After graduating from Cambridge University, Peter started his procurement career at Mars Confectionery, then was Procurement Director for Dun & Bradstreet Europe, the Department of Social Security, and the NatWest Group. He is a Fellow and was 2003 President of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, has served as a school governor, and as a non-executive director for two large public sector organizations and a growing private firm. From 2010-18 he was Managing Editor of the Spend Matters Europe website, read by thousands of procurement professionals every day. His second book, “A Procurement Compendium” was published in 2019, and Penguin Business is publishing his latest book internationally in October 2020 – “Bad Buying – How organisations waste billions through failures, frauds and f*ck-ups”.

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Jin has worked across a range of sectors within global organisations. He has held senior board level positions in operations and end-to-end supply chain roles at Technicolor, Honeywell, Motorola and Psion.

Jin joined the Department of Health in February 2016 and has focused on raising commercial standards and capability whilst establishing a positive challenging working environment in the DH Commercial Division. He is responsible for leading the Procurement Transformation Programme (PTP), operating across the NHS Supply Chain to replace the current contract with a Future Operating Model. He will establish the Future Operating Model to make the NHS one of the most effective and powerful procurement entities in Europe.
Before joining the Department Jin was SVP worldwide operations at Technicolor Connected Home, based in Paris. He held senior regional leadership positions within three of the global business divisions of the Technicolor Group: Connected Home, Broadcast & Media Services, and Home Entertainment Services.

Jin started his professional career with Psion, a handheld computer company, working as operations and business manager for six years. Jin then moved to Motorola (Land Mobile Products Sector) in Ireland as EMEA sourcing manager before being appointed commodities manager to Motorola Mobile Phones (Personal Communications Sector) for an additional two years in Ireland, a year in the UK, and then in Germany. Two years later he began his career with Honeywell Electrical Devices and Systems as head of sourcing before leaving after two years to join Technicolor.

Jin has a MSc. in operations management from London Thames University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies from Portsmouth University, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply and the Chartered Management Institute. He has attended a number of executive programmes at Harvard Business School, IESE New York, London Business School and more recently Stanford Business School.

Naseer is a vascular surgeon based at Manchester University Foundation Trust, UK. He performs the full range of vascular procedures but specialises in complex ultra-distal revascularisations of the lower limb, particularly the critical foot – both diabetic and non diabetic. He is part of the specialist multi-disciplinary lower limb preservation team that has reduced major amputations by 23% within three years at his institution. His award winning research is health inequalities surrounding lower limb amputations and he, for the first time, described regional, gender and ethnic inequalities across England. He also highlighted that half of all major amputations performed in England are in patients who do not have diabetes. He is currently heading up the MARS project (Manchester Amputation Reduction Strategy) which is redesigning community vascular services across Greater Manchester and incorporating them with hospital, public health, schools and social care. He is also part of the team developing the National Wound Care Strategy as well as the Lower Limb Capabilities Framework sponsored by Health Education England. He also works closely with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Vascular and Venous disease and co-authored their recent publication regarding amputation inequalities.

Andrew Daly is a partner in Hempsons’ specialist procurement team. He has 12 years’ experience of working with the NHS and specialises in procurement law, acting for both contracting authorities and bidders.
Andrew utilises the knowledge gained from acting for clients on both sides of the fence to provide pragmatic advice on running defensible procurement processes/defending procurement law challenges, and also to advise bidders on improving their chances of success/challenging defective processes.