Richard Parsons
Strategic Procurement Manager, London Borough of Camden

Richard has worked in the procurement field for over 27 years, in the local authority and higher education sectors. Following spells with West Sussex County Council and Bexley London Borough, he set up corporate procurement services for the London Borough of Newham, Middlesex University and City University. He was appointed Strategic Procurement Manager at the London Borough of Camden in 2002, where he has been responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive procurement strategy and policy. Richard is Chairman of the London Contracts & Supplies Group, and an adviser to the Management Board of the London Centre of Excellence.

John Hayes

John is the Director of Services responsible for the delivery of all IDeA services in London, the South East, South West and East of England. He leads nationally on Service Transformation and the development of the Agency’s response to the Efficiency Review. He also has overall responsibility for the Planning Advisory Services, support to the Beacon scheme and the development of the Agency’s portfolio of services to help improve local authority rural delivery.

Richard Denny

Over the past 20 years Richard has become something of a legend on the international speaking circuit, and the Richard Denny Group is recognised at the forefront of business training on selling, leadership and management, customer care and business growth. Richard is the creator of the British Professional Sales Diploma and the British Leadership & Management Diploma. Apart from his experience as a keynote speaker he also acts as a conference chairman and facilitator. To date he has authored and presented over 30 training videos and written five bestselling business titles.

Darren Black

With a career background in procurement (from utilities to brewing ingredients), Darren has spent the last 8 years implementing e-procurement and Procure2Pay solutions in both the private and public sectors. He left PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2001 to form DGB Consulting Ltd and since then he has partnered with a number of different authorities to deliver some of the most successful and far reaching P2P implementations in local government including Essex County Council, London Borough of Lambeth and London Borough of Camden

Rory Grumley

For the last four years Rory has been implementing e-procurement and purchase to pay systems in both local government and the not-for-profit sector. Following implementation work at the London Borough of Camden he is currently contracted as e-Procurement Manager, managing support and training for 1100 users placing in excess of 12,000 electronic purchase orders a month.

Daniel Lieghio

Dan has been at 4C Associates since 2002, and is a Director and member of the six-person 4C Executive Management Team. He has led 4C and client teams on a full range of consultancy work, from developing procurement strategy through to delivering major cost savings programmes, and from initial diagnostic stage through to the delivery and monitoring of benefits. He is responsible for leading global companies to achieve best practice in all aspects of procurement.

Kieran McGregor

Kieran has 20 years’ experience in procurement as both practitioner and consultant. Since 2000, he has worked as an independent trainer and consultant, and he is a visiting lecturer at London Metropolitan University and a Chief Examiner for CIPS. Kieran has extensive international experience including numerous assignments in developing countries on behalf of government ministries, UN agencies and other funding organisations.

Alex Scott

Alex has been in the printing industry for nearly 30 years, and has worked in a senior capacity across most areas of the sector, including general management, production and manufacturing, commercial, sales, finance, logistics, HR, CRM and facilities management. In the past seven years, he has developed his expertise in the provision of outsourcing services and consultancy through his company, Wyse Solutions, specialising in advising the not-for-profit sector, principally local government, higher education and charities.

Dave Smith

David is the Commercial Director for the Department for Work and Pensions (the biggest central government department) and is accountable for its annual procurement spend of over £4.2 billion. He has specialised in procurement and commercial matters in the public sector for nearly 20 years. Before moving to DWP, he was Head of Procurement for the Inland Revenue (1991-2002 – made Head of Procurement in 1997) and previously held senior commercial posts in the Home Office (1985-88) and HM Treasury’s Central Unit on Procurement (1988-91). David has a close working association with the Office of Government Commerce. He is a member of the Chief Executive’s Procurement Advisory Group, the Government Procurement Service Management Board, and various other inter-departmental committees.
He is also a member of the CIPS Board of Management.