2021 Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Baroness Barran MBE
Baroness Barran was appointed as the Minister for Civil Society for the UK Government on 26 July 2019. In this role she is responsible for policy related to the UK's Civil Society, including but not restricted to responsible business and social enterprise, youth and social action, and loneliness. She was the founder and Chief Executive of SafeLives from 2004-2017, a national charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse. She was head of grant development at the think tank New Philanthropy Capital from 2001 to 2004, and worked in asset management before founding one of the first European hedge funds in 1993. Baroness Barran was a trustee at the Royal Foundation and Comic Relief, and was chair of the Henry Smith Charity. She received the Beacon Prize for England in November 2007 and an MBE in 2011 for her work addressing domestic violence.
Andy Burnham
As Mayor of GM Andy’s priorities include ending rough sleeping, transforming Greater Manchester into one of the greenest city regions in Europe, and making Greater Manchester a great place to live, get on, and grow old. Before being elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy was MP for Leigh from 2001. In government, Andy has held Ministerial positions at the Home Office, Department of Health and the Treasury. In 2008 he became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, before returning to Health as Secretary of State in 2009.
Claire Dove CBE
Claire has been a key player in the Voluntary, Charity and Social Enterprise movement since the 1980's and is the national Crown Representative for the VCSE Sector with the remit of supporting the sector to access government contracts. Claire nationally and internationally is known for her work in the sector and for ten years chaired Social Enterprise UK. She worked with government and leaders from the sector to create the first strategy for the Social Enterprise movement. She has ensured that we had a voice within Westminster and Whitehall, this included working with the teams to introduce the Social Value Act which is now embedded into many local government frameworks and in the national Crown Commercial procurement service. After stepping down as chair of SEUK Claire was asked and accepted to become a patron to the organisation. Claire led the highly successful Blackburne House Group, until she retired in July 2020. Blackburne House offers an outstanding educational offer to women alongside running its award-winning School for Social Entrepreneurship and highly successful social enterprises. Claire has received many awards for her role within the sector, which includes an MBE, OBE and also the Queens Lifetime achievement award for Enterprise promotion. Claire was once again honoured in the 2020 New Year’s honours list with a CBE.
Sophie Bellon
Sophie Bellon started her career in 1984, in finance in the United States. She joined Sodexo in 1994 and participated in key milestones in the company’s development. Sophie Bellon has been Chairwoman of Sodexo’s Board of Directors since January 2016. She continues to develop the Group with the ambition to adapt the company to a fast-changing world while upholding Sodexo’s powerful fundamentals, including the combination of economic performance and social progress. Sophie Bellon is also a member of L’Oréal’s Board of Directors.
Edward Vaughan Dixon
Edward is Head of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) for Aviva Investors’ £52bn Real Assets platform, leading the firm’s ESG strategy across real estate and infrastructure investment, development and asset management. Ed has 18 years’ industry experience, and most recently held the role of Sustainability Insights Director at Landsec, joining the business in January 2016 to lead integration of the company's sustainability strategy through strategy, research and governance functions. Ed is a recent graduate of the Sustainability Leadership course at Harvard in Boston, USA. He holds an Executive MBA with Distinction from Cass, one of the UK’s highest-ranking business schools.
Plenary KEYNOTE speakers
Paul Dennett
Paul was elected as Councillor for Langworthy in 2012, combining his lecturing role at Manchester Metropolitan Business School with his appointment as Strategic Assistant Mayor for Workforce and Industrial Relations. In May 2016, Paul was elected as City Mayor for Salford City Council.
Paul has a long history of campaigning on social issues, introducing the city’s Equality Strategy, Tackling Poverty Strategy, the City Mayor's Charter for Employment Standards, the Living Wage campaign and the 10 per cent better in Salford campaign.
Paul currently holds the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Portfolio Lead for Housing, Homelessness and Infrastructure.
Amy Harhoff
Amy is Corporate Director of Regeneration and Growth for Durham County Council, one of the largest local authorities in the UK.
Amy has previously held senior roles in local government in two large metropolitan authorities in the West Midlands and Sheffield City Region, passionate about communities and our potential for growth, Amy has also held senior roles for Transport for the North, Sheffield City Region and Transport for Greater Manchester.
Amy has a breadth of experience in delivering major investments, strategy and development, she is an active member of SOLACE and was Named as Planning Magazines ‘Ones to Watch’ and is a previous winner of the prestigious McKibben Research Prize for Freight on logistics.
She is passionate about local wealth building and equality of opportunity for all.
Stuart Fiertz
Stuart Fiertz is the Co-Founder, President and Head of Responsible Investment at Cheyne Capital.
Stuart has over 30 years’ experience in investment research and management. Prior to establishing Cheyne in June 2000, Stuart was responsible for credit research and customised portfolio solutions in Morgan Stanley’s convertible bond practice, following several years in credit and equity research at Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch.
Stuart is passionate about responsible investing and was a key architect of Cheyne’s launch in social impact in 2014. Stuart participates actively in the investment industry dialogue, speaking frequently at events and summits.
He is a CFA® charterholder and a CAIA designee. He is chairman of the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) and a Founder & Trustee of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI). From 2014 until 2020, Stuart was also a council director of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) board. Stuart was educated at the International School of Geneva and at Dartmouth College where he was awarded a BA degree in Political Science and Economics.
Alderman Vincent Keaveny
Vincent is Alderman for the Ward of Farringdon Within in the City of London and, subject to election, is in line to be Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2020/2021. He is a partner in the international business law firm, DLA Piper. Since his election to the City of London in 2013 he has served on a number of City of London Corporation Committees including Finance, City Bridge Trust and Planning & Transportation. He is currently a member of the Policy & Resources Committee, Freedom Applications Committee and the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Sub-committee. He also a Governor of the City of London School. Vincent is Co-Chair of the HMT & BEIS Socio-Economic Diversity Taskforce. Vincent was Sheriff of the City of London for the year 2018/19.
Dame Elizabeth Corley
Elizabeth’s career has been in financial services. She was CEO of Allianz Global Investors, initially for Europe and then globally, from 2005 to 2016. She continued to act as an advisor to the company in various capacities until the end of 2019. Elizabeth was previously at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (formerly Mercury Asset Management), Coopers & Lybrand, where she was a consulting partner and at Sun Alliance.
She is a non-executive director of Pearson plc, BAE Systems plc and Morgan Stanley Inc.
She is chair of the Impact Investing Institute; a director of the Green Finance Institute; serves on the investment committee of the Leverhulme Trust; is a member of the CFA Future of Finance Advisory Council, AQR Asset Management Institute, the Committee of 200 and the 300 Club.
As well as being a trustee of the British Museum, Elizabeth is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is also a published author of crime thrillers. She was awarded a CBE in January 2015 and a DBE in June 2019 for services to the economy and financial services.
In 2016 Elizabeth received an honorary doctorate from the London Institute of Banking and Finance (formerly the IFS University College) and in June 2019 she was made an honorary fellow of the London Business School.
Cllr John Cotton
John Cotton was first elected to Birmingham City Council in 1999 and represents the Glebe Farm and Tile Cross Ward in the east of the city. He is the Council’s Cabinet Member for Social Inclusion, Community Safety & Equalities, responsible for leading the city’s efforts to tackle social and economic injustice and building stronger safer communities.
