Dave Austin

Director of Operational Resilience at OPREL Ltd

 

David Austin is a highly experienced Business Continuity, ICT Continuity and Crisis Management consultant and has specialised in these areas since 1993. Formerly head of Systems Continuity for the Royal Bank of Scotland, he then joined Siemens, where he developed and led a large specialist business continuity consultancy. Dave has experience gained by working with central and local government and other public sector bodies as well as across many commercial sectors such as broadcasting, technology, retail, manufacturing and many areas of the financial services sector, both within the UK and across Europe. Within Siemens Dave remained an active Business Continuity Manager until September 2007 when he left to create Oprel. Dave led the project team that developed ISO22301 – the ISO standard for business continuity – for ISO TC223, and chaired the panel that devised BS25999-2. Dave currently is vice chair of the BSI Committee on Organisational Resilience.