A-Z Speaker List

Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Theoretical Physicist Author and Broadcaster

Jim Al-Khalili is a scientist, author and broadcaster, best known for presenting The Life Scientific on Radio 4 where he talks to scientists about their careers and discoveries. He is also Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Surrey(where he also holds a chair in the Public Engagement in Science), a fellow of the Royal Society and a winner of the Stephen Hawking medal. As well has being a respected academic in the field of theoretical physics and atomic modelling, Jim has presented the BAFTA-nominated Chemistry: A Volatile History for the BBC, and is passionate about making science more accessible and interesting to the public. He appears regularly on TV and radio, presenting and contributing to science programmes on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 including Tomorrow’s World, The Riddle of Einstein’s Brain, Genius of Britain, and Bang Goes the theory.

Emily Bailey, Project Manager, Transport for the South East

Emily joined Transport for the South East as a project manager in 2022. She is responsible for leading on the Regional Centre of Excellence development and implementation. This will provide support for local transport authorities to implement their Local Transport Plans, including quantifiable carbon reduction, business case development and a pipeline of schemes ready for implementation. Emily works within the programme team, ensuring successful engagement with a wide range of stakeholders is maintained.

Denise Beedell, Senior Policy Manager, Logistics

UK

Denise helps to deliver Logistic UK’s urban and environmental logistics policy agenda, in particular, proactively leading Logistics UK’s policy work on vans, including publications, information services and discussion forums in connection with policy and regulatory issues. Denise joined Logistics UK in August 2018 from the Federation of Small Businesses, where she was Development Manager for Greater London and led on Transport, Environment and Crime policy issues in the capital.

Ian Allder, Director of Business Development, Zenobē

Ian is responsible for Business Development in the EV Fleet team providing vehicle, battery and charging infrastructure solutions to help fleet operators electrify. Ian’s career has included a range of senior commercial and operational roles at banks, finance houses and investment companies - predominantly in the green energy market. He holds degrees in Biochemistry and in Law, and a postgraduate diploma in Lending from the Chartered Banker Institute.

Dr. Alistair Barnes, Zero Emission Vehicles Innovation Lead, Innovate UK

Alistair is passionate about sustainability, both in transport and more generally. He is responsible for Zero Emission

Vehicles at Innovate UK, the UK’s national innovation agency. Alistair’s role includes leadership of the Department for Transport’s £200 million ‘Zero Emission Road Freight’ programme which is tackling the decarbonisation of long-haul road freight. He also works closely with the Advanced Propulsion Centre in the delivery of the Automotive Transformation Fund, which is investing up to £1 billion to develop an electrified automotive supply chain in the UK.

Daniel Bentham, CEO - Fleete

Daniel Bentham is the CEO of Fleete, a specialist in EV fleet charging solutions. Daniel has over 17 years of experience in the low-carbon energy sector. He led the e-mobility activities across EMEA at Macquarie’s Green Investment Group. Dan was previously the Managing Director of Shell Ubitricity UK and Head of Research at EDF UK covering all aspects of the energy transition. Dan has a background in innovation, engineering and finance, is a Chartered Engineer and has held advisory positions on the topics of smart grids, decentralised energy and disruptive business models.

Erik van Beusekom, Multi Region Business Development Director, Heliox

Erik specialises in new business Development, International Sales, Building networks of re-sellers and distributors, Building brands in B2B, building, training and motivating sales teams.

Jasmine Bishop Equipmake

Jasmine works across the complete suite of Equipmake products and services, from the supply of state-of-the-art electric motors to complete battery-electric drivetrains, for electric vehicle OEMs, eVOTL start-ups, bus, and coach fleets (a sector in which Equipmake is a leader in the repowering of existing diesel vehicles to pure electric). With this cross-market insight, Jasmine offers a fresh take on the transition to zero emission.

