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Who We Are
David Hutcheson
David is Managing Director of Glen Abbot Ltd.
As part of Glen Abbot he has worked with many Footsie 100 companies as well as for Utilities, National Government, Local Authorities and the NHS.
David is currently specialising in Pandemic Planning and works for a number of international organisations around the world helping them create their plans and run exercises internally, nationally and cross continent.
David is an expert in the creation and running of incident control rooms and in training teams to manage incidents.
A regular speaker at national and international conferences, David is actively involved in both the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and as a Board Member of the Scottish Continuity Group (SCG).
Janet Beattie
Janet is the Operations Director of Glen Abbot and started the company with David in 1998.
During her years with Glen Abbot she has worked with a large number of blue chip companies in various sectors including banking, oil, medical, and manufacturing as well as public sector organisations such as local councils, the NHS, museums and art galleries. This work has covered all stages of Business Continuity from project management and analysis to writing plans and testing and training. Janet is also responsible internally for developing methodologies, HR, HSE and Quality Assurance.
In her previous life Janet was a research scientist and later moved into Finance and IT, before specialising in the newly emerging discipline of Business Continuity.
Janet is the Administrator for the Scottish Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Forum which involves organising quarterly meetings for Business Continuity professionals in Scotland and is also a member of the Worldwide BCI Forum. She is also a member of the Scottish Continuity Group.
Andrew Sinclair
Andrew Sinclair is a Director of Glen Abbot where he is responsible for the services offered and assists clients with their IT andBC/DR strategies.
Andrew has had a varied career from an apprenticeship developing missile control systems, to having worldwide responsibility for a product line of telephone systems, to writing the market entry strategy for a new telecoms provider, to managing the ups (and downs) of an internet service provider.
All of this experience has given him a solid grounding in the technologies of IT, voice & data networks and integrated systems. Along with the technical knowledge comes a broad range of commercial experience, from pricing products for market entry to extending the life cycle of mature products through product enhancements.
Outside of work, Andrew enjoys making a loud noise with some guitar or other.
Steve Dance
Steve Dance is a highly experienced technology risk manager and consultant.
He has extensive experience of risk management and business continuity management in the banking, securities and investment management industry.
He is currently Head of Consulting at Glen Abbot and is also responsible for our Solutions Delivery practice, advising clients on implementation and deployment if risk, business continuity and crisis management technology.
He is a frequent speaker at business continuity and IT risk forums and has written several books and articles including Information Security for Financial Institutions and Infopreneurs - The Hidden People Behind Strategic Information Systems - both published by Macmillan.
Julian May
Julian May is a very experienced consultant, having been employed in customer facing roles for over 20 years.
Julian started his career being trained as a computer programmer by the Civil Service.
He left to join a major software company as a consultant, a role he continued for more than 10 years. In that time he rose to being Consultancy Manager, and had considerable contact with a huge range of clients, in all areas of their businesses. He left to join a smaller consultancy specialising in Process Improvement, before joining Glen Abbot.
A specialist in Local Authority BC Planning, Julian's client list includes almost every sector imaginable. Most recently, one of his projects has been shortlisted by the 2007 CIR Business Continuity Awards as 'Strategy of the Year'.
Kerr Wintersgill
Kerr joined Glen Abbot after 8 years with Scotland's leading IT training company where he developed customer centric solutions. These solutions enabled the client to develop their skill base through developing their staff.
Kerr's many years of experience in sales has taught him that it is the customer who is central to the whole process. Kerr is experienced in understanding where the customer is and then providing innovative solutions that will enable the organisation to move to its ideal goal.
He is married with one son and lives in Callander.
Glynn Wilsher
Glynn is one of the recent experienced professionals to join Glen Abbot as a Consultant.
With over 15 Years experience in the Banking and Finance Arena, 9 of those have been spent solely on Business Continuity Planning. A former Head of BC planning within Central and Eastern Europe. Glynn achieved the impossible when he initiated, designed, built and published complete BC plans for four countries in six months.
Since joining GA Glynn has been involved in designing the BC-Easy programme a simple business continuity planning tool with a cost effective budget, creating the proposal for BC-Train a complete training package for all and is currently the lead consultant on the Business Continuity programme for a local council.
Glasgow Caledonian University have asked Glynn to return to their campus on numerous occasions to pass on his extensive Business Continuity knowledge to their 3rd year Risk Management Degree students. To date the feedback from one of Glynn's incident management courses has been "great fun and the best module of the course"
Ajaz Ahmad
Ajaz is a highly experienced business continuity analyst. His recovery planning work and dependency analysis with clients has ranged from schools and colleges to community hospitals and GP surgeries to the oil and gas sector.
Prior to joining Glen Abbot Ltd, Ajaz worked with one of the five largest banks in the world and was responsible for assessing impact of various strategic changes. He was also involved in the command and control structure of the bank integration programme. He has also worked in the capacity of Business Continuity Co-ordinator for a leading CRM company in the financial district of Glasgow.
James Moir
James's specialist experience is designing and implementing fault-tolerant computer networks and services, gained over several years. Glen Abbot have utilised this with numerous clients to ensure that the infrastructure can support the critical processes during a BC event.
We have helped several clients develop (and implement) IT Disaster Recovery plans and procedures (at least one client has already invoked their plan). There is often a conflict between service delivery and the IT requirements for critical business processes; experience gained as a Helpdesk Manager, writing and reporting on Service Level Agreements helps in the negotiating process.
