People

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Fahd Al-Rasheed

Apr 18, 2017

Fahd Al-Rasheed is the Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Emaar the Economic City (EEC), the master developer of King Abdullah Economic City. Previously, he was the CFO and Deputy Governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) from 2006-2007.

Chris Gourlay

Apr 17, 2017

Chris Gourlay launched Spacehive in 2012 as a social business to stimulate new sources of funding and creativity for the civic environment. Since then the platform has helped to deliver a diverse mix of projects across the UK – from a new community centre in Wales to a giant waterslide in the middle of a…

Niamh Kirwan

Apr 17, 2017

Niamh Kirwan is Marketing and Communications Manager with FoodCloud. Niamh works on media, events and stakeholder engagement. Niamh loves to share the stories and mission of FoodCloud and their partners.

Latondra Newton

Apr 17, 2017

Latondra Newton leads an integrated, holistic social-responsibility strategy for the company. She is chief program officer of the Toyota Mobility Foundation, established in 2014 to advance freedom of mobility, and is on the board of the Toyota USA Foundation, which has a $100 million endowment to support K-12 STEM education.

Jonathan Spear

Apr 17, 2017

Jonathan Spear is a Director with Atkins Acuity, based in Singapore. He has 22 years professional experience in policy research and advice to national and local governments, public authorities and private sector, focused on multi-modal mobility and how it will influence, and be influenced by, the future of cities.

Ashley Z. Hand

Apr 17, 2017

Ashley Z. Hand, AIA, LEED AP BD+C is co-founder of the smart city advisory firm CityFi. Previously, Ashley developed a transportation technology strategy, Urban Mobility in a Digital Age, for the City of Los Angeles that proposes public policy, an action plan and pilot programs for shared mobility and automated vehicles and served as the…

Hans Arby

Apr 17, 2017

Hans Arby is CEO of UbiGo Innovation and was one of the key driving persons behind the successful development and test of UbiGo in Gothenburg, the first fully integrated mobility service (MaaS) for urban households and businesses. The UbiGo service has recently being relaunched in Stockholm in close co-operation with the SL (the regional) PTA…

Feng Yuan Liu

Apr 17, 2017

Feng-Yuan Liu is the Director of the Data Science Division at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore. One of his teams runs Beeline, a mobility-as-a-service experiment. He is passionate about applying data for the public good and building multi-disciplinary teams in the intersection of technology and the public good. He’s been a public policy wonk…

Freddie Tinga

Apr 17, 2017

Freddie brings with him a unique and varied skillset stemming from 30 years in both the private sector and in government. He has worked in technology with Andersen Consulting and Siemens-Nixdorf; in finance with Citibank and he also served as Vice President for Business Development at the Fort Bonifacio Development Corporation, the Philippine’s largest urban…

Masaki Ogata

Apr 17, 2017

Masaki Ogata joined Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1974 and afterward was assigned to East Japan Railway Company (JR East) when JNR was divided and privatized in 1987. He has been consistently working for railways for more than 41 years. Mr. Ogata was elected President of UITP at the 61st UITP World Congress & Exhibition…

Jared Ficklin

Apr 17, 2017

Jared Ficklin is a futurist, creative technologist and partner at argodesign with two decades of experience creating products and visions for major companies. He is also an evangelist and co-creator of the cable car based mass transport vision known as The Wire. Jared designs with technology and has a passion for innovative or unique interaction…

Giles Rhys Jones

Apr 17, 2017

Giles is the CMO of a 25 person tech startup trying to change the world for the better by addressing it all with just 3 words. Giles has spent 20 years in advertising, the last 10 at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, one of the largest and most awarded agencies in the world. Specializing in global…