Peter Bradley, Managing Director UK Coach Operators Association (UKCOA)

Peter Bradley is the Managing Director of the UK Coach Operators Association (UKCOA), a trade body for coach operators run by coach operators which was launched in 2021. Peter has worked in the transport industry for over 40 years starting with London Transport / Transport for London in 1980, where he spent the majority of his career, latterly as Head of Consultation and Engagement. During his time at TfL, he had a number of roles, firstly on the Underground and later with London Transport Buses, mainly in tendering and service planning before concentrating on Stakeholder Engagement across the TfL portfolio. He also had a spell working with both Surrey and Hertfordshire County Councils in the mid 1980’s. Since leaving TfL in 2016 Peter has enjoyed a career in the coach industry firstly joining the London Tourist Coach Operators Association as Administration Director until its relaunch as the UKCOA.

Shane Brennan, Chief Executive, Cold Chain Federation

Shane leads the Cold Chain Federation, the specialist trade association for the temperature controlled logistics industry. For more than 100 years the Federation (in different guises)has brought together the companies and professionals that operate the warehouses and the vehicle fleets that store and move products safely and efficiently supporting in particular our food and pharmaceutical industries. Shane is an experienced trade association and government relations professional. Since2018, Shane has led the strategic renewal of the Federation, adding new members and providing new purpose. At the core of the mission is leading the industry to understand the opportunities and threats of climate change to our industry and its customers. Shane is a political geek, he can recite sections of early 2000’s political drama the West Wing verbatim (don’t ask him to!) He is also a part time supporter of Bristol City and father to two girls.

Carl Buckingham, Business Development Director

UK Fleet), Zenobē

Carl is an EV Fleet Business Development Director at Zenobē. He works with our clients across all fleet types to understand their fleet electrification needs and develop bespoke solutions. Carl has 30 years of experience in the energy and sustainability sector, with a focus on EVs and distributed energy. Carl is a Chartered Engineer and has spent the last 10 years working in sustainability consultancy and energy utilities developing low carbon solutions to support the sector.

Graeme Cooper, Global Solutions Director, Jacobs

Tim has over 40 years’ experience of working in the commercial vehicle industry and owned Europe’s leading commercial vehicle only research company working around the world before a friendly takeover in 2013 of his data division. Since then he’s concentrated on consultancy, helping clients manage the transition from diesel to electric / hydrogen fuel cell; indeed he was recently the Senior Commercial Vehicle Consultant for the National Grid (Ventures Division),looking at the strategic implications of the UK’s route to zero emissions for the road transport sector. Tim holds a Galileo Master Certificate in Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage from the European Energy Centre, is a council member of the Zemo, contributed to the government’s Electric Vehicle Taskforce Report and a regular speaker at various global conferences on EV / Fuel Cell.

Graeme is at the forefront of supporting Jacobs clients navigate the ‘energy transition’, whether that be as within the energy market or simply navigating time impact of energy on their sector. Previously he lead National Grid’s work on transport decarbonisation (Road, Rail, Aviation & Maritime). Graeme also lead the drive towards the Net-Zero 2050 target, by delivering a pathway for critical connections in the East of England by 2030 to enable delivery of the target of 40GW of Offshore wind (circ. £15bn). With over a decade in communications infrastructure and over a decade in zero carbon electricity, and five years in energy networks, Graeme is a well-known and highly respected energy industry expert. Graeme is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University (BSc ‘97) and Bi Norwegian Business School (MBA Energy ‘16). Graeme also sits on the Governments ‘EV Energy Taskforce’, the Committee on Climate Change ‘Advisory Group’ and supported the Prime Ministers Business Council. Graeme takes his decarbonisation work home with him as he drives an electric car and heats his home using ground source heat pumps.

Scott Dargan, Managing Director, Carrier Transicold

I am the Managing Director for Carrier Transicold responsible for all sales and services activities across the UK & Northern Europe related to transport refrigeration systems. The presentation will explore the key mega trends acting upon the cold chain at a macro and micro level and how both innovation and collaboration are essential to ensure we’re able to build effective, efficient and sustainable solutions to these opportunities and challenges.

