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ABOUT US

The people behind ERGP — and the Circle it opens

Two practitioners with twenty years each in the risk and continuity functions of large organisations, and the community they coordinate: the ERGP Circle, where certified practitioners of resilience meet, learn ahead of the market and get called upon for real engagements.

Founders and coordinators of the Circle

One partner runs the continuity practice and brings the engagements. The other runs the programmes and keeps the Circle alive. Between them, industry and banking — the two sides of resilience.

Evgeny Telenkov
Evgeny Telenkov
Director, business continuity practice · PhD in Economics · Academic Director & Chief Examiner
  • Best Risk Manager of the Year 2020 (RusRisk)
  • Built business continuity from zero at Nornickel — 20+ continuity plans; risk functions at Beeline, Rosneft, Ernst & Young
  • CRO of a $20bn petrochemical megaproject (AGCC, SIBUR) with 200+ construction risk indicators
  • 15+ continuity programmes delivered; 300+ professionals trained; author of ERGP, SAFE and the Arabic-English continuity library
  • Deputy chair of the national technical committee on risk management; expertise: BCM and BCP, operational and IT risk, cyber resilience, ISO 22301, NCEMA 7000
In the Circle: chairs the examination board, sets the methodology, and matches Circle members to engagements with organisations.
Erzhena Khilko
Erzhena Khilko
Director of Educational Programmes · ERGP, SAFE · Curator of the ERGP Circle
  • Chief Risk Officer of American Express Bank and its payment system operator, 2010–2024; chair of the Risk Committee, member of ALCO and the Credit Committee
  • Designed the risk governance framework across 12 business units on the Three Lines of Defence model — zero audit findings; ICAAP under Basel III Pillar 2
  • RCSA across 15+ core processes, KRI monitoring, stress testing, continuity plan with annual test cycles; regulatory inspections closed with no findings
  • Earlier: head of risk at Bank of Cyprus Russia, corporate finance at Deloitte, audit at Ernst & Young; cross-border teams across Nordics, CEE and EMEA
  • Owns the learning design, cohort schedule and student experience across all programmes; certified business psychologist
In the Circle: curates the community, leads the quarterly Circle sessions, invites the examiners and keeps the member directory.
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The ERGP Circle

The ERGP Circle: certified practitioners in the centre, two coordinators bridging them to organisations

Passing ERGP admits you to the Circle — a private community of practitioners who hold the certificate, coordinated by the two founders. The Circle is small today and grows with every certificate issued.

Membership is earned once, at the examination, and carries three things with it.

KnowledgeAhead of the market
  • A quarterly Circle session: one real case, dissected with the founders and the examiners
  • New modules and regulatory readings — NCEMA, CBUAE, SAMA — reach members before publication
  • Working templates from live engagements
PeopleA directory you can call
  • A private member directory with specialisation and contacts, open to members only
  • Direct access to the examiners and to each other
  • Peers who solve the same problem in the next industry
OpportunitiesCalled upon for real work
  • We assign Circle members to client engagements — audits, dashboards, continuity systems
  • Members with standing become examiners and co-authors of modules
  • Your name in the public register, verifiable by any employer

How you join.

STEP 1Complete the programme — six modules, 94 chapters, six artefacts of your own.
STEP 2Pass six module tests and defend the capstone before the examiner.
STEP 3Receive the certificate — and the invitation to the Circle with it.

The Circle is open to holders of the ERGP certificate. Programme details →

For organisations: engage the Circle

Need hands for an audit against NCEMA 7000 or ISO 22301, a continuity and risk dashboard, or a continuity system built with your team? Tell us the task. We assign a Circle member — a practitioner whose level we have examined ourselves — and the founders stay on the engagement as coordinators.

Engage a Circle member

How the practice works

We came to resilience from inside organisations.

The plans we write for clients we first executed ourselves — in an industrial giant, in an international bank, under a regulator's inspection. Our plans are short and written for the worst day.

We count risk in money.

A conversation about the cost of a downtime day ends with a decision. In every engagement a model appears where a disruption reaches revenue and profit.

We build the system together with the client's team.

We assemble the recovery scheme in working sessions with those who will act, and leave the organisation a shared language along with the documents.

The practice covers industry, finance, insurance, transport, IT and retail; ISO 22301 and AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000; preparing organisations for audits and for the conversation with the regulator. More than eight hundred professionals have completed our programmes. The methodology is published openly — in the library and the glossary on this site.

Examiners of the Circle

Capstones are examined by the senior tier of the Circle — invited practitioners with 20+ years in risk and continuity who keep the bar honest. As the Circle grows, its members with standing join them. Senior practitioners who wish to lend the Arabic edition their judgement can apply on the programme page.

Talk to us

Write to info@risk-place.org or use the contact form — we reply by email, usually the same day.