“Once again, the quality of this year’s entrants has been outstanding. Year on year we see an increasing number of award submissions and the quality of candidates continues to make life difficult for the judges which is an ongoing testament to the quality of work in the pensions and payroll industry.”
Ken Pullar FCIPP, chief executive officer, CIPP
Award categories for 2017
- fewer than 250 clients ● Employer of the year award ● Payroll service provider of the year award 2017 - 250+ clients Awarded by the CIPP board of directors ● Lifetime achievement award 2017 – pensions ● Lifetime achievement award 2017 – payroll ● Honorary fellowship award 2017 (awarded by CIPP)
● Payroll temp of the year award 2017 (awarded by Portfolio Payroll) ● Payroll professional of the year award 2017 ● Payroll software product of the year award 2017 ● Project of the year award 2017 ● In-house team of the year award 2017 ● My biggest influencer award 2017 ● International payroll service provider of the year award 2017 ● Payroll service provider of the year award 2017
The CIPP’s Annual Excellence Awards 2017
On the evening of Thursday 5 October 2017, payroll and pension professionals donned formal attire to attend the CIPP’s Annual Excellence Awards held at the Celtic Manor Resort, Newport.
The CIPP’s Awards are the industry’s most prestigious awards for individuals and organisations who have had a positive impact on the payroll, pension and reward professions over the last twelve months. It was a night filled with glitz, glamour and glory as the Institute recognised all the hard work of individuals, teams and organisations that were nominated this year.
After the sumptuous meal, Vickie Graham, CIPP’s associate director of marketing, welcomed everyone to the awards and thanked the awards’ sponsors and judges for their work in short-listing and selecting the winners.
Ken Pullar, CIPP’s chief executive officer, took over proceedings, and extended greetings to attendees and provided an introduction about the evening’s after-dinner speaker Sir Trevor McDonald OBE.
Sir Trevor delivered an engaging speech about his career. He recalled interviewing Saddam Hussein, Colonel Gaddafi, President George Bush and Nelson Mandela, by conveying details of these extraordinary and amusing encounters.
Sir Trevor said the interview with Nelson Mandela shortly after his release from 27 years of captivity by South Africa’s government was one of the most amazing things he had ever done: “I couldn’t get Mandela to focus on any of the great difficulties that he would encounter getting South Africa on the road to democracy”. On being confronted with the problems that would be faced in doing a deal with the national party, Mandela said: “If you are prepared to compromise, when you talk seriously, all things are possible.” Sir Trevor commented: “That’s a great political lesson for today.”
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ANNUAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2017
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