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Steve Rotheram

Metro Mayor
Liverpool City Region

Steve served as a Liverpool City Councillor in 2002 to represent the Fazakerley ward and as Lord Mayor of Liverpool during the city's European Capital of Culture year of 2008-2009.

In 2010, Steve was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Liverpool Walton constituency.

In May 2017, Steve was elected to become the first ever Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region – securing 59% of the vote – on a manifesto that is ambitious, fair, green, connected and that works together.

Mick Noone

Director of Integrated Transport
Merseytravel

Mick is currently the Director of Integrated Transport at Merseytravel, providing strategic direction and management of the key transport functions and services of the Liverpool City Region (LCR) Combined Authority.  These include bus, rail, freight & logistics, and strategic highways.  He Chairs the LCR’s Transport Advisory Group and its Key Route Network Group.  He has over 38 years’ experience in working for local authorities and is a Chartered Civil Engineer who has worked on a range of major schemes, including the Mersey Gateway Project where, in his role as Operational Director, he was responsible for overseeing Halton Council’s statutory Planning and Highway Authority roles during the bridge’s design and construction phases.  He has been involved with Transport for the North (TfN) since its inception, was its first Interim Lead for Roads and currently represents the LCR on TfN’s Executive Board and a number of other TfN Boards.

Barry White

Chief Executive
Transport for the North

Barry has a wealth of experience in delivering major investment programmes. Prior to his appointment at Transport for the North, he was Chief Executive at Scottish Futures Trust where he led the organisation in improving the planning and delivery of infrastructure investment and asset management in Scotland.

In his current role, he is responsible for transforming regional connectivity and driving economic growth in the North. He will oversee the development of Transport for the North as a statutory organisation, bringing together northern transport authorities, to allow the North to speak with a single voice on big transport decisions which will benefit the region.

He has held a number of challenging high profile private sector roles including being the Managing Director of BAM’s UK infrastructure investment company and as a Director of Skanska Infrastructure Development.

Glenn Lyons

Professor of Future Mobility
Mott MacDonald

Glenn is the Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at UWE Bristol. The appointment bridges between academia and practice and Glenn is dividing his time between the university and Mott MacDonald (on secondment). At a time of significance for the transport sector, the position aims to co-develop and extend transport expertise in relation to understanding and responding to a changing and uncertain mobility landscape, which is shaped by technological possibilities and societal needs and preferences.Formerly Professor of Transport and Society at UWE Bristol (2002-2017), Glenn is the Founder of the Centre for Transport & Society and was its first Director until August 2010 when he was appointed as Associate Dean – a position he held from 2010 to 2017. 

Jane Cole

Managing Director
Blackpool Transport Services

Jane is the Managing Director of Blackpool Transport, the award-winning bus and tram operator for Blackpool and the Fylde Coast, operating bus and tram services, rail replacement, event management and Park and Glide services.

Leading a successful passenger transport business requires a customer-first attitude and strong inter-personal skills, extensive industry knowledge and the ability to develop and grow the people in your team, which Jane is able to do as a trained executive coach and mentor (ILM Level 7 in progress) and Common Purpose World Leader.  She is also the bus and tram sector champion for the Minister for People with Disability.

Jane has successfully delivered business transformation programmes aligned to delivering strategic business aims and local transport plans, and was recently voted Business Woman of the Year at the Northern Enterprise Vision Awards.  Blackpool Transport wants to deliver exceptional transport services to all its customers, its team, our partners and stakeholders, which is why the organisation is so passionate about everything it does to deliver the best journey experience for everyone.

Liam Robinson

Chair of Merseytravel Transport Committee
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Transport Portfolio Holder 

Cllr Robinson has key roles in strategic transport groups, ensuring the Liverpool City Region is at the ‘top table’ when it comes to influencing and decision making on a regional and national basis. 

