Gus has over 25 years’ procurement and contract management experience working at Rolls-Royce, the BBC and Lockheed Martin. He was Head of Procurement for one of the largest government shared services in England, and took the reins of Northamptonshire County Council following its bankruptcy, where he drove smarter controls and aggressive savings to support its recovery. He spearheaded the “Future Northants” devolution programme, consolidating eight organisations into two, for which he was awarded Procurement Individual of the Year at the National GO Awards 2022. Since then, he’s led procurement at a brand-new unitary authority since its inception and now manages the procurement team for one of the largest unitary authorities in England.