Sean Carroll, Founder
Sean Carroll served as the chief procurement officer for the state of New York from 2016-2023 and various counties, cities, and school districts across NYS state since 2005. He has served under 4 governors and managed more than 3000 contracts with annual spending exceeding $50 Billion for state agencies, state campuses, and local governments. He has expertise in end-to-end procurement, cyber policy, and terms and conditions, legislation, rulemaking, and policy for public work, commodities, services, and technology, including DEI, social equity, sustainability, and fair labor practices.
Mr. Carroll has served as the Procurement Executive during several once in a generation emergencies, including but not limited to Covid-19, Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, and Winter storms Elliot (2022) and “Snowvember” (2014).
In the private sector, Mr. Carroll managed his consulting firm for nearly 15 years. During this time, he provided services ranging from political and non-political campaign management, research, promotional material design, strategic plans for businesses and governments, mission statements, organizational and process mapping, technical writing, business development, RFP response management, proposal development, traditional and non-traditional marketing, employee motivation, and leveraging technology.
Mr. Carroll served as Chair NIGP-CPP (Certified Public Professional) Certification Commission and as a national board member of NIGP ( Institute for Government Procurement). He also previously served as the Chairperson of the NYS Procurement Council, 2016-2023, and NYS Primary member to the National Association of Chief Procurement Officers ( NASPO). He has been recognized as the 2021 Recipient of the NIGP National Leadership Award and by GOVTech Magazine as top 50 technology influencers in NYS ( ranked #5).
He is the co-author of the paper “Agile Procurement – A Primer” and has presented over 150 sessions at over 50 conferences nationwide and internationally on procurement and management topics.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of New York at Albany and an Executive Certificate in Global Supply Chain Management from Wharton.