Award organiser and Professional Security columnist Una Riley said that next year’s awards would be presented during IFSEC; and the year after at the Lord Imbert dinner courtesy of the Association of Security Consultants. Judges were drawn from security industry bodies. A full report will follow in our June issue. The awards presenter and one of the judges, SIA chairman Baroness Henig, likened the awards to the film Oscars – a comparison picked up by the event’s next speaker, the Home Office crime minister James Brokenshire.
The judges were:
Mike Alexander (ASIS), Justin Bentley (IPSA), Baroness Ruth Henig (SIA), Jeff Little OBE (NSI), Julie Kenny (BSIA), Stefan Hay (FSA), Di Thomas (The Security Institute), Nigel Churton (Master of the Company of Security Professionals), Allan Hildage (Association of Security Consultants) and Lynne Watts-Plumpkin (SSAIB).
