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editor, Commercial Motor
Will Shiers is the editor of Commercial Motor magazine, and the UK jury member for the International Truck of the Year. Over the last 20 years he has also held posts on other industry magazines, including Motor Transport and Truck & Driver.
minister of state for transport
BIOGRAPHY
Baroness Vere of Norbiton was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport on 23 April 2019. She was appointed as a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting) on 21 December 2016.
Education
Charlotte studied Biochemical Engineering at University College London (BSc Eng) and completed a MBA at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
Career outside politics
Before entering politics, Charlotte spent 4 years as the Executive Director of the Girls’ Schools Association, including 6 months as the General Secretary of the Independent Schools Council. Prior to that she was the CEO of Big White Wall, an online mental health service, and Finance Director at Recruit Media, a digital recruitment agency. Her early career was spent in investment banking.
The minister is responsible for:
CEO, RHA
Richard Burnett’s career in logistics has spanned over 30 years. During that time he has worked for many well-known logistics operations including TDG, Wincanton, Hayes and Samworth Brothers, looking after some of the most prestigious high street names such as HJ Heinz, GSK, Panasonic and Adidas.
Since joining the Road Haulage Association five years ago he has restructured the RHA, making it a far more relevant and effective organisation that delivers value for its members with a powerful and effective lobbying voice.
His is the face of a backroom media campaign that has effectively raised the visibility of the RHA on a wide range of industry issues including the skills shortage; Brexit; fuel prices; migrant camps in Calais, air quality and electric vehicles at international, national and local level – published, online and broadcast.
During the recent Coronavirus pandemic, Richard was a key player in ensuring that the road sector remained high on the political agenda. If it’s road transport-related then the RHA has a view on it and the RHA makes regular appearances in the media at international, national and local level – published, online and broadcast.
non-executive director, Clipper Logistics and former COO, John Lewis Partnership
Dino Rocos joined the John Lewis Partnership in 1976, spending his first ten years in various roles in shops before moving into the Supply Chain. He was appointed Operations Director in August 2010, with responsibility for the end to end supply chain, including National Distribution Centres, E-fulfilment, home delivery and Customer Contact Centres and the entire shop estate comprising 51 shops.
Following a spell as Interim John Lewis Managing Director, Dino was appointed Partnership Supply Chain Director leading the ongoing work to ensure an efficient, agile and resilient supply chain to respond to the evolving retail market.
Since his retirement from the Partnership in 2019, Dino has taken roles as Chairman Segura Systems and Non Executive Director at Clipper Logistics.
Dino is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Directors.
chief executive, Clipper Logistics
Tony joined Clipper in 2006 and can boast a career in retail logistics spanning over 30 years. On graduating from university as an Architectural Engineer, he briefly worked in the construction industry before moving into logistics, where he developed a passion for ‘the supply chain’.
A Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Logistics & Transport, Tony has a wealth of experience in all facets of multi-channel retail logistics. Pre Clipper he worked directly for a number of retailers, managing in-house operations, which afforded him a clear insight into the retail world. This clear understanding of how retail works is at the heart of Clipper – it operates as a very focussed retail solutions provider.
Tony is passionate about the business, the Clipper Team, and innovation. He strives for operational and commercial success whilst not losing sight of the need for outstanding customer care.
head of sales - transport, Wincanton
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director of corporate affairs, BVRLA
Toby Poston is Director of Corporate Affairs at the British Vehicle Rental & Leasing Association. He has worked within the sector for more than ten years and currently oversees the association’s communications, events, campaigning and research activities as well as fostering relationships with key industry stakeholders.
Prior to joining the BVRLA, Toby was a business journalist for fifteen years, spending much of this time as a reporter and editor within the BBC Business and Economics Unit, working across TV, radio and online channels.
professor of mechanical engineering, Cambridge University
David is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Cambridge University Engineering Department, where he leads the research theme on Energy, Environment and Urban Infrastructure. He has authored or co-authored many papers on dynamics, safety, manoeuvrability and fuel consumption of heavy vehicles. He has also published on road and bridge response and damage, and advanced suspension design for heavy vehicles. Prof Cebon is the Research Director of the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium, and a past long-term Chairman of the US TRB/LTPP Expert Task Group on Traffic Data. He has been the Principal Investigator of many major research grants from UK, EU and US sponsors.
head of commercial vehicles, LowCVP
Brian leads LowCVP’s various van and truck-related initiatives, and acts as their main point of contact on freight transport decarbonisation issues. Brian is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport, a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist and has over thirty years’ experience in transport, energy and climate change policy, sustainability, vehicle safety and programme leadership. Before going freelance in 2014, Brian spent 16 years in increasingly senior roles at TRL Ltd, carrying out mostly HGV-related safety and environmental research, and 12 years at IMechE, much of that as Head of Energy Policy.