Making public transport more affordable, particularly for young people, is a key focus for Cllr Robinson. He has championed the introduction of reduced price bus fares for young people up to their 19thbirthday. The development of a bus strategy, believed to be the first of its kind, has been introduced under Cllr Robinson’s chairmanship with the aim of focused collaboration between Merseytravel and the operators, with the joint objective of sustainable patronage growth.

Alistair Hands

Commercial Director, UK Bus
Arriva Group

Bio to follow shortly…

Andy Burnham

Mayor
Greater Manchester

Andy Burnham was elected as Mayor of Greater Manchester in May 2017. 

Prior to this Andy was MP for Leigh from 2001. In government, Andy has held Ministerial positions at the Home Office, Department of Health and the Treasury. In 2008 he became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, before returning to Health as Secretary of State in 2009.

In opposition, Andy has served as Shadow Education Secretary, Shadow Health Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary.

Andy lives in Leigh, Greater Manchester, with his wife and three children. He is a keen supporter of Everton FC.

Catherine Hutt

Mobility & CAV Strategy Consultant
EQ+iQ

Catherine specialises in bringing new technologies and services to market, particularly Connected & Autonomous Vehicles and Mobility as a Service.

Her 12-year Automotive career includes working for EV manufacturer Modec, establishing the SMMT’s EV Group, consulting on the Future of Automotive Retail at Frost & Sullivan and leading the MERGE Greenwich project on behalf of Addison Lee (as an independent consultant with EQ+iQ).

Felicity Heathcote-Marcz

Cyborg ethnographer, Intelligent Mobility
SNC-Lavalin/Atkins

Felicity Heathcote-Márcz is a senior consultant and cyborg ethnographer in the Intelligent Mobility (iM) practice, where she brings a brand-new research methodology into the fast-changing world of transport solutions and mobilities of the future. Felicity works on a variety of projects to understand socio-technical systems and provides insight on how user groups interact with technologies. Her work also involves an analysis of cultural and social impacts of new technologies and innovation.

Devrim Kara

Director, UK & Ireland
PTV Group

Devrim Kara is an experienced transport professional with experience in planning and design of major transport schemes around the world. He delivered projects focusing on urban areas as well as regional and national transport networks. As the PTV Group Director for UK & Ireland, Devrim works closely with transport planners that use PTV Group software in developing effective, safe and balanced transport solutions. The PTV Group software is state-of-the-art and is used by professionals in more than 100 countries on innovative, intelligent and sustainable solutions that shape the future of transportation. 

Matt McNulty

Urban Mobility Director
Serco / your bike

Matt is a Cycle Hire professional with 10 years’ experience delivering in the ever changing industry, building on an extensive Technical and Business Management background in the fields of Traffic, Transportation and Parking, across the Public and Private sectors specialising in partnership working to deliver beneficial outcomes. Having bid, won and then mobilised the original London Cycle Hire Scheme, Matt was responsible for various aspects of that contract over its life time.  More recently Matt has been engaged with redefining Serco’s Cycle Hire offering, winning and mobilising the Transport for Edinburgh cycle hire scheme and developing the ‘your bike’ brand.

Trevor Brennan

Director   

Mode Split                                     

Trevor is owner and director of Mode Split, which is a sustainable transport consultancy. Providing strategic and programme support to local authorities, Local Enterprise Partnerships, government agencies and community groups on a range of policy development, project management and stakeholder engagement work. Trevor is an experienced programme and people manager, with a 20-year career record of delivering transport schemes both within the public and private sector. Currently, Trevor is working at Hertfordshire County Council and is the project sponsor for oneTRANSPORT which is the county’s transport data and mobility function.

Chris Davis

Associate
PTV Group

Bio to follow shortly…

Susan Claris

Associate Director
Arup

Susan Claris is an Associate Director in Arup’s Transport Consulting Group in London. She is a transport planner and anthropologist with significant public sector experience and a particular interest in walkability creating more liveable, vibrant, safe, inclusive and healthy streets and communities (www.arup.com/walkingcities  ). Susan is a Trustee of Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking. 

