Claudia van Diermen Jacobsen

Eress Marketing and Partner Manager.


Professional background: Marketing and Business Development from the IT and transport sectors. Previous jobs: Global Marketing and Partner Manager (Varnish Software) and Global Marketing Coordinator (ABB Railways). Academic background: Bachelor of International Relations and Economy and MSc of International Business. I have lived in Colombia, US, UK, The Netherlands and Norway.

Terje Stømer

Chairman Board of Directors
Eress
December 2007 – Present

Director

Jernbaneverket, Energi

September 2007 – Present

Operations manager
Jernbaneverket, Energi
January 1996 – September 2007 

Frank Jost

Ignacio Ballester

Industrial engineer, specialist in energy.

Professional experience
 2004-2005:  Alsthom Factory of Valencia.
2005-2007:  Railway Consultant of Electrification Systems
2007 - 2010:  Spanish IM (ADIF)
Actually, project officer at European Railway Agency (ERA) ERA, working in the Fixed Installations sector, for energy subsystem at the interoperability unit.

Marine Gorner

Marine is a junior transport analyst at the International Energy Agency in Paris where she focuses on data analysis for efficient transport systems. She is involved, in particular, in the development of the IEA Mobility Model that provides transport related data and projections to the Energy Technology Perspectives annual publication of the IEA.


She has been leading for the IEA the data preparation and drafting of the 2015 and 2016 editions of the IEA-UIC joint publication, Railway Handbook : Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions. The Handbook was in 2015 providing specific insights into rail vehicles energy efficiency, and will focus on the assessment of sustainability targets for railways in the 2016 edition. Marine is an engineer and holds an MSc in sustainable energy from Imperial College London.

Dyre Martin Gulbrandsen

Dyre Martin Gulbrandsen holds the position as Managing Director of Eress. He has been involved and responsible for the development, implementation and daily operation of the settlement system Erex from its beginning.

Mr. Gulbrandsen is Master of Science in industrial economics and technology management and is certificated in financial energy analysis. He has long experience in working within the energy and railway market.

Since 2003 Mr. Gulbrandsen has been working as Energy Trading Manager at the Norwegian National Rail Administration. His areas of responsibility include energy procurement, settlement and billing in the Norwegian railway network.

Francisco Javier Manrique

WORK EXPERIENCE
Energy Management Project Manager (Oct.2007 – Current Date)
ADIF ALTA VELOCIDAD

Energy Measurement and Protections Project Manager (Apr.2001 – Sep.2007)
IBERDROLA INGENIERÍA Y CONSTRUCCIÓN

Different positions and departments (1998-2001)
CEMEX, ROCHE FARMA, BP OIL

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Industrial Engineering (Oct.1992 – Jul.1998)
UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA. CENTRO POLITÉCNICO SUPERIOR
Master in Business Administration (Oct.2000 – Sep.2001)
UNED – FUNDACIÓN UNIVERSIDAD EMPRESA
Executive Education
ESADE, UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA MADRID

OTHER INFORMATION
EIM Energy WG Member, CENELEC TC9X WG11 Member

Antonio Berrios Villalba

Manager of Engineering Area of Energy Asset in Adif Chairman of the Energy Sector in UIC

Mr. Antonio Berrios Villalba, is graduated in Electrical Engineering and a second graduated in Electronic and Automatic Engineering, and a post-degree in Manager Direction.
He started to work for Renfe now more than 30 year ago and he was appointed as director in different areas of the company in relation with the technological development, the innovation, and the manage control railway traffic: Corporate Director of Capacity, Executive Director of Control Traffic, I&D Director,…and currently he is the Manager of Engineering Area of Energy Asset in Adif, who also shares the responsibility of Chairman of the Energy Sector of Rail System Forum in the International Railway Organization UIC.

Ville Saarinen

Ville Saarinen is the manager of technical affairs at EIM.

He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and has a background in railway electrification, tunnel safety and dangerous goods. His specific fields of interest are railway interoperability and safety. In addition to his role in coordinating the EIM technical activities vis-à-vis the relevant EU institutions, he is actively involved in the European railway standardization via the CEN/CENELEC process.

During his career he has applied the EU legislation in practice by consulting transport ministries in implementing the railway interoperability and safety directives into their national laws.