Marianne Costigan, Head of Private Wire, EDF Renewables

Marianne joined the Pivot Power team in 2019, shortly before the company was acquired by EDF Renewables and is developing EV Charging Networks located close to our grid-scale battery energy storage locations. EDF Renewables’ ability to offer scalable multi-megawatt capacity is of particular interest to rapid and ultra-rapid charge point operators for all vehicles as well as depot-based commercial fleets of larger vehicles.

Arron Dowie, Business Development Director (EV Fleet and Second Life Batteries) Zenobē

Arron is principally focussed on developing business within the Electric Vehicle and Second-life Battery sectors. He brings over 20 years’ banking experience as a Relationship Director providing structured asset finance solutions to a wide range of clients across Corporate and Investment banking at Barclays and Santander. He has successfully arranged and executed over £500m of financing facilities across transportation, utilities, distribution and IT asset classes.

Colin Duke , Argent Energy

Ian Downie, Head of Yutong UK, Pelican Bus and Coach an Downie has been in the Bus and Coach industry for 36 years, starting as a timed served apprentice with Leyland Bus. He then spent a number of years with Volvo, with 20 years at Director level in roles such as Dealer Principal, Aftermarket Director, Business Controller, Product Director and Coach Sales Director. He then joined Wrightbus as their Managing Director, responsible for Sales and Aftermarket before joining Pelican. Ian is responsible for our Bus and Marketing division.

Bradley Fox, Business Development Director (UK Fleet), Zenobē

Bradley is a Business Development Director for EV Fleet, focusing on selling and developing Zenobē’s innovative electric bus vehicle and charging infrastructure managed service offering to fleet operators. He works closely with the corporate finance team on optimising the underlying finance arrangements to facilitate these transactions. Bradley has over 10 years of experience in front office roles in corporate and investment banking with specialisms in structured asset finance and relationship management. He has previously worked at Santander, Lloyds Bank and Barclays having executed a range of complex financing structures across many sectors for larger corporates.

Colin has more than 30 years of experience in the UK Commercial Fuels market, as well as working with distributors around the world. His focus is on helping organisations in the transport sector significantly reduce their carbon footprint and to advise on the best way to start decarbonsing their operations.

Colin has worked closely with The Zemo Partnership, championing the use of renewable fuels in all areas of the transport sector.

Natasha

Fry,

Head of Strategic Accounts, Fleet and Workplace Charging Mer UK

Natasha joined Mer as the head of strategic accounts following Mer’s acquisition of Elmtronics in April 2022, bringing over 20 years’ experience of working with fleets. She is responsible for managing the relationships between Mer and some of the UK’s largest private sector organisations, including several FTSE 250 businesses. Natasha’s mission is to enable the transition of large EV fleets by ensuring that no stone is left un-turned when EV charging infrastructure is critical to the operation. She is passionate about providing expertise and advice to businesses at every stage of their electrification journey. Natasha balances her commitments to Mer’s clients with a busy family life and enjoys trips to Italy to experience great food, wine and scenery.

Richard Horton, Fleet Services Director at Travis Perkins

Rich has nearly 25 years experience in the logistics sector covering a range of roles in 3PLs and inhouse operators. In his current role in Travis Perkins PLC he is responsible for supporting the company’s scattered network of branches in maintaining and managing O’Licence compliance for their 4000+ asset fleet. Rich is passionate about driving safety and compliance not only to safeguard business continuity and service but also to bring to life the Group’s strategy to be the leading partner in the construction industry to build better communities and enrich lives of the communities in which it operates.

Aaron Jarvis

Associate Vice President, Sales & Business Development, UK & Ireland

Aaron Jarvis is the Associate Vice President Sales & Business Development, UK & Ireland for Geotab; the world’s largest commercial telematics company. With a background in the IoT space and a focus on delivering complex automotive programmes, his experience places him well to lead Geotab’s business development efforts in Europe across multiple sectors focusing on unlocking the value of the connected car ecosystem. Before joining Geotab he was a Global Customer Programme Manager for Vodafone IoT.

Juergen, Ecooltec

Mike Johnson is the Director of Portland Analytics, a specialist energy consultancy offering advisory services to businesses and government organisations on both traditional and alternative fuels markets.

