The Future of Rail in Asia

Dr Kam joined the Company in 1995 and had held various management positions in the Operations, Projects and Mainland China and International Business Divisions. He was appointed as the CEO on 1 April 2019, and has been a Member of the Board since then. Before the CEO appointment, Dr Kam was the...

Catherine Baxter is Chief Operating Officer at Metro Trains Melbourne. Catherine and her team are responsible for safely operating metropolitan passenger services, on time and cost efficiently. In this role she leads a team of dedicated and passionate people who are focussed on delivering Metro’s...

Mr Chua has more than 30 years of experience in urban land transport infrastructure development and management in Singapore. He was amongst the pioneers involved in the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) System projects in Singapore. Mr Chua is currently the Deputy Chief Executive (Infrastructure &...

Michel is CEO of Mobilty Singapore, ASIA Pacific Division Mobility, Siemens Mobility Pte Ltd - Singapore.He was born in Marseille, France and studied Engineering at SUP Telecom (specialised Information & Communication Technology University) and PhD in Fibre Optics for Telecom Network. ...

Kurt is the Acting Executive Director Connected Journeys at Transport for New South Wales. As the Head of customer technology solutions at Transport for NSW, Kurt is responsible for delivering innovative digital and payments products to the citizens of NSW that ultimately improves the way that...

T C Chew is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. He is also a fellow of a number of UK professional institutions.He has been involved with the railway and construction industries globally for over 40 years.In January 2017, TC joined Arup London as leader of the...

Muhammad Effendi is currently an Operation and Maintenance Director of PT MRT Jakarta since October 26, 2018 and has experience in construction management in the oil and gas sector, business development, and Occupational Health and Safety, for 30 years. He was appointed as the Head of Project...

Cyrille Giraudat has served as Senior Vice President of Marketing, Digital and Innovation D since October 2017. He is also a member of the Executive Committee. He drives the digital transformation of RATP Dev.  Previously Vice-President of Capgemini Consulting, Mr. Giraudat advised and assisted...

Mr Lau joined the Company in 1982 and has held various management positions related to the design, construction, operations and maintenance of the Company’s railway system in Hong Kong and the Company’s rail business in the Mainland of China. He has been the Managing Director – Operations and...

Alvin first joined what was then the Bangkok Metro Public Company Limited (BMCL) in 2007 and returned to the now Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company Limited (BEM) in 2016.Now working as a Deputy Managing Director of Operations Support, Alvin and his team at BEM strive to strategically...

Dr. Lee joined the Company in 1991 and has held various management positions related to the design, construction, operations and maintenance of the Company’s railway system in Hong Kong. He has been the Operations Director and a Member of the Executive Directorate since 1 January 2020. Before his...

Sanjeev Kumar Lohia (IRSE-1986) has more than 32 years of experience in the transport and urban development sectors especially in Urban, Rail and bus based transportation systems. He is presently MD & CEO of the Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation (IRSDC) leading the world’s largest ...

Henri Pottier is Vice-President Asia Pacific for RATP Dev since July 2019. He has joined RATP Dev in 2014 as Deputy Director of the Business Unit Asia-Middle East and North Africa and was in charge of the performance of the metro line 9 of Seoul (600,000 daily passengers) from 2017 to 2019.Henri...

Mr Ho is currently the Head of Rail Projects for SBS Transit. An electrical engineer with more than 20 years of experience, he was previously the Deputy Head of Rolling Stock for the North East Line in Singapore.Prior to joining the Rail Industry,  he held various appointments in the Republic of...

Cyrille Bataille is the Head of the Integrated Communications and Supervision Business for Singapore and the Region.Before being appointed in his role in 2018, Cyrille was in charge of Transportation Projects in Asia.  Since he joined Thales in 2000, he served several management roles in the Space...

Mrs. Albanesi has more than 25 years of experience on railway and metro design and works supervision. Her experience starts from Technological Systems design for metro and railways (especially signalling and telecommunication systems) and later on She has achieved considerable experience in...

Dr. Samuel Chan is currently the Group Director for Rail/Road Systems Engineering and the Director of Fare System Sub-Group at the Land Transport Authority (LTA), Singapore. Over the past 33 years, Dr Chan’s career has been focused on the application of systems engineering in solving...

Mr. Taufikurrahman is Executive Vice President at PT KAI (Persero), Indonesia State Owned Railway Company. Before joining KAI, he had significant leadership experience with some multinational companies and institutions, including as Country Director of PT Emerson Indonesia, Managing Director of PT...

Nicolas Rabbat is the CEO of Thales Hong Kong and is responsible for running all the facets of the business. Before being named CEO in 2018, Nicolas was Thales Hong Kong Projects Director and responsible for the company’s projects delivery covering ticketing, control and signaling projects within...

Shams-Arida Ariffin has a bachelor’s degree in architecture and a Master’s Degree in Construction Contract Management. He is currently the Head of Planning and Implementation, Project Management Unit under the Property and Land Department in Prasarana Integrated Development Sdn Bhd or PRIDE, a...

