 Carina Christensed Minister, Transport & Energy
Ministry of Transport & Energy (Denmark)
 H.E. Matter Mohammed Al Tayer Chairman
Roads & Transport Authority (Dubai)
 Saw Phaik Hwa President & CEO
SMRT (Singapore)
 Ron Huberman President
CTA (Chicago)
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Meet our speakers
H.E. Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer , Chairman ,
Roads & Transport Authority (RTA)
Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer, the Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads & Transport Authority is a dynamic and progressive leader with superior managerial and organizational skills. He is a strategic thinker with the ability to see the big picture without losing sight of the important details. Mr. Al Tayer is a strong promoter and supporter of continual improvement and development. He also possesses excellent problem solving and decision making skills.
In November 2005, H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, UAE Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai appointed Al Tayer as the Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the newly established Roads and Transport Authority (RTA).
In his capacity as the Executive Director of RTA, Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer is responsible for fulfilling Dubai’s Transportation needs including Roads, Buses, Metro, Marine and other modes of transport. Since RTA’s establishment in November 2005, Al Tayer established a strong managerial and professional base to ensure that RTA meets the increasing transportation demands of Dubai. In this regard, RTA’s vision of “Safe and Smooth Transport for All” reflects RTA’s commitment to providing integrated transportation solutions that exceed the public’s expectations and meet the development plans of the emirate. In the short period since its establishment, RTA launched several new projects in addition to those projects carried over from Dubai Municipality. The initiated projects include three new creek crossings, widening of several roads, Metro projects among others.
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Director of Systems Management for Mass Transit,
Siemens Transportation Systems
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Project Director, DBR Metro Project Directorate,
BKV (Budapest)
Mr Arpad Balogh joined Budapest Transport Privately Held Corporation in the spring of 2007. Earlier he spent many years at MAV Co., Ltd. from 1986-1990 as an engineer for the line section (track maintenance), from 1990-1995 as a development engineer he was responsible for the controlling of track reconstruction works Kelenföld - Budafok, Kelenföld - Nagytétény etc., from 1995-1999. as an engineer for the line section (controlling of truck reconstruction works Budapest - Vác, Budapest - Veresegyház - Vác, Verőce - Szob), from 1999-2001 as an engineer for economic and technical controlling (controlling and checking several works).
In 2001 he became Deputy Head of Unit as a site supervisor and project manager in BILC project and the Track construction works of Komárom – Ács project. From 2004 he became Project Manager in ISPA track construction works of Ács – Győrszentiván project, direction of all investment works in the area, control the works of the site supervisors. From 2005 to 2007 he was a project manager in ISPA construction works.
Mr Balogh is now a Project Director of Budapest Transport Privately Held Corporation DBR Metro Project Directorate with responsibility to the new - 4th - metro line project in Budapest.
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Director, Mass Transit,
Bombardier Transportation
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Executive Vice President, Operations, Projects and Innovation,
Keolis
A graduate of Ecole des Mines de Paris, with two engineering degrees, Frédéric Baverez started his career in the administration in the Department of Industry and the Department of Finance and Economy. From 1995 to 1997, he joined the personal office of the Secretary for Transport.
From 1997 to 2005, he worked for the SUEZ Group at several leading positions in the Waste Division and the Environment Branch. In his final position at the SUEZ Group he was responsible for the Procurement Department.
He took up his current position at Keolis in 2005. With a €2.5 billion turnover and 33 000 employees, Keolis is one of the major European player in the public transportation business with 1.7 billion passengers per year.
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Mr Pierre-Antoine Benatar, Director, Marketing & Strategy,
Thales Transportation Systems
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Managing Director,
Kollektivtransportproduksjon (Oslo)
Trond Bjørgan has been Managing Director/CEO of Oslo Sporveier AS (now called Kollektivtransportproduksjon AS) since 1997, when he came from the position of regional director in the Public Roads Administration. Before his assignment with the Public Roads Administration, he worked in the Directorate of Roads, which is an autonomous agency subordinated to the Ministry of Transport and Communication.
He has an engineering degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Mr. Bjørgan is the father of two children.
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CEO,
Roma Metropolitane S.r.l.
Since July 2004 he’s been Managing Director for Roma Metropolitane S.r.l., the city-owned company responsible of the coordination and control of the whole enacting process of a 10 billion Euros works plan concerning the development, modernization and expansion of Rome’s subway network, public transport corridors and innovative transport systems, wire ones included, and every other intervention regarding public transportation with dedicated lanes, and connected and/or complementary works, to be realized in the City of Rome.
