Sally supports the World Commerce and Contracting global team in the pursuit of both the recognition of 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.

After gaining an Honors degree in Law, Sally spent her time in the house in the corporate sector, where she worked globally in the Telecomms and IT industries, before establishing her own legal and commercial consultancy in 2007. Sally is passionate about enabling business efficiency and growth through contracting and commercial excellence; she understands the need for robust business operations to drive these efficiencies, together with the requirement for effective communication and collaboration at all times. Whether in contract development, negotiation, training or general communications,

Sally has built a reputation for service excellence and responsiveness. Her focus is on the creation of positive and successful business relationships, constantly striving to ensure that businesses realize their true potential and value.

Matthew Rees is Director of Commercial Insights at the NAO and a Council Member of the ICAEW. He delivers a programme of value for money studies and provides advice to other NAO study teams across the fields of public procurement, contract management, corporate finance and regulation. Recent studies he directed include: ‘competition in public procurement’, ‘investigation into Bulb Energy’, ‘supply chain finance in the NHS’. Matthew’s career history spans a range of professional services, financial institutions, competition authorities and regulators including executive and non-executive appointments in various organisations.

Matthew qualified as an ICAEW member at KPMG and has experience of NHS and local authority audit. Post-qualification, he then worked in global investment banking before returning to focus on public sector issues. From his varied career in the public sector, Matthew has extensive regulatory experience in competition and markets. Matthew is a corporate member of the World CC, and in addition to membership of the ICAEW, he is a member of CIPFA and a Fellow of the ICAEW and CISI.
 

Lilian Ndianefo is the Head of Commercial Insights at the NAO with responsibilities for managing the work of the Commercial Insights Team and the Commercial Hub. Her current areas of focus are - commercial contracting & procurement, corporate finance and regulation. As well as providing guidance for study teams on commercial issues, she also develops knowledge and insights products and manages the commercial hub’s study programmes. She has worked across disciplines (value for money and financial audit service lines) and the NAO’s work under the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 for setting the Local Audit Code and developing Auditor Guidance for local government and NHS bodies.

Lilian is a qualified accountant and completed her accountancy training in public practice. She has worked across audit firms including PwC where she managed the financial audits and other advisory work of large corporate multinationals. Lilian also had a stint as a senior accountant at BAE systems and was for several years, a Trustee and Board member for a local charity in Westminster. In addition to World CC’s modern procurement certification and World CC corporate membership, Lilian is a member of CGI UK & Ireland, CIPFA and a Fellow of the ACCA.