CEO, Volta
Rob Fowler is Chief Executive Officer of Volta Trucks. Volta Trucks is a start-up full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services company with offices in the UK and Sweden. It’s first product is the Volta Zero - the world’s first purpose-built full-electric 16-tonne vehicle designed for inner-city freight deliveries, reducing the environmental impact of freight deliveries in city centres. The Volta Zero will be launched in September 2020, with the first pilot test vehicles due to start evaluation with customers in Q1-2021.
Rob joined Volta Trucks in early 2020 having previously held a number of positions at UK-based freight carrier, DPD Group Ltd. He was DPD Group’s General Manager and eMobility lead, taking DPD from a fleet of 5 EVs to the largest commercial EV fleet operator in the UK with 600 EVs within three years. Prior to this, he was DPD’s Property Manager, Strategic Analysist and Transport Analyst. Rob is aged 33 and has a BSC in Economics and an MSC in Real Estate Management.
TCO Services Manager UK&ROI
Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from University Carlos III de Madrid and degree in Mechanical Engineering from University de Zaragoza. Jorge’s academic background has always been focused on mobility and transport, developing studies to reduce emissions in combustion engines and projects for alternative fuels fleet implementation in large cities. He also worked on a project investigating connectivity systems to improve the navigation performance in ships for one of the major companies within the sector.
Jorge began working for IVECO Spain in 2015 and participated in a pilot project working on the conceptualisation and development of the connectivity based services of IVECO’s commercial vehicles that was ultimately extended to the EMEA region.
In 2016 he took on the role of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and Connectivity Services Manager for IVECO UK and ROI. In 2017 he became additionally responsible for the Repair and Maintenance department in IVECO UK.
His current position within IVECO UK & ROI is that of TCO Services Manager for UK & ROI.
Jorge is an associate member of the Institute of Sales Management
MD, HazComp
I first got the ‘transport bug’ in the 1970’s at the age of 14, when I started going out on some jobs as the required ‘drivers mate’ on abnormal load haulage in ballast tractors. Having got the bug, I then went on to have a long and illustrious career in various forms in the road haulage industry. I gained my HGV licence in the early 1980’s and I went in to partnership with an ex Ford engineer in a marine engineering and international haulage business. Sadly, as a luxury business, we were a victim of the late 1980’s recession and the business folded. At the beginning of the 1990’s I then started work with a waste company called Cleanaway Ltd in their technical waste division. Cleanaway was bought out by Veolia in 2007 and I continued with Veolia in various managerial rolls, with my last position being within the fleet senior management team. Having left Veolia in 2015, for the next 2 years I worked as the Technical Director for an SME waste management company in Hertfordshire. At the age of 55, I took the opportunity to semi retire and started my own consultancy business, which continues to thrive 3 years later and is currently challenging any notion of semi-retirement. In 2018, I was elected as a councillor in the unitary authority of Southend on Sea and am currently the Shadow Cabinet member responsible for transport and highways.
Chief Executive Officer – The Malcolm Group
Age 58, Andrew’s experience has covered every practical and managerial aspect of the Company. He started from school in the repair workshops and progressed to driving general haulage vehicles; he became Road Foreman and then Depot Manager. In 1989 he took over the running of the Logistics Services Division and was the driving force behind its transformation into a major, countrywide player in the logistics sector. In 1994 he became Chief Executive of both divisions and joined the Grampian Holdings plc Board in 1997. In 2005, he successfully led the deal to take the plc Company back into private family ownership. His vast and detailed knowledge of his industry, customers and employees, has been built up over his forty years with the Company
owner, Gnesta Frakt
Thomas Hull, owner of Gnesta Frakt AB
Our niche is temperate transportation of food and pharma in Scandinavia.
