Nick Ford, Senior Automotive Consultant - Frost & Sullivan
Nick has worked closely with business planning functions, providing strategy guidance and market development support throughout his career.
In his previous role he was Product Planning Director at TRW with global responsibility for their £3 billion automotive steering business providing strategy guidance for their electric steering products. Prior to this Nick was responsible for leading Lucas/TRW’s developments in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems technologies including ACC and Lane Departure Warning and was instrumental in setting up a JV company with Thales for 77 GHz radar sensor development and production.
Nick has 13 years of automotive experience preceded by 23 years in Aerospace and Defence at British Aerospace and Lucas. As well as holding senior management positions in these corporations, Nick has been MD of EMM Computers, a technology start up company which exceeded $ 1 million turnover in its first year of operation.
Since joining Frost & Sullivan in 2004 Nick has been working closely with senior executives in the automotive domain developing their business and product strategy.
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Ian McDonald – Chief Electrical Engineer As chief electrical engineer for AIC Labs Europe, Ian is responsible for electrical integration, power management, and energy applications of AIC technologies and processes. Recently Ian has headed up a number of EV and HEV related opportunities for AIC’s engineering clients, both in terms of subsystem design and charge integration. Ian has also been involved in the design and electrical grid integration of a large scale (250KW) commercial flow battery. Ian is also a member of the Hethel engineering centre ventures consortium, a spin out company from within a regional development hub, specifically targeting low carbon transport solutions.
Prior to joining AIC Labs in 2007, Ian worked for Lotus Engineering as chief electrical engineer, collaborating with AIC's founders on various alternative energy projects for more than five years. While at Lotus, Ian also worked on Norway's THINK Nordic electric car program for a period of 18 months and was responsible for the low voltage electrical architecture on the vehicle. Ian was also the key strategist behind Lotus' product electrical architecture from 1998 to 2007.
Ian joined TJCW Motorsport as technical manager in 1994, where he worked as part of a top-tier electrical system supplier for Formula One race cars, superbikes, and indie carts for world-renowned teams including McLaren, Benetton, Footwork, Lotus F1, Simtek, Toyota, Nissan, Ford, Suzuki, Yamaha, Raynard, and Lola. He rejoined Lotus in 1997, becoming electrical engineering manager in 1998 and chief engineer in 1999.
Joining Lotus in 1986, he worked for a period of eight years as a principal electrical engineer on a number of Lotus products. This culminated in the introduction of the Elan S2 and various other supercar projects Ian began his career in 1976 as an engineering apprentice for Leyland Motors, with the company's bus and truck division. At the end of his apprenticeship, he was offered sponsorship for an additional four years at technical college and promoted to systems draughtsman with sole responsibility for all electrical and pneumatic design on products produced at that plant.
In order to give time for battery technology to develop, mature and become a reliable, cost effective quality solution for energy storage in vehicles, other gap-filling technologies will have to play their part in helping BEV’s meet the cost expectations and range requirements in the transition from the I/C engine to the pure EV.
Ian will explain how the expertise within the HECV consortium is working on bridging the gaps in enabling technology.
page topXiao Guo, Professor, Materials Chemistry - University College London
Xiao GUO is a Professor of Materials and Chemistry and the Pro-Provost for China at the University College London (UCL). His scientific career builds on the development of experimental and theoretical approaches to tackling some of the most challenging issues we face today. His current research activities focus on the understanding and development of materials, nanostructures and processes to provide low-cost and highly efficient solutions for clean energy generation, storage and supply.
