The Sourcing Summit

Heather Rodgers

Head of Group Procurement and Supplier Management, Centrica

Biography

Heather Rodgers heads up the Procurement and Supplier Management department (£3.4bn spend in Centrica) and also drives a virtual team and best practice contract management community across the company for all key contracts and major change programmes.

Centrica is the leading UK utilities company recognised as British/Scottish Gas, with global presence in US/Canada and Europe. Heather‘s experience includes upstream and downstream third party spend and she has also covered offshore, telecoms and the automobile arenas as well as IT, Coordination of commercial ventures for Energy, Home Services and Business to Business teams. Acquisitions and divestments also form part of her experience.

Heather is a Fellow of the International Association of Contract and Commercial Management and a member of the Institute of Personnel Management and has a degree in history from Birmingham University.

Adrian Davey

Head of IT, Tube Lines

Biography

Adrian Davey is Head of IT for Tube Lines a position he has held since 2005. Tube Lines maintains the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern lines on the London Under Ground as part of a 30 year PPP contract awarded in 2003. Between them the lines carry over 1 million passengers per day. Adrian is accountable for the development of the IS and IT strategy and enabling technology to support the maintenance activities and upgrade programmes on the three lines. The focus over the last two years has been on information visibility using enterprise 2.0 technology approaches and Green IT.

Prior to this Adrian was COO for netdecisions an IT consultancy which grew out of the dotcom era expanding to 1500 people before the crash. We successfully negotiated the downturn, acquiring a number of other companies including Agilisys. The group was renamed in 2006 as Agilisys and is now a successful IT outsourcer in the Public sector.

Adrian also spent many years as a management consultant delivering change and operational strategy to the FTSE 250. His interests include attempting to sail and he studied Economics.

Duncan Scott

Former Global Chief Information Officer, DTZ

Biography

Duncan's most recent role was as the Group CIO at global real estate advisor DTZ. Prior to this, he held CIO roles at Sea Containers, Regus and Allen & Overy.

In each of his CIO roles, he has been responsible for all IT activities across the organisation. This has included both provision of the full range of IT services for internal staff (at DTZ, 12,500 staff in 45 countries) and delivering an ever increasing array of IT services directly to clients.

Duncan's focus is often towards the commercial use IT and the development of IT strategies.

He believes that some aspects of IT can still be key business differentiators. This is particularly the case in professional services environments where a complex combination of drivers including business globalisation, the war on talent, client centricity and the current economic challenges (and the resultant cost pressures) are producing ever higher levels of demand on the IT function.

Tony Marchak

Vice President, HR Global Operations, BP International

Biography

Tony Marchak is currently Vice President Human Resources, Global Operations for BP International Plc located in London, England. He started in this position in August 2005 with global responsibility for HR Operations including compliance and management of HR service delivery, HR Information Technology and HR Transformation.

Tony began his career with IBM in June 1972 working in Finance where he spent seven years and then moved to Human Resources. His experience with IBM has taken him around the globe, having lived and worked on four continents.

Within IBM, Tony was a member of the Senior Leadership Team, the Human Resources Leadership Team, the Supervisory Board of IBM Netherlands, the Board of Directors of IBM France, IBM Europe and IBM Eurocoordination. He was also a Director of IBM UK Pensions Trust Limited.

Tony is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche BP, the Regional Advisory Board of the London Business School, the Oxford Executive Education International Advisory Board (University of Oxford, Said Business School) and the Association Francaise de Strategie et Developpement d’Enterprise (AFPLANE). He was, formerly, the Vice Chair for Business at the Supervisory Board of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS).

Tony holds an undergraduate degree in accounting. He is married and has two children.

Richard Harvey

Former Chief Executive Officer, Aviva

Biography

Richard Harvey was the long standing CEO of AVIVA, one of the UK's largest FTSE companies, until July 2007. Richard was responsible for the strategic development of the group through both organic and inorganic growth. His notable achievements include the successful merger of Norwich Union and CGU in May 2000 to create Aviva. Richard has held various positions: for instance, he was Chair of the Association of British Insurers (ABI); a member of the CBI’s Governing Council and the CBI President’s Committee; a member of the European Financial Services Roundtable and a member of the Geneva Association. In mid-2007 Richard and his wife Kay decided to take a ‘gap year’ with Concern Universal, and spent time in Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique. Since returning to the UK, they have continued to volunteer their time with Concern Universal, engaging business in development.

Sanjiv Somani

Managing Director Group Offshoring, UBS

Biography

Sanjiv Somani joined UBS 3 years ago to work on a Group wide strategic initiative on offshoring. He joined the management team, at the start-up stage, responsible for offshoring across UBS Group and setting up captive centres in India and Poland. He runs a global team responsible for business and solutions development, transition, marketing and communications. He has also worked on projects to develop a global operating model by evaluating/setting up centres in India, China, Europe and America. He is a member of the Management Committee responsible for setting strategy and exercising oversight of captive centres.

Prior to UBS, Sanjiv worked with McKinsey in London for 5 years as a consultant advising various Financial Services and IT services companies on business strategy and Operations/IT strategy. On Offshoring and outsourcing, he has been involved in all aspects – vendor selection, commercial model selection, location selection, transition and captive set-up.

Before McKinsey, Sanjiv worked with Citibank in India where he was Head of Operations for a retail banking product and Head of Internet Banking for Emerging Local Corporates in India, Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic.

Sanjiv holds an MBA in Marketing and a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering.