Lee is an experienced international executive, bringing a broad suite of experiences and capabilities from his career across financial services, aviation, engineering, retail, health and the wider public sector. Those experiences in a wide range of predominantly change and innovation roles provide Lee with a unique perspective that through his strategic transformational leadership enables him to push the status quo and quickly understand the business to make a sustainable impact. Lee is an authentic leader who leads with a value focus to build trusted and enduring relationships. Throughout his career, Lee has been drawn to roles where the underlying business or team requires transforming or repositioning, evolving the organisational culture and operating model to attain the highest standards whilst building solid foundations for future growth. Lee possesses excellent stakeholder management skills and is skilled at navigating complex organisations. Lee is a strong tactician with a reputation for running at problems, equally able to operate at a strategic level and flex his approach between the two, as the business requires. More recently, at the NHS Lee led the establishment of the multi award winning shared Procurement service for North West London across England’s largest Independent Care System Improving service user experience, access and population health outcomes through effective procurement.

Michelle is Executive Director of Sustainability and Social Value at NHS London Procurement Partnership. She’s contributed a huge amount to the social value movement across a long and varied career, initially working in finance and education, and now heading up a team tasked with creating more sustainable procurement practice within the National Health Service in London.

Will Laing is the Operations Director for the NHS Workforce Alliance, jointly reporting to the senior management of all five partner organisations, and responsible for the overall success of the Alliance in driving positive outcomes across all areas of workforce management for the NHS. Previously, Will was the Account Director – Department of Health and Social Care for Crown Commercial Service, during a period where the engagement between the health sector grew significantly. Will has an extensive background in NHS procurement since taking his first role with NHS Supplies North West division in 1995. From 2000 to 2010, Will worked in various commercial and managerial roles in the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA), which has given him insight into the challenges and opportunities in the NHS. Will led several categories in the 2004 NHS Supply Chain Excellence programme, introduced the first national agreement for Agency Nurses in 2007, and in 2008-10 represented the NHS in leadership roles in the OGC’s collaborative category management in energy and fleet.

Caroline has worked in procurement since 1998, moving in the year 2000 from a manufacturing environment to the NHS, initially at the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. It was during this time that Caroline became CIPS qualified. In 2006 she joined the predecessor of the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) as Project Manager for the pilot project “Growing the Region’s Businesses with NHS Investment”, NOE CPC’s unique partnership with the Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward. The project was shortlisted for two prestigious awards; the HSJ Awards and Government Opportunities (GO) Awards Since the successful completion of the Yorkshire Forward project, Caroline has worked in a number of roles at NOE CPC, including Procurement Training Specialist, delivering training to both businesses and NHS staff on public sector procurement, and as a Category Manager. Caroline's current role as Head of Training, Events and New Business Development involves developing NOE CPC's relationships with both existing and new members, and delivering a programme of procurement training and other events for NOE CPC members and other NHS procurement professionals.

After completing a marketing degree at Lancaster University, Olivia joined NOE CPC in 2021 under the two-year Pathways to Procurement graduate scheme. This involved completing the CIPS level 4 apprenticeship and a series of rotations across the organisation. Olivia now works in Procurement Operations for the HR & People category and is completing the CIPS Advanced Practitioner course.

Riley is the current Graduate Trainee at NOE CPC, having recently graduated from a Masters in Modern History, and will be rotating between various teams over his two year graduate scheme. As part of the Graduate Scheme, Riley is also currently studying CIPS level 4.

Alexandra is Head of Sustainable Procurement and Supply Chain at NHS England and NHS Improvement, where she leads the team responsible for delivering a net zero Carbon Footprint Plus for the NHS, which comprises over 60% of total emissions. In 2020, the NHS became the world’s first national health system to commit to become ‘carbon net zero’. Carbon Footprint Plus includes the NHS’ wider supply chain, aiming for an 80% reduction in emissions by 2036-2039 and Net Zero by 2045. Following the release of the ‘Delivering a Net Zero Report’, Alexandra has led the development and implementation of activities to achieve net zero carbon, drive social value and eradicate modern slavery across the supply chain. Before joining NHSEI, Alexandra led on the strategic and operational implementation of green plans for NHS organisations across the country, as well as some of the largest decarbonising infrastructure projects in the health sector enabled by procurement frameworks. Alexandra holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy from Edinburgh University, she graduated with honours from Boston College in the USA, and has previously led the award-winning sustainability programme at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Neil Hind has worked across various private and public sector organisations advising and delivering on various procurement, programme and sustainability programmes. He is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply and holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool. He has previously held the roles of the Head of Procurement for the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, was Head of Procurement at NHS England whilst implementing a new Commercial and Procurement team, and was the GM NHS Procurement Programme Director, setting up one of the first ICS procurement teams within the NHS. More recently he has been supporting Net Zero for Carbon & Social Value Projects for NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care and is now their Anchors Programme Lead looking at system approach in embedding the Anchor principals that includes social value.

NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP) is one of four national procurement hubs serving the health community in London and beyond. Its members extend across the acute, community and mental health sectors, as well as primary care and clinical commissioning. NHS LPP delivers the services that help hospitals to run efficiently including business intelligence, clinical digital solutions, workforce, medicines, estates, facilities and corporate services, professional services, sustainability and social value, procurement shared services, business intelligence and systems enablement. NHS LPP supports its members and other trusts to make sustainable decisions that help keep our money in the NHS and invested where it matters - on valuable frontline staff, services and most importantly, patients.

Ruth joined the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) in June 2022, she has spent the last 30 years working in the pharmaceutical, medical device industry ranging from global organisations to SME’s and early start ups in the UK and North America holding a wide variety of roles from clinical to sales and marketing and general management. Before joining she worked in stakeholder relations and communications for a mid-sized pharmaceutical company. NOE CPC is a member of NHS Procurement in Partnership (NHS PiP) which is the collaboration between four NHS procurement hubs including NHS Commercial Solutions, East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub and NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP)