All our tutors are MCIPS qualified and are recognised figure within industry. Many are current Procurement & Supply Chain practitioners working across the public and private sectors.
They bring with them years of industry experience and knowledge, manifesting itself in the training we deliver, combining up-to-date thinking with best practice techniques.
Find out more about our team of tutors below!
Rachelle quinton
Rachelle has worked in procurement since the start of her career, starting out for a plastics manufacturer and then moving into engineering. Rachelle enjoys tutoring and breaking learning down into manageable pieces and making it relatable to support students understanding. She loves to get students involved and thinking about real life relevant situations in the procurement function!
Mark Blanchard
BSc (Hons), MCIPS
Mark Blanchard is an MCIPS procurement practitioner, with over 25 years of accumulated commercial and procurement wisdom gained through building and managing complex supply chains in complex global organisations within regulated sectors, predominantly Life Sciences. Mark has extensive experience of delivering sourcing, outsourcing and projects in the highly regulated Life Science sector and now spends his time being an Aspire Tutor and providing training and consultancy services to businesses.
Paul Jackson
BSc, FCIPS
Paul Jackson has extensive experience within many global companies across a multitude of manufacturing and technological sectors. Paul has worked around the globe and is also the author of notable CIPS material such as ‘The Sustainable Business’ and ‘102 Models of Procurement and Supply Chain Management’. When we asked Paul about his teaching style, he commented: “My aim is to make procurement and supply chain real and draw parallels with diverse elements of everyday life that students can relate with – ‘if you relate you remember.’”
Winston Kobylka
MBA MCIPS
Winston has both public and private sector experience as Head of Procurement for Government Office for London and as Programme Director CIPS courses at National School for Government Sunningdale Park, lecturing across all departments. Formerly an emergency planner at Cabinet Office, in the heart of Whitehall, today Winston is a supply chain professional in his rope and canvas manufacturing business, with a focus on sourcing sustainable and ethical produced materials at the forefront of this trade.
Terri Hudson
MCIPS FHEA
Terri has multiple years of experience in public, private & third sector organisations. Currently leading procurement transformation projects, she has particular expertise in category management, risk management, sustainability and spend reduction. Terri lectures evenings and weekends as her passion is to help the CIPS community grow and strive to achieve a global standard.
KIERAN MCGREGOR
BA, MBA, MCIPS
Kieran McGregor has been a CIPS member for 30 years. For many years he worked as a procurement practitioner in various roles across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. He then moved into academia where he was Senior Lecturer in Procurement and Supply at the London Metropolitan University. As well as delivering on CIPS courses, Kieran has also taught on Undergraduate and MBA programmes. He is now a freelance consultant and an examiner for CIPS, delivering Supply Chain Management in more than 30 countries worldwide.