Dan Marran is the Purchasing Manager for the City of Sparks, NV, a full service City of more than 80,000 in Northern Nevada.  Dan holds a BA from California State University, Northridge.  He has ten years of public purchasing experience in municipal agencies in NV and CA as well as public school experience in a K-12 school district.  He earned his C.P.M. in May of 2000 and his CPPO in January of 2007.  Prior to his work in public procurement, he worked in private industry as a logistics and operations manager in the wholesale auto parts industry.

During his public procurement career, Dan has become a strong advocate for taking a new approach to customer service in government procurement.  He has had the opportunity to speak on this and other subjects at conference events sponsored by the California Association of Public Purchasing Officers (CAPPO), the California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO) and the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP). 

Dan has been an active member of the California Association of Public Purchasing Officers (CAPPO) for 9 years and has served in various roles including Chapter Chair, Conference Committee Member and Board Member of the organization.  Dan is proud to serve as CAPPO's designated representative to the UPPCC.

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E-mail:
Representing: CAPPO
Team Appointment: CPPB
Serving 1st Term as a Member: 2008 - 2010

Rhonda Scott, CPPO
Director
Osceola County
E-mail: rsco2@osceola.org
Representing: FAPPO
Team Appointment: CPPO
Serving 1st Term as a Member: 2007 - 2009

Rhonda Scott is currently the Director of the Procurement Services Division for Osceloa County, Florida. Prior to her move to Osceloa County in July of 2007, Scott served as the Director of Procurement Services for Orange County Public Schools in Orange County, Florida, the 11th largest school district in the nation with over 200 public/charter schools and technical educational centers.  She has over 28 years combined experience both in governmental and private sector purchasing including county, city and school district knowledge.

Rhonda was President of the Florida Association of Public Purchasing Officers in 1999-2000 and President of the Central Florida Chapter of NIGP in 1992-93 after fulfilling the offices of secretary, treasurer and vice-president.  Active in national, state and local professional organizations since 1985, she has also served on several committees both for the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP) and the Florida Association of Public Purchasing (FAPPO).   She has been a moderator and speaker at NIGP workshops, Central Florida Chapter of NIGP speaker, speaker at the Society of Architectural Administrators and the Office of Business Opportunity Trade Fairs in Orange County.  In 2002 and in 2006, she served on the Governor’s Task Force commissioned to rewrite FL State Statutes, Chapter 218.39, Auditor Selection.  Rhonda is a lifetime certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.), a Certified Public Purchasing Officer (CPPO) and earned her B.A. Degree from the University of Central Florida.

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E-mail:
Representing: FAPPO
Team Appointment: CPPB
Serving 1st Term as a Member: 2008 - 2010

Denise K. Finn, CPPO, C.P.M., CPPB
Director of Purchasing and Contracting
Yavapai College
E-mail: denise_finn@yc.edu
Representing: NAEP
Team Appointment: CPPO
Serving 1st Term as a Member: 2007-2009

Denise has over fourteen years purchasing experience in both the public and private sector, beginning her career as a raw materials buyer at ICI Superior Explosives.  She is currently the Director of Purchasing and Contracting for Yavapai Community College, in Prescott, Arizona; having been with the college for seven years.  Denise has been actively involved in both local and national public purchasing associations; having served on and chaired the membership committee and served on the event planning committee for NAEP, served as a Director Elect on the NPI Board and worked with other local purchasing professionals to initiate the Grand Canyon Chapter of NIGP.  Denise received a Business Administration/Accounting Degree from Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario Canada and earned the designations of A.P.P. and C.P.M. from ISM and the CPPB and CPPO from UPPCC. 

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E-mail:
Representing: NAEP
Team Appointment: CPPB
Serving 1st Term as a Member: 2008 - 2010

Pamela Kirkland, CPPO, CPPB
Purchasing Manager
City of Richardson
E-mail: pam.kirkland@cor.gov
Representing: NPI
Team Appointment: CPPO
Serving 1st Term as a Member: Sept 2007-2009

Pam’s interest in municipal government began as she was hired as secretary to the City Attorney for the City of Sherman, Texas soon after graduation from college.  From 1980 to 1984, she was employed by The University of Texas at Dallas in the Purchasing Department as Senior Buyer and after a short stint in the private sector as a sales representative for a small electronics firm in Dallas, Texas she began her career with the City of Richardson in 1985.  Pam was hired as Senior Buyer and in November 1994 she was promoted to Assistant Purchasing Agent and in November 1996 was appointed to her current position as Purchasing Manager.

