Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson

MCIPS

Director & Founder

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited (JPS) are a UK North East based procurement specialist, founded by Steve Johnson in 2016. Following a long and successful career in the procurement and commercial sector across a range of organisations, Steve has amassed a wealth of knowledge and has established JPS as a result of his learnings and a desire to add value, offer exceptional performance and provide an integrated service on an interim or outsourced basis.

Prior to founding JPS, Steve held a number of leadership positions in large blue-chip companies with annual spend responsibility ranging £400-£500m.

These included Laing O’Rourke, one of the UK’s largest privately owned construction companies. AMEC Power & Process Europe - later AMEC Foster Wheeler now Wood. With an excess of 25 years’ experience, Steve is a driven procurement and commercial leader with extensive experience and a track record in Energy, Oil and Gas, M&E Services, Telecommunication Networks, IT, Construction Procurement and Commercial Management within the UK and Europe.

Working in leadership roles, Steve has led and completed numerous strategic transformation programs as well as established strategic category procurement targets delivering multi- million-pound annual cost reductions to each business. He has implemented business wide systems and procedures to provide greater cost visibility and governance controls as well as streamlining the key process to establish lean working.

Steve mentors and develops key staff, recruits, trains and provides leadership in order to ensure business objectives are achieved. He engages with other senior business leaders on a day-to-day basis to ensure communication and stakeholder engagement are fully integrated to support the delivery teams.

Steve was on the board of the AMEC global supply chain steering group and is an accredited member of the Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply (MCIPS). Steve has presented procurement and supply chain strategies at major supply chain events and forums including the Energy Industries Council.

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Adrian Fenton

Adrian Fenton

BSc CEng MIMechE MAPM

Partner and Founder

LordFenton Associates

Adrian founded LordFenton Associates after a long career in senior positions in various sectors. He joined AMEC in 1999 after 11 years with Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. Adrian worked as Global Lead Project Function in developing a role as Project Sponsor as part of the CEO’s Operational Excellence programme. He worked in the transport sector in the 1980’s.

In January 2009, Adrian was appointed Head of Project and Programme Management for AMEC Power and Process Europe, which had an annual turnover in excess of £500m and employed over 5000 people.

Adrian has over 30 years experience in project delivery, leading projects in transport, power, infrastructure and oil and gas. He has performed as the leader on major alliance projects delivering major capital investments, as well as performing management of portfolios of smaller projects, together with major business transformational growth work.

His geographic experience includes 2 years in Indonesia working in a Joint Venture with a Japanese contractor to deliver a $2.5bn refining investment, where he was Lead Engineering Manager on three large process units including an 85,000BPD Catalytic Cracking Unit.

As a Head of Project Management in a large business for several years, Adrian has developed experience and provided sustainable growth by:

• Supporting recruitment and retention

• Developing staff and career paths, including developing functional content for the AMEC Academy

• Producing and maintaining procedures, guidelines, and processes to enable the business to execute and manage work effectively and profitably

• Leading the governance of projects by carrying out start up and peer reviews

• Developing relationships with customers through internal and external stakeholder management

• Collaborating across the markets and sectors to share best practice

Adrian is a Chartered Engineer with a Diploma in Engineering Management and bachelors degree from Loughborough University. He was the business member representative with the Association for Project Management, and achieved accreditation from the APM for project management development programmes and coaching.

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Chloe Richards

Chloe Richards

Owner Six1Seven Brand Strategy & Communications

Good communication is crucial to the success of any company, project or campaign. It could be a requirement to keep teams engaged and updated on changes or initiatives or provide a plan for regular project updates or even a managed recruitment campaign.

Chloe has over 25yrs of marketing and communications experience, working for both corporate organisations in the transport and engineering sectors and for international marketing agencies working on business to business, internal communications, PR, social media as well as consumer facing campaigns, both digital and print.

In 2018, she launched Six1Seven Brand Strategy & Communications to help businesses get clear on the best way to articulate their key messages and reach their audience, whether that’s their own customers or employees. She helps her clients create powerful business stories that have a clear position and message, connect with their customers to grow. The services she works with clients on are:

• Defining marketing strategy for organisations

• Identifying & articulating key messages to connect with the right audience

• Developing communications plans to be delivered by clients

• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior lead teams on marketing & communications

• Delivering campaigns and plans on behalf of clients

Chloe is always mindful of the business objectives for each project and success criteria is monitored on the commercial success of a campaign. This is so that she can ensure that the communications are having a direct and positive impact for clients.

Client testimonial:

“Chloe has a listening approach, finding out what’s going on in the business. Her efforts actually translate into the bottom line, she is outcome orientated and has a very commercial view.”

Tracey O’Keefe. Managing Director Hospice Quality Partnership

Following her graduation from Leicester University Chloe completed her Certificate in Marketing (CIM) and has taken several courses in brand and digital marketing and social media trends to continue to be a trusted advisor to her clients.

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Ian Glendinning

Ian Glendinning

MBA, BSc(Eng), CEng, MIMechE, MWeldI, ACGI, DIC

Engineering & Information Management Consultant & Founder at Glenco IS Ltd

Ian is a professionally qualified engineer and manager, with over 40 years process plant systems engineering.

This covers the full life-cycle from requirements & functional schematic development, through design, materials, welded fabrication, construction, assurance & handover to operators & authorities. This includes containment system integrity, trouble-shooting, revamp & turnaround experience on operating facilities in oil & gas, LNG, refining, energy, chemical & pharma assets.

With that first-hand perspective of the real engineering life-cycle, Ian has been active in recent decades in leading the implementation of information-standards-based interoperability and handovers, for EPC & O&M customers and software solution providers, extending to collaboration & digital transformation projects for an even wider range of industries, in infrastructure, nuclear, transport, aerospace, as well as oil and gas.

In that period Ian has been instrumental in the evolution of reference data architectures for flexible & future-proof industrial standards for lifecycle-information ontologies.

Apart from football, sailing, hiking and gardening, most of Ian’s spare time is taken up by a hobby researching epistemology, asking “What, Why & How do we Know?” applied to decision-making and change in human organisations.

However, Ian remains first and foremost an engineer specialising in information management at plant facilities business interfaces that maintain system & information integrity across the full life-cycle and is flexible about contract and/or employment terms that enable client engagement towards useful solutions.

Tools & Technologies come and go, but Lifecycle Information lives on forever.

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John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw

Dynamic experience business leader and consultant, with a successful track record of leading Business Development, Operational Leadership, change and delivery, in both contracting and consultancy environments across a diverse range of highly regulated industry sectors, from privately owned SME’s to large multinational corporations.

A strong business acumen and demonstrated capacity to optimise all operational aspects of growing a business by striving to improve quality, productivity, and efficiency and through work winning. Trusted leader and business partner adept at mentoring and coaching individual managers to build team’s abilities and support attainment of agreed indicators related to financial and operational performance.

A professionally qualified Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a former member of the process industries division of the IMechE. A BSi certified 6Sigma Black Belt and has successfully instigated and delivered a number of major organisational change programmes based on Lean principles.

A wealth of transferable skills and experience gained across the Nuclear, Infrastructure, Engineering and the Built Environment. With a flair for seeing beyond the obvious, possesses a rare capability of being a strategic visionary, but equally able to translate that into practical application and delivery.

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