Rikesh Shah
Rikesh Shah is an innovation expert, guest lecturer at the Royal College of Arts and Harvard University, non-executive advisor at Cities Today, London Transport Museum and See.Sense who joined CPC in October 2023 to Head of IPEC.
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Kayleigh Hadjimina
Kayleigh Hadjimina, is an external affairs and communications professional who joined Connected Places Catapult in April 2023 as Senior Marketing and Communications Manager for Place Leadership, focusing on the IPEC and IPLA milestone projects.
Olga Kuzmich
Olga Kuzmich is a digital marketer and community manager, who joined CPC in October 2023 and is focussed on growing community of innovation enthusiasts in public sector procurement, she is also looking after IPEC website, LinkedIn channels and its content.
Nick Woodward
Nick Woodward is Academic Engagement Manager and has been working with IPEC’s Academic Partners predominantly through CRISPP (Consortium for Research in Innovative and Strategic Public Procurement) since 2018.
James Cushing
James Cushing is the Place Leadership Ecosystem Technical Programme Manager. He engages with funding partners of IPEC and supports project delivery.
Malcolm Harbour CBE
Malcolm Harbour is an Associate Director of CPC, with an expert steering role in the ‘Challenging Procurement” programme and in the development of IPEC. Chairs the Consortium for Research in Innovative and Strategic Public Procurement (CRISPP).
Ben Hawes
Ben Hawes is an Associate Director at the CPC and helps IPEC work with government and other external partners. He is a technology policy consultant, and previously worked in government policy on AI, smart cities and the internet of things.
Nick Talbot
Nick Talbotis a Service Design Lead. Drawing upon Nick’s experience working both in and with Local Authorities to identify barriers to innovative procurement. Especially those that are tough to crack, hidden, or not currently addressed. And then designing new and engaging ways to upskill in these areas – giving meaning… Read More
Trusha Oza
Trusha Oza is a Service Designer at Connected Places Catapult, working on projects that help wide range of organisations achieve their net zero and sustainability targets. Trusha works on designing the learning journey for the IPEC Community of public sector authorities, as well as supporting with the development of Cohort… Read More
Bin Guan
Bin Guan is an urbanist with a town planning background and extensive experience in the built environment domain. Bin has many exciting projects in his portfolio, one of the recent contributions is delivering the inaugural cohort of CPC’s Innovation Places Leadership Academy milestone project as well in addition to his… Read More
