cloudBuy plc announced that, a new global executive team has been recruited to leverage their business and technical expertise to accelerate the global expansion of the company. Russell Darling, Global Solution Director Government and Shared Services: Russell previously headed up shared services for Bristol City Council delivering millions of pounds of saving using the cloudBuy platform. He led the standards work stream for the Government National E.Procurement Programme (NEPP) from its commencement and through this built up invaluable experience of how purchasing and procurement operates across the public sector.

In recent weeks Russell has carried out a FutureGov event for cloudBuy in Wellington New Zealand and the County Council's Network and a shared services event in the UK, where he shared his experiences of delivering millions of savings per annum using cloudBuy solutions. Nilesh Gopali, Global Solution Director Private Sector and Banking: Nilesh has significant experience in the banking and supply chain sectors having held senior roles at Metro Bank, the Post Office, RBS, Barclays Bank, TFL and DHL. At Metro Bank, he helped to create the first new high street bank in the UK in 150 years; working from initial concept to launch, he specified, designed, purchased and created the new bank's IT systems. Sharlene Jobson, Global Solution Director Education and Integration: Sharlene brings a wealth of experience in Business and Operations Improvement and Management.

She has successfully led major complex technology and systems integration business improvement programmes for public and private sector organisations, such as the UK Borders Agency, the NHS, Norwich City Council the MoD, AEAT and BT. More recently she has headed up the ground breaking GeM.ac.uk project delivered by cloudBuy and a business unit identifying, analysing and delivering efficiencies to the education sector utilising SOA (Service Orientated Architecture) technologies, specifically the Jisc Advance Nexus ESB connectors and integration capability. Her experience with the GeM project highlights 2 areas where cloudBuy has a significant lead over other solutions.

Joining up Contract Management and Purchase to Pay (P2P) is a unique feature of cloudBuy that is required by all other sectors. Chris Hope, Global Solution Director Health and Business Intelligence: Chris has defined and delivered business intelligence solutions in the public and private sectors for over 20 years. His recent spend intelligence projects in the NHS were instrumental in extending the capability of the SpendInsight solution to deliver high value results from less than ideal data.

He has extensive experience with the NHS having worked with NHS SBS, NHS NE, NHS London Procurement Partnership, NHS Midlands and NHS Purchasing and Supplies Agency. This is complemented by his extensive business intelligence work for a range of private sector customers, such as NTL, Homebase, Chase Manhattan, SmithKline Beecham, Prudential, Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Boots.