Naomi Nye
Naomi has been heavily involved in the adoption of electric vehicles and Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure from the outset, holding senior sales positions within the industry for over a decade. Her contribution to the evolution of EV was recognised by the EV Summit in 2020 when she was named one of the most influential women […]
Ben Cattermole
Ben has worked in policy and strategy in energy sector transition for over 15 years. He’s specialised in how we decarbonise the sector and integrate low carbon technologies such as electric vehicles, at a systematic level. He’s played a number of roles in Government including in Electricity Market Reform, Contracts for Difference and Smart Metering. […]
Niki Kesharaju
Niki Kesharaju is a Senior Decarbonisation Strategy Manager at National Grid and leads on strategy development for the decarbonisation of key demand sectors such as heat, industry, transport and the role of hydrogen, and how all this may impact networks. Niki’s career has spanned decarbonisation, strategy and innovation across the energy and automotive sectors. In […]
Amy Rushton
Amy Rushton is a Senior Project Manager for Suffolk County Council’s Environment Strategy Team, currently leading the Plug in Suffolk programme – an initiative to help residents and communities transition to EVs, funded through the Department for Transport’s ‘Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund’. Prior to this, Amy was Head of Business Development at Suffolk Wildlife […]
Shayne Rees
If you’re at the Transport + Energy Forum to get OMG-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that-before insights to improve your council’s EV charging infrastructure strategy, go find Shayne. Shayne helps councils and char.gy align their goals and capabilities to find the most cost-effective way bring convenient and affordable local EV charging to support your residents’ switch to EVs. Cost-effective doesn’t mean cutting corners. […]
Snigdha Tiruvuru
In her current role, Snigdha leads a team of partnership consultants across the UK, driving char.gy’s market expansion with the ambitious goal of serving over 1 million drivers by 2030. Snigdha has a deep understanding of the EV market, driving an EV since 2019 and working in the industry since 2020. Snigdha excels in offering consultancy […]
Melanie Shufflebotham
Melanie Shufflebotham is the co-founder and COO of Zapmap, the UK’s leading EV mapping app. Having worked in the space for over ten years, Melanie is an EV market expert, with deep knowledge of the charging market and EV data sets. Now, as Zapmap scales ready for the mass take-up of electric cars, she continues […]
Paul Ford
Paul is passionate about creating an equitable society and avoiding a two-tier system for EV adoption. Most recently he specialised in developing integrated solutions for EQUANS and Amey. Working at director level for global advisory practices Aecom and Gardiner & Theobald, Paul supported local and central government to manage strategic procurements and develop workplace solutions. […]
Chris Ashley
Chris joined the RHA in September 2019 to lead its policy on environmental and regulatory issues. Prior to this, he was a Civil Servant for 18 years, mainly at the Home Office where he developed policies to reduce offending by heroin and cocaine addicts and to address domestic abuse. Together with a family background in […]
Dr Benjamin Silverstone
Dr Benjamin Silverstone holds an MSc in Management and a PhD in Engineering as well as a professional teaching qualification. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Ben has worked in education for almost 20 years and has held various teaching and management […]
Tom Peacock
Previously Property Director of MRH (GB) Limited – then the largest private filling station owner in the UK. Head of M&A and property across the 500 site portfolio. Subsequently, Development Director of Eelpower, growing their grid-scale battery assets. Business Development Director of Gridserve introducing high-powered EV charging to business owners through either a lease model […]
Jon Jenkins
Jon leads innovation at Motability Operations, supporting more than 760,000 disabled people who currently lease a vehicle through the Scheme make the switch to electric. Jon leads on developing new partnerships with providers of mobility solutions with a view to scaling products for the benefit of all Motability Scheme customers.
