SPEAKERS
John Swinney MSP Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, Scottish Government
	John joined the SNP in 1979 and has held a number of posts at local and national levels. He was elected MP for North Tayside in 1997 and MSP in 1999, retaining a dual mandate as MP and MSP until 2001. He became the SNP's Deputy Leader in 1998. In 2000, John was elected SNP Leader, becoming Leader of the Opposition in the Scottish Parliament. He stood down as SNP Leader in 2004 and became Convener of the Scottish Parliament's European and External Relations Committee.
Grahame Steed Managing Editor, Government Opportunities
	Grahame joined Glasgow-based BiP Solutions Ltd as Production Director in 2003, following 13 years as a Magazine Editor, Publisher and latterly Publishing Director at EMAP plc. He is responsible for the Media Department at BiP, which includes the Contracts, Communications and Design teams that are responsible for producing Government Opportunities magazine and MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin.
Professor Jim Baird Caledonian Environment Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
	Professor Baird is Director of the Caledonian Environment Centre, part of the School of the Built and Natural Environment at Glasgow Caledonian University. The Centre employs 20 specialist researchers in the waste and resources area but also, increasingly, in wider areas of sustainability research, carbon management and community engagement. It also manages the Scottish Government’s Remade Scotland Programme, and has developed recycling modelling tools which have been used by most local authorities in Scotland to bid for Strategic Waste Funding from the Scottish Government totalling £1.5 billion. The models are now being developed and applied to new aspects of local authority waste streams, including carbon management. Jim is a General Councillor of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management and is currently its Scottish Chair.
Vince Braint Canon Business Solutions, Canon UK Ltd
	Vince was appointed to the Board of Canon UK in October 2003 as Marketing Director, and took up the position of Director of Service and Support in October 2004, where he is responsible for the implementation of the overall strategy of service within Canon Business Solutions. Having worked for Canon since 1987, Vince’s experience covers a number of roles within the company. Significant positions include a sales and marketing role within the Canon Corporate Account channel as well as valuable experience as a sales manager within a Canon subsidiary company in the late 1990s. Having moved from a sales role to the marketing department in 2001, Vince became General Manager and Head of Marketing for Business Solutions in 2002. Prior to this, Vince spent time in an HR role for Canon UK after having worked as a technical training manager. Vince joined Canon as part of the field engineering team. Vince qualified as an electrical and electronic engineer to HND level following studies at Portsmouth and The Royal Naval School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Paul Caddick Managing Director, CLM Ltd
	CLM Ltd was originally formed in 1989 as a provider of lighting maintenance to UK businesses. In 1997, CLM Ltd was awarded the OGC (Office of Government Commerce) buying.solutions framework contract after a lengthy and demanding tender process. This saw the business established as a preferred supplier to over 20,000 government organisations for electrical safety services. A year later, the NHS awarded CLM Ltd their PASA (Purchasing and Supply Agency) framework based on quality and value for money. These contracts cemented the business’s status as industry leader and CLM Ltd is still the only UK business to hold both of these prestigious frameworks simultaneously. Nowadays, CLM Ltd is a modern business with a huge national resource and a significant portfolio of customers in the public and private sectors. Each year we help over 1000 UK organisations understand and comply with stringent legislation and ensure the safety of their people and assets. Utilising state-of-the-art technology, including measuring and monitoring equipment, thermal technology and extensive visual inspection, we are well-established as a leader in electrical safety.
Susan Clark Deputy Project Director for Edinburgh Trams
	Susan joined tie in January 2004 as Senior Project Manager for the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link Project. She has been involved in the early design and Parliamentary stage of EARL and is currently involved in the design and delivery stage of the Edinburgh Tram project. In addition, she has worked on projects such as park and ride sites and the Fastlink Guided busway, which is the first of its kind in Scotland.
Dave Cook Procurement Advisor, Scottish Procurement Directorate and member of Sustainable Procuerment Task Force
	Dave is a Policy Manager in the Scottish Procurement Directorate, part of the Scottish Government. He is a career civil servant who has spent almost 25 years in a wide range of procurement posts. He has been involved in the procurement of a variety of goods and services, as well as more strategic activities including the extension of broadband internet services to rural parts of Scotland and promoting and extending the use of purchasing cards within the former Scottish Executive. He has worked in the Procurement Policy team for several years where his main responsibility is to promote, and give guidance on, sustainable procurement across the Scottish public sector.
