After over 25 years as a British Army Officer, Matthew transitioned to a second career in Business Resilience in 2011 and provided Emergency Response, Crisis Management and Business Continuity support to the energy sector based in Aberdeen, before founding Inverroy Crisis Management Ltd in 2015. Matthew has delivered resilience support to clients in over 20 countries and was shortlisted in the Consultant of the Year category for the BCI Region Awards in 2023.

Tommy has worked in various aspects of continuity and resilience for over 15 years and is currently the Head of Resilience for The Scottish Parliament. While at Holyrood he helped create LABCoN, a business continuity initiative for legislatures across the world. This group now includes members from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the US, and beyond.

Kirsty Bremner is a Senior Consultant with Inverroy Crisis Management and has worked across a variety of sectors including Oil and Gas, Higher Education, Manufacturing and the Travel Industry. Kirsty works on both a national and international scale to ensure organisations have the highest quality of Crisis Management and Business Continuity Plans. Kirsty is also the Head of Inverroy Digital, a Business Continuity software platform that enables organisations to create their own resilience plans. Kirsty has been the Secretary of the Scottish Continuity Group since December 2021 and was shortlisted by the Business Continuity Insititute (BCI) for the Continuity and Resilience Newcomer category at the BCI Europe Awards 2023.

Michelle has worked in Business Continuity since 1999 in preparation for Y2K. She is hugely experienced in all aspects of Resilience and has been working in the highly regulated Banking and Financial Services industry since 1997. Michelle is a Member of the Business Continuity Institute and a Lead Auditor for ISO 22301. A previous Business Resilience individual and multiple Team Award Winner at the BCI Global and European Award Ceremonies from 2012.

Alison is an award-winning, proactive and pragmatic information governance and data privacy professional with 15 years' experience in a wide range of risk associated disciplines, including business continuity, cyber resilience awareness and education, information security and data protection compliance. She has a successful track record across multiple sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, oil and gas, legal and the Third Sector, where she has actively promoted awareness of the value of data and the need to ensure that it is managed in an effective and compliant manner.

Michelle is a Business Continuity Officer at Police Scotland, leveraging 14 years of experience in emergency services to enhance the organisation's Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS). She holds a law degree and became CBCI certified in January 2023. Michelle is responsible for the BCMS,, having overhauled the system from the bottom up. She founded the "Blue Light BC Forum" to foster collaboration among emergency services. A member of BCI and ALARM, Michelle is passionate about problem-solving and organisational resilience, with aspirations to build more experience in Enterprise Risk Management. Alongside her day job she is a passionate member of the Scottish Women’s Development Forum where she brings together awareness sessions on all aspects of Women’s Physical Health and Fitness. Michelle hopes she can help bring in a fresh perspective to Scottish Continuity and her insight into Emergency Services.

Julie brings 8 years of extensive experience in business continuity and resilience, including 3 years with Police Scotland and the last 5 years serving as Business Resilience Lead at Social Security Scotland , a Scottish Government agency.

As a dedicated Member of the Business Continuity Institute, Julie has developed expertise across all six business continuity professional practices. This includes establishing and managing a comprehensive Business Continuity Management System (BCMS), devising strategies, building effective response structures, and rigorously validating plans and arrangements to ensure organisational resilience.

Passionate about collaboration, Julie thrives on networking and values the opportunity to share insights and best practices across the broader Scottish and UK government networks.

Sandra is an experienced corporate resilience leader with a global perspective and a growth mindset. She is dedicated to risk management, resilience building, and empowering individuals, teams, organisations, and communities to effectively manage change, opportunity and disruption, so as to achieve critical objectives with greater certainty. Sandra excels in engaging with people across all organisational levels, responding to disruption and conducting training and exercises to foster preparedness and resilience ‘muscle memory.’ She believes that resilience is absolutely critical to the long term viability of any business. Currently on sabbatical, Sandra is broadening her skillset and contributing to Scottish Continuity’s website and communications. If you have any website suggestions, she really wants to hear them. Contact her at sandra@scottishcontinuity.com