Gershon to step down as OGC chief
28 August 2012
Peter Gershon, chief executive of the government’s main procurement advisory body set up to improve public-sector procurement, is to step down.
He will leave in early 2004 after guiding the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) from concept in his 1999 review of government procurement to the agency’s inception in 2000.
Gershon, a keynote speaker at next week’s CIPS Premier Conference in London, moved from the more lucrative post of managing director at GEC’s defence business to become the OGC’s first...