Head of Customer and Digital Services for Caerphilly County Borough Council. Liz has 34 years public sector experience. Liz has recently been appointed to the new role of Head of Customer and Digital Services which is responsible for the Customer and Digital transformation programme within Caerphilly. Liz heads up a team of 160 staff which covers Corporate Customer Service, Digital Services and Procurement Services. During the last 16 years Liz has developed the Procurement function within Caerphilly into a centralised approach. The organisations spend is categorised into levels of strategic importance and opportunities for collaboration. SME development and e-procurement has been a focal point for development. Caerphilly Programme for Procurement was approved in May 2018 with a strong emphasis social and environmental benefits. Appointed to the new role of Digital lead in August this year Liz is keen to embrace emerging technologies to bring the very best services to the citizens of Caerphilly.

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.

Helen has worked in purchasing & supply / procurement since 2002 and became a full member of CIPS in 2008. She is currently Head of Procurement and Contracting with responsibility for managing the corporate procurement function in order to meet the Service’s strategic and operational objectives. She is also responsible for the provision of professional expertise and the development, review and implementation of all procurement strategies, policies and procedures to ensure that the Service maintains legal and regulatory compliance during procurement activities. Helen was Chair of the CIPS West Wales branch from October 2011 to November 2013 after having been Publicity Officer for the previous two years.

With a career spanning the retail, hospitality, FMCG and Higher Education sectors, Catherine is not your typical procurement professional - she began her career in sales, before moving into training, product marketing, category management and then, as many do, ‘fell’ into procurement, and more specifically indirect procurement. With a passion for adding value and making a difference be it commercially or through developing procurement talent, Catherine’s mix of private and now public (HE) sector experience enables her to bring change and a different lens to procurement at USW, balancing commerciality with the legislative requirements of the sector.

Matthew is currently the Deputy Head of Commercial Services at Digital Health and Care Wales and has responsibility for all procurement and sourcing of national digital clinical systems and IT Contracts for DHCW and the NHS in Wales. He has been a proud member of procurement in NHS for the past 15 years and has worked across multiple commodity areas including medial, pharmaceutical and utilities before joining DHCW 8 years ago. Recent engagements for DHCW have included acting as commercial lead for the procurement of national systems for Laboratory Information Management, Radiology Imaging solutions and Pharmacy and ePrescribing systems for the whole of Wales. Digital Health and Care Wales is part of the NHS Wales family and a trusted partner. DHCW is taking forward the next generation of services needed to transform health and care delivery to provide world leading digital services, empowering people to live healthier lives.