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COO,
London Underground Limited
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Transport Councillor,
Campania Region
Ennio Cascetta is Full Professor of Transportation Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II. He is author of seven books and of more than two hundred papers published in International and Italian journals. Concerning his political role, since 2000, he is Ministry of Transport for the Campania Region. In this role he has been responsible of several projects including the Regional Metro System, the 27 billion Euro Masterplan of Transportation and Infrastructure including High Speed rail links, ports, airports and highways. He is currently coordinator of the Italian Conference of Regional Ministers of Transportation.
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Minister of Transport,
Ministry of Transport & Energy (Denamrk)
Carina Christensen, was born November 8th 1972 in Fredericia
Parliamentary Career
The Conservative Party's candidate in Faaborg nomination district from 1999.
The Conservative People's Party Funen County constituency from November 20th 2001
Parliamentary Career
The Conservative Party's candidate in Faaborg nomination district from 1999.
Education and Profession
MSc (business administration and languages), South Jutland University Centre, Odense 1993-1998. Attended Middelfart Upper Secondary School, 1988-1991. Strib School, 1984-1988. Allé School, Fredericia, 1978-1983.
Furniture manufacturer, Rugballe Møbelfabrik A/S, Middelfart from 1998. Assistant at Odense EU Office, Brussels, 1997-1998. Assistant to Poul Schlüter, Christian Rovsing, and Frode Kristoffersen at the European Parliament in Brussels, 1997.
Affiliations
Member of the management committee of the Conservative Students in Odense, 1996-2000. Member of the management committee of Odense Conservative constituency organisation, 1st nomination district, 1998-1999. The Conservative Party's candidate in the elections to the European Parliament in 1999. Member of Council from January 1st 2002.
Minister for Family and Consumer Affairs from December 2006.
Minister for Transport from November 23 2006.
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Deputy Chairman of the City Council,
City of Copenhagen
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Mr. Jose Gustavo de Souza Costa, CEO,
Mêtro Rio (Rio de Janeiro)
Mr. José Gustavo de Souza Costa, 61, has extensive experience in regulated industries as both an investor and Board Member, having served as Chairman of the Boards of SuperVia, the Rio de Janeiro commuter train operator, and of Excelsior, the electrical energy distributor, headquartered in the State of Espírito Santo. In addition, Mr. Souza Costa has served as a Board Member of some of Brazil’s most prestigious companies, including: Eletrobrás, IBP – Instituto Brasileiro de Petróleo, Bolsa Mercantil e de Futuros, and Banco Pactual.
Mr. Souza Costa began his career as an executive in the mining sector, having served as CFO of Cia. de Mineração do Amapá and subsequently as CEO of São Bento Mineração S/A, before transferring to the financial sector, where he served as a Director of both Banco Icatú and Banco Pactual.
Mr. Souza Costa earned his degree in Economics at the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Estado da Guanabara – Rio de Janeiro.
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SVP Business Systems,
Ansaldo STS
Francesco Di Maio was born in Italy in 1945. He was awarded a degree with honours in Engineering and also a Masters from the Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris in Turin. He has experiences in the automation sectors of big industrial groups such as FIAT and Olivetti and became responsible for a number of production lines. Francesco has a broad experience in the project management of complex and multidisciplinary projects. He has been Technical Director, responsible of construction and purchase in Ansaldo Trasporti, then Operations Director in Ansaldo Sistemi. Currentl Francesco is Senior Vice-President, managing the Systems Business Unit of Ansaldo Trasporti Sistemi Ferroviari.
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Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing,
Ansaldo STS
Mr. Dotta was born in Piana Crixia (SV) on July 3, 1954 and took a degree in Electronic Engineering at Turin Polytechnic in 1979.
Since 1983 Eugenio has been a part of the FinmeccanicaTrasportation sector. Initially he was with Telettra, now Alcatel Italy, he then joined Ansaldo Trasporti in 1983 and was engaged in the design of railway signalling systems and then progressed to taking responsibility for systems management and tenders.
He has been involved in the most important projects of Ansaldo Trasporti and Ansaldo Trasporti Sistemi Ferroviari starting from the Carajas 900 km railway line in Brazil up to the unattended driverless metros of Copenhagen, Brescia, Thessaloniki, Milan line 5, Rome line C, etc.
He has also been Strategic Planning Senior Vice-President in Ansaldo STS.
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Chief Designer,
Copenhagen Metro
Copenhagen Metro: Chief Engineer, planning and design of the current metro system and Cityringen, investigations of further extensions of the metro system. 1971-1993 - Danish State Railways: planning, design and construction of extensions of the Copenhagen Suburban Line System (the S-Train System) and R&D-activities including studies of new light metro systems.
