SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Diane Wehrle, Director,
Springboard Diane Wehrle has 25 years experience in providing analysis and performance measurement services in the retail property industry on behalf
of Local Authorities, Town Centre Management initiatives, owners, investors and retailers.
Diane is a founding Director of Springboard which was incorporated in 2002. Diane was previously Head of Retail Research at Donaldsons and Head of Retail and Property Consultancy at Experian where she spearheaded comprehensive town centre strategies, advised on development and investment opportunities, and provided advice on store network performance planning issues. At Experian, Diane established the Retail Centre Ranking which was endorsed by the British Council of Shopping Centres.
Springboard is the leading provider of performance measurement services for town centres in the UK through automated footfall monitoring, sales tracking and Milestone, an online performance monitoring and benchmarking platform.
Springboard’s extensive coverage of town centres in the UK has enabled it to publish the National High Street Index and the Night Time Economy Index each month which track the performance of high streets. Both Indexes incorporate over 10 million pedestrian movements each day, and have since been adopted as key benchmarks of performance of towns and cities across the UK by both practitioners and the national media.
Diane has a BA(Hons) in Business Studies, an MSc in Property Investment, a postgraduate diploma in Marketing and is a Fellow of the Institute of Place Management.
John Siraut John Siraut, BSc (Hons) MSc CMILT MIED MeRSA, Technical Director- Economics SKM Colin Buchanan. John has advised a wide range of organisations on parking strategies and pricing
in both the public and private sectors. His interest is in the link between parking, both in terms of availability and price, and economic activity. So he has advised shopping centres on the impact of introducing parking charges on retail spend within centres, local authorities on pricing strategies to both maximise revenues and to maximise footfall and investors on possible financial returns from investing in car park operations.
Clare Turner Clare is the Development Manager in the Regeneration Department at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council.
Clare has worked for the Council for 14 years, becoming Development Manager in March 2011. She manages
a team with responsibilities across business liaison, employment strategy, town centres strategies and initiatives and development and delivery of regeneration projects. The town centre responsibilities include Client management for Parking Services.
Educated in York and Huddersfield, Clare is a technical marketing professional, initially working in the private sector for Ingersoll Rand and GEC Engineering before completing an MBA and moving into the public sector in 1998.
Guy Douglas Originally from a career in film and TV facilities in the UK, Guy worked in Alaska for 15 years in the field of downtown revitalisation, or town centre management in UK English; he ran a municipal parking authority in oil-rich Fairbanks and had the rare opportunity of nearly being seen placing an enforcement ticket on a moose . Returning to the UK in 2006, he was headhunted by Reading UK CIC to run their high profile town centre Business Improvement District in Reading, delivering a business plan to animate the town centre. After experiencing the US practice of parking validation, he has been frustrated that such acceptance is not more prevalent in the UK. With the perception that town and city centres are less appealing than out-of-town shopping centres due to high parking charges, the opportunity to champion the concept of validation in an innovative mobile contactless project was so appealing that he jumped ship from Reading UK CIC and joined the ATCM as Project Manager for MoLo Rewards.
Peter Huge Peter attended school in Gwendraeth and then went on to complete a 5 year Mining electrical engineer apprenticeship in Llanelli between 1979 and 1984. During the strike of 1984, he joined the
Police undertaking various roles in the Force – Standard and advanced driving courses as well as advanced Police driving instructor, Public Order (Riot) supervisor, CBRN Supervisor (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear), some CID duties, some Training Officer duties but his strengths were in helping people and resolving issues, something that put him in good stead for Aberystwyth’s NTE and previous parking issues. Peter retired from the Police in 2005, but after several years during which he undertook further study in psychology he began the NTE officer job in June 2011. Peter is now a trained drug itemiser operator and Purple Flag assessor.
David Leibling David Leibling is a transport consultant who has been written a number of reports for the RAC Foundation including the 2004 report on parking, and reports on shopping, international transport
statistics and price indices. He has also edited or advised on all the RAC Reports on Motoring since the first one was published as the Lex Report in 1989.
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