Strategic Advisory Board - Members
STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD
Duncan Eaton, Chair
Duncan was a Non-Executive Director of BiP Solutions from 2006 to 2009.
Duncan has over 40 years’ experience in public sector and civil service management and procurement, operating at chief executive level for 16 of those years. He established and was CEO of the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency between 2000 and 2006.
He is a past President of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) and the Health Care Supply Association, and is a recipient of lifetime achievement awards from both Government Opportunities (GO) magazine and the Health Care Supply Association. He also received the Swinbank Medal from CIPS.
Duncan is a Non-Executive Director of several health care-related companies and has been a member of two OGC Procurement Capability Review teams. He is also the Special Advisor to an All Party Parliamentary Health Group.
John Kane
John is a senior manager within Scottish Enterprise, and is part of a team focused on the organisation’s ‘Companies of Scale’ initiative, which is tasked with supporting ambitious companies with the aim to scale their business towards turnover of £50m. The focus is on the leadership, development and management teams who will deliver fast sustainable growth for their companies and the Scottish economy.
John has worked with Scottish Enterprise since 1991, always maintaining a customer-facing role within the organisation. His role within the Strategic Advisory Board will enable BiP Solutions to link into his extensive network of contacts.
Chris Kynaston
Chris has extensive strategic sourcing and interim management experience in functional leadership positions. A strong recent public sector focus complements previous industry experience in financial services and global telecommunications. Chris established his own company, Synergy Procurement Services Ltd, and has successfully developed high-profile public sector clients.
In his most recent assignment as interim Head of Commercial Delivery with the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), Chris provided significant leadership to the establishment of a collaborative Information and Communications Technology (ICT) category team, as well as a strategy to address pan-public sector ICT spend exceeding £13bn, thereby positioning OGC strongly in major strategic initiatives in Government ICT such as the Public Sector Network Programme.
Prior to this he was appointed Procurement Consultant to the Department of Health’s Care Services Efficiency Delivery programme, supporting delivery of efficiency improvements, market development initiatives and procurement collaboration within local government.
In October 2005, Chris was Procurement Development Director within the OGC’s Procurement Efficiency team, where he led engagement with the Department of Health and was tasked with delivery of a procurement efficiency contribution of over £1bn, as well as driving cross-government collaboration. He established a client engagement and action plan to underpin the introduction of supply chain initiatives designed to support a £250m programme of efficiencies in support of care service reforms.
Tom Logan
Tom has some 40 years’ experience in procurement and logistic support within the Ministry of Defence from which he recently retired as a Commercial Director. He has a wide ranging background in collaborative aerospace programmes and US ‘off-the-shelf’ procurements. In the course of his MOD career Tom was involved in several multibillion-pound equipment procurements (Typhoon, Apache, C17, A400M) as well as being responsible for several accommodation-based Private Finance Initiative (PFI) programmes.
As a Procurement Director, Tom was one of the team responsible for the introduction of procurement reform to the MOD and has retained a keen interest in procurement matters ever since. Prior to his retirement, he was responsible for the Professional Services, Energy and Office Solutions Categories within the MOD and played a leading role in Office of Government Commerce and pan-Government initiatives in these areas.
Tom is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for BiP’s Government Opportunities magazine and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
Niall Stuart
Niall is the Chief Executive of Scottish Renewables, the forum for Scotland’s renewable energy industry.
Prior to this, he was Press and Government Affairs Manager at the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI). In this role he was responsible for maximising the public and political profile of the SCDI, on behalf of its 1200 members in business, local authorities, enterprise, academia and the trade union movement across Scotland.
Before joining SCDI, Niall spent five years at the Federation of Small Businesses, where he ran the Scottish Press and Parliamentary Office. Previously, he worked for Anne Begg MP at Westminster and in her constituency of Aberdeen South.
John Tizard
John is the Director of the Centre for Public Service Partnerships (CPSP) at the University of Birmingham. The CPSP, which John set up in 2008, is a research centre and policy institute focused on public service partnering including Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and public sector agency collaboration, with an emphasis on new models and better ways of partnering.
Previously John was Group Director of Government and Business Engagement for Capita Group plc. He supported Capita's public and private sector market-facing businesses, its public services strategy and its management of the associated regulatory, legislation and policy issues. He was an executive adviser to the CBI’s Public Services Strategy Board and chair of its Public Services Employment Advisory Group. He has risen to prominence as a proponent of cross-over between the public and private sectors.
Prior to joining Capita in 1997, he worked in the third sector and latterly was Director of Strategy and Policy at Scope.
John has over 18 years' experience as a county councillor and for eight years was joint leader of Bedfordshire County Council. He has Board experience with the NHS (community care trust), a police authority, a school governing body (as chair), a national housing association, and within the voluntary sector, besides serving on local government committees at a European level.
David Worrall
David has 40 years’ experience in procurement with a number of local authorities, previously as Head of Procurement for Sefton Council on Merseyside and more recently as Assistant Director with Oldham Council in Greater Manchester.
He also represented the North West Region on the Society of Procurement Officers in Local Government (SOPO) National Executive Committee for a number of years, actively promoting the role within local authorities and contributing to a number of national initiatives.
A previous Branch Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, David served for a number of years as the North West Regional Chair for the Institute, gaining the prestigious Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession in 2002.
David has actively promoted the work and achievements of the procurement profession, highlighting how effective procurement adds value to any organisation.