7 years ago, Gnesta Frakt started operating Sweden and Norway with a 25,25 m Link and trailer(LHV)combination.
technical manager – north region, Bridgestone
Bridgestone’s North Region Technical Manager Gary Powell is responsible for ensuring high product quality and reliability across all of Bridgestone’s product ranges. Gary supports research and product development in both product applications for customers and future development requirements as a whole.
Gary’s technical tyre knowledge is second to none, having held a number of senior technical positions at Bridgestone for 20 years and boasts 31 years’ experience in the industry as a whole. An original equipment senior manager role also saw Gary work on bespoke products for Toyota, Honda, Ford and Aston Martin, not to mention a host of other manufacturers.
managing director, Eco Truck Refrigeration
Graham has over 30 years of experience working at the fore front of capital goods sales and marketing. He has held key positions with a number of industry-leading manufacturers to the Commercial Vehicle Transport Industry.
director, Road Tech
Having been involved in the transport industry IT sector for over 30 years, Adrian has been at the forefront of innovations that Road Tech have brought to the industry. These include Tachomaster which resulted in Road Tech being invited to the FastTrack Sunday Times awards 2018. Adrian was invited on to the Road Tech board in 2017.
Senior Staff Engineer, Heavy Duty Engine Oil Product Development
Chevron Lubricants (Richmond, California USA)
Shawn’s career spans 24 years focused exclusively on the research and engineering of heavy-duty engine lubricants, fuels, and materials.
Before joining Chevron in 2013, he spent 12 years leading global fluids and materials engineering activities for Cummins. He also spent five years conducting lubricant, fuel, and emission research for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. At Chevron, he is a Senior Staff Engineer primarily responsible for product formulation of the Delo Brand of Heavy-Duty Engine Oils.
Shawn was the lead formulator responsible for development of Chevron’s API CK-4/FA-4 product line upgrade and for Delo 600 ADF. He is currently the chairman of the ASTM Heavy-Duty Engine Oil Classification Panel.
partner and general manager of central transport, John Lewis Partnership
Justin Laney manages the John Lewis Partnership fleet of nearly 4,000 commercial vehicles and 1,300 cars. The fleet is recognised for leading in innovation, and the priorities remain to reduce all emissions including those affecting air quality and noise, through efficiency and displacing all diesel with low carbon alternatives.
Areas of focus include using biomethane in heavy trucks, electrification of home delivery operations, high capacity vehicles, aerodynamics, and other methods, based on good science and rigorous testing. Key John Lewis Partnership commitments include running all heavy trucks on biomethane by 2028, and achieving a zero carbon fleet by 2045, together with an ambition to remove all fossil fuel from the fleet by 2030.
Justin’s career started with London Transport (Buses), having obtained a BEng at Liverpool University. He also worked at UPS for 20 years, managing fleets in EMEA as well as the UK.
Justin is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Director of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, and Chair of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF) Steering Committee.
marketing director, DPD
Tim joined DPD in 2005 and leads an 11-strong team responsible for the company’s marketing strategy, corporate identity, communications, PR, Political Affairs and event management.
As a member of the company’s management board, Tim has been a key player in DPD’s 15 consecutive years of profitable growth, helping it grow revenue from £350m in 2005 to £1.4bn in 2019. Tim and his team have been instrumental in re-positioning DPD from a middle of the pack B2B carrier to no.1 in the UK home delivery market.
head of fleet, Hermes
Mervyn McIntyre is an experienced transport leader with a demonstrated history of working in transport, distribution and operations for over twenty years and is now Head of Fleet at Hermes UK. He is passionate about transport efficiency and has a keen eye on creating a greener, more sustainable fleet for the future.
McIntyre is responsible for development, procurement, provision and management of fleet, car, commercial and manual handling equipment to maximise environmental, operational efficiencies and overall delivery. He also leads Hermes’ driving academy with a solid understanding of changes in demand for CAT C & E drivers. He delivers operational excellence at optimal cost through transformational management to drive Hermes’ commitment to become the carrier of choice. McIntyre has extensive commercial knowledge as well as a natural ability to adapt to change and solve problems with sustainable solutions that are defining the future of our business and our industry.
market development manager – clean fuels, BOC Gases
Mark has worked in the gases industry for over 17 years. His early years were spent working in sales and account management, looking after some of BOC's largest accounts in rail, construction and manufacturing. From there he moved into a sales management role where he helped commercialise a portable hydrogen fuel cell generator, Hymera, and a designated cylinder package to accompany it.
