Author: James Evison

Tom Hurst

UK Country Manager, Fastned

Tom Hurst is Fastned’s Country Manager in the UK, and has been with Fastned since late 2017. Prior to getting involved in the e-mobility adventure, he spent six years as a consultant with Arup, advising cities, governments, NGOs, and corporations on their energy and climate change strategy. He has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, an MSc in Sustainable Energy, and is a Chartered Environmentalist.

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Matt Pumfrey

CEO, Innovation Gateway

Matt has had a lifelong passion for sustainability and has worked in the sector his whole career. A career that has seen him set up and run his own businesses, as well as create and run a sustainability and energy services business for a FTSE100 outsourced services organisation.

He is now CEO of Innovation Gateway, an award-winning innovation company that is enabling the world’s most ambitious organisations to accelerate their progress to net zero, through actionable programmes and innovative technologies.

Matt specialises in identifying and translating sustainability goals for business and developing strategies, processes, and operating models to enable these goals to be delivered. He has a clear understanding of the social, economic and environmental business drivers, the risks they may pose and how to mitigate them along with a pragmatic approach to delivering successful business outcomes. Skills that are becoming more and more important in a world in climate crisis.

Lily Cairns Haylor

Co-Founder & Head of Product, Advanced Infrastructure

Lily is the Head of Product at Advanced Infrastructure. She has led OZEV and BEIS funded innovation projects – identifying and mapping challenges to the energy transition across transport, heat and generation. She led the design and early pilots of LAEP+ a web based GIS visualisation and planning application which is being used by energy network operators, consultants and local authorities to identify and plan energy interventions across transport, generation and heat. Currently she is heavily involved in project LEO and project RESOP where LAEP+ is being used to support collaborative and digitalised local area energy planning.

Rhys Williams

Innovation Project Manager, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN)

Rhys works as an Innovation Project Manager within the Future Networks Team at SSEN. He has worked within the Energy Industry for over 10 years, 7 of which have been at SSEN. He has been involved in a large number of innovation projects including the following data related projects:

• Regional Energy Systems Optimisation Planning (RESOP), which is developing tools to assist whole system collaboration work between utilities and local councils.

• Modelling the Economic Reactions Linking Individual Networks (MERLIN), which developed network tools to enable flexible services

• Risk Assessment Modelling of Smart nEtwork Solution (RAMSES), which investigates the risks associate with flexible services in a future Distribution System Operator (DSO) world

• Informed Lightning Projection, which utilises machine learning to understand where to optimally install lightning protection for highest return on investment.

Quentin Willson

Motoring Broadcaster, Transport Campaigner and Founder of FairCharge

Quentin has been driving and campaigning for electric cars for over a decade. He was one of the first journalists to drive GM’s $1bn EV1 in 1996 for BBC Top Gear, has personally owned a Nissan Leaf, Citroen C-Zero, Vauxhall Ampera, Renault Zoe, Mitsubishi iMiev, Tesla Model 3 – and even a vintage 70s Enfield Electric – driven 70,000 miles in battery-only electric cars and campaigned with Boris Johnson for greater EV adoption.

While Jeremy Clarkson was pointing and laughing at electric cars, Quentin was experimenting with this new technology by driving and charging his own EVs every day. He’s given evidence on transport electrification to government Select Committees, House of Lords round tables and lobbied transport ministers and MPs for greater EV incentives and infrastructure. He won Green Fleet’s EV Champion in 2015 and was ranked 18th on Green Fleet’s list of Top 100 Global EV influencers for 2020. He currently drives a Tesla Model 3 everyday and owns the EV and charging campaigning website FairCharge. No journalist has deeper EV heritage or more passion for the subject than Quentin.

Paula Claytonsmith

Director, Government and Strategy at Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) and policy support advisor to DfT’s Transport Technology Forum (TTF)

Paula is Director of Government and Strategy at TTF/LCRIG and formerly Executive Board Director at Gaist, the multi-award-winning international highways and mobile mapping company working with the Government, local authorities, private sector, and international organisations.

Paula has worked in local government leading frontline services, a national public sector improvement agency tasked with performance improvement, KPMG Government Advisory, international consulting assignments, political lobbying sector, and independent national government advisory roles. Paula has also worked in executive leadership roles in the charitable sector including a major stem cell cancer charity leading their operations department and a strategic policy and lobbying role in a leading environmental charity focused on behaviour change to improve local environmental quality. Latterly she has been involved with PIARC, World Roads Association technical committee on accessibility and mobility in rural areas.

