Antonino (Nino) Letteriello, Head of Department/ Deputy Director at TFL (Transport for London)

Nino Letteriello joined the TfL Games team in 2007 leading the development and delivery of the integrated TfL-wide plan covering infrastructure, operations and resourcing and ensuring critical interfaces with London 2012 Games Operations and Security were adequately monitored and emerging issues resolved. He set up and managed the TfL Games PMO leading a multi-disciplinary team comprising operational experts, transport planners, finance and project managers. Nino also led on assurance and governance activities for TfL, which represented on the Transport Assurance Board and Games Transport Board (chaired by TfL Commissioner and comprising leaders from across the transport and security sector (both government and commercial operators).

Andrew Hill, Managing Director, Logikal UK

Andrew is the Managing Director of LogiKal Projects UK; having held a number of CFO roles Andrew became involved in the world of major projects when he was appointed as Director of Finance and Programme Controls for the Heathrow Terminal 5 Programme. He played a major role in achieving integration of management through strong, client led processes and systems. He then became responsible for transferring many of the skills learned on this programme to the wider organisation, supporting a large and complex portfolio of projects executed under intense regulatory scrutiny.

At Logikal Projects, Andrew has been involved in enabling the organization to become recognized as one of the foremost providers of Project Controls Services in the UK. He understands from firsthand experience how the use of Project Controls can help an organization to build confidence in the delivery of its projects and programmes. His approach is to ensure that the key elements of Project, Process and Systems are all considered in developing solutions. He has built a team of experienced individuals who are collectively engaged in helping clients to enhance their capability and operate effective Project Controls.

Dr David Hillson PMI-Fellow HonFAPM FIRM FRSA FCMI, Director, Risk Doctor & Partners

Dr David Hillson is The Risk Doctor, and Director of Risk Doctor & Partner. He is recognised internationally as a leading thinker and expert practitioner in risk management. He writes and speaks widely on the topic, with eight books and many papers. David received the PMI Fellow Award and the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute (PMI®), both for his work in developing risk management over many years. He is currently a leader of the PMI Risk Community of Practice, and has been a core author for the PMI Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK® Guide) and the PMI Practice Standard for Project Risk Management. David is also an Honorary Fellow of the UK Association for Project Management (APM), and was Chairman of its Risk SIG and a core author of the APM Project Risk Analysis & Management (PRAM) Guide. He has also been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

David Birch, Head of Project Controls, National Grid

David Birch has 35 years experience in the delivery of high profile UK and international project portfolios for world leading engineering contractors. He had responsibility for the CLM Programme Controls group within the CLM Joint Venture delivering the London 2012 Olympic Games programme on behalf of the UK Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA). Mr Birch’s priorities are to ensure that the London 2012 programme is delivered to or ahead of schedule and within the funding levels and budgets established by the ODA. Since joining CH2MHill in 2008 Mr Birch has served as CLM Head of Programme Controls for from December 2008 to today and was CLM Deputy Programme Controls Manager from May to December 2008.

Prior to joining CH2MHill, Mr Birch was UK Operations Manager for URS/Washington Group Energy and Environmental Group executing projects and programmes within UK Nuclear decommissioning and clean-up. Previous experience includes 10 years with Bechtel working on International projects in the Oil and Gas, Water and Telecom Business Lines located in Kuwait, Kazakhstan, India and a number of European countries

Dave Kelly, Primavera Expert, Collabro Group, UK

Dave Kelly has been working in project planning for more that 30 years in offshore oil, construction, and engineering. He combines vast, practical Primavera experience with a deep knowledge of systems. Dave has greatly influenced the design of Legare, with a view to making it easy for project engineers to use.

Ewen Maclean Eur Ing MEng(Hons) MSc(Const. Law & Arb) CEng FICE FCIArb, Principal, Berkeley Research Group

Ewen is an experienced and renowned expert in the field of programming; delay and disruption; and associated prolongation costs in relation to construction and engineering projects. In particular, he has worked for both international consultants and contractors and has first-hand experience of assisting and representing clients in litigation, arbitration, mediation and adjudication, both for the claimant and respondent. He has prepared numerous expert witness reports; drafted standard forms of contract and lectured on various commercial and contractual subjects within the construction industry. Ewen has also acted in commercial negotiations and settlements, resolving potential disputes as well as providing advice on contract procurement.

Ewen is well versed in many of the standard forms of construction contract including the NEC, JCT, ICE, GC Works Conditions as well as bespoke forms of contracts including PFI contracts and has worked on contracts that span, inter alia, major building, civil engineering, oil and gas, mechanical and electrical, pharmaceutical, infrastructure including highways and rail as well as fit-out works.”

Gero Renker, Director at Program Framework, UK

Gero Renker is a co-founder and director of Enterprise Project Management specialist, Program Framework. He has many years’ experience as a project consultant and works with organisations of all sizes across all sectors in designing and implementing project management solutions. As a Microsoft technical specialist he also works with the Microsoft Project team and is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars.

