Exploring a new age of public procurement
Procurex England, the leading public procurement event in England, will take place in Liverpool in May 2025, bringing together buyers, suppliers, leaders and influencers from across England’s £380 billion public procurement marketplace.
Officially supported by England’s leading public sector buyers and playing host to some of England’s highest profile procurement experts, public sector bodies and supplier organisations, Procurex is the one event public procurement professionals cannot afford to miss.
What's Happening At Procurex England?
Confirmed Speakers include
Nadiia Bihun
Deputy Minister of Economy

Nadiia worked at LLC, “KYIVSTAR” JSC (оne of the biggest service providers operating in the telecommunications sector of Ukraine), in particular, as a managing account manager and marketing manager, and held the position of deputy director general of SE “Prozorro”.
Since 2016, she has worked as Director of the Tender Procedures Department at JSC “UKRAINIAN RAILWAYS”, and in 2018 she was promoted to the position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Procurement at SE “MedProcurement of Ukraine”.
Nadiia also worked as Procurement Director at “UDI” JSC (Ukraine Defence Industry). In July 2022, Nadiia was appointed as Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine. She coordinates the development of proposals and implementation of decisions on:
- formation and implementation of the state public procurement policy;
- development of competitive relations;
- preparation of the Budget Declaration within the powers provided by law;
Nadiia also provides functional direction, coordination and control of the work of the Department of Public Procurement and Competition Policy.
Lindsay Maguire
Deputy Director for Procurement Reform

Lindsay is the Deputy Director for Procurement Reform at the Cabinet Office. She joined the Government Commercial Organisation in 2016, initially working as senior category leader for employment and labour market in DWP and subsequently as Head of Small Business Policy at Cabinet Office, working with all central government departments and SMEs to break down barriers to entry. Prior to joining the civil service, she gained 10+ commercial experience from the private sector, working in the Aerospace, property management and FMCG sectors for both large multinationals and SMEs, including spending 5 years abroad in Germany, Netherlands and Canada working on complex projects.
Dr Lindle Hatton
CEO

Dr. Lindle Hatton serves as Chief Executive Officer for the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO®). In his role as CEO, Dr. Hatton is responsible for strategic leadership of NASPO in conjunction with the Board of Directors, including overseeing the organization’s operations, programs, partnerships, and financial stability. Prior to being named NASPO’s first CEO in 2017, Dr. Hatton served as a consultant and advisor to the NASPO Board of Directors and NASPO ValuePoint® Management Board for five years and provided strategic guidance on organizational leadership, governance, Procurement U® and higher education initiatives.
Dr. Hatton managed a consulting group for 28 years that served the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He has provided consulting services to a wide range of private and public sector organizations, nonprofit associations, as well as international countries in developing their economies and business ventures.
In addition, he served as Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the California State University Sacramento, College of Business Administration. His scholarship focused on strategic leadership, corporate governance, change management, organization development, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. He has published numerous articles, monographs, and papers in various peer reviewed journals.
Darren Knowd
CEO

Darren leads a team of twenty-three procurement staff responsible for all procurement activity at Durham County Council. In 2016 Darren was awarded the Cabinet Office’s first ever award for Social Value Leadership for an Organisation. He is Chair of the Local Government Association’s National Advisory Group for Local Government Procurement and is the Chair of the National Social Value Taskforce.
Andrea S. Patrucco
Assistant Professor

Andrea Patrucco is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Marketing and Logistics at the Florida International University College of Business.
His research interests are in the field of management of buyer-supplier relationships in both the private and public sectors. He is one of the academic leaders of the International Research Study on Public Procurement Research group, and he actively collaborates with government organizations in the United States, such as the National Association of State Procurement Officers and the National Institute of Government Purchasing.
Lorraine Cox
Chair

