Advisory board

We are delighted to announce a new Official Advisory Board for our rail events. Unofficially we have always worked with the industry leaders to create the best agendas and source the best speakers. Now we are making it official.

Board members include:

• Marc Descheemaecker, Director General, SNCB
• Monika Heiming, Secretary General, ERFA
• Juliet Reingold, Partner, Simmons & Simmons
• Lord Tony Berkeley, Chairman, Rail Freight Group (UK)
• Julian Smith, Partner, Corporate Finance – Transport, PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Ad Toet, Advisor Central and Eastern European Countries, Community of European Railways and Infrastructure Companies
• Morgan Tobiasson, Sales Director Railway Solutions, Carmen Systems 
• Monika Kurdi, Head of Marketing, MÁVCARGO, MÁV (MÁVCARGO Group)
• Christoph Wolff, Principal, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
• Mr Mark Falchi, Secretary General, European Rail Infrastructure Managers Association
• Mr Klaus Meyer, Secretary General, European Rail Freight Customer Platform (ERFCP)
• Mr John Mills, Vice President, Sales and Market Development, Alcatel Transport Solutions Division

There are still opportunities for you to join our official advisory board. To apply please email nicola.worrell@terrapinn.com

Marc Descheemaecker Director General SNCB	Education: Degree in economics, UFSIA, Antwerp (1977) Master’s degree in European Studies, College of Europe, Bruges (1978) Career:     Business analist, Mc Kinsey, NL (1978-1980) Marketing Manager, Black & Decker, D. (1980-1986) General Manager Marketing & Sales, Prado nv (1986-1992) Managing Director, Lederland, Vendex (1992-1996) Managing Director, Abilis-Cemstobel, Vendex (1996-1999) Executive Vice President, ISS International (1999-2002) Managing Director SNCB Freight Division (2002- 2004) Directorship: Several SNCB participations
Monika Heiming Secretary General ERFA "A very clear understanding of one of the biggest and complex issues at stake: the liberalization of the European rail market"	Active in Brussels since 1993 as a lobbyist and manager of international associations and groupings. Her dual strengths - language and business management skills - qualify her well to tackle European multicultural issues and the challenges facing companies in their respective markets. At UNIFE (from 1993 to 1997) she helped to develop the railway industry association, lobbying for multimodal, combined transport, the environment, EU Framework Programmes for R&D and CEECs. This gave her a very solid grounding in topical issues on the rapidly changing European railway market and familiarised her with the roles played by the various operators and stakeholders. After a brief spell at a European tobacco association in 1998-1999, in 1999 she joined Europengineers eeig (5,000 staff working in 10 design offices active in 45 countries) to coordinate and market its activities. Here she continued to develop her railway know-how, focussing on infrastructure. In November 2004 she joined ERFA, and in January 2005 was made its Secretary General, serving the organisation's 24 members by drawing on her 12 years of experience with European economic issues.
Juliet Reingold Partner Simmons & Simmons   "This is the fourth year we have sponsored EuroRail.  It is an excellent networking opportunity with the event attracting an increasingly  broader spectrum of industry participants as the programme scope develops in response to changing industry issues.  Working on the board enables us to highlight the strategic issues for the European rail industry that we see coming out of the  legal contracting arena."	Juliet Reingold is a Partner in the Commercial Group and Head of the Simmons & Simmons Transport Sector Group. Ms Reingold specialises in major projects and public private partnerships focussing particularly on the transport/logistics, facilities management and defence sectors. She also has experience across a wide range of commercial transactions including outsourcings, contractorisations, privatisations, partnering, distribution, supply and other procurement arrangements across a range of industry sectors. In the transport sector, Ms Reingold has been involved in a number of major UK infrastructure and services projects including advising Railtrack Group PLC on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Project and on its proposed participation in the London Underground PPP as well as advising Network Rail on projects such as the Sunderland Metro PPP, on its refranchising programme, on various freight infrastructure haulage arrangements, on the Kings Cross Hub infrastructure arrangements and on the West Coast Main Line Project. She also advises TOC bidders for UK rail franchises. Ms Reingold is currently advising Transport for London on the London Congestion Charging Scheme and its Western Extension and on feasibility options for a potential Low Emission Zone in London. In the defence sector, Ms Reingold is currently advising the Ministry of Defence on a major transport and logistics PPP - the Future Defence Supply Chain Initiative. She also advised the Ministry of Defence on the Royal Dockyards privatisation, the contractorisation of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, on the PPP for the Warship Support Modernisation Initiative for the provision of services at HM Naval Bases and on the UK Military Flying Training System PPP. Ms Reingold is a Member of The Institute of Logistics and Transport and is described in Legal 500 as being "highly experienced" in PFI/PPP work and "well known in rail".
Lord Tony Berkeley Chairman Rail Freight Group (UK)	Lord Berkeley is Chairman of the Rail Freight Group, the representative body of theUK rail freight industry. He was Public Affairs Manager of Eurotunnel from 1981 until the end of construction of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 and, before that, worked for George Wimpey on a number of multi-discipline projects around the world. Lord Berkeley sits in the House of Lords from 1994, firstly as a hereditary peer and latterly as a life peer, and was an opposition Transport Spokesperson 1996-7. He is an Alternate Member of the European Energy and Transport Forum, and a Steering Group member of the European Rail Freight Customer Platform A Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport. Lord Berkeley is President of the UK Marine Pilots Association.
Ad Toet Advisor Central and Eastern European Countries Community of European Railways and Infrastructure Companies  “Previously rail managers organised international meetings to agree on tariffs and talk about technology; in the liberalised rail sector they meet at professionally organised conferences (like EuroRail) to exchange experiences on business performance and how to serve customers”	Mr. Ad Toet (49) started his career in 1979 as staff member of United Nations and has worked since 1991 in the field of railways development in many Central and East European countries. Co-operation with international institutions such as IBRD and EBRD gave him extensive knowledge and understanding of procedures for project preparation and appraisal. He has commercial experience with the development of intermodal shuttle services and Public Service Contracts on passenger transport. Since 2003 he is responsible for the special support given by the Community of European railway and infrastructure companies (CER) to its new members in enlarged Europe.
Julian Smith Partner, Corporate Finance  Transport, PricewaterhouseCoopers	Julian Smith is a Chartered Accountant and a partner in PriceWaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance specialising in transport sector M&A and project finance, particularly for railway operators.  He was a member of the team that advised London Underground on the Public Private Partnership, the largest PPP project to date.  He advised Kelios and FirstGroup on the UK's TransPennine Express rail franchise signed last your and FirstGroup on the Scotrail franchise that it won this year. He was co-author of PwC's seminal paper on "Upgrading the Rail Network" in 2001 regarding the use of Special Purpose Financing vehicles for rail network enhancements and has recently published a paper on financing the EU's Trans-European Transport Networks.  He has advised the Jordanian and Polish Governments on transport privatisation.
Mr Mark Falchi, Secretary General, European Rail Infrastructure Managers Association	FALCHI  Marc                         12/2004 : EIM (European Rail Infrastructure Manager Association), Brussels. secretary general 11/2002 : EIM, technical adviser 3/2002: Adviser to the directors general (infrastructure, passengers and freight), SNCF Audit of French involvement in the construction and putting into service of UK HSL and Interoperability policy 9/2000: Project director, AEIF Final drafting of the High Speed TSIs, start of drafting the conventional TSIs: representative architecture, chair the first working groups meetings 9/1997: Director, safety and operations, RFF Setting up of the organisation, Definition of the objectives, management principles and performance indicators of the safety and operational tasks performed by SNCF, on behalf of RFF. 6/1996: Infrastructure director, Paris Nord, SNCF Director for 1000 km of lines (RER B and D lines, EUROSTAR, THALYS, TGV Nord, Paris area freight belt …). Chairman of the safety and of the audit committees, Delivering path allocation, monitoring traffic management and punctuality, Management of the network maintenance and renewal.
Mr Klaus Meyer, Secretary General, European Rail Freight Customer Platform (ERFCP)	Klaus Meyer - Lawyer with German (Assessor) and French (Licencié en Droit) studies. From 1968 to 1982 working for Deutsche Bundesbahn / Deutsche Bahn AG (German Railways). From 1972 to 1979 as Delegate of Deutsche Bundesbahn for the Affairs of the European Communities in Brussels. 1980 and 1981 Head quarters of Deutsche Bahn (international passenger). From 1982 Country Manager of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et du Tourisme, responsible for all the activities of this Company in Germany (Hotels, Catering, Travel Agencies, Rail-services, Car Rental) until the Company was taken over by a competitor in 1990.  In the following years until 1994 working for MITROPA AG, a travel related service Company, in the new German Länder. From June 1995 to September 2002 Head of the UITP-EuroTeam. UITP (International Association for Public Transport) is the worldwide association of undertakings operating public transport in urban and regional fields. EuroTeam is its secretariat for European Affairs. From 1st October 2002 to 31st December 2004 Secretary General of European Rail Freight Association - ERFA - . The members of ERFA are private railway companies that operate freight transport in "open access". From 1st January 2005 Secretary General of European Rail Freight Customers’ Platform.