John has previously held Cabinet portfolios covering adult social care, public health and housing, which also reflect his passionate interest in tackling the root causes of poverty and disadvantage.
Adam Papaphilippopoulos
Adam is the Chief Operating Officer of First Love Foundation, a nationally respected charity working with people in East London who are in crisis, helping them build back to sustainably independent lives. He started volunteering with First Love in 2011, became a trustee in 2016 and stood down from the board to join the executive team in 2020. Before this role, Adam was the COO of a boutique consultancy and a City solicitor.
Dr Sally Uren OBE
Sally is Chief Executive at Forum for the Future with overall responsibility for delivering Forum’s mission to accelerate a big shift towards a sustainable future by catalysing transformational change in global systems. This involves working with leading global organisations, including businesses such as Olam and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Foundations, such as the Laudes Foundation, and membership organisations, such as the United Nations Global Compact, both in one to one partnerships, and also as part of multi-stakeholder collaborations designed to address complex challenges in systems as diverse as food, energy, apparel and shipping. Sally is currently directly involved in a number of projects including Cotton 2040, a multi-stakeholder collaboration designed to accelerate the mainstreaming of sustainable cotton, and Growing our Future, a collaborative project designed to scale regenerative agriculture in the US. Sally also helped initiate Net Positive, a coalition of leading businesses, all working to define the next wave of corporate sustainability. Sally is currently working to define and operationalise Net Positive Plus – regenerative and just.
Neil McInroy
Neil is CEO of CLES - the national organisation for progressive local economies. CLES’s aim is to achieve social justice, good local economies and effective public services for everyone, everywhere. Their work is focussed around the intersection between policy theory and practice, reflected in CLES as a ‘think and do’ tank. In these time of huge economic, social and environmental crises, CLES is about developing workable policy and practice, amongst a range of work relating to public services, democracy, green new deal and place making, and progressing Community Wealth Building in the UK.
Shuen Chan
Shuen is Head of ESG at LGIM Real Assets. She brings 25 years of experience and a successful track record in capital markets and asset management with a specialisation in responsible investing (ESG), climate change and impact investing. She was previously co-founder of a purpose-driven ESG advisory firm that helped institutional investors build the case for sustainable investments and the transition to a low carbon economy and society. Shuen was previously a founding team member of one of the fastest growing credit asset management firms in Europe, European Credit Management (ECM) now part of Wells Fargo Asset Management, where she was Head of Structured Product Origination. Shuen’s early career was with debt capital markets teams at Deutsche Bank, Macquarie and HSBC across Asia and Europe. Shuen currently serves on the CFA ESG Advisory panel and is also a co-author of the new CFA ESG certification. She is also an independent trustee of The Lightbulb Trust, a foundation that supports the education and literacy sector through grant giving and impact investing.
Colin Macpherson
Colin is responsible for ENGIE’s Places & Communities business that offers Local Government and Registered Providers the expertise and affordable, renewable solutions that help to shape and reinforce sustainable communities.
The business is focused on regeneration and the construction and refurbishment of the built environment. In addition, the ENGIE Places & Communities team continues to work with local authorities to identify not only what has to be done now to lead the transition to net zero carbon, but also how key stakeholder behaviours need to change. The fact remains that having navigated the last six months, local authorities are still faced with the far greater threat and ever looming implications of climate change.
Sean Haley
Sean Haley has been Sodexo’s Chief Executive Officer of Service Operations Worldwide with responsibility for procurement since June 2018, and a member of the Group Executive Committee since March 2018. He has been Chairman of Sodexo, UK & Ireland since 2016. Since joining Sodexo in 2011 Sean has played a critical role in supporting the transformation of the business. He has over 30 years’ experience of both public and private sector outsourcing. Sean holds a Bachelor of Science degree (Hons) in Quantity Surveying from the University of Leeds. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Outside of work, Sean is a Director of Springboard, a charity which supports disadvantaged and underprivileged individuals with employment opportunities within the hospitality, leisure and tourism industry.
Malcolm Harrison
Malcolm Harrison joined CIPS in July 2018 after a broad and varied career spanning over 30 years. Having experienced many different sectors, geographies and senior leadership roles, Malcolm is passionate that Procurement and Supply is the key differentiator for any organisation. In his early career he worked in Production, Sales, Procurement, Supply Chain, and HR with Mars Confectionery, Pedigree Petfoods and Bass. From 2000 he created and led global Procurement for Interbrew in Belgium, and was subsequently appointed Chief Procurement Officer of InBev. In 2006 Malcolm joined Nestlé SA in Switzerland as CPO responsible for one of the largest and most complex FMCG procurement spends in the world; he put a real focus on building capability and driving engagement of the procurement function with the Nestlé businesses. In 2010 he was appointed CEO of the global Plastic Packaging division, and a member of the Executive, of Rexam plc the FTSE 100 consumer packaging company. From 2015, Malcolm worked in the Cabinet Office of the UK Government where he held the role of CEO of the Crown Commercial Service, overseeing an annual spend of more than £13 Bn on common goods and services across the UK public sector. He also had responsibility for UK Public Sector Procurement Policy and for supporting the UK Government’s initiatives with SMEs. Having established and developed several Procurement functions over the span of his career Malcolm wants CIPS to drive the profession forward, with continual professional learning at the heart of the agenda for procurement and supply professionals. Ensuring CIPS remains as the global voice for the profession is critical to Malcolm’s future vision for CIPS, helping to ensure that CIPS can continue to represent the profession at the highest levels and to promote Procurement and Supply as a great career.
Laura Neville
Laura Neville is Global Responsible Sourcing Lead for Compass Group PLC, the world’s largest foodservice organisation. Laura leads Compass Group’s global commitments for it’s Better for the World strategy, which include responsible sourcing, enriching local communities and collaboration for big change. Laura’s role includes developing the award winning social procurement programme of work ‘Buy Social for a Better World’ which she led in the UK to a Global roll out across Compass Group’s largest markets.
Claire Costello
Claire is Group CPO, part of the Co-op leadership team and supports the whole Co-op Group including Retail, NISA, Funeral Care, Ventures and Insurance as well as the end to end risk management for Goods Not for Resale spend. With strong commercial delivery as a given, it is the focus on supporting the Co-op vision of Co-operating for a Fairer World that drives the energy to embed the broader social value agenda with their supplier partners. Having over 20 years’ experience in Procurement, working in and with different markets, Claire is passionate about building successful, challenging and co-operative partnerships.
Speakers
Aaron Reid
Aaron Reid is Head of Sustainability & Sustainable Procurement at Balfour Beatty, a leading international infrastructure group who finance, develop, build and maintain innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins daily life, supports communities and enables economic growth. Aaron Reid is a sustainable procurement and supply chain diversity specialist who has gained valuable insights from working at the cutting-edge of the agenda in both the public and private sectors.
