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 an expert in Crisis Management and 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 was voted CIR Industry Personality of the Year for 2010.
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.
Andrew Sinclair
Andrew Sinclair is Commercial 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.
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 Oil Industry BC Planning, Julian's client list includes almost every sector imaginable.
Glynn Wilsher
Glynn has over 15 years experienced in the Banking and Finance Arena.
Nine 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"
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.
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