Paula’s passion for technology, data, and public services means that she has spoken on more than one occasion on BBC Radio4’s programme “In Business” about technology and infrastructure. Paula has authored articles about infrastructure, data, and its social impact for the Institute of Highway Engineers. In 2019, Paula gave evidence directly to the Transport Select Committee on Local Roads Funding and Governance in 2019. Paula is also a member of the Royal Meteorology Society, with a strong personal interest in extreme weather, climate change, and other weather phenomena.

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char.gy

char.gy is the most convenient way for drivers to charge an electric vehicle on their street. We utilise existing street infrastructure to provide two electric vehicle charging solutions:

• A lamppost smart charge point that fits onto existing street furniture

• A satellite bollard smart charge point for greater placement flexibility

Simple-to-use and well designed solutions for councils and parking providers to accelerate the uptake of electric vehicles for their residents and drivers.

easy everyday charging

Shayne Rees

Head of Marketing, char.gy

Shayne is Head of Marketing at char.gy, a provider of public electric vehicle charging to communities of drivers who can’t use their home electricity supply to charge their cars.

Most of his career focused on marketing EDF’s range of low-carbon energy solutions to businesses and the public sector. He draws on this experience to help char.gy play a big part in the electrification of transport and its crucial role in delivering the UK’s Net Zero 2050 goal.

Prior to joining char.gy, Shayne led the UK sales and marketing team at ubitricity and helped the company grow into the UK’s largest public charging networks by number of charge points.

Gill Nowell

Head of EV, LV= General Insurance

Gill has 20 years’ experience across the sustainable energy, utility, and environmental technologies sectors, including many years working on electric vehicle-grid integration projects. In February 2019, Gill founded EVclicks – a free online EV image library for use by schools, communities, projects and businesses in aid of the transition to zero emission transport. In June 2020, Gill was selected as one of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) 2020: Sustainability and is a regular speaker and panellist on electric vehicles and data-driven transition to a low carbon, sustainable world.

An advocate for electric vehicles since 2012, Gill is an EV driver and smart charger. Gill was a co-founding Director of the Electric Vehicle Association (EVA) England, and represented the organisation across a variety of media channels.

Gill is now Head of EV Communications for LV= General Insurance and ElectriX. Working across industry and communities, ElectriX is making it easy to make the switch to an electric car by offering drivers everything they need in one place – from leasing a vehicle, through to buying a home charger and getting electric car insurance.

Trojan Energy

Trojan Energy was formed in 2016 with one mission: to ensure everyone benefits from the energy transition.

With total focus on enabling the switch to eMobility, we developed the Trojan Electric Vehicle Charging System. A system that finally offers an equal chance for EV drivers without a driveway to charge effectively at home, while eliminating residual clutter on the pavement. A system that doesn’t require municipal authorities to zone off parking spaces and gives network operators the ability to manage power demand in real time. A system smart enough to offer a convenient way to charge that’s green, cheap, immediate – or a combination of all three – at up to 22kW. A system that delivers flat and flush chargepoints in hubs of fifteen, or single units powered by the home, to leave the streetscape uncluttered for everyone. We want to give drivers the confidence and practicality they need to go electric.

We’re doing our bit for the global effort to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality by supporting electrification and the transition to renewable energy. We’re doing this by addressing the lack of EV charging infrastructure within the urban environment.

We’re charging towards Net-Zero.

The EV Network

The EV Network (EVN) is a leading independent EV charging infrastructure development company, delivering a range of EV charging infrastructure services across the UK, Europe, the US and worldwide. Our primary model is based on ‘infrastructure as a service’ – delivering a turn-key charging site delivery solution – and consolidating multiple interfaces on behalf of the client to decrease the cost. We use our assets to fully fund the entire capital costs of site development and maintenance, allowing CPOs, operators and landlords the ability to introduce charging infrastructure at their desired specification to consumers whilst managing their capital

EVN wants all regions of the UK to benefit from and be part of the EV transition. By working with local authorities, private organisations and commercial businesses, delivering high-value and high-quality EV charging solutions on critical sites, we can significantly increase the sustainability of local communities and drive investment into our towns and cities across the UK.

