Brendan Connor

Brendan is Chairman of Cenex (Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon & Fuel Cell Technologies) based at Loughborough University. Cenex was originally funded by DTI (now Business, Innovation & Skills) but is now an independent consultancy led by a consortium of UK automotive systems companies and representative bodies.

Previously Brendan was Chief Executive Officer at Cosworth Racing between 2011 and 2003 during which it provided engines to various teams in Formula 1, US Indy Racing League, CART and World Rally Championships. He was the recipient of MIA Business of the Year Award in 2003.

Brendan has held senior general management positions in TRW and Lucas and currently holds a number of Non-Executive Board appointments in both the public and private sectors. He is a Trustee of the Royal Air Force Museum and a number of other charities.

Lord Paul Drayson

Born in 1960, Paul Rudd Drayson was educated at St. Dunstan's College, London and Aston University. In 1982, he took a BSc (Hons) in Production Engineering at Aston sponsored by BL Cars at Longbridge, followed in 1985 by a PhD in Robotics. Between 1986 and 1991, he was Managing Director of Lambourn Food Company. In 1993, he co-founded the vaccine company PowderJect Pharmaceuticals plc in Oxford and was Chairman and Chief Executive until 2003. He floated PowderJect on the London Stock Exchange in 1997. Over ten years he built PowderJect into one of the world's leading vaccine companies with operations in the UK, USA and Scandinavia, until selling it for £540 million in 2003.

Between 2001 and 2002, Lord Drayson was the Chairman of the BioIndustry Association and was active in the industry's campaign to tackle animal rights extremism. He was Chairman of the Oxford Children's Hospital Fundraising Campaign from 2002-2005. The new Children's Hospital at the John Radcliffe in Oxford opened in early 2007. From 2003 to 2005, he was Science Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Said Business School at Oxford University, involved in the teaching of entrepreneurship to MBA students. In June 2007, Lord Drayson became a member of the Prime Minister's Business Council.

Lord Drayson was raised to the peerage as Baron Drayson, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in May 2004. In May 2005, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Procurement and became a Government Spokesman for Defence to the House of Lords. In March 2007, he was promoted to become Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, serving until November 2007. Lord Drayson was also appointed as Minister of State for Business and Regulatory Reform at the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, serving between June 2007 and January 2008. In November 2007, he took a leave of absence from the Government to compete in the American Le Mans Series in the United States.

In October 2008, he returned to Government and was appointed as the Minister of State for Science and Innovation, taking up a seat in the Cabinet and becoming a member of the Privy Council in November of that year. In June 2009, Lord Drayson took on additional responsibilities as a Minister at Defence.

Lord Drayson and his wife have five children, they live in London and Gloucestershire. His hobbies include motor racing, and fencing. In 2004, Lord Drayson started racing historic single-seaters and sports cars, moving into modern single-seaters in 2005 in the Formula Palmer Audi championship. In 2006, he raced modern GT cars for the first time with Barwell Motorsport in British GT. In 2007 he competed in the British GT sportscar championship, again with Barwell and team-mate Jonny Cocker, racing a unique bio-ethanol fuelled Aston Martin DBRS9, achieving a historic first win for a bio-fuelled race car, and coming second overall in the championship. In June 2009, completed his first race in the Le Mans 24 hours, the culmination of a lifetime's ambition.

Robert Rose

Robert Rose is founding executive director of the Breakthrough Technologies Institute, an independent nonprofit advocate for technologies that carry environmental benefits to society. BTI's program, Fuel Cells 2000, launched in 1993, is internationally recognized.

Rose also founded the US Fuel Cell Council and is now Senior Advisor to its successor, the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association.

Rose has served in senior U.S. government communications and policy positions and provided consulting and successful advocacy to a wide range of clients. He has appeared before Committees of Congress, has numerous other speaking and writing credits and is a frequent news source.