Ralph Luijt

Education:
Delft University of Technology - Masters Degree Aerospace Engineering (1982)

Work experience:
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (2005 - present)
Manager Energy & Environment NS Reizigers (2009 - present)
Procurement of traction energy & energy saving programs
Responsible for sustainability goals of NS Reizigers
Senior Business Consultant NS Project Consult (2005 - 2009)
Project manager of several major projects for NS and external parties
Management Consultancy
Ralph Luijt Advies - privately owned small business (2006 - 2009)
Cost/benefit analysis of IT investments
Coaching
Management Consultancy
Hobbit ICT Services (2003 - 2005)
Senior Business & IT consultant
Account Manager
Business Management Group / Getronics Consulting (1997 - 2003)
Senior Business & IT Consultant
Business Unit Manager
Management Consultant
Rockwell Collins Air Transport Systems (1995 - 1997)
Marketing & Sales Director Europe
Fokker Aircraft - Engineering (1982 - 1995)
Consultant Engineering Simulation
Manager Engineering Simulation Lab
Assistant Chief Engineer Fokker 70
Product Development Team Leader JetLine Avionics

Evert van Veldhuizen

Zhongbei Tian

Zhongbei Tian is a doctorial researcher with the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) at the University of Birmingham.

He received the B.Eng. degree from University of Birmingham in 2013.

His main research area includes railway traction system and power network modelling, and energy efficient operation in railway systems. He is developing a detailed railway power network simulator with multi-train movement models for optimising train operation and electric infrastructure design. The result of this work has been published in international journals.

His recent projects include ‘More Energy Efficient Trams Project in UK’, ‘Guangzhou Metro Energy Project in China’ and ‘Beijing Yizhuang Subway Energy Optimisation Project in China’.

Enno Wiebe

Enno Wiebe is seconded from Deutsche Bahn to the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) to work in Brussels as senior advisor for ERA and research related issues.

He is the CER coordinator for various support groups like infrastructure, energy, noise, cross-acceptance and safety in railway tunnels. In his previous job at the International Union of Railways (UIC) in Paris, Enno Wiebe had been working on European projects like HyRail (Hydrogen Propulsion), GREEN (Diesel engines), Railenergy (Energy Efficiency for the rail sector) and Cleaner-D (Stage IIIB for the rail sector) among others.

Besides the work for the European projects, Enno Wiebe was in charge of writing the two ERRAC Roadmaps ”Energy and “Noise & Vibration”. He had been deeply involved in exploiting rail research projects in terms of standardisation potentials as SSC (UIC/UNIFE TecRec Standards Steering Committee) secretary. Enno Wiebe is a civil engineer who started his professional career at the Deutsche Bahn engineering department in Cologne after studying in Dresden and Cape Town.

Raimondo Orsini

Raimondo Orsini, Director of Sustainable Development Foundation.

Raimondo Orsini is 44 years old, he lives in Rome with his wife and two daughters, where he is working since 2008 as the director of the Sustainable Development Foundation, a not for profit “think-tank” founded by green economy companies and a network of sustainable development experts.

The Foundation cooperates with governments, private corporations and administration bodies, through technical studies, lobbying, research and consultancy.
Expert in sustainable mobility, member of EU, CEN and EEA expert groups, Raimondo has worked from 2005 to 2008 for the International Union of Railways (UIC) in Paris, as energy and environment senior advisor and chairman of UIC Network energy/CO2.
From 1998 to 2005, he worked in FS/Trenitalia (a state-owned Italian railways company) as environment team leader.
Author of many publications, lecturer and speaker in international conferences on sustainability issues.

Harald Jony

Harald Jony is the Director of Energy Management and Sales at the Austrian Federal Railways (÷BB) and is been active in the railway sector since 2003.

Ivano Bresaola

Ivano Bresaola – SAIRA ELECTRONICS R&D Manager and expert on on board energy measurement systems at Saira Electronics (previously FAR Systems).

Since early 2006, he has been involved in energy metering: first as device designer, and then as system engineer. From 2009 to 2011 he was in charge of the technical support for the UK market, following all the Energy Metering projects in the UK. As project manager, he was following all the European energy metering projects for Saira Electronics. He is now in charge of the R&D department.

Jaromír Hrubý

He is a graduate of the Technical University in Brno, specialization Technical Cybernetics (1982). Since 1994 he works in the railway electrical power engineering, first at the Czech Railways, Inc., since 2008 at the company of the railway infrastructure manager in the Czech republic.

Currently the director of the organizational units for energy of the Railway Infrastructure Administration, state organization (SZDC, Railway Energy Administration). The issue of consumption measurements on board the train focuses since 2006.

Rodrigo Gutierrez Dominguez

Mr. Rodrigo Gutierrez Dominguez is Project Officer at the European Railway Agency (ERA) since September 2011.

Before joining ERA, he held a managerial position as Head of Department at ADIF – Spanish Infrastructure Manager. He has an ExMPA (Executive Master in Public Administration – graduated with Honors) at IE Business School and a degree of M. Sc. In Industrial Engineering at the University Carlos III de Madrid. Moreover, he completed the Ph. Degree Studies in Automation and Robotics.

Beyond this, he has attended an Advanced Management Program at ESADE Business School and he has a Master on Contraction Facilities at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.

Bart Van der Spiegel

Energy Management, Infrabel

Bart Van der Spiegel graduated in 1991 at the University of Ghent as Electrical Engineer. He immediately started at Belgian railways with a study on the energy consumption at Belgian railways and the possibility to reduce energy costs by adding a peak shaving plant (operational since November 1994). He introduced compact cubicles with logical controllers in the 3 kV-substations.

