ABDO welcomes new president and vice president

^{L-R: Daryl Daryl Newsome, Kevin Gutsell and Brenda Rennie}

Kevin Gutsell has succeeded Daryl Newsome to become president of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) announced during a ceremony at the ABDO National Resources Centre in Birmingham on May 9.

Brenda Rennie, a dispensing optician (DO) at Ferrier & MacKinnon Opticians, part of the Hakim Group of independent practices, was also welcomed as ABDO’s new vice president during the ceremony.

Gutsell said: ‘I very much look forward to working with the new vice president Brenda and forging the style of leadership and teamwork which the immediate past president has afforded me during the last two years.’