It was here where he got hooked by the hydrogen and fuel cell industry and his interest in hydrogen for transport really started to gather momentum.
In 2017, he became Market Development Manager for Clean Fuels, responsible for the ongoing operation of existing hydrogen refuelling stations in Swindon and Aberdeen. He provides technical leadership on hydrogen for all vehicle types from bikes and cars through to buses, trains and marine vessels. He delivers profitable growth in line with the company’s commitment to develop and deliver solutions for the decarbonisation of transport. Collaborating closely with technology providers, vehicle manufacturers, fuel cell integrators and fleet operators throughout a project lifecycle, Mark maximises the impact of hydrogen used for transport within individual companies, city regions or whole industries.
director, Off Grid Energy
Danny began his career with GEC Industrial Controls in Rugby as an applications engineer for power conversion and process control in sectors as diverse as steel production, mining, automotive manufacture, military, marine and power generation. He spent 25 years working with micro hybrid power generation systems for marine, automotive and fixed off-grid applications. Former chairman of the British Marine Electronics Association, co-author of the code of practice for electrical installations in small craft. Since forming Off Grid Energy in 2009, he has pioneered the manufacture and use of energy storage technology focused in carbon reduction and air quality improvement for temporary power and grid-re-enforcement in construction, events, utilities and the rapidly developing EV charging sector.
director of property, Tylesey Energy Park
David Horsfall
Property Director, Webster and Horsfall Group and Director of Tyseley Energy Park
A Chartered Surveyor with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Having worked within the development industry for 10 years David joined Webster & Horsfall in 2008 to lead the delivery of Tyseley Energy Park (TEP). David is responsible for the site development strategy for Tyseley Energy Park and works with the management of Webster and Horsfall to support the consolidation of the company’s 300 year old manufacturing operation.
Tyseley Energy Park
Situated on the site of one of Birmingham’s oldest companies, Tyseley Energy Park (TEP) is tackling the key societal challenges such as energy poverty and poor air quality through the delivery of clean energy and transport fuel. Through collaborative partnerships with experts from academia, government and industry, TEP will shape the way the City develops infrastructure for renewable heat and power, energy storage, clean transport fuels and advanced waste processing. Through TEPs ambitious development plan they will become the energy and waste nexus for the city of Birmingham, demonstrating how novel energy technologies can form an innovative industrial ecology.
MD, ITM Motive
Dr Duncan Yellen is Managing Director of ITM Motive. The subsidiary of ITM Power that runs the majority of the UKs hydrogen refuelling stations. Duncan has had a 30 year career in the energy and environmental sector. Prior to joining ITM Motive, he was M&A and Business/Project Development Manager at Storengy, part of Engie, where he was responsible for identifying new business streams and successfully developed its business strategy in green gases.
ITM Motive own and operate a network of seven publicly accessible hydrogen refueling stations, which will expand to 11 by the end of 2020. Each incorporates an ITM Power electrolyser and a Linde IC90 compression, storage and dispensing system. ITM Power has successfully sourced both UK and EU funding to support the build and deployment costs, and developed a siting agreement with Shell for deployment on their forecourts in the UK.”
delivery planning manager, TfL
Alina is a Strategy & Planning Manager at Transport for London with a specific remit for efficient roads and freight. Together with her team, she is responsible for developing freight policy and initiatives across London aimed at reducing road danger and environmental impacts, and ensuring provision for deliveries and servicing across transport planning projects. Alina managed the technical team leading on the development of the Direct Vision Standard for Heavy Goods Vehicles in London, in order to address the high number of collisions involving HGVs and pedestrians and cyclists. Prior to joining TfL, Alina worked in consultancy on national and international projects.
Key Account Manager – Midlands, Brigade Electronics
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product marketing manager, DAF Trucks
Overall responsibility for product range specification in the UK and Irish markets to ensure DAF meets customer and legislative requirements. James began his career with DAF in Devon as an apprentice technician in 2009; since then James moved to head office to serve as a technical support engineer before joining DAF Marketing in 2016.