Susan’s thirty year career has focused on public sector clients, including Highways England, the Department for Transport, the Office for Low Emission Vehicles, the Welsh Government and various local authorities. Susan has also worked on research activities in Arup, e.g. urban mobility for the World Economic Forum’s SlimCity initiative and urbanisation for Arup’s Drivers of Change programme. Susan lead Arup reviews of the UN-Habitat Global Report on Human Settlements 2013: Planning and Design for Urban Mobility. Arup was a strategic adviser to the C40 group of cities and Susan was project manager for “UrbanLife” workshops. Prior to joining Arup, Susan worked for the Department for Transport in London for six years. 

Rose McArthur

Technical Principle -  Integrated Transport
Mott MacDonald

Rose has spent the last 19 years of her professional career developing and delivering complex movement strategies to support cities keep moving when they are affected by large influxes of people for a short period of time (Olympics or Commonwealth Games) or when there are significant capacity reductions on transport networks, that will result in the need for network management and behaviour change to keep it functioning. 

She has just returned from Australia where she was technical director of the TDM strategy that supported the successful delivery of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. She also developed the TDM program to reduce the impact of the Light rail construction through the heart of Sydney and developed a network impact management strategy to support Melbourne through its $8BN big build program.

Karla Jakeman

Future Mobility Innovation Lead – Materials, Manufacturing and Future Mobility
Innovate UK

Karla is the Innovation Lead for Connected Transport, part of the Land Transport Team in the Manufacturing, Materials and Mobility Sector at Innovate UK. She is seeking solutions which use innovative technologies to leverage a smarter, greener and more sustainable future mobility systems for the efficient movement of people and goods around the world. Karla focuses on working with Local Authorities, Freight and Logistics, Customer Experience and Mobility as a Service amongst many other areas. Prior to this she worked for 15 years for a large automotive company as a Design Quality Engineer.

Ella Taylor

Head of Future of Mobility
Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Bio to follow shortly…

Dr Phillip L Morgan

Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Science and Human Factors
Cardiff University

At Cardiff University, Dr Phil Morgan is a top-tier Senior Lecturer in Cognitive and Human Factors Psychology, Director of Human Factors Excellence Research Group, and Theme Leader within the Transport Futures Research Network. He is also a Psychology Co-Lead for a planned Cardiff University Centre in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Human Machine Systems. He supervises PhD students in areas such as healthcare interruption effects, human cyber-attack susceptibility, and transport/mobility.

Nicola Wass

CEO
SoMo

Nicola has more than 20 years experience of devising and delivering change programmes. She has an extensive background in strategy, communications and engagement and is the founder of So-Mo. Since establishing So-Mo in 2012 her passion for social innovation and behavioural science has led So-Mo to design and build innovative interventions that have benefited communities, organisations, and government, many of which have achieved national media coverage for their unique approach. Nicola is known for her creativity, her ability to make lateral leaps and her drive to initiate fresh approaches to problem solving. She is a trustee of Awesome Liverpool and makes very fine cocktails. 

Carl Partridge

Founder & CEO
UrbanThings

Carl is founder and CEO of UrbanThings, an intelligent mobility company based in Shoreditch specialising in smart ticketing platforms. Their UK government-backed product, Ticketless™, is an innovative m-Ticketing platform for public transport that enables operators to lower their costs by removing on-vehicle hardware. The system will ultimately move from a check-in model to full BiBo technology using Bluetooth beacons. 

Carl was the original developer of BusChecker - London’s first live bus times app, now rolled out internationally to several million users. He has over twenty years of software development experience in sectors as diverse as broadcasting and transportation.

Paul Campion

CEO
Transport Systems Catapult

Paul joined the TSC from his position leading IBM’s Global Financing in the UK and Ireland, the largest IT financing house in the industry. Paul has previously worked in a wide variety of technical, marketing and sales operational leadership roles for IBM both UK and Internationally. As a leader of IBM’s Travel and Transport industry business, he was invited to join the board of the Transport Systems Catapult and has served as a Non-Executive director since February 2015.

