As Global CEO of one of the world’s fastest growing non-profits, Sally’s mission is to inspire and support the World Commerce & Contracting (WorldCC) team and global community to collectively drive recognition and excellence in Commercial and Contract Management.

She is an experienced and accomplished commercial and contracts management professional, holding senior commercial positions at a range of corporate and multi-national organizations. Her focus is on the creation of positive and successful business relationships, constantly striving to ensure that businesses realize their true potential and value.

In 2019 Sally was invited to become Chair of the Board for the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) and in 2021 she was appointed Professor in Practice in Strategy and Innovation at the University of Durham Business School.

Bernadette Bulacan is a frequent speaker regarding the digital transformation of global enterprises. As Vice President and Lead Global Evangelist for Icertis, the recognized leader in enterprise contract lifecycle management, she is charged with sharing contract management best practices with legal and contracting teams and evangelizing the use of innovative technologies like AI/ML and blockchain. Prior to Icertis, Bernadette was a co-founder and Assistant General Counsel of Serengeti Law, which created e-billing and matter management platform, Serengeti Tracker (acquired by Thomson Reuters.) She held leadership roles at Thomson Reuters and QuantAI, an intellectual property AI analytics start-up. Bernadette was recently named 2020 Women of LegalTech by the American Bar Association. Bernadette advised start-up technology companies at Graham & Dunn, a Seattle firm and Venture Law Group, a Silicon Valley firm. Bernadette received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her law degree and LL.M from the University of Washington.

Pina is the Commercial Director for QinetiQ’s Air & Space business, which de-risks complex aerospace programmes by testing systems and equipment, evaluating the risks and assuring safety. Pina leads the Commercial and Contract Management functions across various domains ensuring QinetiQ’s customers receive innovative, cost-effective solutions to services that deliver tangible business benefits through the whole supply chain. Prior to this role, Pina worked for a large US Defence business in the UK, where she developed a team committed to excellence and an environment which made for the commercial contracts function to be an influential party through developing business models in the MRO sector.

Previously, Pina spent nine years in the Middle East where she led a multi-national IT contracts team serving the defence sector through extended localisation projects whilst developing an indigenous workforce.

Funkola Odeleye is a legal practitioner with a breadth of experience in legal advisory, compliance, operations and technology. She has a Masters in Finance and Financial Law from SOAS, University of London in addition to her LLB from the Lagos State University and BL from the Nigerian Law School. She is a Cartier Women’s Initiative 2020 Fellow, 2019 Obama Africa Leader, 2019 Sub-Saharan winner and Global Finalist of the Entrepreneurial Award of the British Council Study UK Alumni Award, 2019 Africa 35 under 35 Laureate and a 2015 Innovating Justice Fellow of The Hague Institute for the Innovation of Law (HiiL). Funkola has also been recognised as 1 of 5 business leaders whose work significantly impacts their countries’ economies by the Reykjavík Global Forum and has been celebrated as one of the Inspiring Women 2022 by World Commerce and Contracting. Funkola enjoys cooking and sudoku in her spare time.