Bola Afolabi (Chair of judges)

Bola Afolabi, General Manager SAP, NNPCGroup

Professor Bola Afolabi works for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation as General Manager and Project Director leading the implementation of SAP business solution across its eleven subsidiaries as part of the corporation transformation initiative. NNPC is Africa’s largest oil & gas Corporation. Before then, he spent 23yrs with Shell International and left as Senior Adviser - Supply Chain with Shell International. Bola holds a Masters Degree in Marine Transportation and Ph.D. in Regional Development & Environmental Science.

An accomplished supply chain professional of 23 years cognate experience, who has led many successful change initiatives. Joined CIPS since 1993, elected into its governing council in 2003 as pioneer Councilor representing Africa. A CIPS Fellow, Council and Board member, Professor Afolabi is the current CIPS Vice President as is the first non-European to attain this feat.

Roy Ayliffe

Director of Professional Practice, The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply

Roy Ayliffe has been a Purchasing and Supply Management (P&&SM) professional for over 33 years; Corporate Member since 1980, then Fellow since 1999, of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS). Currently as the CIPS Director of Professional Practice he ensures the institute is influential at the centre of P&SM excellence and is responsible for the following Corporate Strategy Elements:

• Developing the CIPS P&&SM Body of Knowledge and “thought leadership” including a) analysing, interpreting and explaining P&&SM knowledge to provide CIPS views/positions on P&&SM issues, b) embedding P&&SM knowledge into CIPS people and organisational development services and c) Production of a wide range of knowledge products
• Ensuring the CIPS voice/views are heard by key audiences where regulation and policy decisions are made and influenced including a) delivering CIPS messages and b) promoting the P&&SM business discipline

From 1994 to 1998, Roy was Deputy Director of Partnership Sourcing Ltd, the CBI/DTI initiative to promote the use of partnering in supply chains. In this role he a) helped represent the UK on a G7 countries E Commerce promoting project, and b) provided partnering consultancy to many sectors including financial services, food processing, sub-sea systems manufacturing, construction, printing and public sector.

From 1982 to 1994 he held a variety of posts in The Post Office, culminating with 5 years as General Manager of the £50m turnover Materials Division, which he converted to a profit centre and implemented TQM. In 1982 he played a leading part in creating the Purchasing and Supply Department following the de-merger which created BT.

From 1974 to 1981 he was a P&&SM professional in 3 local authorities.

Steve Bagshaw

Editor, Supply Management

Steve is editor of Supply Management, Europe's leading title for purchasing and supply management professionals, published on behalf of CIPS. Steve joined the magazine at the beginning of 2005 after editing titles in the social housing, healthcare and manufacturing sectors.

Prior to a career in journalism he worked for the British Council managing programmes for overseas students in the UK.

Andrea Reynolds

Managing Director, Cordie

Andrea is the Managing Director of Cordie Ltd, a leading training company working with senior procurement practitioners in the field of negotiation and body language. The company is twice winner (2006 and 2007) of the UK’s National Training Awards for excellence in the delivery of training solutions.

Well known for her enthusiastic and interactive public speaking style, her specialist subject is the human dynamics and hypnotic language surrounding commercial discussions. She has recently been appointed as the first ever Senior Assessor for Negotiation by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing (CIPS).

Andrea has an MBA from Henley Management College and is an NLP Master, as well as being a licensed MBTI and EQ Tester. Most of her work is at CEO/Director level and she currently runs the CIPS Executive MasterClass on Influencing.

Andrea is also co-director of the New Forest Centre for Purchasing Studies (www.nfcps.co.uk), a CIPS Approved training Centre which runs the Graduate Diploma.

Dr Faiza Rasheed MCIPS

Corporate Purchasing Property Director, Tesco Stores

Faiza has held a variety of European and Global strategic supply chain and commercial leadership positions at Imperial Chemical Industries, Accenture and Transport for London. Within these roles she has delivered complex transformational change across multiple functions including supplier rationalisation, technology implementation and multi-million pound cost reduction programmes (SM 20 July, Supply Management.com).

More recently, she led the innovative design and implementation of the Government’s Sustainable Development commitments throughout the business operations at TfL (SM 06 July, Supply Management.com). One of her most notable achievements is the implementation of ground-breaking supplier diversity requirements in the £1 billion East London Line contract.

Currently, as head of BAA’s commercial operations & Gatwick supply chain, her portfolio spans strategic & operational functions across the seven UK airports. Managing sourcing and supply for utilities & fuel, finding better ways to work with suppliers and using technology to improve effectiveness are only some of the things she is addressing. She also has accountability for delivering BAA’s corporate responsibility and environmental objectives through the supply chain.