He is responsible for managing a portfolio of well-known and respected consultancy clients, providing procurement and supply chain reviews, specialist market reporting and alternative fuels/ carbon reduction strategy. Mike previously worked as Commercial Manager in Portland’s fuel pricing business where he developed their price reporting service, Portland Pricing, now used by more than 350 businesses to monitor fuel price information. He graduated from university with a First-Class Honours Degree in History and has a Project Fundamentals qualification from the Association of Project Management.’

Juergen is the CTO of Ecooltec GmbH located in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. The company develops, manufactures and supplies refrigeration units for road transport applications using purely natural refrigerants.

Juergen holds a Ph.D. of the Institute of Refrigeration, Hannover University, Germany and is active in various national and international scientific committees as well as refrigeration associations. In his career Juergen has published more than 150 scientific papers and holds over 30 patents related to refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumping technologies. Juergen’s achievements were recognised multiple times including by the internationally respected J&E Gold Medal of the Institute of Refrigeration, London.

Nicola Mahmood, Business Development Director, Equans EV Solution.

Nicola has more than 20 years’ experience in the energy industry and is a passionate advocate of the decarbonisation agenda. Nicola has spent the last few years of her career working with public and private sector champions in the decarbonisation of heat and, more recently, transport. She is knowledgeable in areas of policy and operations. However, her main specialism is in client solutions, spending most of her career working on developing projects and solutions around domestic and commercial heating.

Shane Mann, Chief Executive Officer at Tranzaura

Over the last 20 years, Shane has worked vigorously to provide technology and business intelligence solutions to numerous SME, National and Multinational clients across a variety of business sectors such as the semiconductor, medical devices and semi-state energy industries. Over the years, Shane has become increasingly aware that I.T. systems are not being used to their fullest potential in all areas of industry and the economy. This has prompted Shane to apply his vast experience in addressing these issues, using key terms such as integration, ‘ease of use’ and ‘value added’ as a centre point for the delivery of usable I.T systems. Shane’s previous work experience includes Analog Devices, Cook Medical and Homeigen Data solutions where he held senior positions such as a Manufacturing Analyst, Business Intelligence Consultant and Data Warehouse Architect. In 2015, Shane brought all this experience to the Transport industry when he joined Tranzaura as Chief Operating Officer and has since being bringing business intelligence and technology solutions to the likes of Go-Ahead London and Travis Perkins.

Andy Eastlake, Chief Executive Officer, ZEMO Partnership

Andy Eastlake was appointed as the LowCVP’s Managing Director in April 2012, after serving both on the board and as chair of the members’ council for many years. Andy has a strong background in vehicle engineering and evaluation, specialising in powertrain developments, fuel economy and emissions. Under Andy the LowCVP and its members have cemented their role supporting government in providing robust evidence and developing practical engineering based policy proposals for low emission vehicles and fuels across the whole road sector. Andy was formerly Group Head of Commercial and Projects at Millbrook Proving Ground where he led the work on powertrain test and development programmes and alternative fuels for a variety of global OEM customers. Previously as Head of Laboratories Andy was responsible for all technical aspects of the Millbrook business and for government and European legislative relations. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, served on the board of CENEX and sits on a range of industry advisory bodies.

Adam Miller

With a background in process innovation and continuous improvement honed in the automotive manufacturing sector, Adam has lead a revolution in the complex challenge of getting EV charging infrastructure connected to the grid efficiently and effectively. The EV Charging Team at ESP has driven significant innovation and is the preferred partner for many of the major CPOs as they seek to deliver on their business goals of accelerating the volume and quality of EV charging infrastructure in the UK.

Julia Meek, Director of Business Development (UK Fleet) & Marketing, Zenobē

Julia is responsible for Zenobē’s marketing activities across the business and is also a Director of Business Development on the EV fleet team. Julia’s career has included a range of senior roles at mission-driven start-ups and scaleups. Prior to joining Zenobē she was Head of Business Development for a UK social enterprise bus operator which included leading on public procurement bids, Chief of Staff at a microfinance organisation in China, and cofounder of a social investment resource. She has an MBA from London Business School.