Agnese Mizia
Agnese is Head of Research and Innovation at the Social Value Portal, where she leads the development work on social value design and measurement solutions. With 10 years’ experience in socio-economic research and social innovation, Agnese’s work focuses on valuation methodologies and research partnerships. She has led the technical development of the National TOMs Framework for social value measurement. Agnese has previously worked as a researcher in academia and as an innovation consultant with a focus on the third sector.
Alice Horn
Over the last 18 months Alice’s focus has been on the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales' first Section 20 Review, to gain a more detailed understanding of how efforts to embed the Act into procurement decisions are helping public bodies to meet, or take steps to meet, their well-being objectives and to further understand how public bodies are taking account of the statutory ways of working, particularly considering long-term impact, within their approach to procurement.
As part the Welsh TOMs Taskforce, her priority was to ensure the framework was developed in a way that helps organisations to meet their organisational well-being objectives, and in turn contributing to the seven national well-being goals.
Alfred Gilbert
Alfie Gilbert MSC PIEMA is a sustainability consultant for Action Sustainability. His work focuses on helping clients from across the built environment to better understand and manage sustainability performance with an emphasis on social value. He helps clients increase their maturity around social value, whether this in relation to process and strategy, action-planning and implementation, management and measurement (including monetisation of value where relevant), or reporting. He also supports the delivery of Action Sustainability’s award winning Sustainability Tool, and leads in regards to the development and integration of social value measurement on the platform. Recent clients support around the social value agenda include: Siemens Rail Infrastructure, Network Rail, Houses of Parliament Northern Estate Programme and EKFB (HS2 joint venture).
Andra Ulianov
As the Head of Procurement and Contracting in Hammersmith & Fulham Council, it is my responsibility to oversee all procurement activities in the organisation. Once the Social Value Strategy was approved in June 2020, I worked closely with the Social Value Officer and other key stakeholders to ensure all contracts over £100,000 deliver Social Value in line with the organisation’s priorities by amending all procurement templates and contracts standard T&Cs.
Angela Halliday
Angela joined Sodexo in 2008 having spent most of her career within the third sector in policy, strategic development and operational roles.
In September 2019, Angela was appointed as Director of Social Impact UK&I to lead on embedding and optimising the creation of social value across the business; driving local and national priorities whilst evidencing positive social impact for its people, planet, places and partners.
Having had worked across multiple sectors including employability & skills, learning, government, health, community regeneration, Angela aims to draw on her experience to inform the embedding and optimising the creation of social value, supporting the executive leadership team by driving their strategy of improving Quality of Life for its employees, consumers and the communities where they operate.
Angela Jewell
Angela Jewell is Community Engagement Manager at King’s Cross for Argent. Her role is to develop strong local relationships and to use these to support projects with local schools and the voluntary sector, and to enable local employment and training opportunities. As King’s Cross continues to develop, Angela is focused on integrating new business occupiers with the community on the estate and beyond, supporting local socio-economic and well-being outcomes, and working to understand the social value that King’s Cross can generate.
Anna McChesney-Gordon
Anna leads the consultancy team at the Social Value Portal which delivers a range of services such as developing social value statements for planning applications, conducting local needs analyses and producing corporate social value strategies. In addition, Anna has responsibility for developing the company’s approach to measuring the social value generated by investments, and reporting this in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Antony Mitchell
Antony has a wealth of experience at Commerce Decisions where he has spent over 9 years working with Government Procuring Authorities, delivering best possible outcomes on strategic sourcing projects covering Defence, Healthcare, Major Infrastructure (Road and Rail), Local and Regional Government, and Education.
In addition to providing advice on best practice procurement approaches for a wide range of Procuring Authorities, Antony also has long-standing experience in helping bidders better understand how they can improve their tender submissions on major Government contracts. Using this wealth of experience, Antony now heads the Consultancy offering from Commerce Decisions as Sector Lead for Government and Regional Procurements and Bidside support activities.
Arnab Dutt OBE
Arnab Dutt is chair of the Social Value Policy Unit at the Federation of Small Businesses. He chairs the working group on Social Value Procurement for the Cabinet Office SME panel which advises government on small business policy. He is a member of the National Social Value Taskforce, a business owner, a Board adviser to a number of organisations and a passionate public advocate for the importance of purpose driven business.
Barry White
Barry is Chief Executive for Transport for the North.
Barry initially served in the Army, then led major projects for construction companies and latterly has held leadership roles in the public sector to develop and deliver major investment programmes, with a particular passion for transport, affordable housing and improving digital connectivity. In his current role, the development of transport networks to improve opportunities and the quality of life for people and communities in the north of England is at the heart of TfN's work. Whether it be mega projects such as the £39bn Northern Powerhouse Rail project or smaller projects such as a station reopening, improving the frequency of train services, or improving the road connectivity to a port, TfN, as England’s first Sub-national Transport Body, gives the North a strong, unified and determined voice on transport investment to benefit the region.
Ben Carpenter
Ben Carpenter is the chief executive of Social Value International leading a global network of practitioners to develop principles and standards for social value accounting. Prior to becoming CEO, Ben led Social Value UK; developing the organisational membership, the assurance and accreditation services and the global value exchange. Ben has led pioneering IMM projects with the United Nations Development Program, the OECD, Impact Management Project and World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Ben co-authored the Maximise your Impact Guide, The BS8950 Guide to enhancing Social Value and a chapter on Assurance for Generation Impact. Ben’s background in asset management, the built environment and social housing and homelessness affords him experience that spans sectors and an in-depth knowledge of Social Value accounting.
Bianca Goulden
With over 10 years’ experience in affordable housing including a background in housing management and community development, Bianca now specialises in regeneration. She is passionate about fostering stronger communities and is responsible for delivering the community and resident strategies for the South Acton masterplan in LB Ealing (3,400 plus homes) and regeneration schemes pan London. Bianca is currently developing L&Q’s internal 5-year regeneration strategy. She holds a distinction in Urban Regeneration (MA), is currently a ‘Future London Leader Candidate’ (FOL) and was shortlisted for the ‘Professional Women of the Year’ at the UK’s Women in Housing Awards 2019.
Campbell McDonald
Campbell jointly leads on social value on the Cabinet Office SME Panel, sits on the National Social Value Taskforce and is Chief Executive of the charitable think tank Ownership at Work. Campbell was the co-founder of social advisory firm Baxendale, ranked as a Best in the World B Corp for last 3 years running.
Carley Bright
Carley Bright is the General Manager at 245 Hammersmith Road for BNP Paribas Real Estate on behalf of Legal and General and Mitsubishi Estates. She has 8 years experience in property management and has been managing 245 for 17 months since practical completion. Her and the team at 245 are actively creating a connected neighbourhood vibe at 245 that can really benefit the wider community. They want 245 to be a place you want to work, play and give back to others. Carley is extremely dedicated to social value and drives into her everyday management and home life.
Carol Glenn
Carol has worked for 11 years within the procurement team at Solihull MBC. She became the Social Value Programme Manager at the Council in May 2019, devoting 100% of her time working to embed Social Value into the procurement process. Through development of a Social Value Policy, implementing the TOMs, and working with colleagues, partners and suppliers to raise awareness of Social Value, we are now starting to realise the benefits that Social Value can bring to the local community within the borough.
