PRESS RELEASE 
London, 9 September 2026

CASME, the global membership community for procurement professionals, has announced the appointment of Victoria Folbigg as Chief Executive Officer, with founder and current CEO Jonathan Lyles moving to the role of Chairman.

The leadership transition marks the next stage in CASME’s development, combining continuity with new leadership as the organisation continues to evolve its services and support for procurement teams around the world.

Jonathan Lyles founded CASME in 2003, developing a distinctive peer-to-peer model that enabled procurement professionals to share experiences, benchmark approaches and learn directly from one another in a sponsor- and supplier-free environment. Its practitioner-led approach was highly differentiated at the time and remains central to CASME’s proposition today, helping procurement teams bring real-world peer experience into important decisions.

Since then, CASME has grown into a global procurement community of around 200 member organisations, with an established presence across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. Independent since its foundation, CASME continues to provide procurement professionals with access to practitioner insight, benchmarking and peer experience across industries and markets.

Victoria brings nearly 30 years’ experience in global procurement, commercial strategy and transformation, including senior leadership roles at CPO level. Her relationship with CASME spans different stages, first as a member during her corporate procurement career and, more recently, as a contributor to facilitated discussions, research and insights.

As CEO, Victoria will take responsibility for the day-to-day leadership and strategic development of CASME, with a particular focus on ensuring that its membership proposition continues to evolve around the changing needs of procurement teams. As Chairman, Jonathan will remain closely involved, providing strategic guidance and supporting its continued development. 

Jonathan Lyles said: “CASME was founded on a simple but powerful idea: that procurement professionals make better decisions when they can learn directly from the experiences of their peers, validate ideas and share challenges in confidence. That principle has remained at the heart of CASME for more than 20 years. Victoria understands that value particularly well. She has experienced CASME as a member and procurement leader herself, and brings both deep practitioner experience and a real understanding of what our members need.

As the procurement profession continues to evolve, so too must CASME. I believe Victoria is the right person to lead the organisation into its next chapter, and I’m delighted to continue supporting her and the wider team as Chairman.”

Victoria Folbigg said: “Procurement teams are operating in an exceptionally demanding environment. They are being asked to deliver more value, manage greater complexity and risk, and make important decisions at a time when the volume of information available to them is increasing rapidly.

Our members do not stand still, and neither can we. My priority will be to keep evolving how CASME supports them, combining the practitioner insight, benchmarking and trusted peer exchange that have always been at the heart of the community with new ways of helping members access and apply that intelligence when they need it. Having experienced CASME as both a member and, more recently, through working closely with the community, I am excited to build on the foundations Jonathan has created and lead CASME through its next stage of development.”