Sylvia Gray Vice Chair, Sustainable Scotland Network
	Sylvia has been East Dunbartonshire Council's Sustainable Development Officer for over five years. During this time, she has been involved in the promotion of sustainability in a number of contexts, including procurement. She co-ordinated East Dunbartonshire's recent successful bid for Fairtrade Zone status, in which in-house procurement was a key aspect, and is currently looking at opportunities for low-carbon purchasing. Sylvia is also vice-chair of the Sustainable Scotland Network.
Paul Grice Clerk and Chief Executive, Scottish Parliament
	Paul is Clerk and Chief Executive of the Scottish Parliament and principal adviser to the Presiding Officer. He is also Governor of the University of Stirling and Company Secretary of the Scotland’s Futures Forum. Paul joined the Scottish Office in 1992 after joining the Civil Service through the ‘Fast Stream’ in 1985. He took responsibility for the Referendum on establishing the Scottish Parliament and subsequently managing the Scotland Act. He was appointed Clerk and Chief Executive of the Parliament in summer 1999.
Helmut Lusser Managing Director, Global to Local Ltd
	Profile to be confirmed.
Shaun McCarthy Director, Action Sustainability
	Shaun is a leading advocate of sustainable business practices. Having had lengthy careers with Shell UK and BAA, he has more than 20 years' experience in commercial business and has spent the past ten years as a senior manager, specialising in sustainable purchasing and construction and assessing the impact of major infrastructure business on climate change. Up until December 2006, as BAA Head of Utilities and Sustainability for supply, construction and ethical procurement, Shaun was accountable for leading the sustainable development agenda across the company’s yearly two million tonne carbon footprint, 10 billion capital programme and £1.6 billion supply chain. Shaun is an Honorary Commissioner with the London Sustainable Development Commission and chaired the 2012 Games Sub-Group in 2006. He was a member of the Government-sponsored Sustainable Procurement Task Force, which was set up in May 2005, and published its National Action Plan on sustainable public procurement in June 2006. In pursuit of his desire to promote sustainable procurement practices in the UK, Shaun recently founded Action Sustainability. He is one of three Directors of this innovative social enterprise, which provides a range of services from training to policy advice to the Government and major businesses.
Neil McCallum Head of Procurement, Facilities and Estates, SEPA
	Neil joined the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) in 2007 after eight years as a Director of an American bank consumer banking group with specific responsibility for procurement and facilities management. Neil is the team leader for the SEPA’s participation in the Local Authority Carbon Management Programme and is currently working with the Central Government Centre of Procurement Expertise in developing sustainable procurement across the sector. Neil is Chairman of Young Enterprise Scotland Lanarkshire Area Board.
Karen Smith New Initiatives Manager Grampian Housing Group
	After leaving social work, Karen joined the SSHA in 1982 as a graduate trainee. It was there Karen leaned all her hands-on housing management and she still relishes the very high standards of good practice that were achieved, and which are continued by the myriad of successive housing associations. Karen now works for Grampian Housing Association in the role of New Initiatives Manager. Prior to this, she achieved an MBA, built a visitor centre (Archaeolink), and was an Investor in People advisor. She has been with Grampian Housing Association for seven years, and is actively involved in running and developing social firm Solstice. She has just written a report called Buying for Good with Social Firms Scotland, which is a practical toolkit for housing associations to use when they seek to gain community benefits from their procurement.
Peter Tysoe Procurement Manager, Scottish Natural Heritage
	Peter joined Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) in December 2005 after five and a half years’ experience in a similar position in SNH's ‘sister’ organisation, English Nature (now Natural England). He also has several years’ procurement experience in the private sector, in the automotive and electricity supply industries. Prior to that, he worked in the civil service and the British Standards Institute (now BSI Group). Peter leads a small procurement team dealing with all major SNH contracts, as well as running training courses and giving advice on procurement to other staff. He aims to ensure that all SNH contracts include provisions relating to sustainable procurement. One of his objectives for the next year is to widen the scope even further and take account not only of environmental performance, but also social and ethical aspects, including making it easier for SMEs and social enterprises to bid for SNH contracts.

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