| Title: | The Growth of Electric Vehicles: Integrating Emerging Business Models and New Value Chains |
| Date: | Tuesday 27th April 2010 |
| Time: | 10:00am – 3:45pm (followed by networking drinks reception) |
| Venue: | The Guoman Charing Cross Hotel
The Strand, London WC2N 5HX |
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Mr. Simon Arbuthnot (confirmed)
Manager, Auomotive Consulting
Ricardo Strategic Consulting
Simon Arbuthnot is currently a manager at Ricardo Strategic Consulting and has received his professional education Cranfield School of Management, with specialism in Economics, Strategy and Finance. Simon has over 10 years of management experience with OEMs in automotive industry including Ford Motor Co and Lexus. He has been involved with a number of operations including: Sales and Marketing: Brand Management, Dealer Operations, Customer Acquisition & Retention as well as Pricing & Incentives. Simon was aslo has gained expertise in Strategy Development and Implementation: Network & Distribution Strategy, Order Fulfilment, Constraints Management and Change Management.
Andy Heiron (confirmed)
Head of Electric Vehicle Programmes
Renault UK
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Kate Armitage (confirmed)
Electric Vehicle Team Manager
EDF Energy
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Sean Long (confirmed)
Automotive and Low Carbon Vehicle Sector, Senior Specialist
One North East Regional Development Agency
Sean Long is the Sector Senior Specialist for Automotive and Low Emission Vehicles for One North East Regional Development Agency. With over 25 years of experience in the automotive and supply chain related industry working for Global companies such as Caterpillar, Land Rover, BAE, Fisher Rosemount Controls and Miller. His roles within this industry have covered areas across the value chain from Managerial positions in Purchasing, Logistics, Manufacturing, Engineering, Product Planning, Marketing and Sales, along with Project Management and 6 Sigma Black Belt Management and deployment.
Nick Ford (confirmed)
Senior Automotive Consultant
Frost and 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.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.