Highflying Sysdoc entrepreneur shortlisted for award (From Watford Observer)

Highflying Sysdoc entrepreneur shortlisted for award

9:23am Friday 2nd October 2009 in

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The founder and director of Sysdoc, a specialist knowledge training and information management company based in Rickmansworth, Katherine Corich, has been shortlisted as Entrepreneur of the Year in the British Business Awards 09.

Katherine set up Sysdoc in 1987 (www.sysdoc.co.uk) and started winning project work in the UK in 1999. Today clients include Vodafone, Chevron, London Underground, IBM, Cable & Wireless and Ericsson.

The company has 150 consultants worldwide, 50 based in Rickmansworth, with offices in the US, New Zealand and Australia.

Despite the recession, the company achieved sales growth in the UK of more than 42 per cent in 2008 and is doubling its size every year.

Annual turnover in the UK is £5 million and over £12 million globally.

Katherine is the architect of several award-winning methodologies and products, including Sysdoc’s Business Blueprint – a repeatable business model for global growth.

She is also one of the British representatives on a European Union-wide panel “Women in Leadership and Information Society Group” that meet in Brussels to look at female leadership at board level. The panel is made up of five business women from the UK and five European members of parliament, up to eight academics from some of Europe’s largest universities and members of Microsoft executives.

British born but raised in New Zealand, Katherine has four children and is a trained pilot.

Competition winners will be announced in November.