Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer Railway Systems Business, Nuclear Energy Business, Energy Business, and Power Grids Business.
Alistair Dormer was appointed Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer Railway Systems Business, Nuclear Energy Business, Energy Business, and Power Grids Business in January 2023 responsible for the Mobility and Energy businesses within the Hitachi portfolio.
In addition,Alistair retains his role of Chair Hitachi Energy, Chair Hitachi Rail and Director Hitachi Europe.
Alistair started his career in Hitachi in 2003 firstly to establish Hitachi’s Rail business in Europe. He was promoted to CEO of Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd in 2009 and promoted to Senior Vice President and Executive Officer Group CEO, Rail Systems Business Unit Hitachi Ltd April 2014, responsible for Hitachi’s global rail business.
In 2019 he was promoted to Executive Vice President of Hitachi Ltd, serving on the Executive Committee of Hitachi Ltd as Chief Environmental Officer and leading the Mobility portfolio of Hitachi Ltd.
Alistair lives in the UK with his family.
Mark is a Chartered Civil Engineer and specialist in developing and commercialising innovative products and services in the maritime sector, as it faces the challenges of decarbonising and adopting new technologies around digitisation and autonomy. Mark provides strategic leadership to the maritime team who are engaged across our initiatives addressing challenges in:
DECARBONISATION
With Climate change being the challenge of our time and 95% of all UK trade reaching us through shipping, see how we are working alongside industry on its journey to Net Zero.
DIGITISATION
The advent of 5G, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data open up huge opportunities for the maritime sector, see how we are transforming the industry to drive efficiency in operations, save cost and enable safer working environments.
LOGISTICS
The maritime sector is at the heart of the UK’s supply chain, see how we are bringing together SME’s and industry from across all modes of transport to drive standardisation, efficiencies and innovation across the logistics sector.
Prior to joining the CPC, Mark spent 6 years with Innovate UK KTN, as a Knowledge Transfer Manager in the Infrastructure and Energy team, leading work on the transition to net zero in construction, defence, energy and maritime sectors. This built on his former role as the Regional Manager (South West) and Innovation Lead for the Built Environment at Innovate UK (2010-2015) after migrating from the world of sustainable development and regeneration as the Professional Services Manager at the SW RDA (2004-2010).
Prior to joining the public sector Mark worked as a projects manager for design consultants and civil engineering contractors predominantly in the water, power and infrastructure sectors.
“I thoroughly enjoy working with the diverse range of cutting edge technologies and approaches inching their way in to the mainstream and addressing some of greatest global challenges.”
Alan Welby leads CPC’s Delivery teams in running a broad portfolio of innovation projects and programmes. He is overseeing the development of our product and asset strategy.
Alan’s career has focussed on how innovation can transform cities and regions and has worked in local and regional government, Higher Education, the private sector and in the European Commission.
Before joining CPC, Alan was Director of Innovation at the North East Local Enterprise Partnership, Director of Research, Innovation, and Partnerships at Liverpool John Moores University, Executive Director of the Liverpool City Region LEP and Executive Director of Strategy at One North East, the North East Regional Development Agency.
Steve is based at the Connected Places Catapult where he his Director of 3Ci – the Cities Commission for Climate Investment. Working with the Advisory Board he has overall managerial responsibility for the implementation of the 3Ci’s strategy and operations working closely with leaders from cities, industry, finance and government. As a recognised leader in innovation and sustainability he has over 25 years of experience working in both the public and private sector. Previously, he was Digital Cities Leader for Arup where he delivered sustainability focussed technology strategies for some of the largest developments in the UK, Europe and the Middle East, representing £billions of investment. He has held several senior positions across local government, primarily in London and Manchester. As Head of Low Carbon Economy in Greater Manchester he established the UK’s first Low Carbon Economic Area and a joint venture alongside the Green Investment Bank. He also established the city’s widely admired sustainability innovation programmes, Triangulum and CityVerve.
Rikesh is recognised as a thought leader and speaker on public sector innovation with many years of practical and academic experience at leading organisations and institutions. Rikesh is the Head of the Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre – a UK government-funded initiative to stimulate more market innovation through procurement for the public sector to create more value from the £300Bn spent each year.
Previously Rikesh led Transport for London’s award-winning innovation team to create new value through advances in new technology for London by working with start-ups, corporates, academia, accelerators and venture capitalists. He was responsible for creating TfL’s first Innovation Hub which has delivered some pioneering projects on areas such as air quality, road safety, active travel, enhancing customer experiences to retail and property development. The Hub set out the organisation’s key challenges and problem statements, bringing in the best innovators from across the world, piloting and scaling innovative solutions with the potential to commercialise, as well as establishing the right culture and procurement processes in the company focusing on agility and design thinking to work with market innovators by doing things better, quicker or cheaper. Rikesh was also responsible for TfL’s world leading open data programme which has 17,000 registered users, 700 apps powered by TfL data used by 42% of Londoners which an independent review stated that it’s worth to London is £130m per annum. He also was actively in involved during the 2012 Olympic Games and TfL’s response to COVID-19. After TfL, Rikesh worked for PA Consulting to advise public and private sectors in transport and aviation on open innovation and open data. Most recently, Rikesh has been recognised in the Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech in 2019 – 2023, being named one of the top five for sustainability in 2019. He was also recognised in the Top 100 Influencers for the Drum Digirati in 2018.
Rikesh sits on the London Transport Museum Board as a Non-Executive Director, as well as a Civic Innovation Director (Non-Executive Director) at Cities Today, the global public innovation think tank. He has also been an Ambassador for London Tech Week since 2020.
As Ecosystem Director for Rail and Stations at the Connected Places Catapult, Alan leads the vision and strategy for the organisation’s rail activities. Alan works with the wider team of rail experts and cross-functional experts at CPC to create programmes and partnerships that help connect those with innovative solutions in rail to those who have applicable challenges.
Previously at CPC, Alan has led a number of automated vehicle programmes including collaborative R&D projects such as MuCCA, HumanDrive and VeriCAV, has worked with the DfT & BSI on a UK strategy for automated vehicle standards, and has developed guidance on the use of simulation for automated vehicle safety verification.
Before CPC, Alan led delivery of the safety case for the Personal Rapid Transit system at Heathrow airport, led innovation projects for Jaguar Land Rover, and applied systems thinking approaches to better assess risk in nuclear industry. In 2011, he completed a EngD in Systems Engineering with thesis: ‘The Safety of Rapid Transit Systems’. Alan is a chartered engineer through the IET and is on the IET Codes and Standards Advisory panel.
