Sommer Baxter
Director of Procurement
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Ruth Bayley
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Association of Procurement & Contract Management (AAPCM)
Paul Bloxham
Chief Economist
HSBC
Paul joined HSBC in 2010 as Chief Economist for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this, he spent almost 12 years as an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia where he held a range of different roles in the economics department, including heading up the overseas economies and financial conditions sections.
Paul has published a number of papers, including on household finances, asset prices, monetary policy and global commodity price trends. Paul is a regular commentator on local and international business television and a frequent contributor of opinion editorials to the Australian newspapers. Paul is an adjunct professor at Curtin University and a member of the Australian National University’s shadow reserve bank board.
Paul holds a master’s degree in public financial policy from the London School of Economics.
Richard Bradbury
Head of Value Engineering APJ and Greater China
SAP Ariba
Richard joined the Ariba team in 2013 and leads the Value Engineering (VE) team across Asia Pacific, Japan and China. Working with our major customers, the VE team deliver strategic advisement, program planning and business case analysis services. As a trusted advisor to many CPOs and CFOs across a range of industries, he currently provides insights and pragmatic guidance to a number of major transformation initiatives across the region.
Prior to SAP, Richard has over 15 years financial services experience in senior consulting, procurement and technology roles. Most recently, as GM Group Procurement (CPO) for Commonwealth Bank of Australia, he led the planning and execution of their transformational procurement program. This highly successful two year program delivered new technology (including the full Ariba on Demand suite), new policies and customer centric processes to provide a step change in capability for the organisation. Prior to CBA, Richard has held senior roles at IAG, NAB, and ANZ leading teams delivering major technology, outsourcing and procurement programs. With formal qualifications in business, technology and accounting, Richard has a passion for working with businesses to deliver bottom line value and manage risks through planning and execution excellence.
Mike Brannan
Procurement Manager
People's Choice Credit Union
Mikes passion for procurement started when he was a manufacturing engineer and he would regularly inherit “cheap” parts into his manufacturing process and have to pick up the pieces when the process stopped; this lead him into supplier development then into full time procurement. With extensive experience in major Project Procurement underpinned with a deep lean thinking approach with proven delivery across a variety of sectors both public and private; Mike has seen the best and the very worst that projects and procurement has to offer. Like Super Nanny he was regularly parachuted into failing projects to deal with problem suppliers and invariably found that like badly behaved children the problem was usually with the customer not the supplier. With a CV that includes Defence, Aerospace, Automotive, Civil and Service sectors with blue chip companies such as Serco, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Vickers, WS Atkins and now People’s Choice Credit Union.
David Byrne
Procurement & Contracts Manager
Credit Union Australia
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 LinkedIn or his website.
www.jdconsultancy.com.au | @JDTheBuyer
Greg Edmonds
Managing Director
Charles Kendall Australia
Greg Edmonds (MCIPS) possesses over 20 years’ experience in procurement, contract management, probity, change management, and training in the field of procurement and contract management. This experience has been gained through work with several high-profile organisations in various market sectors including retail, waste management, infrastructure, public service, and resources.
In 2006 Greg established Project Procure Pty Ltd. The company has since grown substantially and enjoyed international success delivering services to provide procurement and contract management support as well as develop procurement capability in both public and private sectors.
Recently Greg has made a substantial commitment to the Government of Indonesia, driving the Procurement Modernization Project on behalf of USA’s Millennium Challenge Corporation. The multi-million dollar Procurement Modernization Project is intended to institutionalise procurement professionals’ roles, facilitate good practice, and strengthen controls such as procurement and financial audits to ensure improved performance of the public procurement function.
Chris Heptinstall
Head of Procurement Australia
QBE
Chris is the Head of Procurement for QBE in the Australian and Asia Pacific regions managing a spend in excess of $1.5bn dollars. He manages a highly talented team of 14 category managers based in Sydney and was a key player in QBE’s successful $250m ‘Quantum’ cost reduction programme.
He has been a procurement manager for over thirty years and has worked for a range of companies including IBM, Goldman Sachs, Macquarie Bank, IAG and Eli Lilly before joining QBE six years ago. He won 2 CIPSA Excellence awards with IAG in 2007 and 2008. More recently he and his team won the 2013 Best Cross Functional Team CIPSA Excellence award.
Chris has four teenage children and has written two novels in which the hero Sam Jardine is a Procurement Manager. Both books hit the Amazon top 100 best seller list last year. His third book will be available on Amazon early next year.
Andrew Kitchen
Executive General Manager, Finance and Technical Services
IAG
I am privileged to lead a large team who perform the Finance roles for the Australian Operations of Insurance Australia Group (IAG). IAG is an ASX listed general insurer, selling insurance under many brands including NRMA and CGU. IAG underwrites over $11.4 billion of premium per annum, the majority from its Australian Operations. I have been with IAG since 2010 and was previously Group Financial Controller, taking responsibility for the Group’s statutory and regulatory reporting. I was also heavily involved in the Group’s M&A work.
Prior to joining IAG I have extensive financial services experience, gained locally and abroad. I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and have a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne.
Kathleen Labrum
General Manager
CCI Group Purchasing
Kathleen Labrum is General Manager of Combined Charities Incorporate (CCI) a not for profit procurement group. Her career spans over 25 years working within both the private and public sector.
Kathleen is an experienced speaker, sharing many of her experiences of working with centralised and decentralised procurement, across a broad range of industries including aged care,disability, childcare and local government.
"She strongly believe's that thinking strategically, being motivated and ready to take a chance on new ideas has driven her career".
Anders Lillevik
Global Head of Procurement Support Services
QBE Insurance USA
Jason Masters
Managing Director
Jason Masters
Jason Masters is an experienced Director and Corporate and Technology Governance Advisor with excellent and pragmatic consulting knowledge relating to technology, procurement, probity and auditing. This capability crosses both the private and public sectors. Jason Masters has worked extensively throughout Australia and Asia (from India to Japan and China) and projects involving the USA and Canada.
Drawing on this extensive experience and expertise, he assists and mentors executives and managers, and provide mediation and expert determination services.
Finally, Jason Masters is an author (Computer Security in Australia and many white papers) and international speaker on a wide range of topics generally around the intersection of business, technology and governance.
Michael Morpeth
General Manager Procurement and Property
ME Bank
Michael Morpeth is the National Procurement and Property Manager at ME Bank, and has extensive financial services experience in New Zealand, the UK and Australia.
Johanna O'Rourke
Senior Corporate Lawyer
QBE
Lou Pagano
Director Alliances
AMP
Lou has some 25 years of specialisation in the Vendor Relationship and Contract Management fields. He joined AMP in 1997, and as Director of the Alliances Group for IT@AMP, heads up the Management of all Strategic Sourcing, IT Commercial and Outsource arrangements, tenancy and facilities management.
He started his career in engineering, then moved into supply management before deciding to follow sourcing and relationship management as his chosen career path.
Peter Rella
Procurement Lead
ING DIRECT Australia
Peter has built a reputation for transforming procurement functions through genuine stakeholder engagement and jumpstarting business-wide objectives. This focus allows him to deliver competitive advantages across dynamic operating environments. The outcomes have included commercial optimisation and risk assurance to differentiated service performance and strategic innovation. Peter holds a Master of Economics from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Arts-Economics from the University of South Carolina.
Karen Scott Davie
Associate Director Finance Services Centre
University of Sydney
Karen Sutton
Head of Claims Procurement
Suncorp Group
Chad Vigar
Senior Manager Claims Supply Chain
BT Financial Group
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