Adam has worked across the public, private and third sectors, delivering social value projects and programmes for over 15 years. This area of expertise developed after being given the responsibility of refreshing the approach to community benefit within a local authority. Since joining the Centre, Adam considers that the field of social value evolved quickly and this has allowed him to shape and develop new and ground breaking projects and programmes.

Adam has helped a number of Registered Social Landlords (RSL’s) strategically review and refocus their social value aims and objectives, with a more tenant centred approach; delivered bespoke stakeholder engagement activities that support a variety organisations to understand and develop their social value reform needs.

Recent projects have included; Research and analysis for Welsh Government relating to the social value landscape in Wales, work with a variety of Local Authorities and of Public Bodies to generate procurement opportunities for social businesses and supporting private sector organisations to develop and manage their social value tender responses.

Mark is highly qualified and experienced within the private, commercial and public sector, combining many years of experience within leadership and management, accounting, law and human resource management roles.

Rhian Rogers works as part of the Welsh Government Commercial Procurement Directorate, which supports procurement for both the wider public sector and the Welsh Government.

Sue has worked in procurement policy, in Welsh Government and in Whitehall, for most of her career. She has worked on projects to improve competition for public contracts, and opportunities for SMEs and consortia bids.

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.

WLGA’s lead officer for procurement. Richard came into public procurement “From a background of Logistics, Branch Management and B2B Sales in the private sector.” Initially as one of Cardiff Councils operational procurement team where he ran the County Supplies Catalogue and a delegated suite of procurement frameworks; then to a joint Welsh Government & WLGA initiative, the Welsh Local Government Procurement Support Unit; from there to the WLGA core team.

A champion of social value and the wellbeing of future generations; he's taking a pivotal role in central/local government relations, coordinating the National Procurement Network for councils in Wales and much more. Army of one and fiercely loyal to his procurement officer network, he is coordinating local government responses to consultation and participating in the Government's reform programme. In 2021 Richard initiated the NPN Market Intelligence Expert Group and currently acts as researcher, editor, publisher. He says that he’s just a middleman; the value comes from the people on the group and the knowledge they have; but that’s what Richard does, he brings the good from the people he’s with.

Richard has been speaking on the National stage, at the National Local Government Procurement Expo about Procurement in Difficult Times, about the Local Government Showcase at the National Social Value Conference and about Digital Transformation in a Gov News Masterclass. Wales representative to LGA's National Advisory Group for procurement, he's providing a weekly bulletin to an extended network of 114 procurement stakeholders and is credited in the Social Value Roadmap 2023, an important document nationally.

So far, in 22/23 he's appeared in 10 separate external (non-WLGA) searchable and public facing digital media events. There were at last count 21 separate live events online featuring interviews, presentations, keynotes and reports where Richard is recorded or credited as a contributor.