SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Master Class Speakers


Eugene Tsyrklevich is the Founder and CEO of Parkopedia.com


Parkopedia.com is a Wikipedia for parking which provides information on 25 million parking spaces in 28 countries and can be accessed online, by SMS or


as an iPhone, iPad and Android app.


Eugene was bitten by the entrepreneur bug in the late 90’s in California when he started his own computer security firm, which went on to develop an award winning security product.


Eugene holds both a Bachelor and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.


Kieran Fitsall A seasoned ‘parking professional’, having worked at Westminster for 17 years in almost every area of the parking service, from handling telephone calls and responding to complaints,


to directly managing the back office service in its entirety, before moving into a strategic client role responsible for policy and service delivery.


Today in my role as Service Development Manager I am focused on taking the service forward, looking at future business opportunities, transformational activities, technological innovations, developing the strategic policy and I am the lead on all procurement activities


John Dales John is Director of Urban Movement, a consultancy specialising in transport, movement and streets. He began life as a transport professional in 1984 after leaving Imperial


College/ University College London with an MSc in Transport. He worked first as a traffic engineer for JMP Consultants, and next for six years at the London Borough of Newham. He then lived and worked for two years in Jordan and the West Bank before returning to the UK and joining Urban Initiatives in 1996, becoming Director in 2003. His work has focused on the movement aspects of complex urban development projects, and he has become well known as a champion of good urban design in transport schemes and as an advocate of well-designed, multi-functional, safe streets and spaces in urban centres and around stations. John is a design advisor on streets to the City of Edinburgh Council, the London Borough of Ealing and Southend Borough Council. He is a Trustee of Living Streets, on Transport for London’s Major Schemes Design Review Panel, a Design Surgeon for Urban Design London, an advisor in transport to the Princes Foundation for Building Community, and a Board member of the Transport Planning Society. John writes a monthly column in Local Transport Today on ‘Transport in Urban Design’.


Bob White is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a Member of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation and a Fellow of the Institute of Highway Engineers. Following an early grounding in highway engineering, he has


gained over 28 years experience in Development Planning with Kent County Council (twice), Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council and Canterbury City Council.


Bob is currently the Development Planning Manager with Kent County Council Highways and Transportation (KCC H&T). His Development Planning Team deals with the transport and highway impacts of planning proposals, from the Local Development Framework and Transport Strategy stages through to any necessary post-consent handover to highway colleagues.


Bob has pioneered post-occupation surveys of residential developments across Kent. The programme has been running for over five years and includes over 350 separate surveys. In partnership with the district planning authorities and homebuilders, this initiative is intended to feed back into the design of future neighbourhoods. It has also informed input to national documents dealing with Quality Audits and Residential Parking.


Harry Clarke Harry has been Commercial Director of Cobalt Telephone Technologies the automated transaction processing specialists for over ten years.


Trained as an Engineer and subsequently as an


Army officer, Harry’s expertise in telephone transactional technologies dates from his time at Mercury Communications the emergent Telecoms Carrier which he joined following his MBA studies at Cranfield. Before joining Cobalt, Harry worked to transform the call handling and transaction processing for the Automobile Association in Basingstoke.


Harry is well known for his work in pioneering the RingGo brand. He is passionate about helping local authorities and their customers gain the benefits and economies of the digital transaction technologies that are transforming the parking industry.


Colin McSkeane Colin joined Barclays in 1985 and during his career has accumulated vast experience in a range of roles from sales, risk, project, process management through to value management.


Colin joined the Barclaycard acceptance business in 2005 and has undertaken roles from Head of Risk Policy, Market Development through to his current role in Innovation.


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