Keynote Arena

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.

Lee Joseph was appointed Managing Director of NHS LPP in October 2023. Prior to this appointment, he working as the Interim Managing Director for seven months and, during that time, worked to further build the organisation in regards to its service offering to members, as well as ensuring it is a great place for staff to work. Prior to his role as Interim Managing Director, Lee worked in various senior roles at NHS LPP after joining the organisation in 2016. Before joining NHS LPP, he held strategic and leadership roles across the public and private sector, including Hospital Corporation of America, General Electric (GE), Unipart, JCB and Visteon.

Sharon took up her post on 1 April 2024, following more than six years as the Director of the Lancashire Procurement Cluster, and more latterly in a dual role as acting Chief Procurement Officer for Lancashire and South Cumbria.

As Executive Commercial Director for The New Hospital Programme (NHP) in NHS England, Rick is a passionate industry executive, experienced in leading complex programmes and commercial models. The NHP is designed to transform how we deliver major healthcare projects in England, building hospitals that will revolutionise the healthcare sector and set a new standard for the way in which we build future social infrastructure. He has had a long-spanning career delivering major infrastructure programmes from before joining NHS England where Rick spent 18 years in the nuclear sector at Sellafield Ltd, delivering one of the largest portfolios of complex major projects in the UK which was achieved by harnessing the power of collaboration with the supply chain and partnership working. As a chartered MCIPS member his leadership has successfully delivered several high profile multi-billion-pound procurements. As a part of his commitment to infrastructure growth, he is a member of the UK’s Infrastructure Client Group and an executive member of Project 13, where he co-chairs the Adopters community looking at new business models for delivery. The opportunity to build better through collaboration is on a scale rarely seen in the UK, to do it with something that touches the lives of so many and is so important to the country makes it even more important for Rick to play a part in it.