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Les Wielinga
CEO
Sydney Metro Authority
Howard Smith
COO
London Rail
Rommel C Gavieta
Vice President
Metro Rail Transit Corporation
T.C Chew
Head of Mass Transit
Bombardier
Mike Jenkins MBE
General Manager of Rails & Tunnels
Parsons Brinckerhoff
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MetroRail conference:
26th Feb 8am - 6:00pm
MetroRail is part of the Urban Transport World 2009 conference
Urban Transport World 2009 pre-conference masterclasses
23 Feb 2009
Masterclass 1: Mobility Transformation @ Rail
Duration: 9am - 12:30pm
Masterclass 2: Information for urban transport decision making
Duration: 1:30 - 5:00 pm
Urban Transport Day 1
24th Feb 8am - 6:00pm
Urban Transport Day 2
25th Feb 8am - 6:00pm
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Meet our speakers...
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Nick Brown
Chief Executive Officer
Serco Integrated Transport
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Nick Brown has over 27 years experience in the Transport industry, commencing his career as a management trainee with British Rail in 1981. He has held a series of front line operational posts in England and Scotland, including periods in business planning, and change management.
In 1996 at the time of railway privatisation he was appointed Managing Director of the National Express Group Franchise, Midland Mainline, he subsequently lead the Central Trains and Scotrail franchises as well as being the Chief Executive of the Group’s Bus Division.
Nick joined Serco as Managing Director Rail in November 2005 and was appointed Chief Executive of Serco Integrated Transport in January 2007, involving global responsibility for transport and incorporating the rapidly growing transport developments of the Middle East division. He also sits as a Non-Exec Director on the Board of Serco Integrated Services and Serco Asia Pacific.
He has an MA in Economic Geography from St Catharines College Cambridge and has undertaken further management training at Henley and Insead.
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T.C Chew
Head of Mass Transit
Bombardier
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TC Chew is Head of Mass Transit in the Systems Division of Bombardier Transportation. In this role, he is responsible for Mass Transit System projects worldwide. Mr. Chew joined Bombardier Transportation in October 2003 and subsequently led the former London Underground Projects Division. Prior to joining Bombardier, Mr. Chew spent eight years with the Singapore Land Transit Authority where he delivered several major rail transit projects and played a key role in the delivery of the first fully automated, driverless system in Singapore. Mr. Chew served as the Resident Engineer (Rolling Stock) on the MRT Project for the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit Corporation from 1983 to 1989. Between 1989 and 1996, he served as Project E&M Manager for the London Underground's prestigious Jubilee Line Extension Project. TC Chew holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Manchester University in the UK. He is also a fellow of four professional institutions in the UK - Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, and Railway Signalling.
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Jesper Christensen
Vice Chairman
Metroselskabets Copenhagen
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Francesco Di Maio
SVP Business Systems
Ansaldo STS
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Rommel C Gavieta
Vice President
Metro Rail Transit Corporation
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Rommel has twenty years experience in the development and management of light rail systems, mixed land use development, credit analysis of utility and container port companies, conversion of US military base, privatization of utilities, publication of energy indicators for the Asian Development Bank and research on building materials/ construction technologies.
He has worked with Metro Rail Transit Corporation, Banco Santander Philippines Inc., United Nations Center for Regional Development, Asian Development Bank, US Bases Conversion Development Authority.
Rommel has been associated with York Center for Asian Research, De La Salle University Graduate School of Business, Department of Geography Tokyo Metropolitan University, Civil Engineering Department Tsukuba University and the University of the Philippines.
He has his advocacy in infrastructure development and good governance and published papers in international journals and presented papers in international conferences on the same subject. He attended seminars/training/conferences organized by Canadian Association of South East Asian Studies, London School of Economics, UNDP/UNIDO, UNESCO-HUDCC, University of Cincinnati, National Fire Protection Association, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, UNCRD, Asian Development Bank, Construction Industry Training Board, Ateneo-Banking Association of the Philippines, The Study Group-UK Law Society.
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Megan Gibb
Director TOD
Metro Counsil Portland, Oregon
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Megan Gibb, AICP, manages the Transit Oriented Development Program at Metro, the regional land use and transportation planning agency located in Portland, Oregon. Prior to her work at Metro, Megan worked for the Portland Development Commission – the City's urban renewal agency – on public/private partnership projects in the South Waterfront and Pearl Districts. Before moving to Oregon, Megan worked in Michigan where she served as the Planning and Development Director for the City of Ypsilanti for several years after working as a planning consultant. Megan also taught at the University of Michigan in the Urban and Regional Planning Program, her alma mater.
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Dr. Garry Glazebrook
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Design, Architecture and building,
University of Technology Sydney
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A Senior Lecturer in the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, Dr Glazebrook is an expert on Sydney's urban transport, sustainable urban transport systems and urban development, with nearly 30 years' experience in consulting and in government policy positions. His qualifications include a PhD and masters degrees in Urban Planning and Operations Research, and he has published widely in the fields of transport and planning. He has been Australia's representative on Intelligent Transport Systems standards, and is a member of the International Union of Public Transport. He has a particular interest in how to make our cities more sustainable, and was a member of the steering committee of the Warren Centre's Sustainable Transport for Sustainable Cities project.
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Mike Jenkins MBE
General Manager of Rails and Tunnels, Australia Pacific
Parsons Brinckerhoff
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Having managed many complex international infrastructure projects for the more than two decades, Mike has developed global infrastructure expertise with an emphasis on lessons learned. After many years of living in the UK, Mike was recently appointed PB’s General Manager of Rail & Tunnels in Australia–Pacific. He has extensive experience in program and project management in the railway, highway and building sectors in many countries and was awarded an MBE for ‘Services to the London Underground’ following his work on the Jubilee Line Extension, for which he was Senior Supervising Engineer and Station Delivery Manager for Westminster Station. This highly complex project received both an ICE London Association Merit Award and a British Safety Council 5-star rating. Recently, Mike has been Executive Director or Principal in Charge on major schemes such as: Edinburgh Tram; East London Line Project; Tunnel Cooling Project, London Underground; Independent Engineering Reviews, East London Transit; Bridge Outsourcing and Maintenance in Denmark; Dublin Metro North; the Portsmouth Area Infrastructure Upgrade and the West Coast Route Modernisation Programme.
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Ben Phyland
Business Development Manager
Bombardier
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Gennaro Romito
Head of Proposals Management Department
Ansaldo STS
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Giovanni Senatore
Head of Supervision, Control and Development Department,
Ansaldo STS
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Howard Smith
COO
London Rail
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Howard studied economics at LSE before joining British Rail and managing train operations and passenger stations in South and West London. In the early 1990’s he worked on the planning and operation of international freight services and the formation of freight marketing joint ventures with Belgian and Swiss public and private sector partners. He became Managing Director of one of these joint ventures, ACI Ltd, operating freight services between the UK, France, Spain and Italy.
Whilst working for Docklands Light Railway Howard was heavily involved in the development of plans for upgrading capacity on the Bank/Tower Gateway to Lewisham route. Howard led the development of: the DLR City Airport and Woolwich Arsenal Extension projects, as well as planning the extension of the DLR to Stratford International.
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. Howard also has responsibility for London Trams and for London Rail’s input to Crossrail.
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Tony Smith
Director Business Development Rail
Thales (UK)
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Guido Vogel
Senior Director, Business Development and Engineering, Business Unit Asia, Passenger Division
Bombardier Transportation
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Les Wielinga
CEO
Sydney Metro Authority
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