Morgan Tobiasson Sales Director Railway Solutions Carmen Systems	Education  1984-1988 B. Sc. Economics and Administration (Marketing), University of Karlstad, Sweden Career  1991-1997 Market Consultant, Swedish Trade Council, Düsseldorf & Berlin, Germany The Swedish Trade Council produce feasibility studies, marketing plans, export strategies, market surveys, competition analyses for Swedish companies active on the German market. As a market consultant Morgan was among other assignments responsible for market strategies in connection with establishing business on the German market for companies listed on the Swedish stock exchange. 1998-2000Key Account Manager South America, Ericsson Mobile Data Design AB, Gothenburg, Sweden Ericsson Mobile Data Design AB designs, supplies and supports wireless packet switched data networks. The company has extensive competence in the field of wireless data having supplied over 30 networks worldwide to major and independent Telecoms operators. Morgan was responsible for sales to South America with focus on Venezuela, Colombia and Chile, selling wireless networks to the mayor phone operators like Telcel Bellsouth and Telefonica. 2001-Sales Director, Carmen Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden Carmen Systems develops, markets and implements resource optimization solutions (crew and rolling stock) for clients found primarily in the transportation industry. In this position Morgan is today responsible for existing customers as Deutsche Bahn, Green Cargo, SJ and CityPendeln as building up business on new markets.
Christoph Wolff Principal McKinsey&Company, Inc	Dr. Christoph Wolff is a Partner at McKinsey&Company.  He joined the German office in 1992 and is leader of the Global Rail, Urban Transit and Shipping Practice.  Selected examples of his work include optimizing infrastructure network and maintenance strategy for a central European infrastructure manager, developing passenger service offering for long-distance passenger division, defining a new business model for cross-border cargo wagon management, introducing "lean production" management in rolling stock maintenance and marshalling yard management and many other topics.  Dr. Wolff holds a Ph.D. and a M.Sc from the Aachen Institute of Technology (Germany) and the ETH in Zurich (Switzerland).  He was an Assistant Professor for Operations Management at Northwestern Kellogg Graduate School.
Monika Kurdi Head of Marketing MAVCARGO, MAV (MAVCARGO GROUP)
John Mills Vice President, Sales and Market Develpoment Alcatel Transport Solutions