Catherine Sermon
Catherine holds the post of Campaigns & Content Director, with responsibility for Business in the Community’s thought leadership, campaigns and member content across the responsible business agenda.
She has held various posts since joining Business in the Community in 1998, after completing a Master of Arts in Marketing. This includes campaigning, research and development, and advisory services work predominantly across community and workplace teams. This has included establishing the Business Action on Health campaign in 2005 and leading the strategic direction of all community campaigns from 2008 to 2010.
From 2013 – 2018 as Employment Director, Catherine led BITC’s work to increase access to quality and sustainable work for people facing disadvantage, including responsibility across workstreams as diverse as Age at Work, ex-offenders and refugees as well as BITC’s national flagship Ready for Work programme.
Charlene Maginnis
Charlene is the Head of Policy Delivery at Crown Commercial Service, moving into the policy arena after over 12 years in category and commercial roles in the public sector. During this time she worked with colleagues in Cabinet Office and Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport to deliver the pilot procurement for delivery of social value within CCS, and helping develop the recent PPN 06/20 on Social Value for Central Government.
Chichi Onyenemelu
Chichi has worked in the social housing sector, supporting the ambitions of various housing associations for over 15 years. She has led on service improvements for social value, community investment, CSR, stakeholder involvement and; grants programmes.
As the Social Value Adviser for Hyde, Chichi ensures social value expectations are imbedded into Hyde’s procurement process; working with suppliers and colleagues to maximise delivery and opportunities for beneficiaries.
A social value advocate, Chichi is founder and chair of the Social Value Leadership Group - sharing best practice, combining influence and aligning ways of working to drive social value up the agenda.
Cindy Nadesan
Cindy is the, Strategic Account Manager, Public Sector at Social Value Portal. Cindy is passionate about promoting social value and has spent the last 6 years working across the public, private and social sectors to help organisations understand how they can create and deliver additional value to communities.
Her current role focuses on enabling Public Sector organisations maximise the value from procurement spend and supplier relationships by empowering people through training, creating a culture of continuous improvement and providing the support needed to create opportunities for sustainable growth.
Claire Thorn
Claire has over 15 years experience in planning policy development, having worked on various local plans and contributed towards the development of sub-regional and regional planning policy in the North East and North West regions. Salford’s Local Plan is currently in the late stages of its production and will provide the policies for managing development that will help to deliver the council’s vision to ‘create a better and fairer Salford for all.’ The council strongly believes that development has a vital role to play in contributing to the long-term success of the city, and in particular the need for development to maximise its contribution to social inclusion where practical.
Darren Knowd
Darren leads all procurement activity at Durham County Council and is Chair of the Local Government Association National Advisory Group for Local Government Procurement. He is also the Chair of the National Social Value Taskforce on behalf of LGA.
Deborah Gaunt
Debbie is the Corporate Procurement Officer for Calderdale Council. Debbie is the Strategic Lead for all things procurement at Calderdale, working in a wide range of areas, from capital works through to service commissioning. Unusually, procurement in Calderdale sits within the Regeneration and Strategy Directorate with VCS, and business and skills colleagues to promote and directly link and grow social value in Calderdale. A previous career in central government, working on regeneration and community cohesion, sowed the seeds of a passion for social value, which continues through to now.
Derek A. Robertson
Derek is Chief Executive of the Green Action Trust, Scotland’s leading environmental regeneration charity. Prior to joining this, Derek was Chief Executive of Keep Scotland Beautiful, where he led its work on local environmental quality, climate change, sustainable development and behaviour change. Between 2005-2010 Derek was Chief Executive of environmental regeneration charity Groundwork Merseyside.
Derek is the former the President of the European Litter Prevention Association (2013-18), and Chairman of the UK Environmental Quality Alliance (2011-16). He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered Waste Manager, and a Fellow of the RSA.
Emily Alexander
Emily leads the Corporate Affairs function at Get Living, the UK’s leading build-to-rent operator of large scale residential-led neighbourhoods. Since joining Get Living in 2014, Emily has led its community and local stakeholder partnership activity, with a focus on growing and nurturing sustainable communities. Within this role, Emily is a Trustee of the East Village Trust, which runs the E20 community space ‘The Hall’. Before her role at Get Living, Emily spent more than eight years agency side working with clients across property, finance and travel in the UK and UAE.
Faye Jenkins FICRS
Faye is Head of Social Impact and Inclusion at BAM Nuttall UK. Faye leads the delivery, assurance, and governance of the BAM Nuttall enhancing lives agenda; creating positive social and economic benefits through greater access to opportunities for disadvantaged and under-represented groups through the creation of major infrastructure. Faye is a passionate campaigner for gender and disability equality, and regularly contributes to the development of UK Government legislation and policy. Faye sits on the ICE steering group for equality, diversity and inclusion led by the Infrastructure Client Group (ICG), and looks after Strategic Partnerships with the likes of WISE and Women into Construction. Faye lives in Bolton and has been in the industry for 16 years.
Flora Samuel
As Vice President for Research at the RIBA and author of Why Architects Matter (2018) Flora was lead author on the Social Value Toolkit for Architecture and has championed the social value of design across a variety of industry bodies.
Fozia Parveen
Fozia offers a blend of social value experience that encompasses both blue chip corporate management and grass roots delivery. For over 25 years, Fozia has supported numerous organisations with their corporate social responsibility initiatives, including JLL, Canary Wharf Group and British Land, plus several London Housing Authorities.
Passionate about exploring the next generation of social value measures, Fozia is a member of the National Social Value Taskforce dedicated to sharing best practice nationally. She is also part of the Central Government TOMs plug in working group with the Social Value Portal.
In addition, Fozia was a key member of the Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Apprenticeship (CRSA) Trailblazer working group, to develop the UK’s first apprenticeship in this field. This apprenticeship is now approved and Fozia’s support continues via the ‘Employer Review Group’.
ISG is dedicated to the legacy of the places it builds and the communities it builds them in. Fozia and her team want to deliver a real difference to people’s lives, and by using Appreciative Enquiry techniques, they engage and consult the community in which a project is based, involving them in setting social value objectives and targets based on local needs at that time.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, ISG has seen an increase in demand for support from community partners and clients, and Fozia has led on adapting the approach to continue to deliver valuable social impact. At the core of this support has been advice, equipment and training to empower stakeholders; enabling them to continue to learn new skills, maintain safe work or study places and sustain the delivery of community programmes, to deliver long lasting outcomes.
George Lilley
George is an experienced business leader who has worked in the FM sector since the late eighties. George has extensive and diverse knowledge, gained through various roles within private and publicly owned companies, as well as running his own successful business. Today, George is a Director of the Eric Wright Group and Managing Director of Eric Wright FM - a regional business based in the North West and proud winner of the 2019 IWFM award for Societal Impact.
Gonca Ongan
Dr. Gonca Ongan is the Managing Director of Koç University Social Impact Forum. For the last 15 years, she has built up her experience in the social economy sector. She has been teaching social impact and social entrepreneurship at Koç University and supporting social impact actors to increase their positive social impact. She has been actively training, coaching, and collaborating on social impact, sustainability, social innovation, and social entrepreneurship at national and international platforms.