ElectriX

ElectriX is powered by LV= General Insurance to help drivers lease, charge and insure an electric car. ElectriX has everything you need to make the switch, offering a wide range of cars to lease, with many cars available within 12 weeks, as well as home charging and electric car insurance. The website helps drivers decide whether an electric car is right for them, what it costs to own and run one, and how to charge – both at home and on the road.

Transport Technology Forum (TTF)

The Transport Technology Forum exists to give leadership, direction and support and to stimulate investment in innovation and technology solutions.

The Forum provides a dynamic space where road operators and their suppliers can exchange information and agree to work more collaboratively in order to achieve a more cohesive approach.

The Forum encourages the adoption of new ways of thinking and innovative technical solutions for the improvement of traffic flow through better network operation and management. This in turn will deliver significant economic, social and business benefit to the UK.

The Forum also aims to ensure that its stakeholders gain and maintain a fair share of voice with policy-makers.

The Forum’s remit includes, but is not limited to:

•  Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), including Connected ITS (C-ITS);
•  Automotive;
•  Smart Mobility and Mobility as a Service (MaaS);
•  Smart Cities and communities;
•  Logistics;
•  and ICT and related developments including Cloud computing and Big Data.

The Forum has no statutory remit and its impact and influence are entirely dependent on the momentum it generates, the soundness of its judgments and the quality of work it produces.

The Transport Technology Forum receives funding from the Department for Transport and Innovate UK to help achieve change and technological innovation with collaborating organisations.

HGVZero

HGVZero is a cross-industry action group focused on the decarbonisation of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and features some of Europe’s largest shippers and hauliers including Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Tesco, XPO Logistics, Eddie Stobart and DPDgroup.

The new HGVzero taskforce will bring together these companies to help accelerate the decarbonisation of their collective fleets across the continent.

Within the first six months of the programme, HGVzero members will co-develop solutions in support from key industry collaborators to tackle the complex pinch points that have so far hindered successful low-carbon HGV rollouts.

Energy Networks Association

The Energy Networks Association represents the companies which operate the electricity wires, gas pipes and energy system in the UK and Ireland.

The ENA helps its members meet the challenge of delivering electricity and gas to communities across the UK and Ireland safely, sustainably and reliably.

Members include every major electricity and gas network operator in the UK and Ireland, independent operators, National Grid ESO which operates the electricity system in Great Britain and National Grid which operates the gas system in Great Britain. The organisation’s affiliate membership also includes companies with an interest in energy, including Heathrow Airport and Network Rail.

EVA England

Electric Vehicle Association (EVA) England is the voice of electric vehicle drivers. It strives to accelerate the mass adoption of electric cars through provision of accessible information to consumers, and strategic campaigning to UK Government on key policy matters.

EVA England is run for EV drivers, by EV drivers. The group promote the environmental and health benefits of electric vehicles to the public in England.

EVA England is a collective voice, working with all stakeholders to pro-actively identify and highlight the specific issues of ownership and driving of electric vehicles and associated infrastructure in England.

Black Country Transport

Black Country Transport (BCT) is a strategic transport partnership between Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton Councils.

BCT brings together officers from the four Black Country local authorities; with a team of central officers to provide project management of cross-boundary transport schemes. By working collaboratively, the group aims to assist the local authorities with developing projects that span more than one borough and encourage consistency of provision across the Black Country region.

Black Country Transport is innovative in its approach to roads by ensuring they cater for all by providing for walking, cycling, cars, lorries, and public transport. The projects developed also work with new technologies, such as optimised traffic signals that can support cycle and bus priority and alter their timings depending on traffic demand, and electric vehicle charge points.

National Highways

National Highways, formerly the Highways Agency and later Highways England, is a government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in England. It also sets highways standards used by all four UK administrations, through the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. Within England, it operates information services through the provision of on-road signage and its Traffic England website, provides traffic officers to deal with incidents on its network, and manages the delivery of improvement schemes to the network.

Reza Shaybani

Co-Founder & CEO, The EV Network

Reza has over 25 years of experience in managing public & private technology-focused companies in the semiconductor and solar photovoltaic industry, possessing vast management, Directorship and CEO experience. Since 2006 Reza has played an active role in the solar PV industry globally building some of the best companies in the sector. He has an extensive political, industrial & financial global network.

