Lee Pratley

Head of Purchasing & Membership

OBN (UK) Ltd

Lee joined OBN in August 2013 as Purchasing Consortium Development Manager. He has nearly 10 years of experience in purchasing, including 8 years most recently with Prosidion and UCB Pharma. Lee has extensive experience of leading buying in the SME environment, as well as pharma – from tender to negotiation. His experience of negotiating good one-off discounts can be brought to bear on member capital purchases, as well as increasing the geographic coverage of our buying deals. Lee will be available on consultancy basis for buying during new project initiation and start-up phases in member companies. Lee brings extensive new expertise and capabilities to bear for the plethora of emerging and more established companies that form the collective buying power behind the OBN Membership as a whole, to help drive more and better economies of scale for our Members, adding considerable value to the Membership proposition.

In October 2021 Lee was appointed Executive Director of the OBN Board.