Michael Hurwitz

Michael Hurwitz is Director of the Office for Low Emission Vehicles, a cross-Whitehall team responsible for delivering the £400m ultra low emission vehicle package. This includes the Plug-In Car Grant, the Plugged-In -Places scheme and Making the Connection EV Infrastructure Strategy. Michael also has oversight of the Government's R&D spending in this area and EU regulation of CO2 emissions from cars and vans.

Previously Head of Environment Policy and Delivery at the DfT, he led the development of 'Low Carbon Transport: A Greener Future'.

Prior to the Civil Service he was a consultant with Andersen and Deloitte, joining the DfT in 2004 to set up lead its centre of excellence for PPM.

Andrew Eastlake

Andy Eastlake has recently been appointed Group Head of Commercial and Projects at Millbrook Proving Ground and is responsible for all the external programmes and activity.

With a background of emissions and powertrain research Andy has spent over 25years with Millbrook developing the business in low carbon test and development and has been instrumental in positioning Millbrook at the forefront of this agenda. As a director of CENEX and trustee of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, Andy has supported the industry over many years He is currently Chair of the SMMT Electric Vehicle Working Group and the Members Council of the LCVP and plays a leading role in current work on Low Carbon HGV activity.

Susan Claris

Susan Claris is in the Infrastructure Delivery Partner team of the Office for Low Emission Vehicles. Susan's background is transport planning (combined with anthropology) and she started work with the Department for Transport in the 1980s, working firstly on road safety and then transport for people with disabilities. Susan joined Arup in the 1990s working on a variety of transport planning projects, more recently undertaking research on urbanisation as a driver of change and research on best practice in urban mobility for the World Economic Forum as well as work for the C40 Cities. Susan started work with OLEV last year on the Plugged-In Places programme.

Joe Dickinson

Joe, joint Project Manager of Electric Corby manages several business interests following an automotive career covering Ford Motor Company, retailer John Grose, Ricardo Engineering and US consultants A T Kearney. He was Chairman and CEO of Rockingham and non Exec lead of Motorsport and High Performance Engineering for Northamptonshire Enterprise.

Senan McGrath

Senan McGrath is the Chief Technology Officer with ESB eCars, a separate business line established by ESB, the leading electrical utility in Ireland, to roll out a national electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Ireland. A Chartered Electrical Engineer he also holds a Commerce degree. He has held senior management positions with ESB Sustainability, Fleet management, Networks and Customer Operations. He has worked as an energy consultant for ESB International in the Far East, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland and has had a key role in the development of the ESB eCar programme.

Lorna Pimlott

Lorna co-ordinated the development of the Greater Manchester Electric Vehicle Infrastructure scheme and Manchester's successful bid for Plugged in Places funding from OLEV for the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA). Lorna has since been seconded from Ernst & Young as the Chief Operating Officer for The Manchester Electric Car Company (MECC), the private sector delivery company for the GM scheme.

As Head of Low Carbon Vehicles and Infrastructure for EY across the UK, Lorna has significant experience in large capital projects and programmes in Transport and Infrastructure.

Andrew Everett

Head of Transport

Andrew joined the Technology Strategy Board in September 2007 as Lead Technologist in the Low Carbon Vehicle Innovation Platform. He was appointed Head of Transport in July 2010

In his time at Technology Strategy Board Andrew managed the Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator programme which will see more than 340 electric vehicles trialled in the UK in 8 locations.

Andrew graduated from Anglia Polytechnic University with a BSc in Engineering Management. He has subsequently gained an MSc in Automotive Engineering Design, Manufacture and Management from the University of Hertfordshire and also an MBA from Henley Management College. These were all achieved whilst working at Ford and Visteon.

After completing a Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship, Andrew joined Ford Motor Company where he held various positions in Engineering, Finance and Planning. In 1998 Andrew joined Visteon, a spin out of Ford, to take the role of Manufacturing Planning Manager. He then became Programme Manager for the cooling and air conditioning system to be delivered to Kia for their first European manufactured car in Slovakia. Andrew then moved to the Energy Saving Trust as Transport Research and Development Programme Manager managing the Department for Transport's Vehicle Technology Research and Development Fund.