Paul Gadd

Head of Automotive
Innovate UK

Paul delivers Innovate UK’s support in the strategically exciting area of Autonomous and Connected Vehicles. One of the main roles is to support the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) and the delivery of £100m over 5 years supporting industry led research and development projects in this space.

Alastair Richards

Integrated Smart Travel Programme Director
Transport for the North

Alastair Richards leads the Integrated and Smart Travel team at Transport for the North. The ambitious programme seeks to transform transport information, ticketing and payments across the North of England, maximising benefits realisation through ensuring effective programme management, control of expenditure and timely delivery of all programme outcomes.

Becky Upfold

Innovation Business Delivery Lead
Transport for London

Bio to follow shortly…

Neil McGonigle

Head of Cities, North of England
Uber

Prior to joining Uber in summer 2015, Neil spent 17 years in management consulting with Accenture. Neil initially joined Uber to launch the service in Liverpool, and served as General Manager for the Merseyside and West Yorkshire regions. Neil now operates as Uber's Head of Cities for the UK and Ireland.

Siobhan Myles

Chief Product Officer
Esoterix Systems

Siobhan is Chief Product Officer of Esoterix Systems, a Bristol based company bringing intelligence to mobility. Creators of MYFIRSTMILE, Esoterix develop the platforms, tools and services needed to deliver targeted, sustainable first / last mile transport solutions. Siobhan’s passion for user-centric product design and a commitment to the Smarter Cities agenda drives everything she does. With over 12 years of experience in product innovation and software development, Siobhan has overseen the launch of a diverse range of software products from sports analytics to financial platforms.

Andrew Steele

Chief Product Officer, Intelligent Mobility
Enable

Andrew has strong analytical and problem solving skills, used to manage the software development process, product management, product strategy, project management, requirements gathering, analysis, design and delivery of IT systems throughout the project delivery lifecycle. He also has extensive knowledge of journey planning and ticket issuing within the public transport industry. His specialities are Product Management, Product Strategy, Account Management, Project Management, Process Mentoring, Requirements Management, Analysis and Design, Public Transport, Transit and Rail.

Richard Stobart

Founder and Director
Char.gy

char.gy is the brainchild of CEO, Richard Stobart, who was frustrated by the lack of charging solutions for drivers without off-street parking, such as those living in apartments or in houses without a driveway or garage.

Matt Goggins

Head of Bus
Merseytravel

Matt joined Merseytravel as Head of Bus in 2015 and is responsible for all aspects of Merseytravel’s bus-related strategy and delivery plans. 

In particular, Matt led the development of the LCR Bus Alliance alongside Arriva and Stagecoach and is responsible for developing a business case on behalf of the LCR Metro Mayor which is examining options provided by the Bus Services Act.

Prior to joining Merseytravel, Matt spend 13 years working for National Express.

Alex Warner

Owner
Flash Forward Consulting

Bio to follow shortly…

Rob Jones

Managing Director
Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire

Rob is responsible for the overall performance of the business within the Lancashire, Merseyside and Cheshire region.  Rob started in the industry in 1990 washing buses, and passed his PCV test in 1992, working for a local bus company and then Crosville Wales. Rob joined First, Chester in 1995 and became Depot Manager in 2002. He then joined Stagecoach as Operations Manager, Preston in 2004 before becoming an Operations Director in 2010 in Stagecoach West Scotland, spending 6 months at the Olympics in London, then a brief spell as Commercial Director West Scotland before moving back to Merseyside in 2013, initially as Operations Director.

