Heather has worked internationally within the local urban passenger transport sector for the past 15 years. She developed and managed the Sustainable Development Charter at UITP until last year (2011) and has recently joined TRL (August 2011) where she will focus on cli…more ›

Sarah Atkins works for Transport for London as Commercial Director, Rail and Underground. She is responsible for the commercial function across all of London Underground’s activities – this includes the delivery of rolling stock and signal upgrades and station capacity …more ›

Joe Bastone is responsible for Business Development for signalling solutions within Bombardier Transportation with a specialisation in Mass Transit. He is an experienced rail industry professional who combines almost 30 years’ signalling engineering expertise with busin…more ›

Project AMSYS is a program for the modernization of the Amsterdam Metro, consisting of the procurement of a new fleet of metrotrains, a new generation of systems for Signalling & Control, new ICT and Telecom systems and the development of various facilities such as …more ›

Since August 2010 Jenni Borg has led a dedicated team in the Department for Transport, tasked with focusing the Department’s efforts to realise the benefits that smart and integrated ticketing can bring to transport in the UK. Jenni specialises in technology-enabled bu…more ›

Since July 2004 he’s been CEO 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 networ…more ›

Terrapinn are pleased to welcome Mike as a speaker at this event

Joseph M. Casey, a career public transportation executive, is the ninth General Manager of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). A seasoned industry professional with 27 years of service to SEPTA, Mr. Casey has held senior level positions withi…more ›

Mr Chua graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University and possesses a Masters of Philosophy Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Birmingham, UK, as well as a Masters of Science Degree in Ma…more ›

Terrapinn are pleased to welcome Giampaolo as a speaker at this event

Howard Collins was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of London Underground Limited – part of Transport for London – in March 2009. London Underground carries nearly 4 million people each day. In 2008/09 the network carried more people and ran more trains than ever…more ›

Francesco Di Maio was born in Italy, he is married and has a son and a daughter. He took a degree with honours in Electronic Engineering at Naples Polytechnic in 1973 then he took the Master in System Engineering at “Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris “i…more ›

Laurent Fourtune, PhD, is an alumnus of both of Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. Laurent Fourtune has been in charge for the French ministry of Transport of major tunnel and road building projects in the 1990s in the greate…more ›

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 Easte…more ›

Colin leads the Cubic Transportation business development team for the UK, Ireland and the Middle East, and the New Product Development programme of activities to take Cubic forward as a market leader in intelligent travel. He joined Cubic in 2010. He has a strong backg…more ›

He graduated from Leeds University in 1972 and began his career in transport in Yorkshire as a Civil Engineer for the then West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council although even in these halcyon days of motorway building he was responsible for developing and implement…more ›

Sanjay Gupta has experience of working at different senior-level positions in the government as well as private sector companies. He is a civil engineer from IIT Roorkee. He also holds a Diploma in Business Finance from ICFAI and a Fellow from Wharton School. Subsequen…more ›

Jeremy Hill joined Bombardier Transportation in March 2010 as the Director, China CBTC Projects, assuming responsibility for the execution of Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) projects in Shenzhen and Tianjin, People’s Republic of China. Prior to joining Bomba…more ›

John Inglish has worked in the transportation industry for more than 35 years. With an engineering background, Mr. Inglish began his career in 1970 as a systems planning engineer for the Utah State Highway Department. In the early 70’s he began working for the Wasatch …more ›

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 …more ›

As the Chief Operating Officer of TransLink, Doug oversees the operations of the TransLink services comprising Rail, Bus, Seabus, Transit Policing, Roads and Bridges, Corporate Engineering, Strategic Initiatives, Information Technology, and Safety & Security. Doug

Simon Laker, a senior consultant, is a recognised expert in the design and implementation of specifications, tools and processes. He has significant experience of testing contact and contactless payment cards and devices against the relevant EMV, Visa and PCI specificat…more ›

Omer YILDIZ, General Manager of Istanbul Ulasim AS, railway operator company in Istanbul (www.istanbululasim.com). Mr. YILDIZ has a long experience in railway systems holding different Management positions in top management and administration areas. He graduated from…more ›

Robert Wright has been shipping and logistics correspondent of the Financial Times, focusing on all forms of freight transport, since October 2011. Before that, he was the FT’s transport correspondent for eight years, writing extensively about transport issues worldwide…more ›

Mr Asier Ugarte is currently Sales Director at Ingeteam Traction, SA. He has held several different positions within the Ingeteam Group since joining the company in 2004. Previously, he was International Project Manager at Ericsson. Mr Ugarte is a Telecommunication…more ›

Dr. Huel-Sheng Tsay is Chairman of Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation (TRTC) and has delivered many professional presentations at regional, national, and international conferences. His specialty is directing policy of rapid transit systems and the computerization/automati…more ›

Gary C. Thomas is president/executive director of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART). DART's Board of Directors named him to that position August 3, 2001. As president/executive director, Thomas is responsible for a 13-city multi-modal transit system over a 700-square…more ›

Howard studied economics at LSE before managing train operations and stations in South and West London. In the 1990’s he worked on the planning of international freight services including establishing joint ventures with Belgian and Swiss public and private sector part…more ›

Born in Madrid, Spain in 1953, Mr. Rojo Garrido began his professional career in BAZAN (the Spanish Military Naval Construction Company) in 1979 , as an electrical engineer he was responsible for Wave Power R&D Projects. In 1981, he joined Madrid Metro holding a ra…more ›

With about 19 years of managerial experience in the Indian Railways, Mr. N.V.S. Reddy held several middle and senior management positions til 2002 and his last assignment in Indian Railways was as a Financial Advisor. During his varied and important assignments, he cont…more ›

Kimmo Reiman holds Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Helsinki Univer-sity of Technology in 1983. He has worked with Helsinki City Transport as a project manager for the Helsinki metro automation project since 2005. Before that he has worked among o…more ›

Henrik Plougmann Olsen has as CEO had the main responsibilities for Metroselskabet and as such the operations of the current metro and the construction of the new Cityring I Copenhagen, since 2009. Prior to his appointment in Metroselskabet he was the director of the fi…more ›

Dr. Mohammad Montazeri is currently Board Member of Tehran Metro Operation Company and the Executive Manager of Tehran Metro Line 6. After receiving his Ph.D. from K.U.Leuven and his Post-Doc. Degree from R.U.Gent in Belgium in Industrial Management, he joined Tehran Ur

Master Engineer in Telecommunications (Madrid Technical University, 1987)with honours in his contributions to airborne real-time software components in the ESA programme PRODAT. Joined the firm Electronica Ensa (today Indra) as an expert in formal techniques of specifi…more ›

Klavs H. Lund has 18 years experience in the fields of project and contract management, strategy planning and technical feasibility studies in the transportation sector particularly related to metro and railway projects. His experiences include driverless metro projects…more ›

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 Offi…more ›