Andrew is currently a board member on the DfT Low Carbon Vehicle Public Procurement Programme Board and a member of the Automotive Technology Council

David Moss

David has worked for Nissan for 20 years, having joined as a graduate engineer. David has held various positions in Vehicle Engineering during his career at Nissan, including Body Design, Interior and Exterior Trim Design, Cockpit Module Design and was also Manager for cost reduction promotion and benchmarking. During this time David has lived and worked in Japan during the development of Primera Vehicle.

David's current role is Director – Vehicle Engineering, where he is responsible for the Design and Development of the Body and Exterior Trim for all European developed vehicles, including the successful Qashqai Vehicle. He also has a dual responsibility for Corporate Planning which involves setting the future strategic direction of Nissan Technical Centre and promoting Nissans new technologies, especially the 100% electric Nissan LEAF and Nissan's overall drive to lead the low carbon vehicle market.

Chris Walsh

Chris Walsh is an experienced automotive engineer with a strong technical background in low carbon vehicle technology. Starting his career with an engineering apprenticeship at Oxford Instruments, Chris completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Sussex and Cambridge universities. Chris has spent 15 years working to overcome challenges in automotive technology, including powertrain design and analysis at Ricardo and international legislation development with the SMMT. At Cenex, the UK first centre of excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies, Chris is Head of the Technical Support and Consulting department and leads a team that provide a sound technical foundation to Cenex's programmes, delivers low carbon vehicle technology trials and provide low carbon vehicle consultancy support to a wide client base.

Robert Evans

Robert Evans is Chief Executive Officer of Cenex, the UK's national Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Technologies.

Cenex was established in 2005 as a government funded agency set up to assist the UK motor industry supply chain development in the area of low carbon vehicle technologies. Today Cenex manages programmes and projects for a range of public and private sector organisations. Prior to joining Cenex, Robert built up more than 15 years experience in developing markets for environmental and automotive technologies, including those for low carbon vehicles, vehicle emissions control technologies and fuel cells.

Robert holds Masters in Management Science from Imperial College London and a Masters in Corporate Affairs and Communication (Motor Industry) from Leeds Trinity and All Saints University.

Peter Young

Peter Young is a Director at Arup, leading the Advanced Technology and Research practice in the UK. He is actively involved in technical, business consulting and research management projects. Peter has recent project experience in the field of low carbon vehicles, where he leads teams delivering demonstrator programs; assessments of the economic and carbon benefits of electric cars; and business opportunities within the low carbon vehicle industry.

John Batterbee, Transport Programme Manager

John Batterbee runs the Transport programme at the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), a public private partnership tasked with developing "mass scale" technologies that will help the UK meet its 2020 and 2050 energy targets.

Prior to joining the ETI, John was a Programme Manager at Europe's largest defence and security consultancy, QinetiQ, where he led a number of collaborative research, development and demonstration programmes in guided artillery systems working with major European industrial partners.

John holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering

Mark Fitch

Mark Fitch is a leading energy industry expert with over 12 years' experience in strategic analysis and critical evaluation of regulatory arrangements, developments in energy industries and performance incentive mechanisms. He works for utility companies and energy regulators providing C-level strategic advice on the impact of major industry issues such as carbon reduction, smart metering, Smart Grid and electric vehicles. Most recently he has worked for a UK network company supporting the development of its low carbon business strategy which includes the evaluation of the impact of electric vehicles. Prior to moving into consultancy Mark worked for over 9 years with National Grid in strategy, regulation, mergers and acquisitions and in front line operations.

Peter Richings

Peter Richings is Group Chief Engineer, Hybrids Technologies for Jaguar Land Rover. He is responsible for the strategy and delivery of electrification of the full range of vehicles from stop/start through to hybrid technologies and full electric vehicles. His team is involved in a number of research projects including participation in the Low Carbon Vehicle Technology Programme and a number of projects part funded by the TSB, through to delivery of systems and components for current vehicle programmes.