Asiya Jelani

Director of New Product & Business Development
Arriva Bus

Bio to follow shortly…

Phil Southall

Managing Director
Oxford Bus Company

Phil is the Managing Director of Oxford Bus Company and sister companies Thames Travel and Carousel Buses, all subsidiaries of Go-Ahead Group Plc. He has worked in the transport industry for 20 years in a variety of operational, commercial and service delivery roles in Staffordshire, Lancashire and the North East of England in addition to his current role in Oxfordshire where he has been since 2012. His leadership has seen Oxford Bus Company achieve 96% customer satisfaction for the iconic park&ride service as well as putting the company at the centre of many eco-friendly initiatives such as flywheel systems for buses and solar PV on the Cowley depot roof. The level of innovation taking place in Oxfordshire presents exciting opportunities for these to be applied to public transport solutions so the company can continue to play its part in supporting the growth of Oxfordshire in the coming years.

Jonathan Raper

CEO
TransportAPI

Jonathan Raper is CEO of TransportAPI – one of Britain's leading providers of open public transport data to over 600 operators, media, developers and government users. Jonathan has led TransportAPI from Placr Ltd, from startup to first funding round and into residency at the UK government's Open Data Institute. He is a Visiting Professor at City University London and sits on the Department for Transport Transparency Board and the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network Board.

Laura Peacock

Group Manager, Innovation Hub
Oxfordshire County Council

Laura has led the development of an innovation service in the council. Over that time the council has built up a leading reputation in tech areas like CAV, MaaS and new approach to data and analytics for transport. New digital transport services for customers have been delivered along with 10 innovate UK projects delivered or being delivered in cutting edge technology, such as DRIVEN AV fleet, One Transport Data market place, Cities 4 people, Catch digital travel planning, MultiCAV AV Pod as part of MaaS, V2G EVs as part of energy supply.

Llewelyn Morgan

Infrastructure, Innovation & Development
Oxfordshire County Council

Llewelyn leads a newly established service area within Oxfordshire County Council that leads on Innovation for the Council. The Service has been built up by Llewelyn and colleagues, starting as a small outward focused Research and Innovation team, leading on developing innovative strategies and projects in Transport and Environment it is now broadening its scope to encompass challenges in Social Care, Education, Public Health supporting these directorates to work collaboratively on innovative solutions to long held or increasing problems. 

Jane Kennedy

Police Commissioner

Merseyside

Jane Kennedy is Merseyside’s first Police Commissioner and was elected on 15th November 2012, taking up office a week later.  She was re-elected on 6th May 2016, securing 61.7% of the public vote. Prior to this, Jane was an MP for Merseyside from 1992-2012 and was a Government Minister between 1997 and 2010, serving in six different departments. This included being Minister of State for Health, Minister for Labour, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and becoming Britain’s first woman Security Minister with responsibility for Policing in Northern Ireland. Jane was the first woman to hold Ministerial office in the Lord Chancellor’s department with responsibility for magistrates, the judiciary and family law policy.’

Dan Hubert

Founder & CEO
AppyParking

Dan Hubert, founder of AppyParking is on mission to make parking a truly forgettable experience. By creating a data driven mobility platform that bridges HD maps, IoT and payments, cities can manage and monetise their roadside network while enabling connected cars and fleets to interact freely with the kerbside. His ambitious goal has earned AppyParking recent accolades such as the 15th most disruptive company in the World and the UK’s most innovative parking technology company 2018.

Tom Quay

CEO
Passenger Technology Group

Tom founded Base in 2008; a digital technology group with a focus on app-based products and services for smart cities. 

With over 20 years working in creative technology roles, Tom has spent the last 10 years enabling transport innovation and behaviour change through digital technology. 

In 2015 he launched Passenger (www.discoverpassenger.com), a digital platform for bus companies, which now powers over 30 apps across the UK

James Beard

Technical Specialist, Economic and Social Development​
Mott MacDonald

James is a Research Consultant and Technical Specialist in economic and social development, involved in the design, development, and delivery of social research projects across a range of sectors. He specialises in equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), accessibility, and the wider social and community impacts of infrastructure and transport projects.

