Colin Cram, Former Chief Executive, North West Centre of Excellence & Director, Marc1
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Colin has held senior positions in the public sector for the past 30 years, including central (including the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury) and local government, higher education and the wider public sector. He has been responsible throughout for initiating and implementing innovative strategies for procurement, shared services, outsourcings and organisational re-engineering. Savings from his initiatives exceed £1bn.
Colin has created and managed several pioneering joint and shared service procurement organisations, influencing spend of up to £7bn a year. He was a founder member of the Central Unit on Purchasing (the forerunner of the Office of Government Commerce), created and led the Research Councils’ Procurement Organisation, the Benefits Agency Contracts Organisation and was first director of the North Western Universities’ Purchasing Consortium. Latterly he was Director of the North West Centre of Excellence, creating and delivering collaborative opportunities in procurement and shared services for 47 local authorities
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, Colin has been appointed a Senior Adviser to the Office of Government Commerce and is a member of SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives). He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and training events, and is a regular contributor to professional journals. He has been a member of European working groups on Procurement, Innovation and Sustainability. He runs a successful consultancy, Marc1 Ltd.
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Corin Taylor, Senior Policy Advisor, IoD
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Corin Taylor is a Senior Adviser in the IoD Policy Unit covering economic policy, taxation and public service reform issues.
He also sits on the Economic Dependency working group at the Centre for Social Justice and has written a number of opinion pieces on tax for the Financial Times.
He was formerly Research Director at the TaxPayers' Alliance, where he commissioned a dynamic model of the UK economy, showing the benefits of reducing the tax burden, and was regularly quoted in the media.
In 2006, he was Political Secretary to the Tax Reform Commission and wrote several sections of the Commission's report. Prior to that he worked for the think tank Reform for two years as Economics Research Officer, where he authored a number of papers on tax and economic reform, including drawing up Reform's "growth rule" for sustainable public spending and co-authoring a pensions reform plan with Tony Blair's former economic adviser, Derek Scott.
Corin has also spoken on public spending and public service reform at the European Parliament in Strasbourg and to think tanks in Canada. He read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford.
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Presentation: The financial issues of the OEP
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Steve Duckworth, Commercial Delivery Director, Office of Government Commerce
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Steve is Commercial Delivery Director at the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) responsible for the pan Government delivery of category management in Energy, Fleet and Food procurement. He has worked at the OGC for the past 3 years and is responsible for driving efficiencies out of £8bln of common goods and services spend. Prior to joining the OGC he led the Marketing and HR spend categories for AXA and prior to that he was a Purchasing Manager on the Eurofighter at BAE Systems.
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Presentation: Collaborative Procurement
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Lesley Meeks, ICT Procurement Director, Buying Solutions
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Lesley Meeks is Executive Director for ICT Procurement. Lesley has gained a wealth of experience by working in a number of different sectors, including large multinational companies in the private sector pharmaceuticals and IT industries. Most recently, she worked in Local Authority, where she was Executive Director Assets and Development for CityWest Homes, a company owned by Westminster City Council.
Lesley trained as a Chemist and started her career in the Nuclear Industry for a company that was to be privatised and become Amersham International. She held a number of senior global managerial roles in Manufacturing, Product Development, Procurement and M&A. She joined Oracle Corporation, an IT software company, in 1998 where she worked for six years as Europe Middle East and Africa Senior Director for Business Development. Lesley is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Chartered Chemist she is also a Member of the Institute of Directors.
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Dylan Martinez, Solution Architect, Serena Software
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Dylan Martinez is a solutions architect at Serena Software, SCRUMM Master and PRINCE2 Consultant, and has worked in the fields of process optimisation, compliance assurance and configuration management for over 10 years.
Dylan graduated in Computer Science and has gained a wealth of experience by working with organisations from a variety of different sectors, including various public sector bodies, large multinational aerospace companies and leading finance organisations, with projects ranging from Eurofighter & Merlin to the development of an automated trans-enterprise onboarding process for a medical services organisation.
He is currently working with a UK central government office helping them improve compliance in a number of projects to ensure correct procedures are followed with minimal impact to individuals by implementing wider automation, providing information and dashboard visibility and simplifying existing document control.
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Stuart Ladds, Head of Relocation & Strategic Property Portfolio Management, OGC
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Stuart has, since January 2005, been responsible for providing the central challenge and reporting role for the government relocation programme arising from the Sir Michael Lyons review of 2004. He has recently been tasked with delivering OGC’s national estates response to the Civil Service in the English Regions programme as well as managing the national interface for OGC, on public sector asset management in the wider public sector following on from the Operational Efficiency Report.
Stuart is a CIOB/College of Estate Management certified construction sponsor, who has acted as the client on several major Government HQ refurbishments. He is the "Property Champion" for the Civil Service South West programme, a founder member of the West Midlands Property Alliance and was on the review board for the OGC product "P3O (Portfolio, Programme and Project office).
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Presentation: Managing the Public Sector Estate
The OEP report put a rocket under public sector property management; but who’s got onboard this rocket? Are they strapped in? And who’s simply standing from the sidelines wondering if this thing’s going to take off? Stuart Ladds will attempt a meteoric tour of the public sector property cosmos and plot a course forward
Property: The final frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship, OEP
Its 5 year ? mission
To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life and new civilizations
To boldly go where no property professional has gone before!
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Dr Martin Read, Non-executive director of Invensys, Aegis Group and Lloyds of London and OEP back office operations and IT lead
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Martin Read is a non-executive director of Invensys, Aegis Group and Lloyds of London and senior adviser to Indian technology company HCL. He has recently led a UK Government review of back office operations and IT across the public sector. Martin was chief executive of international IT services company Logica from 1993 to 2007 and has served as a non-executive director on the boards of British Airways, Siemens Holdings, Boots and ASDA. His earlier career included positions at GEC-Marconi, International Paint and Overseas Containers. He is a trustee of homelessness charity Shelter and of the Council for Industry and Higher Education, and vice-chair of the Council of Southampton University.
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Presentation: Shared Services & IT
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Ken Cole, Procurement and Commercial Advisor, Capital Ambition and Former Director of the LCE
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Ken has had a wide spanning career in both the public and private sectors and is a Director of SPS Consultancy Services. He was the Director of the London Centre of Excellence (LCE) until 2008 and is Commercial and Procurement Advisor to the successor body, Capital Ambition.
He worked in central government until 1995, serving in various senior project management and procurement roles at the MOD, Home Office, Cabinet Office and H M Treasury, before moving into the private sector in 1995 where he managed the public sector division for a major ICT provider.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) and is a Liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists having received the Freedom of the City of London in 1994.
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Presentation: Shared Services: Successes, Failures and Lessons Learned
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