Faiza holds a first class BSc. Honours & a post-doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham and is currently reading for an MA in corporate social and environmental management. She is also trustee of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing Supply. Outside of work, Faiza travels and hikes to the off beaten track places.

Caroline Booth

Chief Procurement Director, Lloyds TSB

Caroline joined the bank in January 2006 as the Chief Procurement Director.

She started her career as a graduate trainee with Shell where I enjoyed an international career – focusing largely upon Supply Chain and Procurement. In 1997 she left to join Ernst & Young as a management consultant. Staying with the company until the end of 2005, by which time I was the Vice President of Supply Chain for Capgemini in the UK (Capgemini having bought the management consultancy practice from E&Y). In 2006 she joined a niche consultancy firm and resigned when the planned management buy-out failed.

She is married and enjoys playing golf and hill walking.

Colin Davis

Supply Chain Head, United Utilities

Having graduated in Physics Colin joined British Gas as a graduate trainee in 1987.

Along the way worked for the Greenalls Group, famous for the De Vere hotel chain, home of the Ryder Cup at the Belfry. Moving to the Caradon Group - an international manufacturing company. Then helped launch Capital One Bank across Europe.

He then moved to the Caudwell Group. The UK’s largest privately owned company owned by the billionaire John Caudwell. Here the mission was to make money and certainly a happy time was spent doing exactly that!

Previously with E.ON UK, Colin was responsible for Procurement, Logistics and Insurance.

• Winner of the CIPS Supply Management Award 2007 for People Development
• Overall Winner of the CIPS Supply Management Award 2007
• Winner of the Procurecon European Procurement Leader of the Year 2007

Now joined United Utilities to drive their major capital programme

Jane Gibbs

Group Procurement & Supply Chain Director, Rok Plc (deputy chair)

Dr Jane Gibbs has worked in Purchasing & Supply for over 15 years. During that time she has worked across a number of sectors in senior / CPO positions, including transport, pharmaceuticals, government, manufacturing and most recently construction. She is currently Group Procurement & Supply Chain Director at Rok Plc, a maintenance and construction company with the strapline ‘the Nation’s Local Builder’. In addition to these senior roles, Jane has served 8 years on the Board of Management at CIPS, serving as President of CIPS 2005-2006. She has a PhD from the University of Bath.

Matt Oxley

Group Procurement and Property Director,
General Healthcare Group

Matt has a proven track record of delivering profit-impacting initiatives across diverse functions in the retail, manufacturing and healthcare sectors.

Oxley has recently taken up his new post at the General Heathcare Group, prior to this he transformed the procurement function at Nuffield Hospitals delivering a £25 million reduction in the cost base. Promoted to the management board of Nuffield Hospitals in April, Oxley is a textiles graduate who worked at Marks & Spencer for nine years. He began as a product development technologist, where he worked with other senior members of the buying department to formulate buying and product strategies. He then moved to the global buying programme review and worked with consultancy AT Kearney to deliver £350 million savings over three years by moving production to offshore locations and rationalising suppliers.

Positions as a raw materials manager and procurement strategist followed, before his final M&S role as a workstream leader in 2002. This saw Oxley deliver a business case for supplier rationalisation, remove duplication across the supply chain and improve efficiencies through better production planning and forecasting to significantly improve profitability across the clothing business units.

Kevin Moore

Procurement Director, UK and Ireland, Kraft Foods

Kevin joined Kraft Foods, one of the world’s largest food and beverages companies, in 1991 & has held various Procurement positions in Kraft UK & EU as well as a period in Systems Project Management. Prior to this Kevin worked in the Brewing industry initially in Operations &  Quality before moving to Procurement.  His main interests within Procurement are People Development to enable people to fulfil their potential & positioning Procurement to deliver value in areas additional to core competencies such as Innovation & speed to market.  He has a BSc (Hons) in Chemical Engineering from Herriot Watt University & lives in Oxfordshire.

Outside work Kevin runs a taxi service for his son & 2 daughters, & is a keen skier,  mountain biker & fair weather golfer.

Paula Gildert

Head of UK Purchasing, AstraZeneca

Paula Gildert is the Head of UK Purchasing for AstraZeneca and is the Lead for a global programme to deliver Procurement Transformation – a top initiative for the company to ensure its continued success. A Physicist, Chartered Electrical Engineer and a Member of the Institute of Purchasing & Supply, she has over 20 years experience in the Fine Chemical & Pharmaceutical Industry with a track record of delivering results across a wide range of roles; engineering, production, supply chain design and management and purchasing. She has led teams that are cross- functional and cross-geographical. Currently she is leading a programme that will ensure AstraZeneca gets the best value from its external spend, building a fully enabled professional function that partners and facilitates the business to meet its prioritised goals and needs.