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Vice President of Central Europe,
Tyco Safety Products
Matthias Ernst, aged 45, is Vice President for Tyco Fire & Security’s Central European region. In that role, he is responsible for some 20 countries stretching from BeNeLux, via Scandinavia, Finland, to Central and Eastern Europe. His organisation develops, sells, installs and maintains a vast range of security and fire protection solutions with well-known brands such as ADT, Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions, Total Walther, Inergen, Sensormatic, American Dynamics, and more.
Matthias has studied economics in Mannheim, Germany, before he joined a manufacturer of supply chain automation products. In 1993, he moved to Austria to become Managing Director of Sensormatic, and subsequently, filled various European management positions in Paris, London and Budapest. Shortly after Tyco acquired Sensormatic in 2001, he moved back to Germany to manage the integrated ADT business for Central Europe, before he relocated to the Netherlands in 2006 after having assumed additional responsibility for Tyco’s fire protection business.
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Head of Division, Structured Lending, PPP & Infrastructure in Western Europe ,
European Investment Bank
Cheryl leads the EIB’s structured, PPP and transport infrastructure financing team for UK, France and Ireland. She has extensive experience of financing transport projects and PPP and project finance structures. She joined the EIB in 1994 as an economist providing macroeconomic analysis of, and advice on the financing of projects located in countries outside the European Union. Prior to joining the Bank Cheryl worked as an economist, restructuring and privatisation advisor in an international advisory firm for eight years. As a consultant, she advised IFI’s, governments and corporates on energy sector reform and restructuring and the planning and financing of capital schemes primarily in Western and Eastern Europe.
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Vice-Managing Director,
Copenhagen Metro
2004 - Deputy CEO of Ørestadselskabet responsible for the operation and maintenance of the driverless Metro in Copenhagen.
1993 – 2004 - CEO of Ørestadsselskabet overall responsible for the design, construction and operation & maintenance of the driverless Metro in Copenhagen. Overall responsible for the sale and development of the 3 km2 bare land to become the new urban district Ørestad.
1990 – 1993 - Head of the planning office in the Danish State Railways.
1989 – 1990 - Head of office at the tele company KTAS.
1981 – 1989 - Head of office at the Ministry of Transport.
1975 – 1981 - Manager in the Ministry of Environment.
1973 – 1975 - Architect, Commisioner in town planning.
1971 – 1973 - Teacher at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture.
1969 – 1973 - Architect in the company Skaarup & Jespersen.
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Jonathan started his career in 1986 as an Operations Management Trainee with British Rail.
This led to a number of operational and commercial jobs on British Rail’s former Southern Region culminating in a senior commercial role at London Bridge on the former South Eastern Division.
In 1989 he joined the then Trainload Freight Business Unit managing various contracts in the petroleum sector. In 1992 he joined Rail Freight Distribution as part of the commercial team planning the launch of commercial services through the Channel Tunnel. This led to a number of commercial roles following the opening of the Tunnel in 1994, particularly in the automotive and intermodal sectors.
In 1998 he joined Allied Continental Intermodal in Reading, a joint venture company between British and French Railways and Swiss forwarding company Intercontainer, as Chief Executive.
In 2001 he moved to English Welsh and Scottish Railways (EWS) as General Manager of its International Division, taking responsibility for all through freight traffic passing through the Channel Tunnel. His tenure there included day to day management of the illegal immigrant crisis at Sangatte.
In 2003 Jonathan joined Transport for London as Director Rail Projects reporting to Managing Director Rail, TfL, taking sponsorship responsibility for TfL’s involvement in such projects as Crossrail and the East London Line.
In December 2004 became Director Docklands Light Railway Limited.
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Chief Safety Manager,
Copenhagen Metro
2007 - Chief Safety Manager in Ørestadsselskabet. 1993 – 2006 - Project Manager of Railway Technique in Ørestadsselskabet i.e. ATC, Radio, SCADA and the Safety Approval of the driverless Metro. From 2002 – 2006 also Manager of IT. 1983 – 1993 - Working in the private sector as computer scientist and later as Project Manager. The subjects ranged from SCADA systems to international research projects under the ESPRIT program for the EU. The topics for the ESPRIT projects were Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in various domain applications
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Business Development Manager,
Westinghouse Platform Screen Doors
Colin Fullalove is the Business Development Manager for Westinghouse Platform Screen Doors, a division of Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Ltd.
