Directors
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.
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