With a BEng degree from Northeastern University in China and PhD from the University of Manchester, Xiao spent several years as a research scientist at University of Strathclyde and the University of Oxford. He was a Lecturer in 1995, a Reader in 1999, and a Professor in 2000 at Queen Mary, University of London. He was appointed as a Professor of Materials and Chemistry at UCL in 2007 to establish a new research laboratory in materials for clean energy. He has contributed over 130 high-quality journal publications and a similar number of conference presentations in the field. Xiao serves as a member of the editorial boards for several international journals. He was awarded the Beilby Medal 2000, jointly by the Society of Chemical Industry, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of the Minerals, Metals and Materials. He received the Lee-Hsun Lecture Prize in 2002, by the Institute of Metal Research / Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was involved in various UK-US, UK-Japan, UK-China and UK-Korea Hydrogen Energy workshops. His research activities are supported by research grants from different sources. Particularly of note are the EPSRC SUPERGEN Consortium grants on hydrogen storage and biological fuel cells; a joint grant on high-throughput powder synthesis for photocatalysis; a Platform grant on power-based synthesis and modelling and an EU HyTRAIN project on hydrogen storage. He is one of the UK experts on Task 22 of the International Energy Agency.
page topDr Patrick Moseley, President - Advanced Lead–Acid Battery Consortium
Dr. Moseley was awarded a Ph. D. for crystal structure analysis in 1968 by the University of Durham, U.K., and a D. Sc. for research publications in materials science, by the same university, in 1994.
He worked for 23 years at the Harwell Laboratory of the U. K. Atomic Energy Authority where he brought a background of crystal structure and materials chemistry to the study of lead–acid batteries, thus supplementing the traditional electrochemical emphasis of the subject.
Since 1995 he has been Manager of Electrochemistry at the International Lead Zinc Research Organization in North Carolina and Program Manager of the Advanced Lead–Acid Battery Consortium. In 2005 he also became President of the Consortium.
Dr. Moseley has been one of the editors of the Journal of Power Sources since 1989.
page topDr Martyn Ottaway, Managing director - Thermal Hazard Technology
Martyn gained his PhD in Chemistry from Swansea and has been involved with calorimetry his entire career.
From 1974-1983 he was with Stanton Redcroft, then in 1983 he established the International Office of Columbia Scientific Industries (CSI) in England. He worked for CSI until 1994, when the new owners wanted an independent office in England continuing the CSI business. Martyn therefore formed Heath Scientific Co Ltd in 1994. But further changes in the US meant the relationship did not last. In 1998 Heath Scientific merged with THT and Martyn again has responsibility for sales and technical matters.
Martyn has published articles, given lectures, and made technical visits in all parts of the world over the past 25 years.
page topJonathan Shine, Managing Director - Lithium Force Europe
Jonathan Shine runs the European operations of Lithium Force, a Chinese company specialising in electric vehicle supply chain solutions. The company owns or is invested in variety of entities in the supply chain for the deployment of electric vehicles including battery manufacturers, specialist designers and builders of battery packs (including BMS and CAN integration), recharging infrastructure specialists including fully-operational battery swap technology and a laboratory specialising in vehicle to grid (V2G) solutions.
The flagship project that Lithium Force is rolling out worldwide is the deployment of 50 all-electric buses for the Beijing Olympics, all equipped with exchangeable battery packs - typical full battery exchange time per bus is 6 minutes (half the time it takes to refuel with diesel!). The buses have been integrated into the Beijing metropolitan bus service. Jonathan also runs a successful electric vehicle consultancy and sales company, Drivelectric, which he founded in 2001. With close to a decade of in-depth, real-world electric vehicle experience, Jonathan checks his passion for zero-emission vehicles with a refreshing sense of realism about what can really be achieved in the marketplace, given both demand-side inputs and the constraints of EV supply.
Jonathan recognises the need to be honest and realistic about the costs of EV deployment, and believes that large-scale EV adoption is possible, only when market-disruptive techniques are used to bring them to market such as the use of innovative financial instruments that allow the benefits of EV whole-of-life vehicle costs to be felt at the point of sale. Jonathan has a background in management and IT consultancy, a degree in economics and political thought from Manchester University and an Advanced Diploma in Sustainability from the University of Cambridge.
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