Jim Morrison, Sr Consultant, Rhead Group UK

Jim Morrison has more than 10 years’ experience in risk management. During this time he has worked on varied and exciting projects: from making risk based asset management decisions on operational railways, to analysing the risk inherent in multi-billion pound PFI deals, to providing enterprise risk advice to the boards of listed companies. Jim’s passion is for taking risk management and risk analysis out of its ivory towers, eliminating jargon and encouraging every part of a business or a project team to use risk as part of their day job.

Jim Malkin, Director, Deltek

Jim is currently the Director IPM - International for Deltek. Previously the PMO Director for General Dynamics European Land Systems where he led the implementation of professional development, process development, project management tools and practices across the business for the entire project lifecycle from business capture through to project completion. Jim has over 18 years of project management experience across many industry sectors and has been volunteering for the Association for Project Management (APM) since 2002 and is a member of the Planning, Monitoring & Control Specific Interest Group (PMC-SIG).

Martin van Vliet - Sr. Cost Engineer at Cost Engineering Consultancy B.V, Netherlands

Martin is a Cost engineer with over 17 years of experience in the field of cost estimating and in several other aspects of cost engineering. He has been responsible as a team leader for planning, budgeting, contracting, cost estimating and management reporting for the services department. Martin is Chairman of the DACE Labour Norms workgroup and responsible for the development of European standards in the field of qualifications, preambles and labour norms for the industry and a Member of the SCEA (Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis). Martin studied Civil Engineering and has been working for the company Cost Engineering for more than 15 year since the founding of this company. The last 3 years he has been specialized in Cost Engineering solutions worldwide.

Michael Nir, Founder & President at Sapir Consulting, Israel

Michael Nir has been providing operational, organizational and management training and consulting for over 14 years. He is a certified project management professional and Gestalt process facilitator, offering training, consulting, and solutions development in project and product management, process improvement, leadership, and team building programs. He has also provided consulting on the pre-and post stages-of corporate merger integration for leading global organizations.

Michael's background is analytical and technical, however, he has a keen interest in human interactions and behaviors. He holds two engineering degrees from the prestigious Technion Israel Institute of Technology: a Bachelor of civil engineering and a Masters of Industrial engineering. He has balanced his technical side with the extensive study and practice of Gestalt Therapy and "Instrumental Enrichment," a philosophy of mediated learning. In his consulting and training engagements, Michael combines both the analytical and technical world with his focus on people, delivering unique, and meaningful solutions, and addressing whole systems.

Neely Hemassi, Executive Vice President of Product Strategy at EcoSys

Neely Hemassi is Executive Vice President of Product Strategy at EcoSys. For the past 10 years she has been consulting with EcoSys global customers on best practice project controls processes and solutions. She also regularly advises the EcoSys software design team on next generation solutions for project cost management, capital program management, and earned value management. Prior to joining EcoSys, Neely spent many years as a project manager and technologist on Wall Street. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Patrick Kennerson, Programme Controls Director, Mott MacDonald

Patrick Kennerson is a Programme Controls Director for Mott MacDonald. He is a highly experienced programme controls system architect with over 15 years’ experience of managing financial, cost, estimating, scheduling, procurement, accounting and contract administration disciplines for complex engineering and construction projects. Project types have included naval shipbuilding, aerospace, software development, oil and gas, nuclear new-build and transportation, within both regulated and unregulated sectors coupled with a wide experience in both government and private sectors. He has a comprehensive technical knowledge of all aspects of project controls disciplines, ranging from planning and scheduling to Earned Value Analysis, cost management and estimating. He has a strong reputation for formulating and implementing strategies to identify, analyse, and resolve poor performance of existing control systems.”

Roland Horat, Managing Director at Supertech, .

Roland Horat is the Managing Director of Supertech Project Management Pty Ltd. an international company with offices in: Melbourne Australia, Reading United Kingdom and Anderson South Carolina USA. Roland’s company provides project management services to a wide range of industries including Commercial Building Construction, Defence, Infrastructure, Mining, Manufacturing, Petrochemical, Steel Production, Power, Pharmaceuticals, and Telecommunications. His career spans 40 years in the Project Design, Procurement, Contract and Construction Management, Project Controls and Cost Engineering sector, in Australia, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Laos, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, and the United Sates.

Roland is a specialist in Earned Value (EVPM) Based Project Management and Control systems, his company having developed the EVENGINE range of earned value based project control and reporting software in compliance with international and industry best practice. In addition to consulting and mentoring services, Roland and his company provides: training and assistance to companies seeking to implement cost effective and practical EVPM systems and obtain government accreditation.Roland is a graduate from Monash University School of Engineering (Melbourne Australia) and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management.