Steven Meersman, Founder Director, Zenobē

Steven is one of the Founders of Zenobē. He leads the EV team which aims to make the ecologically sustainable option also the financially sustainable one for fleet operators. In addition, he’s responsible for Delivery, Operations, and Product teams.Prior to Zenobē, Steven spent nearly two decades between battery and traded energy commodity markets. He was a Global Head of Deals Desk at Trafigura where he led the commercial optimisation and market risk management teams for two refineries and over 30 import terminals and storage sites across Africa and Central America. Before this role, he was part of Oliver Wyman where he supported trading houses and utilities on optimising asset-backed trading strategies as well as investment and disposals of energy related infrastructure. He started his career in batteries as part of the team that set up AES Energy Storage (now Fluence).

Russell Fowler, Senior Manager in Transport Decarbonisation, National Grid Russell is the Senior Manager looking at National Grid’s role in transport decarbonisationfrom rapid EV charging to synthetic fuels for aviation. In previous roles at National Grid, E.ON and WE Russell: led the analysis for RIIO-2, National Grid ESO’s first price control, helping the ESO to be able to operate the system carbon free by 2025; led the production of the Future Energy Scenarios, electricity demand and was part of the Electricity Market Reform project setting up the first low carbon capacity and security of supply auctions. Russell also holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Birmingham.

Dr Angus Webb C.e.o, Dynamon Ltd

Angus is the founder and CEO of Dynamon. Originally from an engineering research background, Angus worked at the University of Southampton developing data analytics tools that helped Team GB win more medals at London and Rio Olympics. With this expertise, Angus founded Dynamon with the vision to vastly improve the efficiency of the logistics industry. Angus has built an incredibly talented and diverse team at Dynamon to realize this vision. The team which he leads are developing state of the art data analytics and AI tools that help the logistics industry minimise cost and CO2 emission through sustainable fleet procurement. Angus is a thought-leader on data analytics and frequently contributes to discussions and events around the challenges and opportunities of adopting new fleet technology in the commercial transport industry.

Celia Greaves, CEO, UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association

A thought leader, scientific influencer and government watchdog, Celia is now at the vanguard of national and international policy discussions and decision-making on a topic that is front and centre of global consciousness–the race to find effective ways to reach net zero emissions in the battle against climate change. A forward thinker and world hydrogen leader, Celia set up the UK HFCA in 2010 to help accelerate the deployment.

Jerrard-Dinn, Area Sales Manager, Thermo King

With over 25 years’ experience working in the commercial vehicle industry and following a successful career in commercial vehicle contract hire, Jon is now focused on building strong partnerships in the transport refrigeration manufacturing sector with Thermo King

Joe Parry - Head of Business Development

Joe is a car sharing professional who has been helping businesses and individuals share fleets in the UK and Australia since 2017. With a focus on technology, he has enabled organisations to reduce vehicle numbers, improve efficiency, and lower costs. Today, Joe helps private & public sector organisations share vehicles more effectively, creating more efficient fleets and reducing carbon footprints.

Michelle Gardner, Deputy DirectorPolicy, Logistics UK

Michelle leads on policy areas including the environment, connected and autonomous vehicles and the strategic road network. Michelle has a background in both policy and public affairs and prior to joining Logistics UK, she was environmental manager at the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Previously she worked for the British Retail Consortium, first leading on public affairs and then on employment and health and safety policy. Darren Fitzpatrick, Sales Director Bus & Coach, Asset Alliance Group

Jon

Hanson, Climate Lead, Lombard

Experienced leader within the climate, sustainability, mobility and vehicle market. With previous experience within wholesale vehicle and wider asset finance market. Skilled in climate, sustainability, strategy, mobility, leadership, banking, sales, credit analysis, commercial banking, and interpersonal skills. Strong professional with a business and management degree from the university of Exeter.