Lorraine leads STAR Procurement which is a very successful, high performing public sector shared service that is leading collaborative change and transformation through procurement and Social Value. STAR supports four Greater Manchester Councils and now two Liverpool City Region Councils that joined STAR in 2023. Lorraine has led STAR for almost seven years and in 22/23 they supported the retention of 78.9% local spend within Greater Manchester for her four partner Councils.
STAR have continued to improve the Social Value captured as added value through procurement securing 38.5% accumulatively of the collective contract value since April 2019. The National Social Value Taskforce is a ‘coalition of the willing’ of public, private and voluntary sector representatives who act as advocates and creators of this ‘Social Value Movement’. Lorraine has been part of this since its formation in 2017 as was appointed as Chair in June 2023.
Lorraine received a national award ‘Best Council to do Business With’ historically which she received at No.10 Downing St. She personally contributed to the improvement of Public Contract Regulations 2015 and Lord Young’s Reforms as she attended a Select Committee in the House of Commons to respond to a Public Procurement Review. Lorraine was also highly commended in Leadership at the National Social Value Conference 2020 and STAR won an award for embedding Social Value into the procurement processes in 2021.
Sergiy Boote
CEO

Since 2017 Sergiy has been working at Prozorro.Sale as CFO, and since July 2022, he has worked as the company's CEO.
From 2015 to 2017, he worked on a consulting project on business process optimization and automation for the Frankfurt office of Ernst and Young GmbH (one of the Big Four companies), where he was involved in implementing the data analysis process.
From 2004 to 2007, he worked as an external consultant on finance, financial accounting, accounting reporting, and business process optimization in the Kyiv and Donetsk offices of Ernst and Young GmbH.
He has experience in financial and operational management. Sergiy worked for eight years at Starlight Media Holding, including as Deputy CFO.
Jane Lynch
Director - Centre of Public Value Procurement

Jane is a Professor in Procurement for the Logistics and Operations Management (LOM) section of Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. Jane’s subject areas for research and teaching include innovation and social public procurement, supply chain management, and collaboration. Jane is the strategic lead for Procurement Labs in a WEFO funded project, Infuse (Innovation of Future Public Services). Jane is Programme Director for the UK Government funded 'Help to Grow Management' programme delivered at Cardiff Buisness School aimed at supporting SMEs with business growth. Additional Roles: Member of IRSPP (international research study on public procurement) Branch Chair of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) South Wales Associate Director (MICW) of Institute for Collaborative Working (ICW), Cymru.
Laura Sellers
Executive and Leadership Coach

Laura is a EMCC accredited Executive and Leadership coach, with 10+ years' experience in leadership and management roles in Procurement & Supply Chain businesses, supporting Procurement teams to deliver value through employee engagement and change management initiatives. Laura has broad experience of working across global organisations in both the private and public sector, both in the UK and in Europe, gaining invaluable business, cultural and multilingual experience across large teams.
Laura delivers bespoke coaching & leadership development programmes for Procurement leaders & their teams, blending 1:1 and team approaches to support them in driving a greater strategic impact within their organisation. In her work, Laura holds a judgement-free and confidential space for CPOs and Procurement Leaders, partnering with them & their Procurement teams to increase their self-awareness, soft skills and confidence, so that they can increase their impact within their organisation in a way that supports their wellbeing.
Ian Schollar
Head of Teaching and Learning

Ian Schollar is the Head of CIPS Business Study Centre at CIPS and has had a progressive career in procurement and commercial roles spanning over 30 years in both public and private sectors. He started his career with Mallory Batteries (Duracell) in 1983, before spending 15 years working within both central and local public sector organisations. He was responsible for procuring a diverse range of categories from breathing apparatus for fire fighters to high tech radar systems for air traffic controllers.
In 1998, Ian became a Senior Advisor for Crown Agents, an International Development Agency. He was project lead on numerous capacity building projects working in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe and headed up the procurement and supply chain training at their Training Centre. Ian has worked at CIPS since 2005 and has a particular passion for professional development. Ian is a Fellow of CIPS and holds a Master’s Degree in Management, Learning and Leadership from Lancaster University Management School.
Scott Parfitt
Senior Lecturer in Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Phil McCabe
Merseyside and Cheshire Development Manager

