Meet the team

Get to know the professionals in our investment team and our board of directors

Abby Glennie

Deputy Head of Smaller Companies

Abby Glennie is Deputy Head of Smaller Companies at abrdn. She is lead manager on our UK Mid-Cap strategies and co-manager on our UK Smaller Companies strategies.

Abby joined the Company in February 2013 as a member of the UK Equity Team, initially working on the UK Large Cap desk, before moving to Smaller Companies in Jan 2016. She was appointed Deputy Head of the team in early 2020, and as part of her role on the EMG she helps lead the Equities Charity Group. Prior to this she worked at Kames Capital (previously Aegon Asset Management) as a Graduate Trainee Investment Manager.

Abby has a joint First-Class Honours degree in Economics and Finance and is a CFA charterholder.

Amanda Yeaman

Investment Director

Amanda is an Investment Manager at abrdn. Amanda is responsible for providing research support predominantly for our UK Smaller Companies strategy but also to the wider Smaller Companies team. Amanda Joined the company in June 2019 from Investec Securities where she was a small and mid-cap equity sales specialist.

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Dagmar Kent Kershaw

Chairman

Dagmar has over 25 years’ investment experience specialising in fixed income, debt and alternative assets. She was head of Intermediate Capital Group’s debt business in Europe and Australia from 2008 until 2016, and prior to that the head of structured credit products at Prudential M&G. She began her career in credit markets with Scotiabank and NatWest. She is non-executive chairman of Volta Finance Limited, a non-executive director of Brooks MacDonald Group plc and a senior advisor to Strategic Value Partners.

Rosalyn Breedy

Independent Non-Executive Director

Rosalyn is a corporate, funds and financial services lawyer, with 30 years' experience working in private practice, investment banking and at a multi-family office. She is a managing director of Breedy Henderson legal practice, a non-executive director of Lanware Limited, Greengage Global Holding Limited and Artorius Wealth.

David Fletcher

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

A chartered accountant, with over 20 years’ experience of investment banking with JPMorgan, Robert Fleming & Co. and Baring Brothers & Co Limited. He was the group finance director of Stonehage Fleming Family & Partners, a leading independently owned multi-family office, until September 2019. He is a non-executive director of JP Morgan Claverhouse Investment Trust, Acquila Energy Efficiency Trust and Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure Trust.

Christopher Metcalfe

Independent Non-Executive Director

Christopher, has over 30 years’ experience in investment management, having been an investment manager at Newton Investment Management from 2006-2017, and prior to that at Schroder Investment Management and Henderson Administration Group. He is a non-executive director of JP Morgan US Smaller Companies Trust plc and Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust plc.