The disaster recovery sector could hold the key to getting New York’s markets back on track, according to one leading player.
John Kersley, London-based general manager of SchlumbergerSema Global Recovery Services, said a huge number of occupiers have been contacting disaster-recovery space providers.
“Most of the larger financial corporates will have subscribed to services such as ours. Several of the larger occupiers will be transferring to space in New Jersey operated by SGRS or their own business continuity space,” he added.
SGRS’s Jersey City office overlooked the World Trade Center, and staff were in horror as they watched events unfold.
“Clients contacted us before the towers fell, and subsequently we haven’t heard from them. We are facing the tragedy of prepared recovery space with no staff to occupy it.”
SGRS was located at Harbour Exchange, E14, when the IRA’s Docklands bomb struck.