Colin joined the company, formerly known as Westinghouse Brakes, in 1999 as Project Manager for the Copenhagen Metro Platform Screen Door contract. He was subsequently promoted to his current role in 2002, and has built on the company's initial successes in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia to turn WPSD into a truly global business. Recent contract wins include Toulouse Line B, Roissy Airport and Brescia Metrobus in Europe, Guangzhou Line 4, and Shanghai Line 1 Retrofit in China, and Dubai Metro in the UAE. Colin and his team recently received the KBRS Outstanding Performance Award for their contribution in support of company objectives.
Prior to joining Westinghouse, Colin ran his own business, providing design and project management services for a diverse range of clients both in the UK and overseas.
Colin is an Incorporated Engineer, and a member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He is currently studying for an MBA with the Open University Business School and is married with 2 children
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Vice-President,
Metro Rail Transit Corporation
Twenty years experience in a senior management position undertaking development planning, market forecasting, utility/infrastructure forecasting, feasibility studies, investment planning & management consulting.
Highlights of projects undertaken includes contact-less ticketing system, BOT light rail transit system, investment advise international auction of publicly held shares in a utility corporation, credit review of an international port operator, conversion of US military base, privatization of utilities, generation of energy indicators of ADB members countries and research & development on building materials/ construction technologies.
Rommel Gavieta has worked with the first Filipino BOT consortium corporation, largest Spanish bank, core management group for the conversion of the largest overseas US military base, United Nations Center for Regional Development, Asian Development Bank, Japanese Universities and the foremost state University in the Philippines.
Advocacy in international project finance and public sector governance.
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Product Manager, Urban Rail,
Thales Rail Signalling Solutions
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Managing Director,
The Design Solution
Robbie is co-founder and Managing Director of The Design Solution. He is a qualified architect and has been responsible for airport consulting and transportation projects for the last 17 years.
Robbie has become internationally recognised for his expertise in the design of airport terminals, specifically in the areas of retail planning and the design of passenger spaces. Robbie’s experience also covers all aspects of retail commercial design, from shopping centres and department stores through to food courts, restaurants and bars. His experience of working in the airports retail sector throughout the world has led to many speaking engagements at international conferences as well as having numerous articles published in a wide range of sector publications.
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Transit Market Development & Tender Director,
Alstom Transport Information Solutions
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Mr. Conrado Grava de Souza, Operations Director,
Metro São Paulo
Conrado Grava de Souza is Brazilian, 58 years old, graduated as Electrical Engineer at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, in 1973. In 1974 he attended to post-graduation courses on “Power Supply” and “Relay Driven Protection” at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. In 1984 he attended to a specialisation course on Administration at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, in São Paulo. In 1998 he attended in Japan to a TQM – Total Quality Management course sponsored by the AOTS – Association of Overseas Technical Scholarship. He works for the Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo – METRÔ since 1984, and he presently is the Director of Operation, who is responsible for the Operation Service, Maintenance and Systems Conception areas of the company.
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Chief Engineer,
DLR (London)
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Transportation Market Director,
Alcatel-Lucent
Bob Herritty is the Alcatel-Lucent Transportation Market Director and brings to the role more than 20 years experience of the transport industry. He has previously held roles inside Alcatel-Lucent as the Vertical Markets Sales Director in the UK, Managing Director of Alcatel's Saft Power Systems Ltd business unit in London and Managing Director of Saft Singapore (pte) Ltd in Singapore.
Bob also spent 14 years developing business for Alcatel transport oriented speciality business units in North America. His experience has included membership of IEEE SCC29 writing US standards for battery systems; he has been a commissioner on the Production Industries Commission of the London Development Agency and currently is the Alcatel-Lucent representative on the Confederation of British Industry, Council for Wales.
Bob is a graduate of the University of London.
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Ron Huberman was appointed President of the Chicago Transit Authority in May 2007. Huberman oversees the day-to-day operations of the second largest transit agency in the country. CTA’s 154 bus routes and eight rail routes provide nearly 1.6 million rides on an average weekday to Chicago and 40 surrounding suburbs.
From 2005 to 2007, Huberman served as Chief of Staff for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. As Chief of Staff, Ron Huberman directed the operations of the City of Chicago’s 49 departments and 39,000 employees, and oversaw an annual budget of $5.7 billion. Huberman led the City’s reform initiatives to eliminate corruption in City government, and put in place a dynamic new performance management system to measure and reward the performance of every City department and employee.
From 2004 to 2005, Huberman served as Executive Director of the City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC).
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President & CEO,
SMRT (Singapore)
Ms. Saw is the President and CEO of SMRT Corporation Ltd, a multi-modal public transport operator in Singapore comprising mass rapid transit, light rail, buses and taxis. With her vast and extensive experience in international corporate business prior to joining SMRT Corporation in December 2002, Phaik Hwa offers a fresh approach to the way public transport is managed and operated in Singapore. She has been instrumental in the development and implementation of new and key initiatives in the SMRT group of companies. In addition to the management of current operations, she is also working closely with the authorities on the development of a new 33.3km line that SMRT Corporation will operate by 2010.