Earned Recognition national account manager, DVSA
Phil Breen has worked for the Driver and Vehicle Services Agency (DVSA) for over fifteen years, working in both Testing and Enforcement departments. Having been a Traffic Examiner for several years, he has brought this knowledge forward into heading up bus compliance for DVSA and now looking after Earned Recognition. Earned Recognition is the flagship Enforcement scheme for DVSA, which enables the agency to free up resource so they can target the serial and serious non-compliant. This helps us all stay safe on our roads, as well as offering both costs savings to members & giving commercial advantages.
Compliance Advisor, Aquarius IT
Marc has held a number of instrumental roles during his 15 year involvement in the industry, not least as Driver CPC trainer, ‘O’ licence holder and national account manager. In his current role with Aquarius IT, Marc is often found in an advisory capacity to key accounts due to his extensive experience and knowledge with tachograph compliance and drivers hours legislation. In order to help to keep the company’s portfolio ahead of the curve with legislation and technology Marc sits on steering groups in Brussels to discuss the future of digital tachographs and drivers’ hours law. He can be seen quoted in numerous industry publications where he acts as a valued source of information..
partner, Freightlink Europe
Lesley O’Brien is an award winning business professional, an advocate for women in transport and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). She is a tireless ambassador of the road transport industry using her voice whenever possible to promote compliance, raise standards, improve road safety and change industry perception.
Her Company Freight Train offers transport consultancy, compliance audits and Driver CPC training Lesley hosts a monthly Freight People #talkingtransport forum encouraging people of all stages in their transport career, age and skills set to meet, listen to a presentation on an industry hot topic, discuss issues, challenges, share best practice and support one another.
As a testimony to Lesley’s commitment to raising industry standards, her Company Freightlink Europe, is a founder member and one of the first vehicle operators to earn the accolade of being a DVSA Earned Recognition operator.
CEO, RHA
Richard Burnett’s career in logistics has spanned over 30 years. During that time he has worked for many well-known logistics operations including TDG, Wincanton, Hayes and Samworth Brothers, looking after some of the most prestigious high street names such as HJ Heinz, GSK, Panasonic and Adidas.
Since joining the Road Haulage Association five years ago he has restructured the RHA, making it a far more relevant and effective organisation that delivers value for its members with a powerful and effective lobbying voice.
His is the face of a backroom media campaign that has effectively raised the visibility of the RHA on a wide range of industry issues including the skills shortage; Brexit; fuel prices; migrant camps in Calais, air quality and electric vehicles at international, national and local level – published, online and broadcast.
During the recent Coronavirus pandemic, Richard was a key player in ensuring that the road sector remained high on the political agenda. If it’s road transport-related then the RHA has a view on it and the RHA makes regular appearances in the media at international, national and local level – published, online and broadcast.
co-founder, Yuno
Lorenz Fischer, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of Yuno Technologies Limited, a mission led tech startup supporting workers whose jobs are under pressure from technological shifts caused by globalisation, automation, or more recently Covid-19. With a team consisting of experts in software development, machine learning, vocational training, and business development, Lorenz is building the Yuno platform, which intelligently matches employers and workers who want to reskill, based on personality, interests, and values.
Lorenz is a data engineer with almost 20 years of professional experience, has earned his PhD in Big Data analytics from the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and is living in east London with his wife.
head of logistics, Career Ready
Ian is Head of Logistics at Career Ready, a UK-wide social mobility charity that has been helping to prepare young people for the world of work for 18 years by matching them with volunteers from the world of business.
He leads the award-winning Think Logistics project which began in 2013 and is focused on raising young people’s awareness of the logistics sector and developing talent pipelines to meet future skills needs for logistics employers.
Ian has a passion for education and development spending over 25 years teaching and managing in Further Education.
development director, The Skills Group
In my role as Director of Skills for Logistics, I work at the heart of apprenticeship standards to support the development of learners across the sector. Working closely with employers and learning providers, I help them develop learning for a high quality, personal apprenticeship and consistently positive outcomes. I want companies to feel confident in their apprenticeship offer and understand how best to spend their levy.
