Chris Heptinstall is the Head of Procurement at Uniting, where he leads strategic sourcing and supplier engagement across complex service environments. With four decades of global procurement experience, including roles at IBM, Goldman Sachs, and Macquarie—Chris is known for driving innovation and embedding commercial value into organisational strategy. Outside of work, Chris writes under the pseudonym Christopher Hepworth, and is an award-winning author of the Sam Jardine Crime Conspiracy Thriller series where the hero is a procurement manager.