Gus Tugendhat
Gus is the Founder of Tussell, a market intelligence platform on public sector contracts and spend. Tussell helps its clients do more business with government, by enabling them to discover business development opportunities in a market worth 14% of GDP.
Guy Battle
Guy works cross-industry on developing social value solutions that deliver real and tangible value. He is passionate about the contribution businesses can make to improve society – one of the driving motivations behind the creation of The Social Value Portal.
Harriet Wade
For 5 years Harriet has supported the delivery of social value on ISG projects in Wales and West of England. During this time Harriet has completed a BA (Hons) in inclusive studies. Harriet is passionate about encouraging young people to look at the construction industry as a career. Through this Harriet does many educational talks around working within the construction sector and working for ISG. She is also a keen advocate for inclusivity for those furthest from the labour market and has developed a number of projects with HMP. She has also work with many local charities such as the Wallich to look at finding training and new job opportunities for homeless individuals.
Huw Thomas
Huw is the Director of Finance at Hywel Dda University Health Board. Originally from West Wales, Huw read Geography at University before embarking on a career in accountancy. He has worked with a variety of organisations across the UK, including banking, the not for profit sector, Local Government and the NHS. He returned home in 2018 to work for Hywel Dda, and is passionate about the role the NHS has as an anchor institution to generate public value.
A Welsh speaker, Huw lives in a small village near Llandysul and enjoys spending time with his family and walking.”
Ian Evans
Ian has over 24 years public sector experience and is currently responsible for Procurement and Information Governance within Customer & Digital Services at Caerphilly County Borough Council. He has been actively involved in successfully delivering a number of high-profile collaborative projects within Caerphilly CBC and across the Welsh Public Sector. Ian leads a team of 22 highly motivated individuals with a strong emphasis on teamwork and a can-do attitude. This is demonstrated by the team’s recent achievements at this year’s GO Awards Wales and most notably Winners in the Social Value category.
Ilaria Agueci
Ilaria Agueci is the Social Value Officer for Hammersmith and Fulham Council. She has led on designing and implementing the Social Value strategy for procurement in the council with the objective of ensuring economic development in the borough is shared by all residents. She is driving collaboration between internal departments as well as engaging external stakeholders to ensure Social Value builds stronger networks within the local community. Ilaria has 8 years of experience working in local government across environment, procurement and, most recently, economic development. She has a social sciences and environment academic background.
James Parkinson
James Parkinson is a Senior Programme Manager in the GLA Regeneration Team, working to deliver place based investment projects and strategic regeneration programmes that champion good urban design across the capital. He oversees a team that focuses on supporting community-led approaches, driving social value and broadening public engagement through our work. He has a background in architecture and urban design and has worked for over ten years in regeneration and urban policy in both Yorkshire and London.
Jane O’Leary
Jane is the lead for the Vale of Glamorgan Council 21st Century Schools Programme, having responsibility for giving strategic advice to the education department and the delivery of the councils ambitious £163m 21st Century Schools programme. She has a mixed construction background having worked in both the public and private sector in a variety of areas from housing to health. Jane has also completed a secondment to the Welsh Governments 21st Century schools team. Working with both the education and treasury teams to develop the new revenue funded model for delivery of infrastructure projects, the Mutual Investment Model (MIM), giving technical advice on a part time basis
Jeff Joseph
A seasoned professional with 30 years plus experience in the world of Community & Urban Regeneration, Economic Benefits, Stakeholder Engagement and more recently Social Value. Delivering Social Value from inception to handover regardless of tenure, type of construction, size of project or sector. A strong believer in collaborative working, with a network of organisation's & partners across the UK who truly make a difference to the communities Bouygues serve; which allows us to both measure and quantify the Social Impact made and as importantly create Sustainable Communities.
Joanna Busz Dahlgren
Joanna is the social value lead for the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Social Value practitioner with excellent track record in developing innovative services across multi agency partnerships and building effective collaborations. Significant depth of experience in employability services, community wealth building, grant management, Social Value and SROI. 15 years experience in implementing strategies to promote social and economic inclusion. Hold Master Degree in Finance, Project Management and Social Value qualification.
Johnny Roscoe
Johnny operates as Performance Coordinator at SCAPE, coordinating and conducting operational activities relating to the compliance and performance management of the frameworks. Having worked within the public sector for a number of years, he works closely the SCAPE team to drive partner collaboration and client project successes.
Jos Holmes
Jos Holmes is the Local Authority Climate Action Co-ordinator for the York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership. Her role is to support the 11 Local Authorities in the area to develop and deliver climate and low carbon actions across the huge range of local authority services, to meet the regional aspiration to be carbon neutral by 2034. Prior to that, Jos was the Senior Commissioning Officer at a District Council, also writing the Council’s Climate Action Plan.
Josh Steiner
Josh Steiner is the Social Value & Sustainability Manager at Wates Group. He has 20 years’ experience in devising, winning and delivering social impact and sustainability programmes for clients in public, private, social housing and third sectors. At Wates Group he holds responsibility for overall strategic implementation and performance management of social value and key performance indicators on national public sector frameworks. Josh is currently leading national engagement programmes to extend Wates internal culture for regional and project level achievement of social value outcomes underpinned by the National TOMs.
Jude Hassall
Jude works for the Greater London Authority in the sustainable development team supporting the London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC) in their work on social value in London's regeneration and development.
Julian Blake
Julian is a Partner at Stone King LLP. Julian has specialised for 32 years as a public benefit lawyer, especially in relation to: social enterprise; stakeholder & community engagement; purposeful business; charity; and public service commissioning & innovation. He focusses on themes of: Social Value; Social Finance; and Impact Investment, working across all public service sectors. He works with E3M, which comprises groups of: CEOs of mature social enterprises; progressive commissioners; and social finance leaders. He co-authored the “The Art of the Possible in Public Procurement”, as cited in the Government’s Civil Society Strategy and LGA guidance. He promotes public service contracts as primarily practical working relationships.
Kamal Motalib
Kamal Motalib is Head of Economic Development in Hammersmith & Fulham. Kamal has over 20 years of experience in economic development with 10 years of senior leadership experience including leading on philanthropy activity across the UK for J.P. Morgan . He has worked across both, the private and public sector leading initiatives which drive inclusive economic growth. Kamal now leads a team of officers across the council who are supporting businesses in the borough as well as residents, so they can access good quality sustainable careers with a focus on resilient growth sectors. Kamal has led on the development and adoption of the Social Value Strategy for Hammersmith & Fulham and has put inclusive economic outcomes at the heart of the approach. He is keen to ensure that residents and other key stakeholders are involved in the future evolution of the approach for the council and that Social Value can contribute to achieving key objectives for the council across a range of different areas.
Karen Middlebrook
Karen has worked in local government procurement for almost 20 years. Her last 3 years have been at Rotherham as the Head of Procurement where she has been one of the key officers driving and implementing the Council's policy and approach to Social Value.
Katrina Browning
Katrina has 25 years of experience working in public sector procurement, the last 20 years whilst working for Suffolk County Council. Having worked on a broad range of contracts she has extensive experience of tendering Local Authority contracts. Over the last 2 years she has delivered a programme of workshops on Social Value to over 70 staff in commercial roles within the Council.