Skills for Logistics is the UK’s only specialist end-point assessment organisation (EPAO) in the transport and logistics sector. We are currently approved to deliver EPA for the 7 main apprenticeship standards in the sector, including:
national officer for road transport, Unite
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Managing Director, Transport, UK and Ireland, XPO Logistics.
Dan Myers leads the transport business of XPO Logistics in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of the company’s global logistics and supply chain network. He joined XPO Logistics (formerly Christian Salvesen and Norbert Dentressangle) over 20 years ago as a graduate trainee after gaining a BSc Hons degree in Management from the University of Manchester. In his spare time, Mr. Myers likes to stay active and is a keen cyclist.
European Sales Director, VisionTrack.
Vernon moved to the UK from Africa in 1999 and has spent the last 20 years in telematics, working in key roles at Cybit, Masternaut and latterly head of Corporate business for Webfleet Solutions (Formerly TomTom Telematics). Vernon moved to VisionTrack just over a year ago, Citing video telematics as the next big thing within the sector. He brings with him a wealth of experience in return on investment for the client alongside strong relationship skills to the table. He retains a “hands on” approach to management and sales and is focussed on growing VisionTrack’s already impressive blue chip client list across all channels.
enforcement policy manager, DVSA
Mark joined the DVSA (or Vehicle Inspectorate as it was) back in 1997 working as a traffic examiner (enforcement officer) for a number of years before taking up the role of an enforcement manager in Leeds and later in Sheffield/Nottingham. He has also worked as an area manager and been involved in a number of projects. In 2013 Mark joined the enforcement policy team where he managers the traffic enforcement side of the business which involved areas such as drivers hours, operator licensing, impounding, load security amongst others. He worked closely with the HSE in designing DVSA enforcement policy on load security producing the guidance which is currently available on Gov.uk which resulted in DVSA winning a Prince Michael of Kent International Road Safety award in 2015.
During the current lock down Mark has been heavily involved in the DVSA Covid-19 response working with colleagues and stakeholders on how roadside encounters could be safely undertaken whilst reducing the risk to both drivers and enforcement staff.
director, OTB Legal
Co-founder and director of OTB Legal, Aldijana Hoad is an immigration law specialist and has been practicing for over fifteen years. She specialises in corporate immigration law which includes offering support with Sponsor Licence applications, immigration health checks and Brexit advice.
She was also named as a recommended lawyer in the area of immigration law in the 2019 ‘Legal 500’ and is fluent in Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian.
partner, Backhouse Jones
Jonathon is the seventh generation of solicitor in a continuous lineage that can be traced back to his ultimate grandfather who first practised law in 1819. His grandfather started the firm’s specialism in road transport law (1930) when the first Transport Act was introduced.
Today, with his twin brother James, Jonathon practises regulatory law and is quoted in Chambers Guide as having “extensive experience in the road transport industry, acting in Public Inquiries concerning a multitude of issues, as well as in transport-related court cases”. He is described as “pragmatic and gives you confidence” whilst market sources describe him as “extremely good”. He acts for Logistics and Passenger Carrying clients throughout the UK and specialises in Public Inquiries, Health and Safety investigations, Crown Court matters representing operators in serious criminal cases such as prosecutions for Causing Death by Dangerous Driving, Corporate Manslaughter and serious Health and Safety offences.
He regularly advises RHA and FTA members and is a frequent speaker at seminars held by Associations representing the bus, coach, haulage and logistics sectors. When not defending operators at court he likes to fly fish, mountain bike and renovate a Spitfire – the car not the plane!
Managing Director, Europa Worldwide Group
Andrew has over 20 years’ experience in the freight industry. At the age of 18 he joined the Sheffield branch of RH Freight – a family business founded by his father Neville Baxter.
Andrew and his brother performed a management buyout of the business in 2005, acquiring the company from other family members, the business was expanded and sold to Kuehne + Nagel in 2011 for £60m.
In 2013, Andrew acquired Europa Worldwide Group which at that time had 490 employees and a turnover of £76m.
The company now employs 1000 people with a turnover of £205m at the end of 2019.