Nino is an engineer with a master in Business Administration; he is a long-time rail and public transit senior transportation executive who has proven capabilities in developing successful bid strategies (awarded 2 billion euro of projects in many Countries), fostering teaming...

Mr Koh is currently the Head of Rolling Stock for the North East Line (NEL) and the Sengkang Punggol Light Rail Transit (SPLRT) operated by SBS Transit Ltd. in Singapore. He leads in the maintenance and engineering support for these assets. Prior to this appointment, he assumed the Head Signalling...

Siv Bhamra is the global Rail lead and subject matter expert for Bechtel. In this role, Siv is responsible for the company’s overall strategy, project performance, and resource allocation on global rail and transit projects.With 30 years of experience, Siv is an internationally recognized...

Noormah Mohd Noor joined Express Rail Link Sdn Bhd (ERL) in October 1997 as General Manager of Finance, and was instrumental in the development of the air-rail link between Kuala Lumpur International Airport and KL Sentral Station. Noormah played a key role in restructuring the financing package to ...

Veronica Marin is the Manager of the Advanced Algorithms group at Thales Canada Transportation Solutions. She leads a team focused on the development of the Vehicle Situational Awareness (VSA) and Next-Generation Positioning (NGP) systems, as part of the Thales Autonomous Platform (TAP). Under her...

Jose Luis Arana is Marketing Manager for the Integrated Communication and Supervision (ICS) activities of Thales Transportation. As part of this role since 2018, Jose Luis builds the material and drives the promotion of ICS portfolio and innovations across all domains worldwide.Jose Luis is a...

Phuritath has 18 years of working experience in Railway M&E systems, including but not limited to Communications, Signalling, Rolling Stock, PSD, SCADA, etc.He first joined the Rail Unit of the Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company Limited (BEM) in 2011 and is now working as a Division...

Neil George is an Engineer-turned-Project delivery specialist who is passionate about harnessing technology to solve transport solutions. As a General Manager he has led Thales’ Ticketing Business in New Zealand for 7 years. He is responsible for the operations and delivery of solutions that...

Mr Quek first joined SBSTransit Ltd as an Engineer in 2001 after graduating from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering. Mr Quek was a pioneer involved in the setting up of Permanent Way Team (Pway) to maintain the North East Line (NEL) MRT and the Sengkang-...

Dr. de Sales is a graduate of the University of the Philippines in Diliman (PhD in Environmental Engineering, M.Sc. Environmental Engineering, B.S. Chemical Engineering). She was an Assistant Professor at the Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department and currently a Professorial...

Kitipat has over 23 years of extensive experience in both the design and operations phases in Rail M&E. Since first working as a System Engineer in Signalling and PSD of the MRT Blue Line Project in 1998, his roles have spanned Senior Engineering, Deputy of Engineering and has been the Director ...

Franck Butterlin-Fillon has more than 30 years experience in mobility, mass transit, e-Payment & ticketing, with a constant focus in electronic payment and ITS issues his career.Since 2018, Franck is the Operation Control Centre Product Line Manager for Thales Ground Transportation. As part of...

Graduated in 1995 in Electronic Engineering at Florence University with a Thesis on “Methods to analyse overcurrents on rolling stokes powered 3kVdd”, awarded as best Italian Thesis of the year for Rail Measurements Methods by the Italian Body of Railway Engineers.From 1996 to 2018 He worked in...

Mr Vipul Kumar in his career spanning over 32 years with Indian Railways has worked on many positions and has dealt with works of maintenance and construction of railway tracks, bridges, and other civil infrastructure including dealing with rail track component design. He has worked in 1999 and...

Dr. Chen-Yu Lee is a consultant for Taipei Computer Association (TCA) as well as the director for Taipei Smart City Project Management Office (TPMO) established by Taipei City Government. TCA was built in 1974 and is the leading industrial organization in Taiwan. Before serving at TCA, Dr. Lee used ...

Dr. Amit Kumar Jain is presently working as General Manager/Operations for Centre for Railway Information -an IT arm of Ministry of Railways, Government of India in New Delhi. He has more than 20 years of experience of Railway operations and management.   Prior to this assignment, he was worked as...

Mr CF Chan is the head of the railway safety regulator in Hong Kong responsible for technical assessment of new railway lines, promotion of railway safety, and regulating the safety performance of the railway operator, MTR in Hong Kong. His regulatory jurisdictions cover also other railway systems...

Naoto Kimura joined Tokyo Metro’s predecessor, Teito Rapid Transit Authority, in 1984. In his early career, he gained experience in formulating the business plan, as well as rolling stock planning.After becoming Deputy Manager from March 1995, his posts included work in railway business...

Kelly Tan is the Head of Business Development of Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC), the private operator of Metro Manila's Light Rail Trainsit Line 1 (LRT-1). He has more than 15 years of working experience mostly spent in the Mall and Consumer Electronics industries. Prior to joining...