Michael

Kent,

EV and Storage Manager, GridBeyond

Michael is the EV & Storage Manager, focusing on partnerships with fleet operators and charge point providers in the transition to EV. Michael has a varied career, working for large engineering providers such as Babcock, to heading up the Business Development team at Arriva bus and working at Enel X in senior roles. Michael has a passion in working with various stakeholders in the transition to EV fleets, to provide the best solution and unlock the energy markets as the consumption of energy grows over time. Michael delivered 5 EV projects in 2022 with large scale EV installation activity to support some of London’s largest bus depots.

Ed Lea, Founder, Charge Fairy

Founder of Charger Fairy, Our unique hardware and software platform allows us to predictively schedule charging for fleet and consumer vehicles. Charging at home or in a depot when a vehicle is idle is not always possible; Charge Fairy can charge your vehicles when they’re idle in any location. We securely connect to your vehicle and monitor its location, state of charge and driving patterns. The same connection allows us to access the vehicle’s charge port so one of our chargers can arrive at any time of the day or night and charge to 80% without the driver being present.

Robert Llewellyn, Actor & Owner, Fully Charged

Speaker Robert Llewellyn is famous as host of the UK Channel 4 series Scrapheap Challenge. He has also worked as a screen-writer, stand-up comic, on-line video guru, and was once a maker of bespoke tassel loafers! He has written biographies, screenplays and four novels. In the past decade

Robert has taken his communication skills to YouTube with his show Fully Charged where he discusses the contemporary electric vehicle scene, the future of EVs, and anything renewable from solar panels to alternative energy technologies. Fully Charged began its run in 2010 and now after more than 700 episodes has gained almost a million subscribers and has earned more than 144 million views. Fully Charged Live – the event – began at the Silverstone circuit in 2018 and was introduced to America in Austin, Texas in 2020.

Robert Llewellyn is the author of a number of non-fiction books. His best-known acting role is as Kryten in the BBC’s long-running cult sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf.

Lorna

Andrew has been successfully delivering enterprise solutions for 20 years. In 2005 he was one of the founders of Infrasolve an IT solution company that was acquired by Innovise PLC (AIM:INNO), and later sold to Atos as Engage-ESM. He has a history of building and leading teams to deliver large projects at the likes of Reuters, RBOS, IBM and ABN AMRO.

2021 Barbara Cox woman of the year winner, Lorna joined E.ON as an IT Project Manager before moving to the fleet team to head up groupwide telematics and carbon reduction projects, subsequently being appointed Commercial Vehicle Manager. Having worked in Germany on a global fleet project she returned to the UK and joined Royal Mail in 2014. Whilst there she led on the Optimise Prime project, the largest commercial electric vehicle project in the UK. In August 2019 she joined National Grid as Fleet Manager. She holds an international CPC, is a regular and respected contributor at industry conferences and round tables and is a judge for the Commercial Fleet awards

Michelle Miles, Head of ProGreen and Group Marketing, Procur

In the past 12 years of working at Prohire, Michelle has worked in a number of roles, including Sales & Customer Support and more recently Group Marketing. Through these positions Michelle has developed in knowledge and experience and accomplished great things, including developing relationships with nationally and globally recognised companies, while developing the Prohire Group brand and launching and developing the YouTube channel, Prohire TRUCKTVe e & ProGreen

Bob leads the UK’s Department for Transport strategy on decarbonisation, developing and delivering policy across the entire transport system. This has included developing and now delivery the UK’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan–a ‘greenprint’ for decarbonised transport-design of new regulation to deliver the UK’s world leading ambitions around new zero emission vehicles–including introduction of anew ZEV mandate for new cars and vans from 2024-as well as rolling out a mass scale demonstration of zero emission and supporting infrastructure across the UK. He previously worked at the UK’s Office for low emission Vehicles, a cross Government policy unit working to position the UK as a global leader in zero emission vehicles and associated technologies. Bob was awarded a Ph.D. In Biomechanical Engineering from Edinburgh University in 2002having graduated from there with an Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997.

