Chris Holmes

Supply Chain Director NHS Supply Chain

Chris has worked within the NHS for over 20 years in a variety of senior procurement and supply chain roles. This has included the management of the procurement and customer related activities undertaken by NHS Supply Chain.
Prior to joining the NHS Chris spent 9 years in private industry, working for retail clients in the manufacturing sector.
Chris has a Master’s degree in Business Administration that focuses on business and supply chain strategy and a post graduate professional diploma in management. Chris is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS).

Jo Gander

NHS Supply Chain Clinical and Product Assurance (CaPA) Director

Jo joined NHS Supply Chain in April 2018 bringing over 30 years’ experience in healthcare combining clinical understanding, pharma-industry knowledge and senior leadership within NHS organisations.

Having trained as a Registered General Nurse (RGN) in Harrogate, she then worked within Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals organisations across a number of therapy areas and in a range of Sales/Marketing Clinical and General Manager roles.

Prior to joining the Department, Jo worked locally and regionally for the NHS as a Commissioning Group Director within a Care Trust Plus. She also operated as a senior leader within the NHS England National Team.

Jo has a BA Hons in Business Studies as well as a Masters in Leadership, Innovation and Change. She has also achieved Chartered Marketer status at the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).

Originally from Teesside, she now lives in Lincolnshire with her husband, 2 children, 4 dogs, 2 cats and rather a lot of fish. Jo is a keen gardener and much of her spare time is taken up in her garden and walking her dogs in the woods.

Preeya Baillie

NHS England & NHS Improvement Director of Procurement Transformation and Commercial Delivery Commercial Directorate

Preeya Bailie joined NHS England and NHS Improvement in July 2018 as Chief Procurement Officer leading the delivery of procurement efficiencies across all NHS providers. A year later she became Director of Procurement. Over the past 2 years Preeya has led a programme the Procurement Target Operating Model which is focused on the transformation of the way the NHS purchases goods and services to drive best value and to work with the supply chain to change products purchased to deliver better patient outcomes.

Preeya led the procurement team for the London Nightingale hospital and saw the transformation of the London excel conference event into a state of the art hospital fully equipped to receive patients suffering with coronavirus in just 9 days.

Preeya has a breadth of public sector procurement experience including the establishment of frameworks, outsourcing of services, setting up of joint ventures and programs for income generation.

Helen Buckingham

Nuffield Trust Director of Strategy and Operations

Helen joined the Nuffield Trust in 2017 as Senior Fellow, working on a range of health policy issues. She has 25 years’ experience in NHS roles, including senior roles in national bodies, as well as in both commissioner and provider organisations. In June 2018 Helen took on the role of Director of Strategy and Operations for the Trust.
A finance professional by background, Helen’s past roles include Director of Strategy and Organisational Development in a mental health trust; PCT Chief Executive; Chief of Staff at Monitor; and most recently Director of Corporate Affairs at NHS Improvement.
Helen has particular interests in the development and implementation of strategies leading to clear delivery of outcomes. She also focuses on the development of effective partnerships within organisations and across systems, and also between public sector bodies and the populations they serve.

Mat Oram

AdviseInc Director

Mat Oram is co-founder and Director of AdviseInc with over 19 years experience in procurement and analytics, Mat has worked across all levels of the health system from local trust transformation, through to regional procurement and national policy/delivery.

Mat is passionate about helping trusts drive value from data, providing access to insight in a way that is easy to use and enables trust staff to take action. He leads the development of AdviseInc’s growing analytics team, using the latest tools and technologies to provide easy to use applications that deliver insight in Product Price Benchmarking, Spend Analytics, Bank & Agency, HR, Medicines and Inventory Management.