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Speakers
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| Nicol
Thornton, London
Fire Brigade, SOPO National Executive
Committee |
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Nicol
has more than 26 years’ procurement experience
in both the public and private sectors, including
the Department of Social Security, NHS Supplies,
TXU Europe and, more recently, the fire and rescue
services.He joined the London Fire Brigade as
Head of Procurement in October 2007 following
a period with the Regional Centre of Excellence
East on a secondment from Suffolk County Council,
where he had managed through a radical change
in the Council’s approach to procurement. In
June 2006, he joined the Regional Centres of
Excellence Procurement Programme – a
project to enable all nine Regional Centres of
Excellence to accelerate the help they could
provide to local authorities in order that they
may deliver significant cash savings. He worked
closely with local authority procurement professionals
in all nine regions and also Communities and
Local Government, the OGC and other partner organisations.Nicol
is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing
and Supply (CIPS) and is the local government
representative on its council. He also
represents the CIPS on the National Executive
Committee of the Society of Procurement Officers
in Local Government and is a former member of
the management board of the Central Buying Consortium. |
| KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS |
| Dorothy
Cowie, Director,
Scotland Excel |
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Dorothy
was appointed in October 2006 as the Director
of abc, the Authorities Buying
Consortium, which was established in 1996 as a
purchasing agency for 12 Scottish local authorities.
abc now buys on behalf of the
12 original member councils, four associate member
councils and over 150 other organisations in the
public and voluntary sectors. Dorothy is also
the Project Director of the Scotland Excel project
which aims to create a Centre of Procurement Expertise
for all 32 local authorities in Scotland. Prior
to joining abc Dorothy was the
UK Procurement Director for ScottishPower, where
she was responsible for leading a team of 51 procurement
staff in developing and implementing appropriate
procurement strategies and commercial frameworks
for the Group's spend of some £800 million
per annum. |
| Helen
Eadie, MSP, Dunfermline
East |
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Helen
Eadie is in her third session as a Scottish
Labour MSP for Dunfermline East. She has served
on the European Committee and Public Petitions
Committee and currently serves on both the Health
and Sport Committee and Subordinate Legislation.
Helen has been involved with the Cross Party
Groups on disability, cancer, and women. Has
also been involved with Friends of Remploy since
the first session of the Scottish Parliament.
Internationally, Helen is a Scottish Parliament
representative to the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary
Body and an Honorary Fellow of the Scottish
Bulgarian Association. |
| Rory
Mair, CEO,
COSLA |
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Rory
was appointed as Chief Executive of COSLA in April
2002. This was an important appointment for COSLA
following the fundamental review of its purpose
and structures. Prior to this, Rory had spent
five years as Director of Aviemore Projects for
Highlands and Islands Enterprise. This post was
designed to create the circumstances to re-establish
Aviemore as a tourism destination of international
quality prior to the establishment of the Cairngorm
National Park. Following local government reorganisation
in 1996, Rory spent a short time as Strategic
Director for Social Strategy with Fife Council.
This post sought to pull together as one cohesive
unit the major Council services such as housing,
social work, education and leisure. Before local
government reorganisation occurred, Rory was Chief
Executive of Ross and Cromarty District Council
and was, at the time, the youngest ever Chief
Executive in British local government. Prior to
this, Rory spent ten years in a variety of local
government posts. |
| Maf
Smith, Sustainable
Development Commission |
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Maf
is the Scottish Director of the Sustainable Development
Commission. He leads a staff team supporting the
SDC’s work as the independent advisor to
the Scottish Government on sustainable development,
reporting directly to the First Minister. Prior
to joining the SDC, Maf was the Chief Executive
of Scottish Renewables, working to support development
and provision of a sustainable energy future for
Scotland. Before working at Scottish Renewables
Maf was the Manager of Furness Energy Partnership,
running a range of energy efficiency and renewable
energy projects. Maf is also the co-author of
the Earthscan book, Greening the Built Environment. |
| Nikki
Bell,
Deputy Head, Procurement
Scotland |
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Nikki
is a business economics and marketing graduate
and a member of CIPS. Since qualifying in
1990, she has worked in a number of senior
procurement, commodity and programme management
roles within IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Agilent.