Mr Richings has 38 years of experience in the automobile industry mainly involved in component and system development, Chassis engineering and Vehicle Programmes and has worked for Rover Group, Land Rover, Jaguar Cars and Jaguar Land Rover for the last 28 years.

Dr James H. Miners

Dr James Miners is Dow Energy Materials' Business Development Leader in Europe. Dow develops and supplies a portfolio of materials for High Performance Li-ion battery materials for automotive applications.

James has a decade's experience in Energy Storage and has set up and managed 4 battery and fuel cells companies.

James Joined Dow in January 2010 following Dow's purchase of High Power Lithium, where he was Chief Operating Officer.

James was a research scientist at the Max Planck Society Germany for 5 years & has a PhD in Physics from the University of Warwick, UK.

James is happy to discuss commercial and technical opportunities to collaborate in this exciting space of vehicle electrification.

Jonathan Williams

Jonathan Williams is Centre Director for CAPSE (centre for automotive & power systems engineering) at the University of Glamorgan and is responsible for an expanding team of academics, researchers and technicians. Jonathans own background is in advanced powertrain concepts and has personally completed several vehicles linked to his research area of fuel cell control, where he developed the 1st commercial vehicle application of an 'all electric tribrid powertrain'. This was a unique combination of a light weight lead acid battery with a fuel cell as a range extender / onboard charger and set of ultra-capacitors for assisted power boosts.

Jonathan studied at the University of Glamorgan, obtaining a Distinction (1st) for his MEng in Mechatronic Engineering and is currently completing a PhD focused on the control of fuel cells and their systems for automotive applications.

Nick Pascoe

Chief Executive, Business Development Director and co-founder of Controlled Power Technologies Limited. A graduate mechanical engineer with early experience in engine development at Ford Motor Company and business development with an automotive engineering consultancy in UK and Germany. Subsequently Sales and Engineering Director for AE Goetze, European Sales Director for Federal Mogul , CEO of Senior Automotive in Europe and Divisional MD of Thompson Plastics.

Martin Yardley

Martin is currently Director of City Services and Development, a Directorate of approximately 2,000 FTE's that cover areas as diverse as street cleansing and highway maintenance to implementation of a challenging £9bn regeneration agenda. He started with the authority in September 2007 as Deputy Director of the City Development Directorate. His previous role was as Assistant Director Regeneration within Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council where he worked for 3 years, during which time he was part of the management team that saw the authority move from a zero star to a three star rating.

Martin is a Chartered Town Planner by profession with a specialist interest with planning enforcement on which he has contributed to a government best practice guide and continues to undertake presentation on planning enforcement best practice nationally.

During his time as a planner he has worked for both the public and private sectors in roles as diverse as Head of Planning and Sustainability in Leicestershire to being a planner advising a house builder within the East Midlands.

To add to his professional qualifications Martin has completed a Masters in Public Administration at Warwick University.

Jonathan Shine

VP of Business Development & Co-founder of Evida, Jonathan has been active in the EV market for over ten years. In 2001, he founded Drivelectric, a UK based firm specialising in the deployment of electric vehicles in the UK and Europe. Jonathan is a recognized thought leader in the EV industry and is primarily responsible for Evida's relationships with customers and partners as well as acting as chief evangelist for the proliferation of EVs into the market.

Phil Skipper

Director of Business Development, Phil runs the eMobility business for Siemens across North West Europe. As a proven market developer with over 15 years of experience in the energy sector, Phil has started a number of successful ventures in the retail, technology and services space.

Over the last 3 years, Phil has established Siemens as a leading provider of energy services and over the last year has established Siemens in the new eCar infrastructure market. Prior to this he established a new smart metering business in New Zealand as well as a traditional metering ventures across Europe.

Although trained as an engineer, Phil has significant retail and market experience gained from working within the automotive, aerospace, communications and FMCG segments with leading innovative organisations such as the Mars group.