She sits on the Board of Trustees of the Singapore Management University, the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Community Charity Fund and Youth Business Singapore. She is also a resource panel member on the Government Parliamentary Committee (Transport). Ms. Saw graduated with an Honours degree in Biochemistry from the University of Singapore. She also attended an Advanced Management Programme at the University of Hawaii.
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Editor,
Railway Gazette International
Christopher M A Jackson (49) was born and brought up in the southern suburbs of London, where he still lives. He is married, with two daughters. He was educated at Eltham College, and studied Business Administration & Transport Planning (Combined Honours) at the University of Aston in Birmingham. Chris has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Transport & Logistics since 1985, and was elected as a Fellow in 1997. He has also been a member of the UK’s Railway Study Association for more than 20 years.
Chris joined Railway Gazette International as Editorial Assistant in April 1982. Two years later he was appointed Production Editor, in which post he oversaw the transfer of the magazine to computerised production. He became Assistant Editor in 1987, and Deputy Editor in 1991, at which time he also became Editor of RG's urban railways publication Metro Report. He served as Managing Editor of the fortnightly newsletter Rail Business Intelligence from its launch in 1995.
In 2006 Chris became Editor of Railway Gazette International and Editor-in-Chief of the Railway Gazette group publications.
Over the past 26 years, he has travelled extensively for the magazine, visiting and reporting on railway developments in more than 30 countries.
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Director General, Development,
RATP
Born in 1953, Jean-Marc Janaillac is a graduate of the HEC (College of Advanced Commercial Studies) (1975) and a former alumnus of the ENA (1980).
After starting his career as a Chief of Staff in the Prefecture, he worked as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State for Tourism (1983-1984). He subsequently held the post of general manager of French official tourism services for North America in New York, from 1984 to 1987.
At the end of that posting, he was appointed Director General of the Maison de la France (1987-1997), an economic interest grouping that handles the promotion of French tourism abroad. In that capacity, he was a member of the Air France board from 1989 to 1994.
In 1997, Jean-Marc Janaillac joined the AOM airline as Executive Director of Sales before being appointed acting Director General two years later. He joined the Maeva Group as CEO in 2000 before being appointed to the Chair of the Paris Tourism and Conference Board in 2002.
He has been serving as the RATP Group’s Managing Director for Development and as CEO of RATP Développement since November 2004.
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Technical Director,
Copenhagen Metro
1993 - Technical Director in Ørestadselskabet responsible for design and construction of the driverless Metro in Copenhagen as well as the design and implementation of the infrastructure in the new urban district Ørestaden in Copenhagen. 1980 - 1993 - Project Manager at the Danish State Railways responsible for a number of major infrastructure projects from rail way systems in the Copenhagen area to the complete railway system across the Great Belt. 1971 – 1980 - Civil Engineer Manager at Monberg & Thorsen working on a number of projects for instance construction of a cement facilityin Iraq, construction of an oil refinery in Iraq and establishing a lead mining facility in Greenland.
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President & CEO,
SkyTrain
President and Chief Executive Officer of both the British Columbia Rapid Transit Company (known as SkyTrain) and the West Coast Express commuter rail system. He is responsible for the operating assets exceeding $2.5 billion that cover much of Greater Vancouver and parts of the Fraser Valley.
Doug has a strong private sector background in leading significant change to achieve top performance in both the private and public sectors including multi-national organizations.
During his current tenure operating the Vancouver region’s urban passenger rail systems, he has significantly improved fiscal, operating performance and cost recovery by over 100% at West Coast Express. SkyTrain has also reduced its costs by many millions of dollars in just a few years while now carrying approximately 70 million riders per year and achieving an operating cost recovery last year of over 105%.
Doug’s background includes; strategic planning, finance, mergers and divestitures, operations, asset management, marketing, distribution and real estate.
He recently graduated from the CEO program at the Kellogg School of Business.
In addition to President/CEO of SkyTrain and West Coast Express, Doug was the leader responsible for the development and defence of the transportation plan with the International Olympic Committee during the successful Vancouver 2010 Olympic bid phase. He is currently the Chairman of the Transportation Committee for 2010 Olympic Games.