With extensive experience in procurement and
system transformation programmes, her specialisms
include project, change and supplier and supply
chain management within UK and international
environments. She joined the public sector
in 2004 as Strategic Sourcing Director at
NHS National Services Scotland where she led
or enabled the changes required to embed best
practice, drive collaboration and implement
national contracts. Nikki has since moved
to the Scottish Procurement Directorate where
she has played a major role in driving and
enabling public procurement reform in Scotland,
more recently accepting the position of Deputy
Head in the newly formed Category A Centre
of Expertise. |
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| Dr
Janice Pauwels, Edinburgh
City Council |
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Profile
to be confirmed |
| Irene
McCulloch, Scotland
Excel |
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Irene
has 25 years’ experience in local government
and the public sector in customer focused services,
and joined abc in 2003 from
East Renfrewshire Council. As Head of Support
Services she has been responsible for providing
a wide range of both internal and external
support services and developing new ones. Within
Scotland Excel she is responsible for leading
the development of the ‘people, organisation
and skills’
workstream to ensure that Scotland Excel provides
skills, knowledge, systems, processes and practice
that support local authorities and other bodies
across Scotland in their procurement function. |
| Lynn
Garvie, Head of Procurement for the
Scottish Parliament |
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Lynn
has been Head of Procurement for the Scottish
Parliament since its inception in 1999, setting
up the procurement function, developing its
policies, and responding to diverse issues
in a very high profile environment. She has
held senior purchasing posts within different
government departments, including a brief
but memorable period in sales with the Scottish
Prison Service. Lynn has
adopted a progressive approach to procurement
within the Parliament, most notably in developing
its responsible purchasing initiative, the
strategy which was launched publicly at the
end of January 2008. The strategy aims
to deliver tangible results that make a difference,
now and in the future. |
Jo
Mitchell,
Procurement
Policy and Development, Scottish Procurement Directorate |
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Jo joined the Scottish Government in 2002 after
several years’ experience as a buyer in
the private sector. Since joining the Government,
she has worked in procurement policy and best
practice including competitive supply base issues,
which are aimed at encouraging a wide and high-quality
supplier base through which the public sector
can achieve best value in procurement. Jo has
also managed the Community Benefits in Procurement
Programme, which has involved piloting the methodology
for including targeted recruitment and training
opportunities in public sector contracts, providing
an opportunity to test, in a practical context,
what impacts particular procurement approaches
have in terms of community benefit. |
| Robert
Andrew, Principal
Adviser of Business Finance, Glasgow City Council |
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Robert
commenced his career as a Business graduate
recruit with Motorola Semiconductors, where
he trained as a management accountant. A number
of accounting and management roles within the
retail and construction sectors were to lead
in 1987 to his introduction into economic development,
when he was appointed Company Secretary with
Community Enterprise Lothian. In 1991, he joined
Glasgow City Council as a Senior Business Adviser
and currently holds the post of Principal Adviser
of Business Finance. He
is responsible for designing, developing and
managing a range of business support programmes
- many in conjunction with partner agencies
and supported with private, public and European
funding. It is through this role that many
innovative partnership programmes have emerged,
including Minority Ethnic Business Support,
Women in Business and the Business Growth through
Innovation and Supplier Development Programme.
Robert also holds Directorships in the West
of Scotland Loan Fund, Strathclyde Seed Capital
Fund and Supplier Development Programme. |
| Shuna
Boyle, Principal Consultant, Search Consultancy
Ltd. |
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Shuna
is the Principal Consultant for the Search
Consultancy Supply Chain business in Scotland.
Over the past eight years, she has consistently
delivered the company’s
complete suite of recruitment services to both
the commercial public sector environments.
Her extensive experience covers executive search
and selection, retained assignments, volume
and single strategy assessment campaigns and
personal career/skills analysis consultancy.In
addition, Shuna is responsible for the development
and growth of Search's public sector business
in Scotland and is currently working closely
with APUC, NHS Scotland and Scotland Excel
to develop bespoke solution relationships. |
| Andy
Scott, Business Relationship Manager, Scotland
Excel |
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Andy
joined Scotland Excel on 1 October 2007 following
a 27-year career with the National Australia
Group (originally Clydesdale Bank). For 12
years Andy worked within the procurement
division of the bank until it was outsourced
in 2006. His duties covered a range of procurement
roles including buyer, e-procurement, supplier
management and relationship management. This
has led to him working closely with companies
such as IBM, BT and Accenture, among others.
Andy’s
main objective is to set the strategy for both
customer and supplier relationship management
within Scotland Excel. |
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