James has worked on the social aspects of some of the UK’s largest transport infrastructure projects including High Speed 2, the expansion of Heathrow airport, Highways England Major Projects, and mainline rail electrification. He has worked on road, rail, bus and coach, walking and cycling, air, and maritime projects and he has advised government departments and sector bodies on accessible and inclusive transport to help deliver better social outcomes from transport interventions. He is an impact assessment specialist – particularly in the field of EDI – and has assessed more than a hundred schemes from an equalities, social and community perspective over the past ten years. James is increasingly focussed on social impact, social value, social return on investment, and the realisation of community benefits from infrastructure projects in the UK and overseas. 

Tracey Poole

Principal Consultant
SNC-Lavalin's Atkins Business

Tracey Poole is a Managing Consultant for Atkins (Atkins is a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group)

Tracey is Lead Project Manager of the FLOURISH Connected and Autonomous Vehicles project, which is funded by Innovate UK.  She has 14 years’ complementary experience, including transport strategy and transport business case development, developing long-term transport strategies and making the case for investment to the Department for Transport and Local Enterprise Partnerships. She has a strong understanding of the wider mobility context that CAVs need to integrate with.

For more information visit our iM Hub: www.atkinsglobal.com/im

Richard Harris

Director Europe
Ohmio Automotion

Richard is internationally recognised as a leading expert in ITS. He has over 30 years’ experience, held senior positions in leading companies and industry associations. Richard was inducted into the ITS World Congress Hall of Fame in 2015 as the recipient of the life time achievement award. His citation read ‘An effective and charismatic champion and thought-leader for ITS for over 25 years who selflessly promotes ITS in general, without commercial considerations or bias. Known, respected, trusted and liked by ITS professionals all over the world, his commitment in worldwide organisations continues to inspire and benefit the international ITS community.’

Gavin McLaughlin

Principal Planner
Transport for London

Gavin McLaughlin is currently TfL Spatial Planning’s lead officer for new developments in Camden, Islington, Hackney and the City of London. He is also responsible for updating TfL’s Transport Assessment guidance to support the new London Plan, MTS and Healthy Streets Approach. He has addressed international academic conferences on the subject of urban regeneration and collaborated successfully with a range of public and private sector stakeholders in previous research and practitioner roles.

Peter Kirby

Principal Consultant
SNC-Lavalin/Atkins

Bio to follow shortly…

Laurence Chittock

Senior Transport Modeller 
Mott MacDonald

Laurence is a transport modeller and researcher with experience in data analysis, modelling, and GIS. He has a keen interest in electric vehicles and sustainable mobility, intelligent transport solutions, and the decarbonisation of the electricity grid.

Tim Daniels

Director
Videalert

Tim Daniels is a Director of Videalert Ltd, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of traffic enforcement and management solutions.  The company provides an intelligent digital video platform that supports multiple traffic enforcement, traffic management, crime prevention, community safety and Clean Air Zone enforcement applications simultaneously from the same infrastructure.

With over 30 years in the software industry, Tim has extensive experience in driving the growth of small to medium sized software companies having held senior sales and regional operational management roles (in UK and EMEA) with companies such as IBM, BMC Software, Acta Technology (acquired by Business Objects who in turn were acquired by SAP) and more recently Informatica Corporation where he was Managing Director of the UK subsidiary company.

In 2008 Tim along with his fellow Director, Dave Richmond acquired a controlling equity stake in the Videalert business. Tim has a BA (Hons) degree in Business Studies from London Metropolitan University.

Lee Omar

CEO
Red Ninja

For the last eight years Lee has concentrated on the smart city design / technology sector and is particularly interested in the intersection where the online world meets the 'real' world. He is currently working in the Future City space, working with the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government as part of Government Office for Science Future Cities Foresight Project advising government on what cities will look like in 2065 and 2040 to enable policy change now to achieve growth for UK Economy. I have been a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities since 2014. I am a founding member of The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence (APPG AI) which was set up in January 2017 with the aim of exploring the impact and implications of Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning.

Simon Moon

Client Director, Local Transport
SNC-Lavalin Atkins

Simon is a highly experienced Director / Civil Engineer with over twenty years’ experience.