Kirk Newton
During a 25 year career in the food industry, most recently spent in the meat and seafood industries, Kirk has worked all over the UK and Europe. From cutting his teeth in blue chip companies, his roles have ranged from multi-nationals to 4th generation family businesses. Last year brought Kirk back to his roots, joining a family-owned dairy business in County Durham. Passionate about locally sourced food, Kirk now gets to extol the virtues of this on a daily basis!
Laura Gardiner
Laura joined the Living Wage Foundation in September 2020 as Director, covering Katherine Chapman’s maternity leave. This builds on her longstanding involvement in the movement: Laura has sat on the Living Wage Advisory Council for six years, has overseen the calculation of the Living Wage rates, and has worked to build the evidence base on the benefits of a Living Wage in the social care sector. Before joining the Living Wage Foundation, Laura was Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, overseeing the organisation’s work in a range of areas including the labour market, taxes, welfare and intergenerational issues.
Liam Ronan-Chlond
Liam is engagement and social value lead at mixed-use developer, First Base. Since joining in 2018, he has supported an expanding project pipeline across London, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge and Milton Keynes.
First Base specialises in placemaking and generating social value through a genuine mix of uses, revitalising urban centres in core cities across the UK. Partnership is key, working with local residents, businesses and stakeholders to create places that are future-enabled.
Liam’s began his career working for a Member of Parliament, followed by senior policy roles at Sheffield, Brighton and Camden Councils.
Lorraine Cox
As the Director of STAR, Lorraine has grown this public sector organisation rapidly and effectively delivering demonstrable outcomes in procurement, as well as improved efficiency and effectiveness. A key project she led on for STAR in 2019 was to implement the Social Value Portal and National TOMs. This exceeded all expectations within the first year; over £31m of contracted Social Value, reached to local businesses with the success of securing contracts representing 57%. The return against contract value hit 25%
Lucy MacNeill
Aside from her work with Eric Wright FM, Lucy is a Trustee of Westview Community Association. As part of her role, Lucy implements local initiatives for educational, social, health and personal development. Since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Lucy has also been working closely with local authorities to secure funds for food support in her local community. Lucy was awarded the ‘High Sheriff of Lancashire Award’ back in November 2020, for her endless dedication and support for people in need.
Malcolm Dare
Malcolm has over 25 years’ experience in FMCG, technology and heavy engineering industries having worked in procurement, supply chain, planning, logistics and operational roles. He has extensive complex business and functional change management experience. At business level he has delivered a very large and complex SAP implementation on time and budget. He has delivered large cross-functional cost reduction programmes where the methodology has them been permanently embedded into the business. He has successfully redesigned procurement, supply chain and logistics operations and has been used to independently review other businesses complex change / IT projects.
Malcolm Hanna
Malcolm is the Sustainability Manager for Legal & General Investment Management Real Assets. Malcolm is responsible for managing sustainability across LGIM’s Real Asset portfolio. Malcolm is an energy management and sustainability professional with over twenty five years’ experience across many sectors. He has particular expertise in developing low-carbon solutions for existing building portfolios and has substantial experience of energy-efficient design, procurement and the operational performance of buildings.
Prior to joining Legal and General Malcolm led the National Energy Foundation’s Technical Team, which was responsible for developing new tools and approaches to measure and improve the energy and environmental performance of buildings.
Malcolm has also worked for leading consultancies ENVIRON and AECOM, helping to pioneer carbon management programmes. He has delivered energy and sustainability programmes in the public sector and spent almost a decade working in the energy supply industry.
Maria Adebowale-Schwarte
Maria Adebowale-Schwarte is a placemaking and grants strategist with over 25 years cross-sector experience in heritage, human rights, improving urban places and green spaces. Her background is in planning, environment and human rights law. She is CEO of Foundation for Future London, a charity connecting local communities with the new East Bank regeneration area. Maria is a commissioner on the London Sustainable Development Commission and is Co-Chair of LSDC’s social value work. She also sits on City of London’s Culture and Commerce Taskforce. Maria is an Inaugural Fellow at the Centre for Knowledge Equity, Skoll Centre, University of Oxford
Marie Binnert
Marie is a Senior Social Value Advisor at Social Value Portal. She is the data lead for the advisory team, responsible for quality assurance, insights and benchmarks.
Mark Dickens
Mark Gibbison
Mark Gibbison is the Global Head of Public Sector for Unit4 and is responsible for setting the go to market strategy across all areas of this key vertical. He is passionate about helping public sector organisations deliver improved services at a lower cost using modern enterprise technology. He has previously held senior positions in Local Government working in IT, Corporate Policy and Performance Management as well as with technology vendors such as SAP and Objective Corporation where he was Head of UK Enterprise Sales.
Mark Tyson
Mark is Head of Property Operations at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM). He is responsible for all Property & Facilities Management operations across over 850 properties in the UK following an 18 month transformation programme to implement a new occupier focussed operating model. Previously he has held leadership roles in Mitie and Capita Real Estate with a focus on Property Management, Facilities Management and Sustainability services.
Matt Parfitt
Matt Parfitt is Managing Director at Radiant Cleaners. Wanting to employ ex-offenders Matt Parfitt left his job as a primary school teacher to start a gardening business in 2007. 10 years on he founded Radiant Cleaners, a multi-award winning social enterprise cleaning company. Based in Nottingham, Radiant Cleaners employs people within the team who have faced struggles with their mental health, been homeless, had addiction issues, ex-offenders and various other barriers. Many of the team have multiple barriers to work, but all are paid the real Living Wage or more as they create social value through working with companies such as Wates & Willmott Dixon.
Michael Halsall MCIPS
Michael is an experienced Category Manager (Place and Professional) for STAR Procurement. Michael has successfully led the implementation operationally of the Social Value Portal both within STAR and with wider internal stakeholders and the business communities. Michael has played a fundamental role in helping STAR to embed Social Value and the Portal into all procurements so it is Business As Usual throughout the STAR team, securing a more streamlined approach for the commissioners and business communities.
Nathan Goode
Nathan is Head of Data at Social Value Portal. Nathan leads Social Value Portal’s approach to social value data and analytics, and embedding TOMs-based measurement in broader social value contexts and approaches. He brings over 20 years’ experience working on evaluation, procurement and commissioning of major projects and programmes.
Nikki Rowbottom
Nikki Rowbottom is the Head of Supply Chain Management for the British Library, joining in November 2016. Nikki is a graduate of Brunel University, achieving an Upper Second Class Joint Honours degree in Economics and Management and has also been a Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply since 2003, becoming qualified in 2007 and achieving her Chartered status in 2018. Having worked in procurement and contract management roles across the private and public sector for 17 years, Nikki brings a wealth of commercial experience to the British Library, most recently expanding the remit of the procurement team to include pre and post contract management and re-branding the team to Supply Chain Management. While Nikki’s primary objective over the last 4 years has been to introduce a professional and efficient contract management mechanism to the British Library, she has also focused on incorporating responsible & sustainable procurement and focussing on how to bring social value into contracts in a research and culture based organisation. Nikki is based at the British Library’s site in Wetherby, West Yorkshire and lives near York.
