ALARM Scotland seminar

Lesley Allan

Partner, Kennedys

Lesley is a Partner in Kennedys' Celtic Team. Her practice focuses on public sector, third sector and blue light issues. She regularly acts for local authorities, care service providers, educational, and charitable organisations. Lesley has acted for clients in a wide range of social care and safeguarding issues, including claims related to moving and handling, management of challenging behaviours, historical abuse claims, and fatal accident inquiries. Lesley has represented clients in the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, and advised clients on potential engagement in the Redress Scheme, which offers an alternative to litigation for survivors of historical child abuse.

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Adrian Bloor

UK Claims Director, Risk Management Partners

No bio provided

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Phil Farrar

National Development Director, Risk Management Partners

Phil began his career in 1986 with Municipal Mutual and worked at two of their branches where he stayed for 12 years, working as part of their National Public Sector Team. He joined RMP in 2004, where he was responsible for service delivery in the North of England and Scotland, as well as managing his own accounts.

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Andrew Insley

Zurich Municipal

Andrew is a Risk Consultant working as part of the Cyber Team at Zurich Resilience Solutions. His role sees him support Zurich’s Underwriters with technical and industry expertise and provide cyber risk management consultancy to Zurich’s clients. He has experience of working in cyber security roles in the not-for-profit and financial sectors and has a Masters in information security as well as being a Certified Information Security Manager. He has particular interest in the quantification of cyber risk and ensuring that cyber security directly supports business aims.

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Dominique Mitchell

Senior Policy Officer – Scotland, ICO.

Dominique is a Senior Policy Officer in the Scotland office of the ICO. She works with stakeholders across the public sector particularly in local government, police and justice, and social care, where she provides data protection advice on a range of enquiries. Projects she has worked on have touched on a wide range of data protection issues including facial recognition technology, cloud processing, data sharing and AI.

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Alex Sawers

Chartered Insurance Broker, Gallagher

Alex has over 30 years' experience working in the insurance sector and has worked with public sector clients since 1996, initially with Marsh and for the last 17 years with Gallagher. Alex brings his experience to a wide range of clients in Scotland including universities, local authorities, leisure trusts and other public bodies. In his role as Divisional Director within the Gallagher Glasgow office, he comes across many and varied opportunities to share his experience with his team that look after the needs of his clients.

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