David Kershaw (he/him)

David is a globally recognised procurement leader specialising in using his experience of Digital-era methods to modernise public procurement. He’s respected for his notable work applying agile ways of working to public procurement, AI procurement, moving from ‘spending’ to ‘investing' public money through public procurement and contracting, helping organisations improve their market engagement approaches, and ensuring contract exit is thought through from the start. 

He advised and led some of the most innovative digital and technology procurement activities of recent times in the UK Public Sector and overseas governments, centred around the needs of all users, being an expert on all Digital, Data and Technology commercial-procurement and links to the well-being of future generations. 

He’s a founding member of the GOV.UK Digital Marketplace, a former advisor to the Agile Business Consortium, and former global congress member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, and he takes pride in developing communities of interest and practice to transform procurement teams. 

David believes that, through the use of digital-era methods and culture, public procurement can enable better public service delivery, stronger economic growth, stimulation of innovation, and development of modern public sector capability and capacity.