Jesse Norman, Minister of State for Decarbonisation & Technology

He was previously Minister of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from 7 September 2022 to 26 October2022. Before that, he was Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2021, where he managed the COVID-19 furlough scheme and set up the UK Infrastructure Bank. Jesse has been the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire since 2010.

Jesse was previously Paymaster General, and held ministerial roles in the Department for Transport, and the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. As a backbencher, he was a member of the Treasury Select Committee 2010 to 2015, and Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in2016 to 2017. Jesse was made a Privy Councillor in 2019. Before entering politics

Jesse was a Director at Barclays. He also researched and taught philosophy at University College London and ran a charitable project in Communist Eastern Europe. Jesse is the author of numerous books and pamphlets, including ‘Compassionate Conservatism’, ‘Edmund Burke: Politician, Philosopher, Prophet ‘and ‘Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why It Matters’, which won a Parliamentary Book Award in 2018. Jesse was Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year and The House Backbencher of the Year in 2012.

Jesse has degrees in Classics (Oxford University: MA) and philosophy (University College London: MPhil, PhD). He has held various academic research fellowships, and was elected as a Two-year Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 2022. Jesse is an enthusiastic cyclist, hill-walker and amateur jazz musician.

Alec Peachey, Publisher, Transport & Energy

Alec is a commercially minded editor with more than 15 years experience in multimedia journalism. He spent four years as editor of Highways magazine where he also held the role of head of content. He also edited Network magazine which provided a resource for engineers in the UK’s gas, power and heat networks at a time of transformation and disruption across the nation’s energy system. During his time in the role Alec built up a strong reputation for the brand and worked with leading companies such as National Grid, BMW and Siemens. Alec is content director and a member of the board at the Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) – a group which is set up facilitate fresh thinking in innovation and collaboration and to act as a conduit across the ‘highways community’ consisting of politicians, councils, council groups, the supply chain (including utilities), associations, academia and key organisations. LCRIG has more than 80 local authority members and a vast array of supply chain organisations who feed into the group.

Richard Riley, ERM Senior Principal Consultant, Element Energy

Element Energy is a net zero consultancy based in the UK with 20 years of experience working solely on economy wide decarbonisation. Richard has been at Element Energy since 2016 and now leads the businesses commercial vehicle decarbonisation offering. He has led the delivery of strategic analysis of commercial vehicle decarbonisation for a wide range of major clients including CCC, DfT, OEMs, fleet operators and O&G majors. From this work he has developed leading expertise in zero emission vehicles, low carbon fuels, future infrastructure development and fleet decarbonisation analysis.

Andrew Scott, Head of Electromobility and Product Development, Renault Trucks

Andrew Scott is Head of Electric Mobility and Product Development for Renault Trucks UK, and one of Motor Transport’s 2023 Decarbonisation

Power Players, leading the UK transport industry towards its net zero target. As well as shaping Renault Trucks’ alternative energies strategy and implementing carbon-reduction strategies with fleet operators, Andrew is working with government and other stakeholders to help identify and demonstrate different pathways to decarbonisation. He is bringing together many people and organisations to find innovative and creative solutions to the known and sometimes unforeseen challenges of taking carbon out of the transport system.

Ed Sargent, Director Of Business Development, EDF Renewables

Edward has spent the last 15 years working with businesses to deliver innovation in energy and storage solutions. As Business Development Director at EDF Renewables/ Pivot Power he is developing partnerships with logistics, last mile delivery and transport companies to provide the power that will enable the electrification of their fleets. Prior to joining EDF Renewables/Pivot Power Edward built and led Tesla’s UK & Ireland Powerpack business, which he joined from innovative energy tech start-up Tempus Energy. Previously he worked in senior engineering roles delivering energy savings and sustainable solutions for landlords, asset managers, public sector and commercial developers. Edward holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northumbria University.

Peter Smith, Head of Product, Zenobe

Pete leads Zenobē’s growing team of Product specialists across all areas of the business. His team oversee our R&D as well as product development in both hardware and software. He has been working in the European E-Mobility sector for over ten years, specialising in the design, build and delivery of software systems for EV Charging.