In 2017 Reza co-founded The EV Network. In 2021 EVN raised £300M to build a network of ultra-fast charging hubs across the UK. In 2022 the company raised a further £100M to its property arm to buy the freehold of sites. EVN has long-term contracts with major oil& gas companies, energy companies and utilities.

Graeme Cooper

Head of Future Markets, National Grid

Graeme leads National Grid’s work on transport decarbonisation enabling the journey to Net-Zero transport (Road, Rail, Aviation & Maritime).

Graeme also leads 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.

With over a decade in communications infrastructure and over a decade in zero carbon electricity, 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 Chairs his local councils Climate Emergency Advisory Board.

Graeme takes his decarbonisation work home with him as he drives an electric car and heats his home using ground source heat pumps.

Mark Constable

Head of Business Development, Trojan Energy

Mark drove his first EV in 2008 (a plug-in Prius prototype) and was immediately hooked. He led the Electric Vehicle team at EDF Energy early on in the UK market, and more recently developed a large-scale commercial Rapid Charging Hub programme for TfL. Mark has sat on a number of industry committees and steering/advisory groups in both eMobility and heat electrification, while maintaining his own body of insight data focused on end user behaviour and priorities. His overall goal is to democratise access to infrastructure as electrification accelerates.

Mark joined Trojan in May 2021 as Head of Business Development, leading on marketing, sales and public affairs. As the EV switch accelerates, meeting the infrastructure challenges become ever more urgent. Access, usability and fairness is his mission.

Dr Nicholas Head

Environmental and Sustainability Lead – UK and Ireland, XPO Logistics

Dr Nicholas Head is the Environmental and Sustainability Lead – UK and Ireland, at XPO Logistics. He has specialised in the environmental sector over the last 12 years, including achieving an MSc and PhD from the University of Northampton, focusing on circular economy and assessing the viability of business models structured around sustainability. During his PhD studies, Dr Head lectured on his specialisms of circular economy and systems thinking approaches to environmental issues at the University of Northampton and the Open University, before moving back into the private sector as a consultant and then for various FMCG companies in Head of Sustainability positions over the last four years.

A member of the CIWM, Dr Head has sat on and contributed to various steering groups over the last five years and has also been an active member of the Schumacher Institute (looking at societal issues from systems thinking perspective); IEMA and the Sustainability Committee for the British Coffee Association.

In his spare time, Dr Head is a keen walker, particularly on rugged coasts and areas of rolling hills.

Dan Clarke

Head of Innovation, ENA

Dan is the Head of Innovation at ENA where he provides a collaborative environment for Gas and Electricity Networks to identify strategic and technical challenges, develop solutions through innovation projects, and collectively progress towards Net Zero. Dan leads several key projects including Digitalisation of Connections, as well as providing expertise across Network Innovation, Low Carbon Technologies, Connections and Data & Digitalisation. He works closely with Ofgem, Government and key stakeholder groups and contributes to several industry Taskforces.

Dan joined ENA in December 2020 having previously delivered projects in several related sectors including sustainable transport and aviation.

James Court

CEO, Electric Vehicle Association England

James is CEO of EVA England, before this he led the work of the Cabinet Office on the COP26 transport policy and helped build the Climate Group’s UK Electric Fleets Coalition (UKEFC), representing the UK’s biggest fleet owners. Before that he was Director of Policy and Communications at the renewables trade body the REA – the Renewable Energy Association.

Dr Joanna White

Acting Roads Development Divisional Director, National Highways

Dr White leads a division focused on environmental policy and standards, intelligent transport systems, energy and road design. Her teams have successfully delivered electric vehicle charge points near to the strategic road network to enhance existing infrastructure and support take up of EVs.

Jo started her career in 1999 at TRL working as a Researcher. Six years later she joined the Highways Agency as a Senior ITS Engineer in the Traffic and Travel Systems Group.

In April 2012 she took up a new role, leading the National Operational Systems team in Traffic Technology Division, looking after all the systems that the Traffic Officers use to manage traffic and incidents.

In 2014 she returned on promotion to the standards and research part of the organisation leading the Intelligent Transport Systems group.

In February 2020, she became a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

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