‘Talent in mobility’ awards

 
 

Shortlisted candidatures for the 'Internet users' award

 
The 'Talent in Mobility' awards are designed to honour women and men who are contributing to the development of public transport and sustainable mobility across Europe. A panel of judges will identify four outstanding "Talents": the best young 'Talent', best project manager, best manager and a special career service award.

Internet users had chosen the winner up to April 23rd.

The winner will be presented during the awards ceremony at Transports Publics 2010, on June 10 at 3.00 pm.
 

Shortlisted candidates for the best young 'Talent' award:

 
Emilie AUMONT
Project officer (transport)
CCI DE VERSAILLES VAL D'OISE YVELINES /CTE URBAINE DE BORDEAUX
FRANCE

Emilie AUMONT developed four Inter-company travel plans in the Yvelines, employment clusters with the largest inter-company travel plans in the Ile-de-France region in terms of total workforce.
Jan CAPEK
Testing Laboratory project manager
VUKV AS
CZECH REPUBLIC

Jan CAPEK has been responsible for a technically demanding project of a portable test rig that has been a success.
Christine GAYLE
Payroll/HR Administration
LONDON SOVEREIGN LTD
ENGLAND

Christine GAYLE has shown creativity and imagination in reducing absence rates and encouraging staff retention, high levels of customer service and good driving standards.
Aurélie JEHANNO
Project Officer
SYSTRA CONSEIL
FRANCE

Aurélie JEHANNO has set up fundamental research and formalisation of knowledge enabling SYSTRA CONSEIL's sustainable mobility approach to be formally recognised.
Benjamin WEYER
Passenger information officer
SNCF PROXIMITES
FRANCE

Benjamin WEYER developped an effective information channel for 550 000 passengers across the Ile-de-France region to improve quality of service on the RER D line, the busiest SNCF Ile-de-France line .

Shortlisted candidates for the best project manager award:

 
Carole CANO
In charge of "Bougez vers l’emploi !" project
ASSOCIATION VOITURE & CO
FRANCE

Carole CANO has developped "Bougez vers l’emploi !", project to encourage access to and maintenance in employment or training of individuals in the process of social and professional insertion by means of independent, sustainable and responsible mobility.
Fabienne GOUDARD
Project Manager, OùRA!
REGION RHONE-ALPES
FRANCE

Fabienne GOUDARD launched the OùRA card, the sole travel card for all mass transit journeys in the Rhône-Alpes Region (urban, département and regional networks ). She federated networks, users and partners.
Philippe OGIER
Project Manager - Francilien
BOMBARDIER TRANSPORT
FRANCE

A key player throughout Francilien, major industrial project, he led the bid team, heading up its presentation to the SNCF and the ensuing negotiations and then took over the reins of the project until the commercial rollout of the new train on time.
Jon PIKE
Head of claims & insurance
GARRICK HOUSE
UNITED KINGDOM

Jon PIKE developped the « Drivewell project », a pilot project to trial new fleet management technology on 150 vehicles at London’s Sheperd’s Bush Garage in order to bring benefits including fuel-saving, a reduction in accidents, better customer service and a smaller carbon footprint.
Erwan TERRILLON
Head of regional transport Organisation department
REGION PAYS DE LA LOIRE
FRANCE

Erwan TERRILLON has been involved in the project to reopen the Nantes-Chateaubriant line to rail traffic - by three different contracting authorities (RFF, SNCF and Nantes Métropole), a project worth some €195m not including rolling stock.

Shortlisted candidates for the best Best manager award:

 
Jean CAM
Social hub officer
SNCF PROXIMITES
FRANCE

Setting up a 'PIMMS' (Multi Service Information and Mediation Point), in 1997, in Brittany, to respond to insecurity in transport public. He now encourages projects during the renewal of public service contracts both for Keolis and SNCF Proximités
Tony MCNIFF
Managing director
FIRST CYMRU
GREAT BRITAIN

A 43 year old Chartered Accountant, he was promoted to the position of Managing Director in 2008. His main project was the delivery of the ftr Metro, a £14m BRT project over an 8 miles track between two major hospitals in Swansea, and managed a multi disciplinary team.
Marc RENOUPREZ
Managing Director
EUROBUS HOLDING
BELGIUM