Having worked in both the Private & Public Sector at Director level developing a wealth of expertise in, leading Environment, Infrastructure, Transportation and Urban Regeneration Services.

He joined Atkins in 2015 taking on a new role in in the newly formed Markets Team (Transportation) as the Director for Local Transport. Leading on our approach within the Local Authority sector, working closely with our existing portfolio of Local Authority Clients by developing strategies to ensure we deeply understand our client’s requirements and building long term durable strategic partnership to yield significant benefits for both client(s) and supplier.

Kirsty Pearce

Director of Policy & Strategic Commissioning
Liverpool City Region

Kirsty Pearce is the Director of Policy and Strategic Commissioning for Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.  Kirsty is responsible for taking forward the responsibilities devolved to Liverpool City Region by Government and identifying further policy opportunities which would drive economic growth. 

Kirsty was previously Area Director for the North West in the Cities and Local Growth Unit, a joint unit between the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, leading work with places on local growth and devolution. Kirsty was also responsible for delivering the Government’s Northern Powerhouse agenda. 

Peter Lilley

Director & Co-founder
iGeolise

25 years business development with ITV, Mirror group and ntl, followed by 15 years with several mobile and web start-ups. 

Co-founded iGeolise with Charlie Davies in 2009 – iGeolise searches maps and data by TravelTime. From a 2-person start-up in a loft, iGeolise is now 22 people, and processes 3 billion locations a month by travel time for many major companies across 27 countries.

Russell Fenner

Head of Innovation
E-Car Club

Russell is a Chartered Marketer with over fifteen years of experience working in commercial development and innovation roles in the transport, technology and software markets. He has an MSc in Strategic Marketing and is a PRINCE2 practitioner. In a previous role at EValu8, he focused on growing the Source East charging point network and managing the feasibility study for E-Mobility Hubs. Now at E-Car, he has been developing a project portfolio of transport innovations, including MaaS and last mile solutions alongside business model innovation for entry into new market sectors.

Russell has managed numerous projects including the rollout of the East of England Plugged in Places project, a £1m ERDF project supporting sustainable transport, and the InnovateUK funded Motionhub project. 

Nigel Cullum

Business development manager
ITSO

Nigel is business development manager of ITSO, a non-profit distributing membership organisation, which aims to make travelling on public transport throughout the UK seamless and easy by enabling smart ticketing technology. In his role as business development manager, Nigel manages the demand for ITSO services in mobile and future multi-modal transport ticketing technology solutions.

Before joining ITSO, Nigel was a Client Partner for a leading US digital customer experience digital technology provider. Nigel’s clients included Starbucks, Jaguar Land Rover and Samsonite. Prior to this role, Nigel spent more than eight years as Commercial Director of a leading smart ticketing services company. What has interested Nigel most throughout his career are the changes and challenges presented by market disruptors who understand the demands of customers from a usage rather than technology standpoint. Nigel has more than 25 years’ experience in senior commercial roles in the secure ID, financial card and transaction processing sectors, working for US, Australian and Middle Eastern companies. He loves to embrace the different cultures, languages and cuisines of the world, and has had the pleasure of experiencing this as part of his career.

Alan Farrelly

COO and Co-founder
CitySwifter

CityAlan has grown up in the bus industry. His family have been operating buses across Ireland for over 35 years, working a number of different roles including driver, transport manager and MD as well as the Irish Sales Director for UNVI Buses. Alan's conversion to the technology side of the industry came from the need to improve passenger load factors, efficiency and reliability of his family's bus fleet using data. Subsequent positive results led Alan to become a Co-founder of CitySwifter, along with former Citi Bank Analyst, Brian O'Rourke, in 2017. After expanding to the UK in 2018, CitySwifter is currently working with a number of the largest PLCs as well as innovative regional operators. The last six months has seen CitySwifter open a North American HQ, expand its product offerings and close a significant investment round led by a well-known Irish aviation family.

