The Future of European Rail & The Future of High-Speed Rail

Barbara Dalibard

Chief Executive, Long Distance Passenger Services, SNCF

Biography

Barbara Dalibard is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, a graduate of competitive maths agregation and holds a Master in Mathematics and a diploma from the Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications (1982).

1982 to 2009:

Barbara Dalibard started her career in 1982 within France Telecom, where she held differents positions from technical management to marketing for the business market. In 1998, she joined Alcanet International S.A.S., a subsidiary of the Alcatel Group, as President, moving to Alcatel CIT in 1999 as sales director for France. In early 2001, she returned to the France Telecom group to become Director of the Business Market for Orange France, and Vice-President of Orange Business in charge of the business market for the entire Orange group.

In January 2003, Barbara Dalibard is appointed Executive Vice President of the Corporate Solutions Division. In April 2004, she becomes Executive Vice President of the Enterprise Communication Services Division. In August 2005, she is appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Equant. In June 2006, all of France Telecom business activities are rebranded into Orange Business Services. In these roles, Barbara Dalibard manages the development and marketing of business communications services for the overall business market (small, medium-size, large and multinational corporations in France and internationally) and sales to corporates and multinationals.

January 2010 – Present:

Barbara Dalibard has joined SNCF as Managing Director of SNCF Voyages.

She also is a member of the General Management Board of SNCF and President of voyages-sncf.com.

SNCF Voyages is the leading player in Europe in high-speed trains, and long-haul railway services, and includes the following brands: TGV, Teoz, iDTGV, Eurostar, Thalys, TGV Lyria, Elipsos, Artesia.

In line with the company's policy to offer customers "end-to-end" travel facilities, Barbara Dalibard manages the sales, distribution and commercial service on board the trains, as well as several subsidiaries, including voyages-sncf.com.

With a fleet of 475 trainsets, SNCF Voyages handles 130 million passengers a year, with total sales of €7.4 billion, of which 20% on the international market.

Assignments as Director:

Member of the Supervisory Board of Michelin

Member of the Board of Directors of Wolters Kluwer (NV)

Luisa Cecilia Velardi

Strategy Planning Director, Trenitalia

Biography

Luisa Velardi, Transport Engineer, is the Director of the Strategy Dept. of Trenitalia, the operating undertaking of the FS Group (the Italian State Railways Company). In past times she worked also at the World Bank in Washington (as Senior Transport Specialist for Africa and ECA Regions from 2002 to 2004), and at the Urban Transport Companies of Milan (from 1986 to 1991) and Rome (seconded from FS in 1995-1996 as Head of Strategies).

In 1991 she joined FS, where she worked in the Strategy Department. From 1999 to 2002 she was Co-Director for the Centre-North of Italy of the FS Regional Transport Division. When back from Washington she was appointed Executive Assistant to the FS Chairman and CEO, and subsequently Vice Director of Regional Transport in Trenitalia. Head of the Strategy Department since November 2006, she deals also with international issues and represents the company in several European and international bodies. She is also Chairman of SITA (bus company), ARTESIA (Italian-French train operator) and TILO (Swiss-Italian regional train operator).

Michel Jadot

Directeur Général, SNCB Europe

Biography

Titles

Marketer of the Year 2000 (Foundation Marketing)

Ambassador of Brussels-Capital Region Tourist Board (1998)

Experience

Since June 2006: SNCB Europe, Directeur Général

• Member of the SNCB Comex
• Chairman of the Thalys International Board
• Co-Chairman of the Fyra Steering Committee (Brussels-Amsterdam)
• Non Executive Director of the Eurostar Group Ltd Board

Previous Jobs

From April 2003 until May 2006: SNCB - Direction Passengers (national & cross-border short distance traffic) - General Manager

• SNCB representative for discussion with the labour unions on Passenger topics
• Board Member Tourist Board for Wallonia-Brussels Community

From 1995 until March 2003: Thalys International (ex Westrail International until 1999), Directeur Général Adjoint

• Vice-President of the Thalys Executive Committee

1994: SNCB - Thalys project - International Product Management (IPM) - Commercial Manager

1992 – 1994: SNCB - Passengers Department (Eurostar & Thalys projects) - Head of the Division TGV (high speed trains)

• SNCB representative to the UIC Commission (high speed trains)

January 1993: Transurb Consult: on behalf of the Ministry of Transports

European Bank of Development - Lithuania (Vilnius) - Marketing trainer

1990 - 1992: SNCB - Passengers Department (promotion, tourism and real estate) - Head of Division

1989 - 1991: Transurb Consult:

World Bank Project - Indonesia (Bandung)

Head of Marketing & Sales (Passenger and Freight)

1988 - 1990: SNCB - Commercial Direction - Freight Division

Head of the European Sales Market (chemicals & fertilizers)

Victorino Pérez Fernãndez

Director of European Affairs, RENFE

Biography

Mr. Pérez has an MBA by the University Institute of MBA of ICADE and has a Master in Financial Management by the Instituto de Empresa.

He started in Renfe in 1990 as a Chief of Management Control and Budget in the Freight area, where he worked in different relevant positions until 2001.

He also worked as "Chargé de Mission" in UIC in Paris between 2001 – 2003. He later on went back to Renfe as International Manager of Medium and Long Distance Lines (“Grandes Líneas”), working in the international passengers area until he recently was appointed Director of European Affairs in Renfe in February 2010, reporting to the International Director.

Giuseppe Sciarrone

Managing Director, NTV

Biography

He has accumulated in his professional activity, noteworthy experience in the field of transportation, especially as regards the management of major transportation enterprises, the management of firms engaged in the design of transportation systems on a European level and the management of public structures for the planning of transportation.

From February 1971 until July 1991 in FIAT Group he was General Director of the Centre for the Study of Transportation Systems.

From August 1991 until July 1993 he was Coordinator of the Technical Office of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Economic Planning of Transport (CIPET).

From August 1993 until September 1998, in State Railway Authority he was Director of the Transportation Area and Director of the PASSENGER Strategic Business Sector.

He is a founding shareholder of the Rail Traction Company (RTC), established in February 2000, when he was Managing Director until June 2008.

He is a founding shareholder and the Managing Director of Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori S.p.A. (NTV), established in December 2006. NTV has received a railway-enterprise license from the Ministry of Transportation, together with authorisation to transport passengers on the Italian railway network. In 2011 NTV will begin carrying passengers on high-speed lines.