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Former Director, Property,
KCRC
Mr. Lam is the Director-Property of Hong Kong’s Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation. He first qualified as a Chartered Building Surveyor and registered as an Authorized Person under the Buildings Ordinance of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. He has been elected as a Chartered Arbitrator and listed on the London Panel of Arbitrators of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also listed on similar panels in Hong Kong and Vancouver, and is appointed as Arbitrator to the China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission and the Beijing Arbitration Commission. In 1995 Mr. Lam was appointed as Non-official Justice of Peace and in 2001 awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star.
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Mr. Jerzy Lejk graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology. In July 2007 he has finished the MBA studies.
Mr. Jerzy Lejk developed his professional career working for such municipal organizations as Warsaw Development Planning Office, Warsaw Voivoidship Office, Municipal Roads Authority, Warsaw City Governor’s Office. He was also a board member of one of the biggest international construction companies.
He started working for Warsaw Metro Company in 2002, holding a position of the Deputy Director and in 2003 he became a Member of the Executive Board. He was responsible for the implementation of the project on the completion of the metro line I, which consists of four stations, four route tunnels (with the total length of 3.9 km) and a road junction with the Park and Ride System located next to the last metro station.
In January 2006 Mr. Jerzy Lejk was appointed the President of the Board of Warsaw Metro Ltd, also responsible for supervising and the implementation of a major investment project in Warsaw, which is the Metro Line 2.
Mr. Jerzy Lejk has a number of professional training certificates in the fields of construction and environmental protection within the remit of the EU regulations, Public Commission Law, PPP procedures and investment management.
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Product Marketing Manager,
GE Transportation Systems
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Business Development Manager,
Parsons
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Managing Director,
Bangalore Metro
A Post Graduate in Chemistry from the University of Kerala (1974) with first rank he also acquired an MBA Degree from Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia (1997). After working in BARC, Mumbai for sometime, he joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1978. Since then, he has held the position of Deputy Commissioner in Hassan and Mangalore Districts, Chief Secretary, Zilla Parishad, Raichur, Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Secretary to the Government, Education department etc. As Commissioner of Commercial Taxes during 1998-2002, was involved in the preparations for introduction of VAT in Karnataka. He headed MSIL, Hutti Gold Mines, KSRTC, Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation, as Managing Director and had a brief stint as Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi. He joined Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. as Managing Director in March 2006.
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Project Director, Copenhagen Metro,
Ansaldo STS
Piero Marotta was born in 1960 and obtained an honours degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Naples in 1987. Subsequently he was awarded an MBA from the Università Bocconi in Milan.
Since graduating Piero has been a part of the Ansaldo Trasporti organisation. Initially he was involved in the Genoa Underground project (Brin-Dinegro), managing installation contracts before becoming Project Manager of Casalecchio-Vignola (Bologna) railway line.
Subsequently, he was Deputy Project Manager for the Genoa Underground project (Principe-Brignole) and afterwards Project Manager for the installation of Contact Line for the Genoa trolleybus.
He has been involved in the Copenhagen Project since its inception in 1996 and during the early bidding stages. Following the contract award, he was appointed as the Deputy Project Manager for the Transportation System construction contract.
In 1999 he was appointed Project Manger for the Operation and Maintenance subcontract and assumed overall responsibility to the Client for the day to day revenue operation of the Metro which commenced in 2002.
As part of a strategy to consolidate ATSF activities with the Operation and Maintenance Contract to run until 2010 and with the award of further extension contracts, Piero was assigned as Manager of the ATSF permanent establishment in Denmark in 2004.
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VP, Sales and Marketing,
TELTRONIC. S.A. Unipersonal
Born in 1961, he was graduated as a Master Engineer in Telecommunications by the Technical University of Madrid in 1987, then joining Electronica Ensa (Indra Group) where he was dedicated to the design of a trunked MPT-1327 infrastructure, being appointed R&D Director in 1992. In 1995 he joined TeleTrunk, a spanish PAMR operator, as Technical Director. In 1997 he joined the BICC Group, where he was appointed Sales Director of the BICC branch in Lima (Peru), where he developed commercial activities in several countries of Latin America. In 1999 he joined Teltronic as Marketing & Sales Director, with responsibility for all the commercial activities of the company. Representing Teltronic, he’s a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Electronic Companies of Spain (Asimelec).
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Andrew has some thirty years of senior industry experiences within Defense, Water, Gas, Power and Railway. He has covered Projects, Design, Operations and Maintenance in diverse environments in the United Kingdom, Middle East and Hong Kong. He is presently Operations Director for the MTR Corporation in Hong Kong.
His experience ranges from the design, development and construction of new systems to Project Management in Defense, Power and Rail, additionally he has been responsible in these industries for growth and maintenance strategy as well as day to day delivery and P&L responsibility.
