Mr. Simon Arbuthnot (confirmed)
Automotive Consultant
Ricardo Strategic Consulting
About Ricardo Strategic Consulting:
Ricardo Strategic Consulting works with the world's leading automotive manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers, as well as private equity firms and investment banks. The global automotive industry is experiencing a period of transition, as manufacturers struggle to align established business models with rapidly changing consumer demand and market requirements. Record oil prices and enthusiasm for stringent emission regulations are driving a shift towards fuel efficient technologies and economy cars. Stunned by the speed of change, many OEMs must now retool entire product portfolios to keep pace with aggressive carbon emission targets set by legislators.
Ricardo is one of the world's leading automotive engineering and consulting firms with roots dating back almost a century. Our expertise extends to every segment of the industry and along the entire value chain. We support our clients in identifying increased synergies, process efficiencies, and collaborative opportunities to optimize efficiency and profitability with the overall objective of building and preserving brand value.
page topMr. Phil Barker (confirmed)
Chief Engineer for Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Technology
Lotus Engineering
Phil Barker has been in the automotive industry for 19 years, predominantly in the field of vehicle and chassis engineering, but more recently, as Chief Engineer of Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Technologies, in response to the increasing amount of consultancy work undertaken by Lotus Engineering in this field.
His expertise lies in the vehicle integration and feasibility of electric and hybrid technologies into existing and all-new platforms. He also has experience in the creation of vehicle concepts using present and future technologies.
page topDr. Michael Lamperth (confirmed)
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
EVO Electric
Dr. Lamperth is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of EVO Electric Ltd (www.evo-electric.com) and Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. He studied at Winterthur Polytechnic and Imperial College (Phd Mechanical Engineering, 1999). Previous work engagements include industrial research and development at Kissling Ltd and an apprenticeship at MSW-Winterthur, both in Switzerland.
Dr. Lamperth has numerous scientific publications in the field of mechatronics, including important work on electric machines, hybrid-electric vehicle drivetrains, and medical robotics. He co-founded EVO Electric in 2006 to commercialise advanced electric machine technology he helped develop at Imperial College.
page topDr. Mike Richardson (confirmed)
Manager for Advanced Hybrids and Sustainable Mobility
Jaguar Land-Rover
Mike Richardson is a Senior Engineering Manager with over 27 years experience in the automotive and aerospace industries.
His experience spans Research, Advanced Engineering and Product Development, with particular emphasis on managing the delivery of high technology features and functions from the R&D environment to mainstream engineering.
His expertise covers hybrid vehicles and sustainability, vehicle system development and all aspects of automotive electronics including engine management and safety critical systems. He has significant experience in technical, project and program management of multi-partner national and international pre-competitive and research projects, primarily gained in the pan European PROMETHEUS project when he was deputy steering committee member for Jaguar Cars.
He has performed a number of Engineering and technical roles at Management and Senior Management level inside Jaguar and Land Rover. He is adept at recognizing the value in new technology, championing the development of the technology and transferring it robustly to product engineering and is recognized for delivering on innovation and technical excellence.
Technical interests include sustainability and hybrid vehicles, control systems, automotive radar and adaptive cruise control, vehicle dynamic and chassis control systems and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). He has authored or co-authored over 21 papers and holds a number of key patents in these areas.
In 1999 he received the Ford European technical achievement award and a Research achievement award.
In 2000 he was awarded the Henry Ford Technology Award for work on adaptive cruise control.
At the beginning of 2006 he moved to the position of Manager of Sustainability Projects and Hybrids for Jaguar and Land Rover, from his former position as Head of Research. He has degrees in Control Engineering, Electronic Engineering, is a Chartered Engineer and member of the IET. Mike is married, with 3 children and lives in Redditch, Worcestershire. His interests outside work include motorcycling, industrial clock restoration and music.
page topPowertrain Development Representative (confirmed)
A & D Technology
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page topMr. Nick Ford (confirmed)
Senior Automotive Consultant - Hybrid and EVs
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. 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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