These awards recognize the deep impact that these professionals have on their organizations by enabling operational excellence and effective decision-making, and in balancing the need to protect their organizations while running the business. All of the winners and nominees of the FAIR Awards are reflective of the importance of the FAIR Institute's mission in advancing the risk management profession and are individuals who are at the forefront of the quantitative risk management revolution.
You can submit your nominations for three categories, Business Innovator, FAIR Champion, and FAIR Ambassador to recognize business-minded risk officers and FAIR practitioners respectively.
2018 FAIR Business Innovator
Omar Khawaja, CISO, Highmark Health
2018 FAIR Champion
Jack Freund, Director, Cyber Risk, TIAA
2018 FAIR Ambassador
Jason Ha, Director of the Digital Trust Risk Assurance Program, PwC Australia
2017 FAIR Business Innovator
Roland Cloutier, SVP & CSO, ADP
2017 FAIR Champion
David Sheronas, SVP, Bank of America
2016 FAIR Business Innovator
Christopher Cooper, VP, Operational Risk, Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated
2016 FAIR Champion
Joel Baese, InfoSec Governance & Risk Analysis Director, Walmart
You can read more about the nomination criteria for both categories, last year's winners, and submit a nomination on the Awards and Nominations page.
To be considered for this year's awards, nominations have to be submitted by July 26, 2019.