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 Chairman of the Young Railway Professionals
Institution of Railway Operators representative
Senior Driver Manager, c2c
Rob is a Senior Driver Manager, working for c2c Rail. This role is responsible for the Driver Management Team and all Mainline Train Drivers in relation to line and competence management. He has covered additional roles in his two years at c2c Rail including; Depot Driver Manager and Route Performance Manager. Previous jobs have included senior analytical roles for DeltaRail and Scott Wilson Railways in which a large proportion has been working on franchise bidding.
Rob has been attending IRO events since leaving University and has been a member of the IRO Young Professionals Committee before joining the IRO South East Area Committee. Rob's role on the Committee is to ensure that the interests of Younger members are looked after, as well as in building links with other professional institutions. This takes the form of the ‘Young Railway Professionals’, a joint impetus alongside the IMechE, IRSE, IET that is looking to combine resources in delivering international visits and high quality educational talks.
 Institution of Mechanical Engineers representative
Commercial Manager, Hitachi Rail Europe
Paul has recently joined the commercial and business development team at Hitachi Rail Europe. This new role includes working on new opportunities for rolling stock and railway system products in the UK and Europe, as well as commercial management for bids and existing engineering contracts.
Paul spent the last 4 years working as an engineer on the Hitachi Class 395 High Speed Train including design review work, time spent in Japan at the factory for build, assembly, testing, and commissioning and testing in the UK before service started in 2009. Paul worked particularly as the project engineer for the toilets and passenger information system in addition to other aspects of the project. Paul also was involved in the Hybrid intercity test train "hayabusa" and the traction replacement for the Class 465.
As Hitachi's first ever rail graduate in europe, the young railway professionals network has been an invaluable source of inspiration, challenge, and friendship, and Paul has been involved in the IMechE Railway Division southeastern committee, the young members committee, becoming chair in 2008, and recently in 2009 was elected to the railway division board as a young member representative. Paul's main ambition as a committee member of the Young Railway Professionals is to support a network of motivated professionals enjoying their career in promoting the industry to schools and universities to grow the industry's future leaders.
 Institution of Engineering & Technology representative
Head of Simulation, Cogitare
Martyn is an electrical engineer with extensive expertise in railway simulation. Responsible for the development of a number of different simulation systems, Martyn is an expert in energy storage systems for rail systems, having completed a doctorate in the subject at the University of Manchester. Martyn has led the simulation and analysis to optimise infrastructure investment for a number of Line Upgrade projects for London Underground. Martyn is also Chairman of the IET Railway Network Young Professionals Committee.
 Institution of Railway Signal Engineers representative
Signal Engineer, London Underground
Martin is a Signal Engineer working within London Underground's Line Upgrades directorate. Since early 2008 he has been working on the Resignalling element of the Neasden Depot Upgrade Project. Previous to this, he was on the Metronet Rail Electrical Engineering Graduate Scheme. Martin has been attending IRSE talks and events since joining the industry, and was heavily involved in organisng the IRSE's ASPECT conference in 2008. Since then he has been a member of the IRSE Younger Members committee, becoming IRSE YM Chairman in 2010.
 Senior Track Engineer, London Underground
Toby joined the track approvals team at London Underground in September 2008 after finishing the former Metronet Rail graduate scheme. His current role supports the maintenance organisation through engineering support, regularising non-compliances and developing new products for the track environment. Toby is an active member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and is working towards Chartered Engineer status. Toby is part of the lecture and young members’ committees for the Railway Division of the IMechE.
 Junior OLE Project Engineer, VolkerRail
Laura started on VolkerRail’s graduate scheme in 2007 after finishing a Post Graduate Diploma in Engineering Materials Failure and Analysis from the University of Nottingham. Prior to that graduated in 2005 with a BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering degree from Manchester Metropolitan University. Laura is an Associate Member of the IMechE and on the Derby IMechE Young Members Railway Division.
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport representative
Research and Data Analyst, Transport for London
Paul works on bus priority schemes specialising in iBus (which allows buses priority through the London road network), accident statistic data and putting together business cases for various transport schemes. Work has included the Oxford Circus diagonal crossing, the remodelling of Piccadilly Circus and improvements in Parliament Square. Previous roles have included working as a Surveys Analyst at Mouchel, Transport Planner at JMP Consulting and on the Network Rail delay attribution system. Paul has been involved with the CILT and its predecessor the Chartered Institute of Transport since 1997 and is also a member of the Territorial Army as a railway operator serving in 275 Railway Troop.
Lead Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, LUL CrossRail Team
Rowan has just started her eleventh year at London Underground, where she has been since leaving University. Rowan has worked in power control, cooling the tube, operational engineering, electrical and mechanical engineering and is currently Lead Electrical and Mechanical Engineer on London Underground's Crossrail Team. She founded the IET's Younger Members' Section of the Railway Technical and Professional Network (TPN) and is currently the vice-chair of the main Railway TPN committee. Rowan represents the REF (Railway Engineers' Forum) at the NSARE (National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering) and is the champion of the Industry Promotion Group for NSARE.
 Mobile Operations Manager, Network Rail
Guy began his railway career with Network Rail in 2007 as a Graduate Manager. He is currently a Mobile Operations Manager in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire dealing with everything from cattle that have escaped onto the lineside to train derailments. Before the railways he worked in many fields, from hot-air balloon holidays to demonstrating Dyson vacuum cleaners. His biggest ambition is to circumnavigate the world without the use of any long haul flights- but probably a number of trains.
Young Railway Professionals (website)
Environmental Operations Manager, c2c
Michael is responsible for 140 Train Care and Station Care staff at c2c, ensuring that the presentation of the stations and trains meets the customers' expectations. Previous roles have included being Guards Manager at c2c, an Infrastructure Investment Manager at Network Rail, and working in Planning and Performance at Central Trains. |
