Development & Procurement Conferences 2020
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He is currently leading a project for the Scottish Government which aims to ensure best value is achieved from investment through the Affordable Housing Supply Programme. Other clients include housing associations and various health and social care organisations. Mark was previously a director in local government.

She has over 25 years’ experience of working in development and operational roles across the enterprise, employment & skills sectors for a wide range of organisations including housing, charities, and welfare to work organisations.

Sustainable Procurement Ltd operates internationally, with clients in the public private and third sector.  Barbara’s work currently includes supporting the Scottish Government in mobilising its procurement expenditure to respond to the challenges of the climate emergency.

Neil joined the P4P team in 2017, previously working with the Wise Group where he played a key role in successfully securing income from a range of sources including Fair Start Scotland, Work Able Scotland, Glasgow and Dundee Employability Pipeline contracts, and CashBack for Communities.

erz have designed and delivered innovative, award-winning and successful projects across the UK, including civic spaces, parks and environments for health and wellbeing, education, play, housing and community.

Rolf has led the company’s work in a series of groundbreaking Integrated Green Infra-structure projects, most recently at Maryhill North for Maryhill Housing Association.

Rolf’s recently completed projects include the new Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow, public realm works on the waterfront at Dunoon and the first phase of the redevelopment of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital campus.

David is also an experienced bidding and tender trainer and has delivered open courses and bespoke in-house training to bid teams in organisations across the UK. He has also led winning bid teams on tenders involving the development of a range of innovative Community Benefits and Social Value proposals, which have scored highly against buyers’ evaluation criteria. In 2019, David’s bidding accomplishments were recognised by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP), who included him in their global Top 40 Under 40 Award winners.

Her skilled team tender for and secure over £15m of work annually and have delivered projects with 22 of the 32 Local Authorities in Scotland and over 40 Housing Associations, upgrading 2000 properties every year. In her capacity as Managing Director of A.C. Whyte, Jennifer champions the importance of delivering relevant Community Benefits, tailored to every project, that are of true value to the community and ensure economic, environmental and social progress.    

Julie now provides freelance procurement advice, support and training to Housing Associations and public sector organisations. She also delivers workshops and webinars for the Supplier Development Programme and provides 1-2-1 support to businesses across all industries. She was an early adopter of Community Benefits and brings an insight into best practice procurement and tender evaluation. She has also buyer and bidder experience of Competitive Dialogues and OJEU procurements.

Jim is driven to identify and engage with households who are impacted by fuel poverty.

By introducing ecological principles into his work, his teams achieved substantial cost savings on grass cutting at the same time as bringing wildflowers into the greenspaces where people live and work. He currently works at the UK charity Butterfly Conservation as the lead for ‘Building Sites for Butterflies’, a national programme encouraging creation and management of amenity grasslands for wildlife.’

Before joining Scotland Excel , Colin’s previous career was in the private sector working for multinational corporations (Philips & IBM) building up extensive experience in procurement, finance, customer relationships and business operations with roles in both the UK and North America.

 She has worked for several housing associations in London and the North East of England, most recently as Head of Community Investment at North Star Housing Group.  Previously, she worked for the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), on regeneration at an urban development corporation, as director of a consultancy specialising in community-based development and leading on social purpose and wider role at the Housing Associations Charitable Trust (HACT).

She has co-authored several publications for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Chartered Institute of Housing, HACT, think tanks and government departments.  The most recent is ‘Acting on Localism: the role of housing associations in driving a community agenda’, published by Respublica.

She has chaired and served on a variety of boards in the housing, arts, health and charitable sectors.

Kevin has served in the Scottish Parliament as the member for Aberdeen Central since 2011. He was the Convener of the Local Government and Regeneration Committee in the last Parliament and sat on the Welfare Reform and Justice Sub-Committee on Policing.

Having worked in housing for over 20 years, Lorna’s experience includes developing services through partnerships, strategic planning, and research and development, most recently for Wheatley Group – Scotland’s largest housing and care provider.

For many years he led SNH’s contribution to local development plans and he is currently working with Scottish Government and other partners to explore how the planning system can deliver positive effects for biodiversity.

In her role as Head of Procurement at SPA, Lesley provides procurement support, advice and guidance, to clients and contractors from project identification through to award of contract.

He has been for the past 5 years, CEO of Muirhouse Housing Association in Edinburgh. In this period he has led their successful recovery from high engagement, to now being, amongst the top performing RSL’s in Scotland.

He was also the instrumental force behind the creation in 2018 of ARCHIE, a shared service arrangement involving 8 housing organisations in Edinburgh and is the current chair of ARCHIE.

Gemma is a qualified environmental planner with a research and practice specialism ingreen infrastructure. Through her doctoral studies she examined the role of stewardship in the longevity and resilience of community-scale green infrastructure, with a particular focus on health and social outcomes associated with access to nature at the residential scale.

She also has over twelve years’ experience as a Senior Planner at SEPA, influencing planning policy and developing guidance, and has previously worked in as a planner in consultancy and Local Authority.