In his present role Phil is responsible for supporting the FSB's volunteer activists and other small business members, and representing their policy positions and other interests in Merseyside and Cheshire. This includes chairing the Liverpool City Region Business Group of leading membership organisations and representing FSB in the media. He also project manages the development of the FSB's various activities. He has regularly represented the FSB on television and radio, notable appearances being the BBC’s Panorama, The One Show, Working Lunch, BBC News, Sky News and BBC Radio Four and Five.
Grahame Steed
Director of Public Policy, Research and Communications

Grahame joined BiP Solutions in 2003 as Production Director with responsibility for the multi-disciplined media and production department, including Content, Research and Distribution. Prior to that, he worked in various senior editorial and publishing roles for the media company EMAP plc.
Grahame was appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer of the BI Division in May 2012 and became Sales & Marketing Director in May 2016 with overall responsibility for driving revenues through private and public sector sales, marketing and events teams.
In January 2017, Grahame was appointed Managing Director of the Media and Marketing Solutions division of the BiP Group. In this role he assumed overall responsibility for two of BiP Group’s recent acquisitions – Pro Mark Media and Ingenium – as well as BiP Solutions’ events and training portfolio.
Following a restructure of BiP Group in April 2018, Grahame was appointed Sales and Marketing Director for the Business Intelligence and Public Sector business units, before subsequently being appointed Director of Public Policy, Research and Communications in 2023.
John Wallace
Director of Procurement

John began his career as a laboratory assistant before becoming a qualified Master Brewer. Having spent 10 years in brewing production, John moved onto various procurement roles in the industry prior to spending 2 years in the food industry working for one of the country’s leading chilled food producers. In 2006, he joined the NHS being involved in the growth and development of two regional procurement organisations before joining Anchor 2 years ago in the role of Head of Procurement and Purchasing.
Michelle McCann
Chief Sustainability & Innovation Officer

NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP) is one of four national NHS procurement hubs serving the health community in London and beyond. Our members extend across the acute, community and mental health sectors, as well as primary care and clinical commissioning.
Carl Thomas
Procurement Reform Stakeholder and Policy Lead

Carl has a wealth of public procurement experience, having previously led the award-winning procurement team at one of Wales’ largest housing associations. Before joining Welsh Government, Carl worked for the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), where he taught procurement and contract management best practice to public and private sector organisations across the globe.
Carl also played an important role in CIPS’ work post-Grenfell, and supported the work of Working Group 11 to agree specific procurement competence levels for people involved in the construction of new higher risk residential buildings. In his current role, Carl is responsible for developing Welsh Government’s wider Procurement Reform engagement activity, working closely with stakeholders across the Welsh public sector to ensure that they are ready to maximise the opportunities arising from procurement reform.
Procurex England 2025 Themes
2025 Event Sponsors
Amazon Business
Corporate Sponsor
Stand Number: 81

Amazon Business helps millions of customers worldwide—from small businesses, schools, hospitals, non-profit organizations, and government agencies, to large enterprises with global operations—reshape their procurement with cost and time-savings, greater productivity, and insightful purchasing analytics.
Blackhawk Network
Corporate Sponsor
Stand Number: 82

Blackhawk Network (BHN) is your premier alternative payments solutions partner, specialising in supporting public sector fund disbursement programs. With a focus on seamless transactions and financial empowerment, we deliver innovative solutions tailored to the unique needs of local councils and central government bodies. Additionally, our Employee Benefits offering ensures comprehensive support for organisations, fostering financial wellness, employee satisfaction, and performance.
YPO
Lanyard Sponsor
Stand Number: 28

YPO have 50 years of experience in helping the public sector achieve the best possible value when buying products and services. We’re dedicated to providing great support and added value, as well as meeting the public sectors changing needs for greater flexibility, innovation, and sustainability. From finding and assessing vendors to negotiating contracts and maintaining supplier relationships, we can provide support to help your procurement process. We can increase productivity, lower risks, and guarantee on-time delivery of goods and services with our optimised procedures and our flexible solutions. By working together, we can assist with the complexities of procurement while you concentrate on your main business operations.
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