KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
	SIR KEVIN O'DONOGHUE KCB CBE Chief of Defence Materiel, DE&S General O’Donoghue is currently the Chief Royal Engineer and Honorary Colonel Commandant of the Royal Logistics Corps. On promotion to the rank of General he became the Chief of Defence Logistics on 1 January 2005. He held this post until the merger of the DLO with the DPA on 2 April 2007 when he became the first Chief of Defence Materiel, responsible for delivering all aspects of the Defence Equipment and Support Plan. This includes responsibility for MoD assets worth £76 billion and an annual operating budget of £16 billion.
	AMYAS MORSE MoD Defence Commercial Director The Ministry of Defence has appointed its first Defence Commercial Director, Amyas Morse, to lead on the Department’s relationship with industry and strategic commercial arrangements. Amyas is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. He led the Coopers & Lybrand practice in Scotland, before moving to London to manage the London City office, and subsequently becoming an Executive Partner of Coopers & Lybrand UK. When PricewaterhouseCoopers was formed he took on PwC’s global responsibilities, and over the next seven years served as Global Leader of Assurance practice (audit and related services), and then as Global Managing Partner (Operations).

 

CHAIRMAN

DIGBY BARKER Procurement Advice & Support Service (PASS) Drawing on his consultancy experience and government background – including posts in MoD HQ and HM Treasury – Digby specialises in helping companies win and profit from public sector business, advising in particular on marketing strategy and tender preparation. His experience includes research, operational/decision analysis, resource allocation, project management and acquisition, especially the development of procurement strategies, ITTs and tender evaluation schemes.

 

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	DAVID ANDERSON Defence e-Procurement Service Integrated Business Team Leader Dave joined the Ministry of Defence in 1982 where he has held a variety of posts working in logistics, Commercial and project management positions in, support of the Armed Services. In the mid-90s , He moved to the MOD Commercial Training Team, where he became Senior Course Manager. After over four years in training Dave joined the Non Project Procurement Organisation (MoD General Commodities), where he a programme of five tri-Service projects that placed and managed contractual arrangements following the principles of partnering with industry. In June 2003, he was appointed to the MoD Procurement Reform Organisation where he headed the Professional Services Category Management Team delivering business benefit in the indirect spend area of the DLO. While in this post he forged close links with the OGC, and in 2005 he was seconded to the OGC where he held the appointment of Director of Strategic Procurement. Dave returned to the MoD in June 2007 to take forward the Department’s e-procurement business change agenda.
	HOWARD CHESTERTON Executive Director, WEAF Howard is a co-founder of the West of England Aerospace Forum Ltd (WEAF), formed together with eight key aerospace companies. Howard and his team have taken an existing association of 200 companies and developed it into a dynamic representative body for the aerospace and defence industry in the South West. WEAF now represents over 870 companies and over the last five years the organisation has developed programmes to help small to medium-sized companies, which has generated real benefits for complete supply chains. The programme is supported by the nine prime organisations in the South West and has helped over 170 companies. As the scheme became better understood and trusted, many more companies asked to be involved. This programme forms the basis of the new SC21 programme that WEAF is driving with the industry group. Howard’s background is in aerospace and automotive engineering, improving performance in large and small companies.
	STEVE DAVIES Purchasing Director, Thales UK In April 2004 Steve was appointed Purchasing Director for Thales UK. In addition to his UK role, Steve assumed responsibility for the worldwide general expenses spend of the Thales Group in January 2006. He is also a member of SBAC's SCRIA Steering Group.
	DAVID HAWKINS Director of Operations, PSL David has had an extensive career in projects and procurement within the construction industry. As a strategic thinker he has deployed partnering and alliance approaches to support manufacturing to outsourcing programmes, capitalising on the opportunities within project operations to exploit global sourcing.
	COLIN JONES UK Council for electronic businesses (ukCeB) Colin joined UKCeB after an extensive career in Rolls-Royce Defence, working predominantly in product support and IT. He has undertaken such responsibilities as head of spares planning and project manager for ERP implementation into the defence arm of R-R.The UKCeB mission is to accelerate secure information sharing to support collaboration in defence acquisition. Membership is drawn from the aerospace and defence industries coupled with IT service providers and consultants. Through its working group structure Colin has been leading the industry response to the MoD’s e-procurement strategy and P2P implementation.
	BRIGADIER MARK LACEY Deputy Director, Defence Acquisition Change Programme Brigadier Lacey was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in December 1979. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in May 2000, assuming the DTL/Programme Manager post in the TUAV IPT responsible for the WATCHKEEPER Programme, and promoted to Colonel in September 2004 when he was posted to the DLO as the Field Artillery System Support IPTL. On the formation of the DE&S, FASS IPT merged with Future Artillery Weapon Systems IPT and Brigadier Lacey was posted to London to conduct a Capability Investigation into Complex Weapons on behalf of CM(PA). In August 2007, he assumed his current appointment as Deputy Director, Defence Acquisition Change Programme.
	ANDY LEATHER Director, Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) Andy had spent over 25 years in the aerospace industry, with several majors, when the Society of British Aerospace Companies offered him the opportunity to help support the industry in maintaining its leading global position. He joined SBAC in October 2006 in the newly created position of Director, Aerospace Innovation and Growth Team Programmes, with a wide and varied remit. The AeIGT agenda encompasses a research and technology portfolio, supply chain improvement brief, and people and skills agenda. The overall programme, underwritten by the PM and Government, is aimed at maintaining the UK as a global leader in the aerospace industry.
	PHILIP MARGERISON Head of MoD Defence Suppliers Service Phil is Head of the Defence Suppliers Service within the Defence Commercial Policy Group, providing guidance to companies on contracting with the MoD. He has several years’ experience in commercial policy dealing with guidance on contractor insolvency, parent company/bank guarantees and non-competitive pricing, prior to which he worked in the contracts division of a major defence company.
	GORDON McRURY Brand Manager, Select Gordon was instrumental in the background design, development and subsequent launch of the successful Government-backed Supply2.gov.uk SME focused procurement portal. He has an in-depth understanding of the challenges that suppliers face when trying to break into supplying the public sector, and as Brand Manager for BiP Select Accredit, he has a clear understanding of the many benefits that effective supplier pre-qualification can provide.