His career to date is typified by innovation which has simultaneously delivered substantial improvement to productivity, efficiency, service performance and safety. To support business improvement in these industries Andrew has developed system and risk approaches that are pragmatic, robust, efficient and safe.
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Sales & Marketing Manager, Mass Transit,
Westinghouse Rail Systems
David Mott is the Sales & Marketing Manager for Westinghouse Rail Systems Mass Transit Department. He has spent his entire career in the field of signalling and train control systems for heavy metros. He has been associated with metro systems all over the world including London, Madrid, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Oslo – as well as acting as the Project Director for the Westinghouse contract to supply the signalling system for Phases 1, 1A, and 2 of the Singapore Metro. In recent years he has advised a number of clients planning new or upgraded metro signalling systems.
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Director General,
Tisséo (Toulouse)
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Director of Operations,
BVG
Thomas Necker was born in Vienna in 1961. He started his career in 1988 as a Manager of the Research and Development Department at Simmering Graz Pauker AG. From 1989 to 1995 Mr. Necker worked at ABB Verkehrstechnik GmbH as the Head of Special Projects and Product Development and also as the Head of Sales and Marketing. He then moved on to Österreichische Bundesbahn where he worked as the Head of the Purchasing Department before taking up the position of CEO of Transport Automation Solutions at Alcatel Austria AG in 1998. In February 2004 he was appointed as the Member of the Executive Board and Chief Operating Officer of Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG).
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Director General,
Istanbul Ulaşim
Born in 1964, Suleyman Pektas graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Management, Department of Industrial Engineering in 1986. He completed his Master Degree in Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in the field of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research between 1989-1991.
Upon returning to Turkey, he worked as a research assistant in Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Engineering. In 1997, he went to University of Missouri for his doctorate studies.
His private sector experiences include working as a top level executive and member of executive board in management consultancy, textile, metal processing, automative, open air advertising, insurance and Information Technologies sectors.
In July 2004, he was appointed as the General Manager of Istanbul Ulasim Transportation Company, which is the urban rail system operator in Istanbul and a subsidiary of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.
He is a member of the Policy Board of UITP (International Association of Public Transport) as well. Having has a good command of English and is also married with two children.
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Marketing Director,
Siemens Transportation Systems
Bertrand Picard (44) was born in France and received its Engineering degree at ENSTA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées). He has twenty years of experience in railway industry. After being involved into the technical and top management of projects in France , Germany and in Taiwan for the construction of unattended metro systems (VAL,…), he worked on projects acquisitions and as Asia Sales Vice-President for Matra Transportation International. Then part of Siemens Transportation Systems (STS) he lead marketing and sales activities for Turnkey driverless segment on Asia market, and early 2004 took the head of the Turnkey Proposal department. In Dec 2006 he became Marketing director in charge of Steel wheel AGT turnkey platforms for STS and TSTK (Berlin).
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President,
MTA New York City Transit
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Area Manager, International Projects,
Ansaldo STS
Pierfranco Romano was born in Alessandria (Italy), August 26, 1952; he attended the G. Galilei “Liceo” specialising in scientific studies in Alessandria and took a degree in Electronic Engineering (Telecommunications) at Turin Polytechnic.
He taught Electronic Technology and Electronic Circuit Design and then in 1982 he joined Ansaldo Trasporti SpA, Genoa, now Ansaldo Trasporti Sistemi Ferroviari SpA, Genoa (a company of Ansaldo STS Finmeccanica ).
Since the beginning he has been engaged in Railway Signalling Systems Studies and Plants, then in Electronic Fail-safe Equipment Development supervising technical office, tests, prototypes and production models carrying out and in Fail-safe Validation and Installation of equipment and systems.
From 1989 he is a Railway and Mass Transit Systems Area Manager in the International Market Business Development Management and in the Systems Management, supervising strategic bids, jobs and pricing plan.
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Business Deevlopment Manager, Europe,
Westinghouse Rail Systems
Pieter Rypma is the Business Development Manager for Westinghouse Rail Systems’ SCADA Department. He has spent his entire career in the field of SCADA and enterprise integration solutions for numerous different industries such as water, oil/gas, power, and for the past 6 years, for the railway industry. He has been associated with the railway industry in a capacity of a consultant as well as representing a major UK signalling/SCADA manufacturer in Westinghouse. Over the years, he has advised a number of clients planning new or upgraded SCADA/telemetry and enterprise integration solutions including projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Denmark, UAE, Ukraine and the UK.
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Head, Supervision, Control & Development,
Ansaldo STS
Giovanni SENATORE was born in NAPLES (Italy) on June 24, 1959; attended the Augusto Righi Technical High School specialising in Nuclear Energy.