Pam is active in various local, state and national purchasing organizations.  She  is the immediate Past President of the National Purchasing Institute and has been an active participant in the state legislative process through her past presidency of the Texas Purchasing Management Association (now the Texas Public Purchasing Association), and through her board of director’s position on the Texas Municipal League.  She is a charter member and Past President of the Public Purchasing Association of North Central Texas and served on the Board of Directors for the North Texas Regional Certification Agency and former member of the Advisory Council of the Houston-Galveston Area Council of Governments.  Active memberships include the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, DFW Metroplex Chapter of NIGP, the Collin & Tarrant County Governmental Purchasing Programs.

Pam is a strong proponent of professional development and received the Certified Professional Public Buyer (CPPB) certification in November of 1994 and the Certified Public Purchasing Officer (CPPO) certification in 1998.  Other accomplishments include the “Member of the Year” in 1991 and 2000 for the Public Purchasing Association of North Central Texas and “Membership Activities Person of the Year” from the National Association of Purchasing Management in 2001.  Pam also is a 2005 graduate of Leadership Richardson.

Pam is a graduate of Van Alstyne High School, Grayson County Junior College and Texas A & M - Commerce with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.  She has a nineteen-year-old daughter, Lindsey, who is a sophomore at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.  Pam has lived in Richardson for the past twenty-four years and enjoys gardening, cooking and all that is good in life.   

Mark Neihart , CPPB
Director of Purchasing
City of Tucson
E-mail: mark.neihart@tucsonaz.gov
Representing: NPI
Team Appointment: CPPB
Serving 1st Term as a Member: 2008 - 2010

Mark A. Neihart currently serves as the Director of Procurement for the City of Tucson, Arizona.  Mark has over 20 years of government procurement experience at the City of Tucson and the State of Arizona.  Prior to this, he held professional positions at Motorola, Ernst & Young and Bank of America.  Mark is a Lifetime Certified Purchasing Manager, a Certified Professional Public Buyer, a Certified Public Manager, a Lifetime Certified Accredited Purchasing Practitioner and holds degrees from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University.  Mark has served multiple years as a Board Director for the National Purchasing Institute, as well as on the Institute’s Finance, Membership and Nominating Committees.  He currently serves on the Institute’s Executive Committee as Second Vice President.  In his personal life, he has been married for 23 years to Susan, has two children ages 16 and 13, is a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and enjoys riding his motorcycles, alpine skiing and fitness training.  


International Advisors

Ms. Elène Fromanger, CPPO, CPPB
Senior Advisor
Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat 
Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property Comunity Management Office |
E-mail: Elene.Fromanger@tbs-sct.gc.ca
Representing: Canadian Federal Government
Team Assignment: CPPO/CPPB
Serving 2nd Term as a Member: 2008 - 2010

Elène Fromanger was recently appointed the Senior Advisor in the Procurement Materiel Management and Real Property Community Office in the Treasury Board Secretariat after working in the Acquisitions Branch of Public Works Government Services Canada for the second time in her career.  Prior to her return to the federal government Elène worked with the City of Winnipeg and served as the Director of Purchasing for the Province of Saskatchewan.  Her career has taken her across Canada working in administration, materiel, and purchasing for three levels of government. 

Elène, a Certified Professional Public Buyer and a Certified Public Purchasing Officer, has served as the International Advisor to the Board of Examiners with the Universal Public Purchasing Certification Council (UPPCC) since 2004.  She serves as the Professional Development Chair on the board of the Materiel Management Institute of Canada.  She has also been an active member of the Purchasing Management Association of Canada in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan and remains an active member of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasers since 1993. 

Elène played a very active role in the development of the new Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) Standard on the Competency of the Federal Procurement and Materiel Management Community and the accompanying Certification program and serves on its Review Panel.

As a trainer with the Canadian federal government and NIGP and as a text reviewer for NIGP's new educational program she provided input in the development and delivery of a number of their new courses leading to the first degree program in Public Procurement in North America. She has also worked with the UPPCC to update the Body of Knowledge for public procurement professionals and the enhancement of their certification program to achieve internationally recognized third party ANSI (American National Standards Institute) accreditation.