Vicky Williams

Director of Commercial Services
trentbarton

Vicky loves data, has a passion for pushing the boundaries getting the best outcomes for customers and thrives on genuinely working in partnership to encourage modal shift.  These are all good things given that she is Director of Commercial Services at the country’s largest independent bus company, trentbarton. Vicky now manages and develops networks and ticketing for over 40 brands as well as mango, trentbarton’s award-winning smart card.

Vicky has over 10 years’ experience within the transport industry working for Go Ahead and First prior to trentbarton and was part of the launch team of the ‘the key’ smart card during her time with Salisbury Reds, Bluestar and more bus.

Phil Rigby

Strategy & Relationships
So-Mo

Phil is fascinated by the attitudes that drive our behaviours.  Starting his career in London training in Community Development at the University of Westminster he then become the national lead for Patient and Public Involvement for an NHS Commission. Becoming more interested in service design he went on to commission services for Liverpool City Council and develop the iNnovation Network. Including his time working as a change specialist for a global management consultancy, he has nearly 20 years experience in working with the UKs public sector to develop and manage people centred transformation.

Anthony Jones

Senior Transport Consultant
SNC-Lavalin Atkins

Anthony is a Senior Transport Consultant in Atkins Sustainable Transport & Strategy team based in the Birmingham office. Anthony has experience of working in a Transport and Project Management environment including developing and managing a range of transport projects from initial concept to delivery. Anthony’s experience is based predominantly on policy and strategy work in the active travel sector, project roles include a secondment to TfGM to help manage the Cycle City Ambition Programme and cycling and walking strategies for various local authorities. Anthony has recently completed a technical lead role on the first West Midlands ‘Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan’.

Neil Herron

Founder & CEO
Grid Smarter Cities

Neil Herron is the founder and CEO of Grid Smarter Cities. He has led Grid through the LSEG’s ELITE programme for emerging high-growth companies, as well as ensuring Grid’s 7th placing in the 2018 IP100 League table. Neil is the named inventor for multiple Innovate UK funded projects and solutions, and the 13+ patents that sit behind them. He’s a serial entrepreneur developing new propositions in the smart city space.

He has sat on the ITS UK representative on the national British Parking Association Forum, and is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities, contributing to recent white papers to help form government Smart City strategy.

Deborah Fox

Head of Demand Management
Transport for West Midlands

Deborah has a background in behaviour change working for national charities like Keep Britain Tidy. For the past nine years, she has worked in large local authorities in the south and east of England, most recently as a commissioner at Essex County Council. Deborah brings delivery experience to her new role in Transport for West Midlands, having successfully managed public transport budgets up to £31 million per year and transformed services to become more commercial. Deborah  feels that congestion is one of our biggest behaviour change challenges of the 21st Century and she is relishing the chance to make an impact on it at a regional scale. Her role as Head of Demand Management reflects a growing professional discipline within combined authorities, which was once the preserve of major international sporting events.

Francesco Angellini

Senior Transport Consultant
SNC Lanvalin's Atkins Business

Francesco is a civil engineer with broad experience in transport planning and design consultancy. He specialises in the assessment and the design for passengers operations at transport interchanges, spectators operations at stadia and sport events, visitors movement in museums, public buildings, tall buildings, mass evacuation planning, and pedestrian movements in public realm including streetscape and landscape design. He has pioneered the use of Wi-Fi tracking and analytics technology for public realm planning and design.

Dr George Economides

Advisor
MoBox

After completing his doctorate in chemistry, George joined Preston Motorsports to facilitate the transfer of innovation from the racetrack to the wider world, where he quickly rose to Head of Strategy. In 2017, he joined the Oxfordshire County Council’s Innovation and Research Team, as Team Leader in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, the first CAV-dedicated position from a local authority. He is interested in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility as a Service, Demand Responsive Transport and Internet of Things. He is leading Oxfordshire County Council’s numerous CAV Team and projects, including DRIVEN, MultiCAV, OmniCAV etc.

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