Olivia Hughes
Olivia is a Social Value Development Officer at Flintshire County Council. As an experienced social value practitioner, Olivia is responsible for measuring and maximising social value across the Council, it’s services and expenditure. My main focus is on the Council’s commissioning and procurement activities, supporting key stakeholders and Council providers to drive sustainable commissioning and procurement practises, driving value for money, and unlocking real and tangible benefits for local people, communities and businesses in Flintshire. Since joining the Council in 2019, she has devised and delivered a strategic programme to support the achievement of the Council's Social Value Procurement Policy and Strategy. This has included the development of a Flintshire specific Tom’s framework aligned to local needs, to measure and maximise social value through the commissioning cycle. Olivia has also supported the developed of a bespoke system used to support key stakeholders and Council providers to measure the impact they are creating locally during the life of a contract.
Patrick Stoop
Patrick Stoop brings 40 years of experience in the public, social profit, and private sectors. He worked as advisor, consultant, trainer, coach and manager for over 300 organizations, in Belgium and in approximately 35 countries in Europe and across the world. His experience is mostly situated on the crossroads between: vision, strategy, policy & budget cycle, program/project design, planning & control, monitoring, evaluation, management, governance, internal control systems, risk management, organizational and institutional development, change processes, human resources management, financial management, system analysis, business models, business process optimization, organizational assessments, operational audits, social entrepreneurship, impact investment, etc.
Peter Schofield
Originally qualified as a Chartered Civil Engineer, Peter has had a varied career with over 40 years working strategically and operationally in the Public Sector.
Currently Head of Integrated Commissioning and Procurement at Manchester City Council, this was preceded by 7 years delivering a collaborative procurement programme for Greater Manchester, delivering efficiencies and supporting transformation across a wide range of Local Authority service areas.
Peter has promoted an emphasis on Social Value to support delivery of local and regional objectives and is currently working to improve approaches to Contract Management that will ensure that Social Value and carbon reduction are at the heart of service design and delivery.
Philipp Cyrus
Philipp is a Senior Researcher for Social Value Portal. Part of the Research, Development and Innovation team, Phillip holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from SOAS, University of London, and has several years of experience in sustainability research and consulting for private and public sector. In his position at SVP he currently focusses on National TOMs related research and development. His latest projects include the National TOMs for Wales, the Facilities Management Plug-in for the National TOMs and the National TOMs Global Goals mapping.
Phoebe Dennis
I am part of the consultancy team at Social Value Portal, where I work with private and public sector clients to produce comprehensive, needs-based and long-term social value strategies for development schemes across the UK. I previously worked in Corporate Social Responsibility in the Construction sector and have an MSc in Sustainability Consultancy.
Prys Jenkins
Prys is the social value Lead for Wales at Social Value Portal. Prys has over 25 years commercial & strategic management experience in the Business Process Outsourcing sector and a strong background in Mergers and Acquisitions activities. His recent change of career has seen him return to Wales to drive the social value message, and is passionate about his role to deliver environmental, social, economic, and cultural contributions to local communities in Wales. He is also proud to be able to utilise the Welsh language in a business context for the first time.
Prys is an avid ultra-runner and is keen on combining a little swim, cycle and run.
Rachael Mitchell
I am part of the Inclusive Economy project which is based in one of Calderdale’s most deprived wards. My role is to develop social value strategically and embed social value across Calderdale Council and its anchor organisations. Before joining Calderdale Council, I worked at Leeds City Council for ten years. My background is in housing management, neighbourhood improvement and asset-based community development.
Richard Dooner
Richard is the Welsh Local Government Association’s lead officer for procurement, facilitating the Heads of Procurement Network, supporting the reform of procurement in Wales. Richard is a keen advocate of social value, relationship-based commissioning and the reform of procurement as a lever for the delivery of local government policy.
Rosalind Goates
Rosalind leads the Department for Opportunities, the advocacy and campaigning arm of the Social Mobility Foundation. She joined the charity in September 2020 from Portland Communications, where she had been a Senior Consultant. Her previous experience includes developing campaigns for major FTSE 100’s and not for profits, both in the UK and globally, and advising purpose-led businesses on communicating their value to society.
Before Portland, Rosalind was the Public Affairs Manager at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). While at ACCA, Rosalind led the organisations advocacy work on social mobility.
Salam Alkhateeb
Salam Al-Khateeb is the founder of Social Value Arabia and a faculty member at the African Leadership University. He also serves as regional director of TSIC MENA, a specialized consultancy firm focusing on social investment and social impact
Samantha Butler
Samantha leads social value skills development and supplier engagement at the Cabinet Office. As former Head of Social Value, Social Enterprise and Commissioning Policy for the UK government, Samantha led the research and development of social value policy for the Civil Society Strategy and was joint lead for the DCMS and Cabinet Office programme to expand use of the Social Value Act across central government. A programme that will drive change in government procurement practices for an estimated £49bn of expenditure per annum. Samantha's background is in commercial strategy and policy, heading up commercial functions in private and public sector organisations.
Sarah Handley
Sarah Handley is the Head of Sustainability & Environmental Governance at Siemens Energy, a new company with a unique opportunity to shape the future of the world’s energy agenda. Previously Sarah worked as Carbon Neutral Manager at Siemens plc, leading the UK programme to meet Siemens ambitious goal to be carbon neutral by 2030. Sarah worked for 8 years as Head of Environmental Protection and Compliance at Siemens in the UK, managing programmes to improve performance across waste and energy to achieve the target ‘zero waste to landfill’ and certification to International Standard 150001 for Energy Management. Sarah is a Chartered Environmentalist and a Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA).
Sarah Ottaway
Sarah Ottaway became SUEZ recycling and recovery UK’s Sustainability and Social Value Lead in 2019, after 12 years delivering various programmes related to service enhancement, innovation and behaviour change in SUEZ’s public sector operations. In 2018 and 2019, Sarah was included in the Lets Recycle 35 under 35 “young guns” due to her efforts having a notable impact in the resources sector.
Sarah is currently responsible for developing the sustainability of SUEZ’s services and leading the continual improvement of its social value impact, while utilising her experiences to support SUEZ’s policy and circular economy activities.
Sasha Walton
Sasha Walton is the Leeds City Council’s Faster Payment / Social Value Lead. Sasha joined Leeds City Council in July 2018, previously working for Lloyds Banking Group for 14 years. Sasha is passionate about people, diversity, development, treating people fairly, being open and working together for the greater good. Sasha’s goals are to help Leeds be a compassionate city, ensure that Social Values becomes a movement and to become a strong / empathic leader.
Sofie Hooper
Sofie Hooper leads on the IWFM’s wider policy work and helps to raise the voice of the Institute, its members and the wider workplace and facilities management profession.
She translates best practice into policy objectives and engages with stakeholders to ensure best practice is taken on board and concerns affecting workplace and facilities professionals are mitigated.
Since she joined IWFM in 2017, Sofie has been working closely with the members to identify key issues and messages to be taken to government and other external stakeholders relevant to the wider FM industry.
Sol Tannir
As a Senior Social Value Advisor with a particular focus on Public Sector delivery, Sol's work focuses on the services SVP offers to its Public Sector customers as well as working with key suppliers to Public Sector to drive, measure and report on the Social & Local Economic Value they deliver.