Jon Hilton

Jon Hilton is Managing Partner of Flybrid Systems LLP. Jon worked for 17 years in the Formula One motor racing industry including 4 seasons at the Renault F1 team as Technical Director Engine Division, before starting Flybrid Systems in 2007 to develop high-speed flywheel based hybrid systems. Jon is immediate past Chairman of the Automobile Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

James Taylor

Principal Thermodynamic and Application Engineer

Research into future gasoline engine technology for MAHLE in particular application to downsizing and associated technologies.

I have worked at MAHLE Powertrain (formerly Cosworth Technology) since 2000, working on numerous projects including calibration optimisation work using Design of Experiment techniques.

Recently I have been involved in research into future gasoline engine technologies applied to downsizing engines. These include full load cooled EGR, Water Cooled Exhaust Manifolds, variable length intake systems and variable valvetrain technology.

Johan Peeters

VP Marketing and Sales, ABB EV Charging Infrastructure

Johan joined the ABB product group EV Charging infrastructure on July 1, 2011, after ABB fully acquired Epyon BV. Prior to that, Johan was responsible for the marketing and sales at Epyon BV, the DC fast charging pioneer based in Rijswijk, The Netherlands.. Johan joined Epyon BV in 2009 after a position as VP Product-Marketing at Geotate Ltd in London and four years of developing the Software-GPS business at NXP Software in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, Johan held the position of Director of Sales, the Americas, for the Business Unit Digital Transmissions Systems of Philips Digital Networks. This followed his earlier position as General Manager Marketing and Sales of that business in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Before 1997, Johan held various General Management positions with Philips Kommunikations Industries and Philips Business Communications in Germany, and Belgium. Johan holds a masters degree in Electrical Engineering..

Don Newton

With over 26 years Automotive Engineering experience Don joined Axeon in Jan 2008 from Delphi Diesel Systems where he was Chief Electronics Engineer responsible for all aspects of Diesel Fuel Injection Electronics Engineering. He was previously Director of Electronics at Ricardo Consulting Engineers and prior to this held senior Engineering management positions with Motorola Automotive and Jaguar Cars Ltd. Don holds an MSc in Electronics from Cranfield University, an MBA from the University of Warwick and is a member of the UK Government's Automotive Technology Council.

Rik Alewijnse

Engine design technical specialist with 30 years experience in spark ignition and diesel engines, working for both consultants and OEMs. Education: Technician Apprenticeship, HNC Mechanical & Production Engineering (Colchester Institute), BSc Engineering (Coventry University).

Career Summary

2007 - AVL Powertrain UK ltd. Technical Specialist for Powertrain Design. Providing technical leadership and oversight for AVL's UK design team. Working on diesel and spark ignition engine projects for UK OEMs from concept to production.

2005 - 2007 AVL Powertrain Engineering, Inc. (USA) Skill Team Leader for Powertrain Design and Analysis. Leading a team of designers and structural CAE analysts working on various projects from concept to production, both diesel and spark ignition.

1994 - 2005 Lotus Engineering. Design team leader, working on various projects from concept to production, both high volume (500,000 per year) and specialist (3000 total production run). Established the Lotus USA powertrain design office.

1990 - 1994 Jaguar Cars Ltd. Member of design team for new V8 engine (3.2 litre, 4.0 litre and 4.0 litre supercharged).

1989 Detroit Diesel Corporation. Application Engineer

1987 - 1989 Coventry Climax Engines Ltd. Member of design team for small marine diesel engines (25 - 50 Hp)

1981 – 1987 Paxman Diesels Ltd. Designer working on diesel engines (1000 – 5000 Hp) for rail locomotives and naval vessels.

Quentin Jouanny

Quentin Jouanny is an engineer working at IDIADA, from ESTACA (Engineering School specialized in the transport sector) in Paris. Within the framework of his studies, he performed several internships in different automotive sectors. First in Gemo Motorsport, a Touring Car Team, as Engineer assistant in 2007, then as a mechanic in SV automotive, a French Caterham specialist in 2008. He finally comes in vehicle dynamic sector as Engineer intern in CERAM in 2009 and in IDIADA Spain in 2010-2011.