SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
During his time within Barclaycard, Colin has been behind many key initiatives across all aspects of the business from capital management, strategic planning, product development and the delivery of a range of key propositions from fraud through to loyalty. Colin is involved in a number of working groups across Barclaycard and the Barclays Group driving the payment acceptance innovation agenda forward and represents the business at a number of industry forums.
Ephraim Olumewo Ephraim graduated in 1979 from the Nigerian Premier University of Ibadan with an
M.Sc. He taught and lectured in all levels of educations institutions between 1979 and 1999 and was
Examiner for the West African Examination Council from 1981-1996. He was Head of the pioneering Agricultural Science Department at Federal College of Education, Lagos, Nigeria in 1986. Ephraim joined the parking industry as a Parking Attendant having moved to the UK in 2000. He has since worked in virtually all aspects of parking – on-street and on-board CEO, Supervisor, training and recruitment, Notice processing, parking shop, car pound, customer services, and currently in parking operations during which time he attained the NVQ 2 in Parking, and Team Leading. Ephraim also possess a Diploma in Human Resources management ( University of Glasgow) and has attended various university affiliated training courses and related workshops from 2000 till date. Ephraim became a MIPP in February 2011.
Norman Olaniran Norman Olaniran is Founder of
Park-Up.com, the UK’s premiership on-line parking guide. The company specialises in combining data and technology to make parking easier for
consumers. Prior to starting
Park-Up.com Norman Olaniran worked in the database marketing industry. Gained at many of the UK’s advertising, CRM and database marketing agencies (including Wundermans, Orange, Tequila) he has over twenty years experience in designing, building and managing marketing programs which exploit the use of data.
Ian Poole Ian manages a multi-faceted section of town planners, conservation officers and urban and landscape designers at St Edmundsbury Borough Council, based at Bury St Edmunds in
Suffolk. He is currently managing the preparation of “whole place” plans for the main towns of the borough, which bring together planning policies and service delivery plans into one document. Ian was also the project manager for the delivery of the pioneering Bury St Edmunds Historic Core Zone project, which delivered schemes that both improve the historic environment and manage the impact of the car within it.
Ian is also a member of the Executive of the Historic Towns Forum, where he was Chairman between 2004 and 2006 and led on the publication of the “Manual for Historic Streets”.
In 2008 Ian was awarded a CABE Space Travel Scholarship and completed a whistle-stop tour of 25 historic towns and cities in eight countries across Europe studying the design, management and maintenance of the public realm in historic towns and cities.
Lee Smith Lee has worked in Local Government for almost 20 years. Starting in the field of Civil Engineering working within numerous Local Authorities in the North West he eventually moved into
Development Management (formerly known as Development Control) providing advice on the transport implications of new development.
For the last 7 years Lee has worked for the Borough of Poole and is currently employed as a Senior Development Management Officer (Transportation) assessing new developments, providing transportation advice for new Council Policies and he also speaks at Planning Committee and Planning Appeals as transportation expert for the Council. Last year he was lead officer in preparing the Council’s new Parking and Highway Layout in Development Supplementary Planning Document.
Gordon Reid Gordon is a very experienced city centre management practitioner. He is currently City Centre Manager at Oxford, having previously held a similar position in Dundee and bee CEO
of the city centre management companies in Edinburgh and Manchester. He is a town planner who moved into place management in 1987 when the last ‘retail revolution’ was threatening our town centres.
He is also the Chairman of ATCM SE Region and a member of ATCM’s Advisory Council. He has twice served on ATCM’s board and also been the chairman of the Scottish Region. He has advised the Scottish Government on BIDs and public realm.
Robert Wilkinson Robert is Economic Development Manager at Bassetlaw District Council - a role he has held for almost seven years.
The role is wide and varied and covers the
usual Economic development function for Business Support, Inward Investment and funding, but also includes other aspects including Tourism, Business centres, Shopmobility and crucially Town Centre management and parking.
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