Conference speakers

Conference Chair: 

Kevin Green, Marketing and Communications Director, Logisitics UK

Speakers

David Wood, Enforcement Policy Manager, DVSA 

David had a motor vehicle engineering and training background before joining DVSA, formally the Vehicle Inspectorate (VOSA) in 2001, as an enforcement vehicle examiner. He progressed to Senior Vehicle Examiner, which involved managing a team of enforcement examiners for over 10 years covering Staffordshire, Shropshire & the West Midlands areas. In 2013, David joined the DVSA enforcement policy team as the roadworthiness enforcement policy manager. 

Mark Horton,  Enforcement Policy Manager, DVSA 

Mark joined the DVSA (or Vehicle Inspectorate as it was) back in 1997 working as a traffic examiner (enforcement officer) for a number of years before taking up the role of an enforcement manager in Leeds and later in Sheffield/Nottingham. He has also worked as an area manager and been involved in a number of projects. In 2013 Mark joined the enforcement policy team where he managers the traffic enforcement side of the business which involved areas such as drivers hours, operator licensing, impounding, load security amongst others. He worked closely with the HSE in designing DVSA enforcement policy on load security producing the guidance which is currently available on Gov.uk which resulted in DVSA winning a Prince Michael of Kent International Road Safety award in 2015.

During the current lock down Mark has been heavily involved in the DVSA Covid-19 response with his attention now turning to the end of the EU transitional period and how this will impact on the DVSA.

Nina Day, Transport and Public Services Unit, HSE 

Nina is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and DGSA specialising in road and workplace transport. She has worked for HSE for 20 years, previously working in HSE’s Science Division carrying out incident investigations in the transport, manufacturing, construction, and offshore industries, consultancy, and leading a research team looking at various aspects of transport safety including safe loading. She currently works in HSE’s Transport Sector, leading on load security and manual handling in road transport. She works closely with the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency, Highways England, and police forces nationally, and is also involved in a number of industry groups.

Chris Mangan, Head of New Business, Hertz

Chris since 2017 has been proactively involved in several senior positions within Hertz, all of which have driven the company through various phases of growth and helped shape the business as it has evolved. More recently Chris heads up both the New Business and SME function’s within Hertz and through his team of Comprehensive Sales Managers has driven a number of new initiatives into the Corporate Rental space, all of which are designed to drive down cost and improve efficiencies for Hertz’ customers.

Sean Maher, Head Of Sales, Quartix

Sean Maher is Head of Sales at Quartix. He has been with Quartix for over a decade, and in vehicle tracking for 18 years. Sean’s experience enables him to understand customer needs and help companies realise the savings that can been seen from operating a vehicle tracking system.

Dean Hedger, New Business Development Manager, The AA

Dean joined The AA in 2018 after 24 years in the motor industry. With a career spanning fleet management, vehicle funding and people leadership, Dean brings a wealth of relevant knowledge and experience of the public sector, corporate and SME marketplace with particular focus on sustainable transport, electric vehicles, car sharing and commercial vehicles.

Neil Robson, Business Development Manager, Bott LTD

Neil has had a varied career in logistics management, general freight, express parcels, warehousing, international shipping and recycling, CPC holder for fleets for nearly 40 years.

Sharing that experience to help Bott customers create the best solution for their fleets, discovering their business needs, resourceful in solving their most pressing issues. Approaching each opportunity with an open mind and appetite for innovative products and services. Particularly focussed on the adoption of electric vans, helping customers with the conversion from ICE.

An enthusiastic cyclist, who puts his sluggishness down to being a former Rugby player with the wrong body shape.  

David Millard, Sales Executive, Brigade Electronics

David started his career as a technician for Land Rover and is now responsible for sales and support for large van fleets and HGV operators. David can provide guidance on specifications including FORS, CLOCS and the Direct Vision Standard.

Russell Adams, Commercial Vehicle Manager, Lex Autolease

DCI Brett Mallon, Head of Unit, NaVCIS

Starting his Police career as a Special Constable, Brett quickly realised that this was what he wanted to do – ‘to make a difference and stop the bad guys’.  Brett has 20 years Police service with Gloucestershire Constabulary; with experience ranging from being a uniform ‘bobby on the beat’, through to investigating serious crime as a Detective Sergeant in CID and latterly as a Detective Inspector specialising in “Digital Intelligence and Investigations” heavily involved in the national development of digital policing capabilities.

A reoccurring lesson throughout his career has been ‘if not me then who?’ and to be willing to ask questions and push boundaries into new areas rather than waiting for someone else to do it. This was incredibly important in Digital Policing where many of the greatest advances have been driven from practitioners on the front line rather than a central body of experts.

In November 2019 Brett moved to take the position as Head of Unit at NaVCIS, as a Detective Chief Inspector; where he treasured his spirit of enquiry and use his knowledge of both investigations and the digital world to keep the unit relevant and successful.

Laura Moran, Managing Director, TVL

Denise Beedell, Policy Manager for Vans and Urban, Logistics UK

Denise works to address the growing number of policy issues emerging from local and central Government that are likely to affect van users and operators. She helps to deliver Logistic UK’s urban logistics policy agenda, in particular proactively leading Logistics UK’s policy work on vans, including publications, information services and discussion forums in connection with policy and regulatory issues. Denise joined the Logistics UK from the Federation of Small Businesses, where she was Development Manager for Greater London and led on policy for Transport, Environment and Crime in the capital. 

Dan Crutchington, Senior Transport Advisor, Logistics UK

Dan Crutchington, Member Advice Centre, Logistics UK. He works to ensure that member queries and questions are dealt with accurately and in a timely manner. He helps to deliver pieces for publications, including Van e-news. Dan joined Logistics UK from a large 2-man home delivery company, where he was Transport Manager for a large fleet of vans and HGVs.