Oversaw the metamorphosis of Eurobus Holding, from a federation of some ten family-owned SMEs into an integrated group with 47 subsidiaries. Over a period of ten years, he organised some thirty acquisitions, making his group the leading bus operator in French-speaking Belgium and the second-largest in Flemish-speaking Belgium.
Russell REVILL
MD Opérations
TRANSDEV BLAZEFIELD
UNITED KINGDOM

Over 20 years service, Russell having worked his way up from driver to his current senior position. He has radically reorganised the structure of the business on incorporating the newly acquired Blackburn network into the Transdev Blazefield Group and - building a real rapport with the workforce and with the Trade Union.
Patrick WALTZER
Project Director, TSP Consortium
TRANSAMO
FRANCE

Patrick Waltzer has devoted much of over 30 years' service in public works to tramway infrastructures, particularly prime contracting assistance in Montpellier, Le Mans and Angers.
 

Shortlisted candidates for the special career service award:

 
Jean-Michel FERRARIS
Deputy Managing Director
KEOLIS
FRANCE

In 2009, Keolis renewed 90% of its turnover via calls for tender in which the group was in a defensive (outgoing) position; 70% of budgeted turnover was won in offensive bidding. He won the Bordeaux network with the aim of making it the symbol of a new breed of sustainable mobility.
His convictions: that of placing customers, their lifestyles and travel at the heart of its concerns and adjusting to this.
At the origin of the "get on at the front" concept for buses in the 1990s. In favour of more fluid and more intuitive mobility; simple and easy-to-understand passenger information; promoting intermodaility.
He knows organising authorities and the political sphere and he creates a strong commercial dynamic.
Francis GRASS
Managing director
VEOLIA TRANSPORT
FRANCE

Head of the Bordeaux SNCF centre at 30 , he restored the fortunes of the Toulouse Passenger Transport Company as Managing Director. He launched of the new Toulouse network.
Involved in setting up the first intermodal park and ride facilities in the 1990s and developped the "get on at the front" method on the whole bus network to combat fraud. He re-established the Toulouse transport company, which was decimated by the explosion of the AZF plant in the city. He launched the corporate project 'Copernic' for Veolia transport France, involving over 100 managers (based on flattening hierarchies).
Angel Luis SANCHEZ BOLANOS
CEO
GLOBAL, SALCAI-UTINSA
SPAIN

During the last 37 years, Mr Bolaños has leaded the modernization process including a merge of the main Canary Islands companies in 2000, contributing to create a resilient group of 15 companies providing complementary services for transport: the GLOBAL GROUP. Combining economy and transport efficiency with social development, Mr Bolaños has built one of the most prominent transport companies in Spain, with one of the highest rates of net added value on investment. He has also pushed the creation of the Transport Cluster in the Canary Islands, with the aim of promoting IT to increase the competitiveness of the transport sector in Europe and from Europe to Africa. In 2000, Mr Bolaños managed the merger of SALCAI and UTINSA, the two transport companies in Gran Canaria Island to integrate the transport sector, and keeping the social economy model in the resultant company. This model transforms every single worker in a stakeholder, everyone with the same level of ownership.
José Manuel SILVA RODRIGUES
CEO
CARRIS
PORTUGAL

Since 2003, he has transformed Carris as one of the best companies in Portugal with positive operational results for the first time in 25 years in 2008 and new services as free bike transportation, sms/Internet info to customer or handicapped mobility. Carris was the first Portuguese public transport company to achieve ISO 9001 certification in 2006, ISO 14001 certification in 2008. He launch of ‘One Car Less’ movement in 2009 to promote sustainable forms of urban mobility.
Brian SOUTER
Chief executive
STAGECOACH GROUP PLC
UNITED KINGDOM

Co-founder of Stagecoach Group, he transformed Stagecoach from a company with 2 buses in 1980 to an international business with a turnover of around £2billion. In connecting communities and promoting social inclusion, he has transformed public perception of public transport, making bus and rail travel modes of choice regardless of social-demographic background. He has spearheaded efforts to demonstrate the environmental sustainability of public transport and encourage car users to switch to greener, smarter travel options. Introduction of the UK’s first bio-buses. The company also recognizes the importance of looking after the health and well-being of staff. He is also a committed angel investor, providing crucial seed capital for new business start-ups
 
The presentation of the candidates are based on nomination form’s information.

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