The Professional Risk Manager (PRM) designation program is the global standard for the world's top financial risk professionals. The PRM Candidate of the Year award program annually recognizes top PRM candidates from around the world. There are four awards given: the prestigious PRM Candidate of the Year award, the four other finalists for the top award, the Award of Merit for those whose exam scores across multiple exams distinguish them from the rest of the candidates, and the PRM Focus Award for candidates who have achieved the highest score of the year on the four individual exams of the PRM designation program.
"Every year the number of top quality exam candidates increases and this year was no exception," says David Millar, PRMIA Chief Operating Officer. "Selection for the Candidate of the Year, which is based on exam results, a written essay and an interview, gets no easier with an amazing level of quality on show. Milosz was an outstanding candidate who figured near the top with all reviewers. His exam results were outstanding and stood out over the other 1,2000 PRM exams taken during that same period; his written material showed both understanding and insight into the value of risk management; and his passion for the subject was evident during his interview. It is with great pleasure that we have been able to name Milosz PRM Candidate of the Year for 2008."
Milosz Glinski says, "I am honored to have been selected as PRM Candidate of the Year. I am very glad to learn that many of the fellow finalists also come from outside the risk management profession. This demonstrates the growing importance and awareness of risk management in business organizations around the world."
Marcin Borek, Partner, Business Advisory, Ernst & Young, congratulates Milosz on his accomplishment, "We are very proud of Milosz's success, especially because he stood out over so many great candidates. We wish him further development and spectacular professional achievement."
A full list of 2008 award recipients is listed below. Click here for a list of past winners.
PRM Candidate of the Year 2008
Milosz Glinski, Ernst & Young Corporate Finance, Warsaw, Poland
2008 Candidate of the Year Finalists
Simon den Hertog, ING Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stefan Wilke, Basycon Unternehmensberatung GmbH, Munich, Germany
Peter Wood, UW Faculty of Mathematics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Yau Man Chun, HSBC Insurance, Central Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2008 Award of Merit
Goran Amon, Microsoft, Zagreb, Croatia/Hrvatska
Sebastien Forte, M.Sc. Financial Engineering Student HEC Montreal, Levis, Quebec, Canada
Pranav Dheeraj Gundlapalle, Lehman Brothers, Tokyo, Japan
Etienne Parent, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
Ashish Kumar Singh, Securities Exchange Board of India, Mumbai, India
Waldemar Stachowiak, Citibank Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Wang Chuan, Student, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
2008 Focus Award Winners
Exam 1
Pranav Dheeraj Gundlapalle, Lehman Brothers, Tokyo, Japan
Exam 2
Pranav Dheeraj Gundlapalle, Lehman Brothers, Tokyo, Japan
Wang Chuan, Student, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Yau Man Chun, HSBC Insurance, Central Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Maxwell Brothers
Yuping Liu, Wachovia Bank, Charlotte, United States
Harjeet Singh, Student, Mumbai, India
Ashish Kumar Singh, Securities Exchange Board of India, Mumbai, India
Sivananth Ramachandran, ICICI Bank, Mumbai, India
Evan Griffiths, Genworth Financial, Helsinki, Finland
Feng Chen, UOB Group, Singapore, Singapore
George Mansourati, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Stockholm, Sweden
Shibashish Bhattacharjee, Market Rx, Nagpur, India
Kulpreet Khanuja, Tata Consultancy Services India, Pune, India
Arnaud Gaxotte, Hermes International, Paris, France
Philip Jones, United Kingdom
Konrad Birycki, Deloitte Advisory Sp. z o. o., Warsaw, Poland
Sebastien Forte, M.Sc. Financial Engineering Student HEC Montreal, Levis, Quebec, Canada
Kianli Lim, Exane Derivatives, Singapore, Singapore
Maria El Khomsi, Paris, France
Exam 3
Mihai Mirauta, Konstanz, Germany
Jie Sun, NUS, Singapore, Singapore
Exam 4
Eric Wolfe, HSBC Global Asset Management, London, United Kingdom
Christoph Janssen, Vinhedo, Brazil
