Professor Michael Brown, Independent Chair of Procure Plus, is also Chairman of the Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, a successful and innovative organisation, central to transforming health care in communities.

He retired as Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) in 2011. Under his 11 years of leadership, LJMU had, uniquely in UK Higher Education, applied the European Excellence Model to the whole university as its leadership and management framework with great success and transformed all of its academic programmes so that its graduates received both a quality education AND high-level skills.

A brief career description would be: a research and academic staff post at Nottingham University; a Royal Society European Fellowship held at Centre d’Etudes Nucleaires in Grenoble; a Senior Lectureship at Loughborough University, followed by 30 years’ of commercial and senior management experience, including being General Manager of Loughborough Consultants Ltd.; Pro Vice-Chancellor of De Montfort University; and CEO of LJMU.

He was the Independent Chair of the Alder Hey Children’s Charity, Chair of the Strategy and Performance Committee for Merseyside Objective One European Funding; the founding Chairman of Liverpool Science Park; Chairman of the Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust (Everyman and Playhouse Theatres); and a Director of The Mersey Partnership. He has had substantial experience of working overseas, on both the commercial and government sectors.

Suzanne further developed her career by moving to the ALMO sector in 2007, working first as Director of Business Management at Six Town Housing in Bury and then moving to Stockport Homes as Head of Finance in 2011. She commenced work with The Guinness Partnership in September 2017 as Director of Finance for Guinness Property Services.

Suzanne is a qualified accountant with over 20 years’ experience in social and supported housing sectors. Suzanne trained and qualified with KPMG where her clients covered local government, health, housing and education. Suzanne left the practice to embark on a career in supported housing, initially as Director of Finance for a supported housing charity in Liverpool. Here she oversaw the financial transition of residential care models of support to supported tenancies for adults with learning disabilities.

Bill is currently Director of Development at Sovini Housing Group. Bill is also Chair of the Board at Calico Homes. Bill’s experience of working in the social housing sector spanned over 44 years having worked in three local authorities in Merseyside and Cheshire, and 29 years with RP’s operating in the North West of England, mostly in operational, executive or non-executive Director roles.

Bill is passionate about providing quality homes and services and has been extremely fortunate in working in a sector that can make a tremendous difference to people’s lives in the present, but also an opportunity to leave a legacy for future generations.