Jury & Procedures

5^th edition, March 4, 2010

Athenee Palace Hilton

2010 Jury members:
Steven van Groningen, President & CEO – Raiffeisen Bank- President of the Jury
Mariana Gheorghe, CEO – Petrom
Alexandra Gatej, Counselor – Romanian Presidency
Oliver Olson, Country Manager – CEU Business School
Peter Jansen, Managing Partner – Cohn&Jansen
George Alberts, President – KD Investments
Ion Florescu, General Manager – New Europe Capital
Friedrich Niemann, General Manager – Athenee Palace Hilton
Sorana Savu, Senior Partner – Premium Communications
George Mucibabici, Chairman – Deloitte Romania
Eva-Simone Perauer, Managing Director – Casa Austria
Matei Paun, Managing Partner – BAC Romania

The jury:

• Consists of  top senior professionals representing the business community. Among the members one of them will be chosen the jury president by mutual consent;

• 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;

•  Be responsible for the jury’s decisions;

•  Cast the deciding vote in case of a tight or a deadlock.

The Judging Procedures:
The BR Awards have a two-steps judging process. Open discussion is encouraged but voting should be anonymous and confidential.

Judging process:

• Will consist of two stages as follows: a nomination stage and a final voting stage;

• Each member of the jury is responsible for their proposals and should nominate candidates which complete the eligibility requirements.

Eligibility requirements:

• Have a one year performance history ending December 31st, 2009;

• 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. 

Any company who fits the eligibility requirements can submit an application at events@business-review.ro before February 19, 2010. The application form can be downloaded here

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.
Short listing and final voting stage:
All candidates will fill 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.