Branch Chairmen

Lesley Clark

Chairman, Edinburgh Branch
Deputy Managing Director, Weber Shandwick

Lesley ClarkLesley has been chair of the Edinburgh IoD branch since 2008.  She has worked in public relations consultancy in Scotland for almost over 15 years and joined Weber Shandwick, the world’s leading PR consultancy, in 2000.  Based in central Edinburgh, she is now Deputy MD of the company’s Scottish operation which covers a number of disciplines including public relations, design and public affairs.  Lesley specialises in public sector, corporate, transport and community issues, as well as crisis management.  

She is also Vice Chairman of the Scottish Public Relations Consultants Association Scotland (SPRCA) and a volunteer for the Glasgow Simon Community. 

Cameron Ramsay, BSc, PhD, CSci, CChem, FRSC, CFIOSH, FAPM, FEI, FIoD

Chairman, Aberdeen Branch
Director and Principal, Cogna Limited

Cameron RamsayCameron was appointed chair of the Aberdeen IoD branch in July 2010, after four years as deputy chair.  He has worked and innovated in risk management for 34 years, helping to transform the subject into a core strategic discipline.  Originally in technical safety and major accident prevention, for the past two decades he has used competences in project, programme and business risk to help grow and develop people, teams and organisations in the oil & gas, energy, chemicals, utilities, food, transport and government agency sectors.  He now works from a home office in Aberdeen as an independent practitioner delivering a wide spectrum of risk management services, linking together situation awareness, strategy, risk management, decision making and governance, all to improve organisational performance.      

Cameron also serves on the local branch committee of the Energy Institute and on the steering group for the local Institute of Risk Management branch.  He is a volunteer mentor with the Association for Project Management.    

Paul Houlden

Chair of Highlands & Islands branch

  • Paul HouldenExtensive experience in HE sector
  • Company Director 18 years
  • Established and led 4 companies to management buyout
    • Sports management and TV Production company
    • Major scientific apparatus manufacturing company (additionally, voting member of Bureau of Standards)
    • Telemarketing and hospitality company
    • Nationwide training and software development company
  • Currently majority shareholder of a number of companies operating in the following fields:
    • ISP
    • eLearning
    • Web consultancy & marketing
    • On-line publishing
    • Systems Integration & Development
  • Chairman Institute Of Directors (H&I)
  • Member UHI Foundation 

David Hutcheson 

David Hutcheson David Hutcheson MBCI was one of the founding directors of Perth based Glen Abbot Ltd.; one of the leading Business Continuity companies in the UK. David has many years of experience in Business Continuity and has worked with blue chip companies, public sector organisations and SMEs.

David is one of the country’s leading experts on Pandemic Planning.

David is a regular speaker at UK and International conferences on Business Continuity and Pandemic Planning. David is the only Business Continuity Institute Certified trainer on Pandemic Planning in Europe.

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