Jury & Procedures

8th edition, March 4, 2013, Athenee Palace Hilton Hotel Bucharest, Le Diplomate Ballroom

Jury Members:

President of the Jury Traian Halalai, President, Eximbank   Biography	Andrea Multari,  Country Managing Director,Accenture   Biography	Javier Garcia del Valle,  General Manager, Happy Tour   Biography	Anca Harasim,Executive Director, American Chamber of Commerce Biography	Alexandra Olteanu,Managing Director, Initiative Romania Biography
Bogdan Ion,Country Managing Partner, Ernst&Young Biography	Valentin Jurcut,Enterprise Sales & Services Director Romania and CEE, Bitdefender Biography	Sergiu Negut,Partner, Wanted Transformation Consultancy Biography	Cristian Nacu,Partner, Enterprise Investors Biography

BR Awards Jury met for final judging round on February 11. More details HERE.

JURY AND PROCEDURES

The jury:

Consists of top senior professionals representing the business community.
Is to apply qualitative & quantitative assessments for each candidate based on the information they are given;
Is assembled to vote the best representative for each category;
Members of the jury cannot be nominated.

The president of the jury will:

Be the chairman of the jury’s meetings;
Lead the discussions, the entire judging process;
Interpret the rules and/or modify them if necessary;
Cast the deciding vote in case of a tight or a deadlock

Judging process:

Will consist of two stages as follows: a nomination stage (January, 2013) and a final voting stage (February, 2013);
Each member of the jury is responsible for their proposals and should nominate candidates which complete the eligibility requirements.

The nomination stage:

The jury will assemble once for the nomination stage. For each category every member of the jury can propose up to 3 candidates. After the jury meeting, the proposed candidates will receive a standard form to fill and submit before the second round of the judging process.
The jury members cannot propose their own company as a candidate for any category.
In case a jury member is representing a company that has been nominated for one or more categories he will not take part at the vote for that specific category (categories). In this case the president of the jury has double-vote.

Eligibility requirements:

Have a one year performance history ending December 31st, 2012;
Had a consistent and positive investment objectives over the past year in term of balance, management strategy, customer focus (creating added value), possible development growth.

Short listing and final voting stage:

All candidates will fill in and submit a standard form. These standard forms will be the support for the decision taken by the jury in the second round. If there are more than 3 nominees in one category the jury will short list the top 3 by a ranking system previous agreed on, or simply using qualitative assessments.