Francis Kehoe (Judging Co-ordinator)

Associate Director, KPMG

Francis is part of the KPMG Infrastructure and Government team. He has extensive experience in the Public Spending Code and the development of procurement and commercial strategy for Infrastructure projects.

Ingrid De Doncker

Head of Research, Future Planet, CEO, IDDEA

Ingrid De Doncker is Head of Research and Innovation at Future Planet and CEO of IDDEA. Future Planet provides an enterprise platform that guides companies to embed sustainability practices for their operations, their supply chain, and the products they sell to their customers. IDDEA is in the business of procurement to help customers buy better through strategy design, governance frameworks, tender management, and people development.

Paul Farrelly

Head of Procurement, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII)

Paul is a chartered Quantity Surveyor, who possesses near 20 years of build environment and corporate experience, specialising in procurement, governance, contract administration and commercial management in both the public and private sector.

Dr. Colum Foley

Assistant Professor of Management, DCU Business School

Colum Foley has over twenty-five year’s industrial management experience in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Customer Service and Managing Change.

Dominic Kelly

Global Manager (Head), Data Center Services Procurement & Supplier Management at Amazon Web Services

Dominic has spent 22 years in middle and senior leadership roles in procurement, supply chain and operations as well as other business disciplines.

Órla King

Manager, Procurement, West Pharmaceutical Services Ireland Ltd

Órla was the 2019 recipient of the National Procurement Awards’ Procurement Leader of the Year Award and is the Procurement Leader at West Pharmaceutical Services site in Dublin.

Paul Maguire

Manager Public Procurement, Enterprise Ireland

Paul manages The Public Procurement and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) team which consists of assisting client’s access both domestic & International public tenders.

Ann Melia

Head of Procurement & Contracts, University of Galway

Ann has significant procurement management experience in both public/utilities and private sector organisations. She leads a team of committed public procurement experts that supports both the strategic and operational goals of University of Galway and whom have been winners of the Innovation Category at the National Procurement & Supply Chain Award in recent years.

Eavan O'Halloran

Director, Dunnes Stores

Eavan O Halloran has over 20 years of Procurement experience having held senior global leadership roles from the high tech to Irish semi state to global retail industry.

Michael O’Callaghan

Director, IPICS The Supply Chain Management Institute

Michael is a Supply Chain Training Consultant and Instructor, and also works as a contract SAP Applications Consultant and SAP Trainer. Michael is a Director of IPICS The Supply Chain Management Institute and is a member of the Logistics and Supply Chain Skills Group chaired by the Department of Transport.

Dr. Muiris O’Ceidigh

CEO, National Milk Agency

Dr. Muiris O’Ceidigh is the CEO of the National Milk Agency which regulates the supply of Fresh Milk to consumers in Ireland. Muiris has a Doctorate in Governance and is a solicitor and Notary Public.

Stephen Ryan

Senior Program Manager, Johnson & Johnson MedTech

Stephen is currently working for Johnson & Johnson MedTech as a Senior Program Manager as part of their EU Medical Device Regulation Program. He has previous experience in management consultancy where he has consulted for clients across the full procurement lifecycle including pre-market engagement, commercial strategy and execution as well as contract management.

Anne Stewart

Procurement Director, Kerry Group

With a career spanning 30+ years, Anne has led the setting up of new Procurement teams, re-structuring existing teams both insourced and outsourced.