Steve is the transport technology strategy lead at the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the biggest public procurement organisation in the UK. Steve joined CCS in February 2022 after a public sector career encompassing many transport and innovation related roles, including as relationship manager for an industry led programme to fund low carbon propulsion technologies, as the Innovate UK transport lead for the UK’s Small Business Research Initiative, as a senior policy advisor at the Intellectual Property Office, and as Head of a Vehicle Primary Safety at the Department for Transport.