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Simon Boor CBCI

Director & Principal Consultant — BC, Operational Resilience, DR & Technology

Simon has spent over twenty-five years designing and delivering technology and business continuity programmes across financial services and critical operational environments. His practice is grounded in direct experience of the full resilience lifecycle — from threat assessment and architecture design through to plan activation, incident response, and recovery — in organisations where failure carries genuine operational and reputational cost.

His most formative years were spent in the Cayman Islands, where he joined Admiral Administration as Head of Research and Development with designated BC authority. Working alongside the company's CTO, he co-architected Avatar — a proprietary transfer agency, CRM, workflow, and reporting platform — and maintained authority over its disaster recovery failover. A 4-hour RTO SLA was sustained without unplanned interruption from March 2009 to April 2024. During that period, he co-chaired the BC Committee, held joint BCP activation authority, and developed the STORM communications module — built directly on Avatar's live operational data — which managed hurricane preparedness, employee situation assessments, and evacuation coordination in real time.

The Gustav and Paloma hurricane seasons of 2008 provided early, formative lessons in the gap between central-forecast planning and tail-risk reality. That experience — monitoring meteorological data and raising concern about rapid intensification before Paloma's track shift — shaped the pre-genesis meteorological monitoring practice he has continued globally to the present day. It also shaped the LAU philosophy: Resilience as Life as Usual. Resilience is not a parallel process activated under emergency conditions. It is embedded in how an organisation operates every day.

In March 2026, Simon submitted written evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on National Resilience proposing the establishment of a Cabinet-level Office of National Resilience. That evidence, published as reference NLR0007, addressed all ten areas of the Committee's call for evidence and drew on a thirty-year advocacy history beginning with an Emergency Coordination Unit proposal to the water industry in the early 1990s.

He holds a degree in Applied Biological Science and brings a systems-thinking approach to resilience work that reflects both scientific training and extended hands-on operational experience.

Annarie Boor APTD, PGCT, QTS

Director — Creative Strategy, Training & Exercise Design

Annarie brings a disciplinary perspective to resilience work that most BC consultancies cannot replicate: the combination of a qualified teacher with SEN specialism, an award-winning filmmaker and director, and a creative practitioner who has spent years designing learning experiences that stick.

In a consultancy context, those skills translate directly into the design and facilitation of BC exercises, training programmes, and awareness campaigns that move beyond compliance check-box exercises toward genuine behavioural change. The difference between a table-top that participants endure and one they remember is almost always a question of scenario craft, facilitation, and narrative — disciplines that sit at the intersection of education and storytelling rather than policy and governance.

Annarie co-leads Tapping Frog's creative and talent operation, and her approach to exercise design draws on the same principles she applies in both the classroom and behind the camera: clarity of purpose, engagement with the audience's actual experience, and a willingness to make the uncomfortable scenarios the ones that are rehearsed most carefully. Resilience exercises that feel safe are exercises that teach nothing.

She brings particular depth to the human dimensions of business continuity — staff welfare protocols, communication under pressure, the psychological dynamics of incident response — areas that technical BC frameworks frequently underweight but that experienced practitioners consistently identify as the difference between an activation that holds and one that fragments.

Lawrence Leonard

Associate Consultant — Technology Leadership & DR Architecture

Lawrence Leonard is a senior technology leader with more than two decades of experience spanning hedge fund administration, proprietary platform development, cloud transformation, and business continuity in the Cayman Islands financial services sector. He is Simon's closest professional collaborator over more than fifteen years of shared practice, and the architect of the technical environment — built at Admiral Administration — within which a substantial body of Simon's BC and DR work career was delivered.

Together, Lawrence and Simon co-developed Avatar — the proprietary transfer agency, CRM, workflow, and reporting platform built for Admiral Administration that became one of the most capable systems of its type in the fund administration market. As CTO, Lawrence held joint BCP activation authority alongside Simon, co-chaired the BC Committee, and was a key member of the Crisis Management Team. The DR SLA they maintained together — a 4-hour recovery time objective, uninterrupted from 2009 to 2024 — reflects an approach to technology leadership in which resilience is a design input, not an afterthought.

Lawrence brings a practitioner's understanding of the relationship between technology architecture and operational continuity: the decisions made at the design stage that determine whether a system is recoverable under pressure, and the governance structures that keep those decisions honest over time. His experience spans regulated environments across hedge fund administration, institutional investor services, and multi-jurisdictional operational frameworks, with particular depth in the Cayman Islands financial sector where the consequences of technology failure are immediate and measurable.