Sara Sloman, Chief Strategy Office, Paythru

With a background in public and private sector consultancy roles primarily serving Local Authorities, I have been involved in delivering sustainability centred infrastructure projects for over fifteen years. I bring an understanding of the lifecycle of infrastructure funding and the necessary steps required to successfully implement an effective Sustainability strategy. I have worked for the for the Local Sustainable Transport Fund and was honoured to be leading on elements of the Go Ultra Low West project in the West of England. I was proud to be part of the Energy and Infrastructure team at leading law firm, Foot Anstey LLP, where I was able to see every side of the infrastructure debate from developer to landlord, local authority partnerships through to consultancy services. I am a believer in supporting all modes of transport for a sustainable future and my passion is in clean energy and zero emission mobility. Named as EV Champion in 2018 and featuring on the GreenFleet “100 Most influential” list in 2019, 2020, 2021 2022 &2023, I am very excited for the future to help fleets convert away from ICE vehicles.

Shahid Sheikh, Business Development Manager Hydrogen for Mobility, Air Products

Shahid is responsible for driving growth for the Hydrogen for Mobility business in the UKI, which is focused on supporting wholescale energy transition across the country. He will be working closely with national and local government and industry experts to support the Government’s drive towards a low-carbon hydrogen future, and help more organisations to achieve their sustainability targets by using green hydrogen.

Sheikh originally joined Air Products in January 2019 and has a wealth of commercial experience working within the energy industry focused on energy efficiency and reducing carbon footprint. This latest appointment will see him leave his role as Liquid Bulk Business Development Manager in the East Region, to focus on hydrogen at a national level.

Graham Usher, Managing Director, Hultsteins

Graham Usher is senior and proven operator with over 35 years’ experience at the fore front of capital goods sales and marketing. Hey positions with a number of industry-leading manufacturers to the Commercial Vehicle Transport Industry have provided the foundation for a broad range of management disciplines : Board level sales negotiation; in-depth knowledge of logistics transport equipment applications; extensive finance methodology surrounding all aspects of product acquisition; team building and sales management.

Benn White, Project Manager, Transport for the South East

Benn joined Transport for the South East in 2018. In his role as project manager, he has supported the development of the Transport Strategy, Future Mobility Strategy and Freight Strategy and is currently leading on the development of the regional Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy. Benn previously worked at Highways England supporting major investment schemes to improve the road network.

Nikolai Tauber, Co-Founder & CTO, Sunswap

Nikolai has co-founded Sunswap and lead the growing engineering team delivering novel zero-emission transport refrigeration products. In the past, using his expertise in thermo-fluid dynamics and system modelling, he has delivered numerous R&D projects related to novel energy systems such as methanol fuel cells and liquid nitrogen transport refrigeration units. More recently he have had the opportunity to lead the development of a battery thermal management system at Arrival.

Craig Welborn, Head of National Accounts, Petit Forestier

Craig is Chartered Management Institute FCMI leader with extensive expertise in successfully delivering high-profile regulatory and customer service projects following agile, Lean Six Sigma, ITIL and Miller Heiman methodologies. By understanding the commercial aspects of business and consumer environments, he has created and implemented growth and distribution strategies that positively impact bottom line results.

Peter

White, System Development Engineer, NGED

Peter has worked in the electricity industry since graduating in 1991. He joined the South Wales Electricity Regional Electricity Company just after privatisation. He remains with his original employer, now Western Power Distribution. Peter trained as an operational engineer and experienced all aspects of distribution network maintenance, replacement, construction and Major Projects. In 1995 he became Underground Cable Engineer and was responsible for all aspects of underground cables and accessories from LV through to 132kV in a geographical patch which covered the whole WPD Company area. In 2017 Peter was transferred to System Development to take up responsibility as the company lead for Electric Vehicle’s, Heat Pumps, Photo Voltaic’ s, battery storage, Hydrogen and Losses for WPD. In this role he brought innovative solutions into a Low Carbon Technology area as business as usual, whilst retaining the more traditional elements of management of standards for an electricity distribution network. Peter is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.