In 2005 he became responsible for a new office Energy Managment. This office manages commodities as electricity and gas inside Infrabel. He was active from the beginning in the UIC-WG Railway Energy Billing, the ERA WG Energy Meter and the CENELEC TC9X WG11 adjusting the European standards around energy metering on-board of rolling stock. He was a co-author of all EIM Position Papers relating to energy metering. Infrabel is partner of Eress, the joint European solution regarding energy settlement.

Gabriel Castañares

Senior Advisor of Energy and CO² from the International Railways Union (UIC) the worldwide international organization of the railway sector including 240 members across all 5 continents.

Gabriel, with a training background on environment and sustainability, has been working since 2007 for rail the Spanish railway operator, Renfe, the first electricity consumer in Spain. He has been involved in the topics of environment, energy and sustainability linked to European and International projects as the current MERLIN Project for a smart electricity management in the European railways supported by the 7 Framework Program of the European Commission. He coordinates the Energy Efficiency and CO2 experts group of UIC.

Philippe Aubin

Power Electronic Engineer
Technical Marketing Manager (Energy and Confort activity)
53 years,married, 4 children.

My job consists of creation of new activities to develop Faiveley sales.

Innovation is my favorite occupation. I patented different topologies in the field of Power Electronics that represents today more than 60M€ sales.

I'm focused on Energy Savings solutions to propose to customers efficient solutions and short ROI.

Olivier Cissé

Mors Smitt
Mr. Cissé is our Marketing Director, Product Business

Development & Innovation; he has experience in high voltage roof equipment, especially complete energy measuring systems.

Denis Battistela

Sales Manager Metering

Electrotechnology and Electronic Engineer, from institute IPSIA of Cusano Milanino (MI)

Luigi Contestabile

Luigi Contestabile, environmental engineer, has been working for Trenitalia since 2001.

At the beginning of his career he was involved in environmental and safety issues management, more recently he was appointed as Head of Sustainability, which includes all main energy topics.

Roberto Bonomi

Born and raised in Italy, married with 2 sons.

After my study in Electronics and Telecom, I started my career as hardware developer and as project engineer in the industrial automation business. In 1989 I started to work in the railway industry. I spent more than 7 years in Alstom as R&D manager. I joined Far-Systems and later Saira Electronics as Technical Director and from 2010 as Head of Sales and Business Developer. I joined in 2015 CIESSE SpA, as Marketing as Sales Manager in the RAILware electronics division aimed to offer advanced solutions for Energy management and Communication for the railway market.

I’m a passionate in my job and like to develop international relationships to promote innovative solution and technology. I worked for years in projects in EU, US and Far East. My strong tech background helps me to understand the needs and to support the customers in a long term perspective.

Fernando de la Fuente Moreno

Current position
Energy, Environment and Excellence Senior Manager at Renfe.

Education
Industrial Engineer. Master´s degree in Environmental Management.

Background
With 32 years of experience in railway and industrial sector, has developed his professional career in several areas such Railway Traffic Management, Railway Operations, Technologies Project Management, Quality, Environment and Rolling Stock Maintenance Engineering.

  From 2014 has been appointed to undertake the leadership in Processes Based Management System and Continuous Improvement, Sustainable Development and Energy Efficiency within the Renfe’s Group Companies.

Bruno Vanlede

Bruno VANLEDE, Locomotive Fleet Manager @ B Logistics

“With a background of commercial engineer, started my career in the automotive sector as Key Account Manager in a big automotive components supplier. After 5 years, I moved to SNCB Logistics as Data & Reporting Manager within the Locomotive Fleet Management Department. After some different assignments within the same department (Finance Management, Fleet Management), I am now since 1/1/2016 the Fleet Manager of the B Logistics’ locomotive fleet (ca.200 locomotives). In this new function , I am responsible for (i) defining the fleet strategy & budget of B Logistics’ locomotives, (ii) the acquisition/rent-in of Locomotives as well as for (iii) the commercialization (sale/rent-out) of Locomotives and Locomotive Services.”

Matthias Sterckx

Matthias Sterckx, Complexity Reduction Coordinator @ B Logistics


“Since May 2015, I am working as a Complexity Reduction Coordinator at Blogistics. More specifically, this job encloses all kind of optimization projects within the company. This function fits perfectly with my studies as a business engineer in which I did several similar projects. I graduated with a specified master in operations management (cum laude). In the first 6 months at Blogistics, my job was to lift the planned and actual driver efficiency to a higher level. Afterwards, I became the project leader of the ECO-driving initiative within the company. My master thesis (in which I researched Dynafleet, a mobile app developed by Volvo Trucks to reduce diesel consumption) provided me interesting background info to carry out this project successfully.”