Solo Malemo
Solo is responsible for advising the project teams in the delivery of Social Value in Area South of the UK. He develops strategic engagement plans to support project teams engage with local communities to meet their client requirements. With vast experience working with a range of communities, having fulfilled roles in community engagement and community liaison, Solo is able to identify social value opportunities whilst working in partnership with residents, community teams and local authorities.
Sophia Cox
Sophia Cox works at UKGBC, an industry led body with a mission to radically improve the sustainability of the built environment. She is currently leading their work on social value, and has recently published guides to community engagement, social value measurement and local authority social value policy. UKGBC’s Social Value Programme is about to launch a definition of social value for the built environment sector.
Stephanie Robertson
Canada and an active member of the Social Value International (SVI) board since 2012. The first accredited social value practitioner in North America (2011), Stephanie is an expert in demonstrating investment in community and society. Since 2004, SiMPACT has consulted to corporates, non-profit, social enterprise and governments across Canada on how to apply social value techniques in numerous policy and service areas that include: health, crime prevention, education, social enterprise, shelter, youth, Indigenous, infrastructure and culture, among many others.
Steve Robinson
Steve has been Head of Commissioning and Procurement at Cardiff Council since 2006. In that time he has transformed the procurement function through the implementation of category management and ensured the Council is at the forefront of delivering socially responsible procurement.
In addition to this role, Steve was the driving force behind establishment of Atebion Solutions a Cardiff Council owned trading company of which he is Managing Director, and is playing a key role in developing the collaborative agenda in Wales as Chair of the WLGA Heads of Procurement Network.
Steven Whitton
Steven is an Associate Director at Scottish Futures Trust. Steven led the migration of the hub Programme’s Community Benefit approach, to the now fully embedded Social Value model on behalf of the Programme Managers (Scottish Futures Trust)
Working with the Social Value Portal team, and the Programme’s delivery partners, the National TOMs based model was developed, specifically for use in the Programme’s procurement of community infrastructure within the Scottish market. Steven now leads the collaborative Steering Group, which was established to manage the currency of the TOMs, and to facilitate stakeholder engagement and to share learning across the Programme.
Stuart Key
Stuart is Head of Procurement at ENGIE UK & Ireland with oversight of the responsible procurement initiatives. ENGIE is an energy and customer solutions business delivering a wide range of services in the private and public sector.
With a 15-year background in trading and power generation asset management, Stuart has gained multi sector and cross cultural experience working on assignment in India and Turkey. Since joining the UK Procurement function in 2017 Stuart has supported the transformation of the team to a process and KPI led best practice approach with a sustainable approach to developing social value in the supply chain.
Stuart works closely with the Group procurement function at ENGIE in matters of governance, assurance, and financial reporting. At a global level ENGIE employs a community of 1,400 procurement professional, with 110,000 suppliers and an annual spend in excess of £20bn on goods and services.
Tania Jacobs
Responsible for managing the delivery of Social Value in area south within the ISG Construction division. Delivering strategic engagement with consideration for community and client requirements. An experienced Community Investment Manager with a background in community development and regeneration, identifying innovative opportunities working in partnership with residents, community teams and local partnerships to design and deliver high-quality community engagement strategies with the aim of developing comprehensive programmes for social sustainability with a focus on promoting legacy. Working within structured methodologies, adept at seeing the bigger picture utilising knowledge gained from communities to define and design local priorities and deliver and evaluate social value projects and targets.
Tara Spence
Tara Spence is the CEO of Home-Start in Suffolk and since taking the helm in 2015, she has been instrumental in growing the organisation by 65% and successfully merging 2 local charities to form the Home-Start in Suffolk of today. The organisation provides countywide family support through a network of more than 270 fully trained volunteers.
Tara’s wealth of experience within the voluntary sector has seen her invited to co-lead the VCSE resilience agenda as part of the North East Essex and Suffolk ICS, which includes a workstream on ensuring social value takes place across health commissioning.
Tara was awarded the High Sheriffs award for Inspirational Leadership in 2019, for work within Suffolk.
Terry Brewer
Terry is Head of Public Sector Delivery for the Social Value Portal and former Chair of the LGA’s Social Value Task Force. Up to June 2017, Terry was Divisional Director Commercial, Contracts and Procurement at LB Harrow and also ran LB Brent’s Procurement Team under a fully shared service. Prior to this he was respectively Chief Procurement Officer for the LB Camden, CEO of Firebuy and Head of Procurement for London Fire Brigade. Terry has held a number of Regional and National roles including Chair of the London Heads of Procurement Network and Deputy Chair of the Local Government.
Tessa Alcorn
Senior Consultant at Social Value Portal leading on planning and new developments. Working with clients to maximise social value through the lifetime of their projects. Developing place-based strategies to address local community needs through the planning system.
Tina Holland
Tina is the Programme Manager for the procurement and commissioning programmes within the LGA. Tina has been with the LGA since 2003 having spent the previous fifteen years as a procurement practitioner and procurement consultant, delivering procurement expertise to public, private and financial sectors. A qualified PRINCE2 and managing successful programmes (MSP) practitioner, Tina has a degree in Law and holds Chartered status of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
Cllr Tom Ross
Tom was elected to Trafford Council in May 2008 and represents Stretford Ward in the north of the borough. Over the course of his time as a councillor, Tom has taken on a range of roles including being Labour’s Opposition Spokesperson for Highways, Children and Families, and Finance. Tom was also Mayor of Trafford from 2018-19.
Tom has been the Executive Member for Finance since May 2019, a role that also covers council governance, HR and the investment portfolio. Tom also became Trafford’s representative to STAR’s Joint Committee in May 2019 and is keen to progress the social value and local spend agendas.
Tony Bailey
Tony is responsible for providing leadership and management to procurement professionals within Procurement and Commercial Services, Leeds City Council. Social Value is a key component within the procurement process and he strives to ensure it is embedded within the procurement practice at Leeds.
Tracey Harrison
Tracey has a wealth of experience across local government and the public sector. She has managed and delivered a range of pioneering projects, delivering new models of service delivery and successful outcomes for local residents in strategic roles at Rochdale Borough Council such as the design and delivery of new commissioning models across the borough. Tracey has led the way in developing a new accommodation strategy across the care sector, pioneering a new commissioning cycle model and identifying the service delivery requirements across the care market. Over the coming months she will continue to ensure social value is at heart of Rochdale’s integrated health and care system.
Wesley Ankrah
Wesley Ankrah is Founder and Managing Director of SeerBridge. Following his degree in Criminology & Sociology at the University of Brighton, Wesley has worked for not-for-profits with a focus on creating and facilitating youth engagement initiatives including training and educational programmes for the most marginalised young people across London boroughs. Wesley then worked in house for a well-known residential developer, integrating social value principles and ensuring s106 contributions were secured for legacy projects across wellbeing, education, employment and apprenticeships. In 2018 SeerBridge was formed as a community benefit consultancy advising investors, developers, planners, construction companies and key stakeholders across the built environment with regard to sustainable social value outcomes for communities.
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