Kurt Bauer,

Head of High Speed & Long Distance Services

Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)

After graduating from the University of Innsbruck with a degree in International Business in 2000, Kurt started his career as a consultant at Accenture. After being awarded a MSc in Transport from Imperial College in 2004 he specialised in the field of travel and transportation in the course of several consultant jobs. From 2011 to 2015 he held various managerial positions at Deutsche Bahn. In 2015, he became Head of the high speed and long distance train services division of ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG.

Lookman Fazal,

Chief Information Officer & Chief Digital Officer

New Jersey Transit

Lookman is a senior executive who specializes in large-scale information technology strategies and digital transformations with the goal of helping IT evolve to meet the emerging needs of the business.

With over 25 years of executive management experience in IT, Lookman has been recruited by NJ TRANSIT to modernize and drive the cultural changes necessary to implement a new era of IT-enhanced public transportation. He has implemented an intra-departmental digital transformation that includes onboarding top-tier talent and utilizing innovative technologies across multiple platforms to rebuild the customer journey for a modern age.

Lookman is the recipient of the 2020 StateScoop GoldenGov: State Executive of the Year Award and the 2020 HMG Strategy Global Technology Executives Who Matter Award.

Eric Casillas,

Sales Director Europe, Canada, USA

Goal Systems

After several years of dedication to financial markets, and before joining Goal Systems, Eric ran his own firm dedicated to helping French firms establish new business in Spain and vice versa.  Over the years he specialized in technologies for the transportation industry business, with expertise in ticketing systems, sales and revenue platforms,  eco driving etc.

Eric holds a degree in Political Sciences and a BA from L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. In 2011 he joined Goal Systems’ Sales Department, where he manages the North American and European sales regions for Train, Light Rail, Bus and Ferry business.

Davinder Sandhu,

Independent Advisor & Consultant

Davinder has over 28 years of experience in Governance, Infrastructure, Project Planning, O&M, with 10 years at high levels as Director, Prime Minister’s Office and at the Executive Board of the World Bank Group. He worked from 2016-2020 as Partner & National Head, Transport & Logistics at KPMG India.

As Board official at the World Bank, International Finance Corporation and the Multi-lateral Investment Guarantee Agency, he developed an understanding of multi-lateral funding flows, concessional finance norms and procedures, and the availing of political risk insurance for projects.

As Director for Infrastructure Sectors at Prime Minister’s Office, he looked after new initiatives, project monitoring, policy, laws, regulatory regimes, PPPs, and international collaboration.