Director of Commercial Operations & Marketing, TruTac
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Senior Business Transformation Manager, Microlise
Neil has spent over thirty years in the transport & logistics sector and is an experienced business transformation specialist. With an established background in planning & transport management systems, Neil, who is an APMG change management practitioner, also holds both national and international CPC and C + E licences. Neil supports our product team and works closely with customers to ensure that Microlise systems are successfully embedded to deliver sustained ROI. Neil also provides ongoing new product, feature & system configuration support across both our Telematics and Journey Management solutions.
Business Development Director, Abbey Logistics
Mike leads Abbey’s commercial team and is responsible for planning, developing and implementing commercial development for the business.
Mike is a highly skilled logistics and supply chain professional and has enjoyed a long career in both business development and operational roles for some of the UK’s most successful logistics companies. He has worked in a variety of fast-moving logistics sectors including food, gas, chemicals and construction.
His significant experience and proven ability to lead teams and deliver tailored logistics and transport operations, has been key to several large contract wins at Abbey in recent years.
Working with each customer with a consultative, partnership approach, utilising his extensive knowledge of transport operations has helped Mike build strong relationships with customers, and deliver bespoke solutions that are perfectly suited to their individual business.
Senior Pre-Sales Consultant, Microlise
Bernie Warner is a senior pre-sales consultant with an extensive consultancy background in application development, data warehousing, business intelligence and mobility who has worked at Microlise for over 10 years. Bernie has recently returned from New Zealand where he helped to win and onboard Foodstuffs North Island and Gilmours as well as providing ongoing technical account management to existing customers in the region.
Product Director, Microlise
Steve Watson has been at Microlise since 2002, and has played a key role in the development of the company's telematics and fleet management offering. As Product Director, he manages the portfolio of products that help drivers and fleet owners and asset providers, service agents and partners to operate profitable, safe and compliant transport businesses globally.
Steve completed a degree with honours in Electronic Engineering with Music & Media Systems at Leeds Metropolitan University, before joining British Airways as an Analyst Programmer. He later worked for Quantas in Sydney before making the move back to his home town of Nottingham to join Microlise.
Head of Product - Fleet Performance, Microlise
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Head Of Sales, TruTac
Lee Oliver is Head of Sales at TruTac, part of the Microlise Group, and has been with the business for eight years. Lee specialises in compliance ‘SaaS’ sales to the transport industry and deals with fleets of all sizes. Responsible for new business, Lee works with fleets investing in progressive systems and the latest technology, including driver and vehicle analysis software and applications. Lee is passionate about customer service, and ensuring our roads are safe.
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Product Owner, Microlise
Fenton’s twenty-five year career has spanned IT programming and deskside support before he gained additional experience across other areas of IT including service introduction, change management, business relationship management and business analysis. The bulk of his career has been spent with a major multi-national, where he became a subject matter expert in various areas of the business. Significant projects included system upgrades, system improvements, and delivery of new systems either through in-house development teams or via purchase from external software vendors. The move from customer to vendor came with a role as Product Manager for a HR software company followed by his move to Microlise, where he currently acts as Product Owner for The Clearvision multi-camera solution. Although a relative newcomer to the field of logistics, he is passionate about using his broad experience to improve both road safety and the overall customer experience.
OEM & Channel Director, Microlise
David Midgley is Director of OEM & Channel at Microlise. He has over 20 years of experience working across large manufacturing organisations, developing and deploying their IIoT initiatives. These innovative digital solutions have focussed on helping both the manufacturer and their customers to improve efficiency, cut waste and improve profitability. David joined Microlise in 2019 and is responsible for building and consolidating relationships within the manufacturing sector.
Head of Product - Fleet Performance, Microlise
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Head of Product - Fleet Performance, Microlise
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Get ready for the Commercial Motor Awards digital debut taking place on Thursday 1 October, 5pm where you can see the winners revealed.
Celebrating the strength and excellence of teams working in new and used commercial vehicles is arguably more important this year than any other, but for safety reasons we’ve decided it’s best we do this digitally, so this year’s Commercial Motor Awards ceremony will be held online.
Make sure you have a glass of champagne at the ready as we welcome you to be a part of this unique experience to toast to some of our sector’s real success stories, including the best dealers, bodybuilders, and finance, rental, leasing and contract hire providers.
For more information about this year’s awards click here
We hope to ‘see’ you at the Show!