Official Event Advisory Panel
Quest Events would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the official event advisory panel who contributed their valuable time and expertise to ensure the agenda for this event is timely and relevant for all stakeholders working in public sector procurement.
Hanelie Lategan
Procurement Manager
New Zealand Defence Force
Hanelie is a tertiary qualified procurement and supply chain professional with over twenty years’ experience in managing large, complex procurements in government and private sectors in a wide range of industries including industrial, manufacturing, information technology, property, security, retail, health and engineering.
Hanelie joined New Zealand Defence Force eighteen months ago and leads a large team of procurement specialists in Defence Commercial Services (DCS). DCS is seen as a leader within New Zealand procurement with a focus on providing exceptional service to NZDF in addition to the successful management of key commercial relationships. This has been recognized publically through the team’s reappearance at the Ernst and Young Procurement Excellence Awards following a finalist position for Successful Procurement Change 2016.
This is not the first time that Hanelie and her team received public recognition. Hanelie also received international recognition when one of her tenders won the award for ‘Best Example of Socially Responsible Procurement’ at the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) Australasia Awards 2014.
Hanelie has amounted considerable experience spanning everything from negotiation and supply chain management to devising and implementing innovative eProcurement systems and procurement development programmes.
The key to Hanelie’s success is her ability to engage and influence stakeholders across all parts of the business to buy-in to the benefits and value of procurement. She puts the secret of her success down to a very simple, but often overlooked philosophy; “Invest in your stakeholders, speak their language, understand their challenges, adapt to their style and sell them the benefits that can be achieved by working together as a team.
Karen Dawson
Chief Procurement Officer
Ministry of Education of New Zealand
Currently employed as the Chief Procurement Officer at the Ministry of Education I have over 20 years’ experience in Government with 15 years procurement experience in IT and other categories. I am a fully qualified procurement professional who has managed teams across most areas of the procurement lifecycle. This has been both in delivery and central strategic roles.
Achievements include:
- Procurement lead for New Zealand’s largest transformation programme
- Active mentor supporting agencies and individuals to achieve procurement excellence
- Presented IR’s Competitive Dialogue Case Study to NZ procurement professionals (published)
- Developed the first probity framework in New Zealand government
- Presented at the CIPS 2012 Conference NZ
- Developed the UK Governments 1st Commercial Assurance Strategy
Catherine Beard
Head of Export NZ and Manufacturers NZ
Business New Zealand Group
Catherine Beard is Executive Director of Export NZ and ManufacturingNZ, divisions of BusinessNZ, New Zealand’s largest business advocacy group, representing thousands of businesses of all sizes.
Catherine Beard works with government and other key decision makers on issues of concern to exporters and manufacturers. Catherine is on a Procurement Business Reference Group for the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, representing the views of business with the aim of making it easier for suppliers to work with Government.
Catherine has worked as advocate for industries in the agricultural and insurance sectors, and on climate change issues for the energy intensive sector.
Catherine is a member of the Board of global standards organisation GS1 and is director of a business designing and manufacturing children’s nursery furniture, for which two products won national design awards.
Jonathan Dutton
Director
JD Consultancy
Jonathon Dutton was the founding Managing Director of CIPS Australasia for over eight years up until February 2013. He was responsible for all aspects of CIPS activities as the global peak body for professional procurement & supply management in the region. He represented the profession and its standards to the highest levels of business and government. As a former qualified procurement manager himself, as well as sales manager turned marketing director, Jonathan can easily draw on experiences from both sides of the negotiating table. Jonathan has worked in senior positions for British Airways, QANTAS, Regus & CHUBB, and is a fellow of four institutes covering procurement, marketing, management and the royal society of arts. He is also a graduate diploma member of the institute of company directors, and has a degree in economics with accountancy and business law.
Jonathan is married with two young children and lives in Melbourne, and can be reached easily through LINKED IN or his website.
Paul Howard
Director Commercial Services
New Zealand Department of Defence
Paul started work for the UK Civil Service in 1982 and spent the early part of his career administering benefits in the Benefits Agency. He also worked for the Child Support Agency before moving into more project orientated roles.
In 1995, Paul joined the procurement organisation of the Benefits Agency and worked on a national catering outsourcing initiative before delivering a transformational change programme for the procurement function.
Since then, Paul has led many large strategic procurements, programmes and projects securing efficiencies of over $200m in total including delivering the award winning UK Schools Recruitment Service, the 1st World War One Commemoration event in Belgium and the TFM contract for NZ Immigration’s brand new refugee resettlement centre which is due to open in July 2016.
Paul has also been a key advocate of the use of eProcurement systems and was a key player in the development and use of eAuctions and eSourcing systems across the whole of the UK public Sector. Paul has worked for HM Revenue & Customs, OGC, UK Police, UK Department for Education and was Head of Procurement for the UK Department for Culture Media and Sport before emigrating to New Zealand in early 2015.
Paul was awarded CIPS Fellowship in early 2013 and is committed to both his own development and development of the procurement and supply community.
Paul became Director, Commercial Services for the New Zealand Defence Force in November 2015 and leads a team of over 100 people providing centralised commercial services across the NZDF.
Samantha Gain
Manager, Legal and Procurement
Greater Wellington Regional Council