He took a degree in Electronic Engineering (Automation) at the University of Naples in 1983
In the years 1984-1987 he worked in the OLIVETTI group initially as Software designer for Robotics Application and following he was responsible for the Test Equipment for electronic boards production.
In 1987 he joined Ansaldo Trasporti SpA and started his experience in the “transportation field” in the Signalling and Automation Department as Centralised Traffic Control designer.
In the years 1990-2000 he was the “Project Engineer” for some of the main projects of Ansaldo Trasporti starting from Teheran Metro (tender phase), Rome Metro line A, and finally for the Midland Metro line 1 (Birmingham – UK) which he brought into successful commercial operation in May 1999.
From 2000 to 2002 he was the Project Manager of the 25 kV Traction Power Supply projects for all the Italian High Speed Railways: Rome-Naples, Bologna-Florence, Milan-Bologna and Turin-Milan.
From 2003 to the present days he is the head of the Supervision, Control and Development department of Ansaldo Trasporti Sistemi Ferroviari SpA with the responsibility for the design and realisation of Telecommunication subsystems, SCADA subsystems, Signalling and Traffic Control subsystems, Auxiliary subsystem such as Platform Screen Doors, Ticketing etc, for all the projects of the Company. Main projects completed or in progress are : Brescia Metro, Copenhagen Metro, Rome Metro line C, Thessaloniki Metro, Milan Metro line 5, Dublin LRT lines A+C and B, Midland Metro line 1, Manchester Metrolink extension, Alifana Metro, Naples Metro line 1 and 6, Genoa Metro , Circumvesuviana suburban railway, etc.
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Director General,
International Air Rail Organisation
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Founder & Managing Partner,
City Development Law Firm (Shanghai)
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Director, Infrastructure Division,
GTT
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Partner,
PricewaterhouseCoopers
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COO,
London Rail, Transport for London
In the early 1990’s he worked on the planning of international freight services and was involved in the formation of freight marketing joint ventures between UK, Belgian and Swiss public and private sector partners. He became Managing Director of one of these joint ventures, ACI Ltd, marketing freight services between the UK, France, Spain and Italy.
Howard moved to London Rail as Chief Operating Officer at the end of 2004 where he has responsibility for DLR and for the new London Overground project, which involves the transfer to TfL of the former Silverlink Metro services and the construction of the extended East London Line as part of a £1.4 billion investment to be completed by 2010.
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Managing Director,
Oslo T-Banedrift
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President & Executive Director,
DART (Dallas)
Gary C. Thomas is President and Executive Director of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART). DART's Board of Directors named him to that position August 3, 2001. As President and Executive Director, Thomas is responsible for a 13-city transit system over a 700-square mile area with bus, light rail, commuter rail, paratransit and high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane services. He administers the goals and policies of the DART Board of Directors, including the largest public transit expansion in North America. He also directs the agency's top managers and 3,300 employees, emphasizing a strong customer focus to ensure that transit riders and taxpayers receive the best transit service available. He works closely with member city governments and the public in developing short- and long-term transportation and mobility goals.
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Guillermo Ramirez Vivanca, Operations Director,
STC Metro (Mexico City)
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Group Director, Rail,
LTA (Singapore)
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CEO,
AB Storstockholm Lokaltrafik (Stockholm)
Ingemar Ziegler, born in 1947, Doctor of Philosophy graduate, is since the 1st of January 2007 MD and CEO for AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (Stockholm Public Transport Authority). He is also a board member of Fortfikationsverket (The National Fortifications Administration, which operates as the Armed Forces property specialists), Akademiska Hus (the largest property company in Sweden where the most important tenant category is universities and colleges), AB Transitio (a public owned collaboration organ which task is to purchase and maintain rolling stock in mainly regional railway traffic to the Swedish transport authorities), The Clara Foundation (owns and maintains real estates for Södertörns University) AB SLL Internal Finances, AB SL Finance. He has previously been MD for Locum AB (one of Sweden’s largest property managers, major tenants are healthcare institutions in the County of Stockholm) 1992-2006. MD Diös Administration (property management company) 1989-1992. MD for Stockholm Land- and Location Company 1988-1989. He has also been Secretary of Finance in the City of Stockholm 1986-1988
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The Metros have been created to honour and generate public/ industry recognition of the efforts, accomplishments, and positive contributions of companies and individuals in the metro industry.
The winners and finalists will receive their well deserved recognition and accolade at The Metros Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner, on April 1st, 2008 at the Copenhagen Marriott Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The opportunity for you to become a winner starts now!!
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